Grammar and Vocabulary

12. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words derived from the capitalized words.

The Internet

Modern Technology has had a great effect on the lives of people and their

1. entertainment habits. Today, the Internet has undergone a ENTERTAIN

phenomenal global (2) growth. It has become a very important GROW

data-gathering and (3) communication source. The Net COMMUNICATE

(4) encircles the globe. CIRCLE

Young people spend a lot of time on their computers because it’s

(5) exciting and they have found in the Net new ways of meeting EXCITE

a (6) basic human need: the desire to communicate with other people. BASE

People can (7) exchange electronic messages. The Internet becomes CHANGE

post office, (8) printing press and (9) meeting-place all in one. PRINT/MEET

Most companies have their own websites; others exist only on the Internet.

They are (10) usually called “dot com” companies. Some of the most USUAL

(11) successful Net businessmen are teenagers who are still at school. SUCCESS

For example, Tom Hadfield, 16, started a football results website called

soccer-net and it became a great (12) business. BUSY

6.Read the text and fill in the gaps with the proper grammatical form of the capitalized words.

Searching the Internet

Here (1) are basic instructions on how to search the Internet. BE

1.The desktop is the (2) first screen that you will see on a computer ONE

that (3) has just been started up. At the left side of the desktop, there START

will be several “icons”. You may use the mouse to double-click on an icon

(4) to open the program which the icon (5) represents. OPEN/REPRESENT

2. (6) To access the Internet, double-click on an Internet browser ACCESS

icon. In most cases, this icon will be called “Mozilla Firefox” or “Internet

Explorer”. There are many (7) others, however. OTHER

3.After step #2, a new screen should appear on your computer

monitor. This screen (8) is called your Internet “homepage”. This is CALL

the first screen that will appear every time you (9) access the Internet. ACCESS

4. At the top of your homepage, there is a long rectangular space

with the word “address” to the left. Clear this space by (9) moving your MOVE

mouse over the text and triple-clicking. Now, you are ready (10) to enter ENTER

a new Internet address in the empty space.

(to be continued)

7. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the proper grammatical form of the capitalized words.

Searching the Internet (continued)

5.(1) To do an Internet search, you must first (2) enter the address DO/ENTER

of an Internet search “engine”. The address of the (3) most popular POPULAR

Internet search engine is www.google.com. Enter this address in the

rectangular space. (4) Press the “enter” key on the keyboard (5) to go PRESS/GO

to this new address.

6.A new page (6) will appear on the screen. It will have the title APPEAR

of the search engine “Google” at the top. Below the title, there will be an empty

rectangular space. (7) Move the mouse over this space and single-click. MOVE

7.Now, you are ready to enter the subject which you(8)are searching for. SEARCH

For example, (9) imagine that you (10) want to know who IMAGINE/WANT

(11) won the World Cup of Soccer in 1994. Type “World Cup winner, WIN

soccer, 1994” into the empty rectangular space. Press the enter key on the keyboard.

8.On the new page there is a list of blue (12) websites that all have WEBSITE

information about the World Cup of Soccer in 1994. (13) To access one ACCESS

of these websites, left click on the one that looks (14)most useful to you. USEFUL

9.A new page will appear. On this page there is a full version of the blue

website you (15) have selected. You may use the wheel on the mouse SELECT

(16) to move the page up and down to read the information MOVE

(17) more easily. EASILY