1. It is hard to imagine the modern world without……………... At home, at work, and at play, mobile phones, e-mails, and computers have become part of daily life.
a) information technology
b) information and communication technologies
c) information secrurity
2. Computer is the most important thing in our lives. Some people say that they have never used a computer, but they probably use computers every day– ……………….
a) they just are not in the know
b) they just are mistaken
c) they just pretend
3. In the nineteenth century, the people who did the calculations and wrote the books were called ……………………..
a) calculators
b)scientists
c)computers
4. Nowadays, software programmers have ‘taught’ computers to do many different things which need …………………….
a) inability
b) ignorance
c)imagination
5. The rapid development of modern technology has brought us …………………….in the world.
a)unprecedented changes
b) unchanged conditions
c)great changes
6. The Internet is a great way ……………to share their information.
a)for people all over the world
b) for definite groups of people all over the world
c)for people of the definite area
7. Before the Internet, information about the world came from places like newspapers, TV programs, and books. ………..that made the newspapers, books, and programs controlled the information that people could get.
a) The enterprises
b) The manufacturers
c)The companies
8. Those companies are still very powerful, but the Internet is getting more powerful and …………….. controls it.
a) somebody
b)nobody
c) everybody
9. People can find information for themselves from places all over the world. The same is true for music. If you are a band and want to make and sell music,…………………. You can put the music on your own website and people can pay to copy it.
a)you are to find a producer
b)you set up a company
c)you do not need a music company
10. ………andit can also bring people around the world closer together and make them more powerful.
a)You can have some difficulties in the Internet
b)You can run different businesses in the Internet
c)You can become very popular in the Internet
11. Millions of people make ………………....
a) selfi using the Internet
b)businessusing the Internet
c) report using the Internet
12. In the past, you could only phone friends and family …………, but now they can be in any place when you speak to them.
a)when they were at home
b)when they were out
c) when they were at work
13. Some people are worried that phones ………, and they are unhappy that young children are using them.
a)have no influence on people’s health
b)have a bad influence on people’s health
c)have a bad influence on the environment
14. There are still many things which are very easy for humans but very difficult for computers: for example, …… Some computers can understand words when a person speaks, but they cannot really have a conversation.
a)understanding gestures
b)understanding language
c)understanding mind
Match the following words and word combinations with their definitions. Find the given words in the text and use them in sentences of your own
| 1. Chess 2. Company 3. Conversation 4. Crime 5. Driving 6. E-mails 7. Health 8. Imagination 9. Internet 10. Mobile phones 11. Music 12. Prediction 13. Radio 14. Washing machine 15. Website | a) a board game of strategic skill for two players, played on a chequered board on which each playing piece is moved according to precise rules; b) a commercial business; c) a machine for washing clothes, bed linen; d) a set of related web pages located under a single domain name; e) a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged; f) a telephone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area, without a physical connection to a network; g) a thing predicted; a forecast; h) an action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by law; i) messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network; j) the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful; k) the broadcasting of programmes for the public to listen to, by sending out signals from a transmitter; l) the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; m) the control and operation of a motor vehicle; n) the large system of connected computers around the world that allow people to share information and communicate with each other; o) vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion; |