Choose the correct words in the box and write them on the lines. You do not need to use all the words.
| enthusiastic | disorder | effect | offensive | publish |
| signal | contribute | score | significantly | mental |
Example: significantly: in a way that is large or important enough to have an effect on something or to be noticed
1. : to get a point in a game or sport
2. : feeling or showing a lot of excitement and interest about somebody/something
3. : an illness that causes a part of the body to stop functioning correctly
4. : existing in the mind, or relating to the mind
5. : to produce many copies of a book, magazine, or newspaper for people to buy
6. : a movement or sound that is made by someone and has a special meaning for another person
We _____ good friends for more than 10 years.
A Ferrari Spider is at least _____ a Mercedes Class C.
She _____ herself extremely hurt by his lack of support.
I've _____ talking to him about the wedding for far too long.
We caught sight of dozens of _____ elephants on safari.
I _____ hamburgers, but at first I didn’t like them.
He grew up in _____ orphanage in _____ United States.
_____ you help me to solve this math problem?
People _____ happier if they eat well and get a little exercise.
She took _____ books with her while going on holiday but she read only a few of them during her stay.
Complete the conversation between Ben and his mother. What does he say to his mother? Write a letter (A - J) for each question. You do not need to use all the letters.
A. Maybe. I'm going to ask if he wants to go swimming with me tomorrow.
B. I've got some but I've finished it all.
C. Alright. Will you be able to drive us?
D. Yes, it was fine. We've got some great new teachers.
E. Just a little. Can I watch TV first?
F. Where shall I meet him?
G. Just one. We sat next to each other.
H. I don't think he likes swimming.
I. Yes, it's too easy for me.
J. I'll see what he thinks tomorrow then.
Mother: So, Ben, did you enjoy your first day back at school?
Ben:
Mother: Oh, that's good. Are there any new students?
Ben:
Mother: Really? Do you think you'll be friends?
Ben:
Mother: Why don't you invite him to go at the weekend instead?
Ben:
Mother: I'm sure I can find time for that.
Ben:
Mother: Good idea. Now, have you got any homework?
Ben:
Mother: I'd prefer you to do your homework now, please.
Read the text. Choose the correct word from the box to fill in each blank.
| arrangement | doubt | obsessed | harmful | performance | appointment |
A POWERFUL INFLUENCE
There can be no at all that the Internet has made a huge difference in our lives. However, most parents worry that their children spend too much time browsing the Internet or playing computer games, hardly ever doing anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents want to know if these activities are for their children. What should they do if their children spend hours staring at a computer screen?
Obviously, if children spend too much time absorbed in some games instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong. It is a good idea if parents and children decide together how much use should be made of the Internet, and the child should promise that it won’t interfere with homework. If the child does not stick to this , parents can take more drastic steps.
Any parents who are seriously alarmed about a child’s behavior should make an to discuss the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of a computer screen does not necessarily affect a child’s at school. Even if a youngster seems with the computer, he or she is probably just going through a phase, and in a few months, parents will have something else to worry about!
Read the passage.
NFTs are an unusual idea sweeping through the world of electronic art, allowing people to prove that they own the art. Now, digital artworks that can prove they are one-of-a-kind are being sold for huge amounts of money. Nyan Cat was a hit YouTube video in 2011. It had catchy music and showed a cat with a PopTart body running and leaving a rainbow trail behind it. The video, and animated gifs (moving pictures) of Nyan Cat can easily be found on the internet. But in February, an animated gif of Nyan Cat was sold for nearly $590,000.
Electronic art is very different from art made without computers. When a painter paints a picture, there’s only one original painting. It’s possible to make copies of the picture, but these are easy to tell apart from the original. And they’ll never be as valuable as the original artwork. But with digital art, copies are easy to make, and every copy is exactly the same. If you have a picture on your computer and you send a copy to a friend, the computer files used to create the pictures are exactly the same. This has long been a problem for artists who create electronic art, making it hard for them to sell their work.
In recent years, people have developed a way for electronic artists to sell a work of art as if it were an original, using something called an NFT. An NFT lets people treat something that can be copied as if it were one-of-a-kind. The NFT doesn’t actually change the thing that’s being sold, but it creates an electronic record proving who owns it. And people are paying a lot of money just to say that they own things. For example, a picture called “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” was sold last Thursday. It’s a complicated picture, made of 5,000 other pictures created by Mark Winkelmann, an artist who uses the name “Beeple”. Even though the picture can be found on the internet for free, it was sold at Christie’s Auction House for $69.4 million.
It’s not just art that’s being sold with NFTs. Some bands are releasing music with NFT. Recently, Jack Dorsey, who started the social media company Twitter, put an NFT of his first tweetup for sale. The highest bid so far is $2.5 million.
If copies can be easily found on the internet, why would anyone pay money for an NFT? Some people are buying to support the artists. Some like the idea of collecting rare things or feeling like they own them. Others hope to make money by reselling the NFTs. There’s at least one big problem with NFTs: the electronic system that keeps track of who owns what. This system uses so much electricity that creating NFTs also creates massive amounts of pollution.
So far, that hasn’t stopped people from spending lots of money on NFTs. And many people think that NFTs will make it much easier for electronic artists to earn real money for their work.
Now use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER to answer each question.
1. What aspect of electronic artwork does an NFT want to show?
2. How are the copies of a digital artwork compared to the original one?
3. What do NFTs create to declare to whom the works belong?
4. Where was the artwork of "Beeple" sold?
5. There are reasons that make people willing to spend money on NFTs.
6. What is the negative effect of NFTs according to the writer?
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
They were such difficult questions that we couldn't answer them.
=> The questions were so ............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
This is the first time I have ever met such a pretty girl.
=> She is ……......
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Martha delivered some documents to the department.
=> Some documents ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
They stayed in a very luxurious hotel last summer.
=> The hotel where .............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Anna got the job even though she didn’t have much experience in public relations.
=> In spite of ………...
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
She said, “I don’t know where my shoes are.”
=> She said that ............