2. Read the text again and decide if the sentences below are true (t) or false (f).

1) One of the symptoms of computer addiction is showing on interest to reality. _____

2) The problem equally affects both sexes in their late teens. _______

3) Some children are less subjected to computer addiction due to their personal characteristics. _______

4) Computer addiction is a nervous condition. _____

5) Mrs. Janis-Norton claims very little can be done to help families with computer addict children. ______

3. Match the italicized words from the text with the definitions below (1-14).

1) an unjust or harmful custom

2) to be in a position of care, control, or responsibility for a person, group, organization, etc.

, and concerned only about your own thoughts.

4) to cause some result or change in; influence.

5) eager to mix socially with others, friendly.

6) to feel a liking for, esp. at once.

7) to hit your fingers lightly on something

8) a person who is unable to free himself from a harmful habit.

9) willing to do anything to change a very bad situation, and not caring about danger.

10) to be worried or frightened

11) unwilling to keep still or stay where you are, especially because you are nervous.

12) so nervous or upset that you are unable to keep still or think calmly.

13) to feel that you understand someone’s problem, situation, etc.

14) when people risk money or possessions on the result of something which is not certain, such as a card game or a horse race.

4. Translate from Russian into English using the vocabulary from the text.

1) Давно доказано, что курение негативно влияет на здоровье человека.

2) Я всегда ужасно беспокоюсь за детей, когда они не приходят домой вовремя.

3) Этот человек – наркоман, его родственники просто в отчаянии.

4) Кто здесь главный (ответственный)?

5) Общительные дети редко становятся зависимыми от компьютера.

6) У нее всегда получалось находить контакт с детьми, поэтому неудивительно, что она стала учителем.

7) Он с удовольствием занимается английским?

5. Do you think the problem described in the text is a real one? Collect some facts from your personal experience, mass media or the Internet to prove that this problem exists (does not exist) in Russia? Do you know anybody who has similar problems? What do you think can be done to help people with such condition?

Text C. “A Cold Place for a Holiday”

1. Read and complete the text by putting a word or number from the box in each space.

10 000	1990	- 5o	half	- 40o	88%	4 000	200
1989	5000 m2

Existing each year between December and April, the Icehotel in the village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden was the world's first ice hotel. In ____1____, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring ___2___, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the exhibition hall. They slept in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skin - the first guests of the "hotel."

The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks taken from the Torne River - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The Icehotel is open for less than ____3_____ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures ____4_____ and it needs______5________ tons of ice and 30 000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than ___6___ snow. The ice is used for creating Icebar designs and ice glasses, for ice sculpting classes, events and product launches all over the world while the snow is used for building a strong structure for the building.

The temperature inside the hotel is usually about ____7______. Outside in Jukkasjärvi itself the temperature can be much lower even as low as ___8____!

Last year more than ____9____ visitors travelled ____10_____ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception!