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4 Fill in the blanks in the sentences below.
A Every technology book in my specialism is 1) _____ before it gets printed so I
don't buy technical books. Electronic books 2) _____ to me. What we need is an
3) _____ available anywhere and updated regularly.
B What I like about it is my books are 4) _____ all over the world.
C It's much cheaper to 5) _____ than to print. It means we can take risks. We can
publish books a traditional publisher wouldn't publish because they have a
smaller readership.
D Our reader is the size of a paperback. It holds about 200 books at a time. You
can 6) ____ over the Internet in a few minutes and you can read for twenty hours
before 7) _____ the battery. An 8) ____ can hold about 150,000 pages of text so
you could have all of your schoolbooks for a year in a paperback-sized package.
E I thought...there's the time 9) ____ trying to get to the site, there's time taken
to download it and all that time I'm paying just for being on the Internet. Then
there's the printing costs because I don't like reading off a 10) ____ It's not
cheap. Most 11) ____ are obsolete in ten to twenty years. Magnetic tape
stretches, CDs delaminate. Printed books are still the best way to preserve
knowledge.
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
5 Putt the verbs in brackets into the future form.
What is the future of mobile phones?
We know that mobile phones are no longer just phones. There are many
models with radio, calculator, MP3 player, or with access to the Internet.
In the future mobile phones 1) ___ (be) a lot better and
more important – says Dr. Raynolds from the University of
Technology in Baltimore. – They 2) ____ (be) more complicated
with more functions, sort of all- in-one device. First of all,
people 3) ____ (have) better access to
the Internet than
they have today. Mobile phones 4) ____ (have) LCD
displays – this 5) ____ (help) to read
Internet documents
and also see the person you are speaking to. With a mobile
phone people 6) ____ (buy) tickets for the
cinema or concert,
people 7) ____ (order) things from shops, they 8) _____ (pay) bills, and watch
films. The new mobile phones 9) ____ (have) fast processors and a big memory
just like computers. And this is going to happen soon. There are new
technologies, new inventions and new ideas every day and telephone companies
are doing their best to attract clients.
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