ENGLISH WORKSHEET Read the following text: High-Tech Communication Invaded My Life Since I have been studying in the

US, I have been freed from high-tech communication except for email. When I was in Korea, I had a beeper, a cellular phone and a PC Communication ID, which was necessary for Internet service. I had to pay about fifty dollars per month to use those things. I think fifty dollars per month is no small amount of money for a student. I know you might ask, Why did she need those things if she was just a student? My answer is, For fashions sake. To be honest, I didnt need to use a beeper and a cellular phone because I didnt have any urgent business, but all my family and friends had cellular phones. In Korea, more than fifty per cent of the population has a cellular phone. Think about that number; only children and very old people dont have one. If I had not a cellular phone, everybody would have asked, Why doesnt she have one? I would have been considered a strange and independent person. Korea has a group-oriented culture, so a strange and independent person is not welcome. People think that such person is eccentric. I didnt want to be eccentric, so I could not do anything else but use a beeper and a cellular phone. I had to check my beeper and cellular phone all the time, and I had to change the battery every day. It was kind of a hassle. Even though I didnt want to answer the phone, I had to answer it because as long as I had a beeper and a cellular phone, a quick answer was etiquette. It really invaded my life. I have never thought they were useful and meaningful devices. I hate them because I am a person who likes to lead a peaceful, calm life.

1. Why does Minsoo say that shes been freed from high-tech communication since she arrived in the USA? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How much did she pay for all the gadgets she used to have in Korea? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Was it necessary for her to have all those devices? Quote from the text to justify your answer. _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why did she say she had to have those devices? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Whats her opinion on mobile phones and beepers? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________

3. Read the text: A Brief History of the Internet A popularity phenomenon nowadays, the internet is not a recent invention. Its origins go back to the 1960s, when ARPANET was created by the US Department of Defences research people __________ that could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because they found that it provided a very convenient way to communicate. For the first decade that the internet was in existence, ____________. In 1990, a revolutionary feature (HTML) was introduced. It made possible the communication of graphic information. ___________ This advanced version of the internet was informally renamed the Web and a large additional audience was created. At the moment, most people use the term internet to refer to the physical structure of the Net, including client and server computers and the phone lines that connect everything. They use the term Web to refer to __________. A very small thing in the beginning (only 213 hosts in 1981), ____________ and keeps growing every day. With a mouse and a keyboard, the distant world doesnt look so distant after all.

3.1. Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences a) to e) the one that fits each gap. a) Each individual could create graphic pages (a Web site), which then became part of a huge network called the World Wide Web. b) in conjunction with a number of military institutions and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network c) the internet has now millions of hosts world-wide d) it was mainly used to facilitate e-mail and support the transfer of files between government agencies, companies and universities e) the collection of the sites and the information that can be accessed when one is using the internet

3.2. Read the definitions and write the missing related words. a) b) c) d) the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks a system for sending and receiving electronically over a computer network a collection of related data or program records stored as a unit with a single name a set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization e) a computer programme running as a service, to serve the needs or requests of other programmes

4. Find in the text the words that refer to the ones given below. So, what will school be like in the future? Some people think there wont be any schools or teachers. They say that kids will probably stay at home and have classes in virtual classrooms. Or kids might go school, but they wont need to take their books with them! They could access material online. The teacher could just project the book onto the board like an e-book. Or maybe the teacher will be a hologram giving classes in several schools at the same time. Look around again, what do you see? What will it be like in the future? What is going to be different? And what will stay the same? a) b) c) d) e) They (l. 2) _______________________________ they (l. 3) ________________________________ their (l. 3) ________________________________ them (l. 4) ________________________________ it (l. 6) ___________________________________