6th grade test June 2010 Highschool N 1 Name____________________________ Marks: Comments:

1) LISTENING Listen to Fiona and Paul talking about films. Decide if each sentence is True or False.
a) Paul and Fiona agree that the action film wasnt very good. b) Fiona prefers seeing films at the cinema to seeing them at

home.
c) Paul thinks you cant watch films with special effects at home. d) Fiona likes to see films whenever she wants to. e) Paul is not interested in a plot of a film. f) Fiona and Paul agree to go to the cinema together.

Internet: a virtual world.

1. Communication has opened the possibility of surfing, interacting and manipulating images in construction in our daily life. The contemporary image can be watched, thought and manipulated. 4. The computer introduces us to high speed visual thought. This allows us to use the computer to create multimedia. This is a joint of images, sound, animation, video and interaction. Numerical images are basically dynamic. They construct a new look and this is the look of simultaneity. These images imply notions like virtuality, interactivity, high definition, autoreference and simulation; they are related to production and decoding. 9. Virtual reality makes us think about the relationship between what is true and what is false. The space created by virtual reality techniques, under the users control, is called cyberspace. According to Gibsons definition, Cyberspace: hallucination which is lived every day, by common consent, by millions of legal users all around the world, even by children who learn mathematical concepts. The cyberspace is conceived on the screen and in the net. Internet is the net that helps us have permanent and extended communication. Images, voices, addresses, 15.information and users flow around the net proposing path from reading to hypertext. The digital traveller lives in a world that moves around him while he is sitting in front of

6th grade test June 2010 Highschool N 1

his computer. The hypertext is software that builds a virtual space that lets the user surf.

2) READING Read and find:

a) The opposites of: -

Death (L2): ______________ True (L 9):______________

b) The synonyms of: -

Velocity (L4): _______________ Construct (L17):_____________

3) Read the article and find the answers to these

questions.
a) According to the text, what communication has

done in our everyday life?

b) Why do we use the computer for? c) Which definition is given in the text?

d) Who lives in a world in constant change in front of a PC?

4) Find in the text a word that means: a) The activity of expressing ideas and feelings

(L1):_________________
b) Something that you can hear (L5):________________ c) True situations and problems that actually exist in life

(L10):____________
d) Facts or details about somebody/something (L15):

6th grade test June 2010 Highschool N 1

5) Complete the passage with the words in the box. Where by are the been in a on

To blog or not to blog? That is the question. Blogs have________ around since 1994 when Justin Hall, __________ bored students in _______ USA, began writing his diaries ________ Internet. Today, there ________ miliions of blogs. The blogosphere is a virtual word ______ people chat, argue and even fall ________ love with someone. It is also a young word. Over half the blogs are written _______ teenagers. 6) One of the most popular means of communications is television. Whats your favourite TV programme? Remember to use the information above, please.

Name: Channel: On air at: Tv presenter: