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VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
3 Reconstruct the jumbled sentences and read the text
Mobility
1 Due to technological pro
gress there
seems to be no limit
A as home computers – except the
price is much higher.
2 Surfing the internet B with the help of mobile phones as
they allow entry to the telephone net.
3 Mobile computers offer the same
standards
C to new developments: e.g. it is
possible to send faxes from a car per
note book or mobile phone.
4 Even live-conference meetings via
internet are easily arranged
D video phone, which will be able to
send or receive e-mail without even
being connected to a computer.
5 A Japanese company already works
on the first portable
E is possible, independent of where
you are.
4 Match the words (1 – 6) from the left column with words (A – F) from the
right columns to make meaningful phrases. Use each word only once.
1 tremendous
2 sophisticated
3 quite
4 go
5 certain
6 a lot of
A inevitability
B benefits
C computer
D wrong
E impact
F alarming
5 Fill in each blank in the text with the most suitable phrase from the
previous activity
To Depend on Computers -is it Bad or Not?
Personal computers were introduced as recently as the early 1980s. In this
short time they have made a 1______on our lives. We are now so dependent on
computers, that it is hard to go into a bank, when their main computer is broken.
Just try to appreciate the chaos, that would occur if computers were suddenly
removed world-wide.
In the future computers will be used to create bigger and even more
2______. The prospects for this are 3___________. They will be so complex, that
no individual could hope to understand how they work. They will bring a 4______,
but they will also increase the potential for imaginable chaos. They will, for
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