Exercise 23. Find words in the text with the meanings below. The first letters are given.

Note collocations in which they are used.

1. the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event: a______________

2. succeed in achieving, especially after much effort: a_______________

3. absolutely necessary, essential, impossible to exist without: i_____________

4. that can be trusted, trustworthy, likely to be true or correct, likely to provide what is needed: r____________

5. cause a process or action to begin: i____________

6. use, take advantage of: a____________

7. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common: c______________

8. available in large quantities; plentiful: a_____________

9. hard to solve, doubtful, questionable, not definite or settled, uncertain: p__________

10. become or make larger: e____________

11. how often something occurs, the rate at which something repeats: f____________

12. someone who buys goods and services for personal use: c____________

13. willingness and ability to purchase goods and services: d____________

14. belonging to the present time, happening now: c_____________

15. not married: s____________

16. free from danger, safe, protected: s_____________

17. relating to money: m_____________

18. money owed for goods or services supplied, a written account for food and drink in a restaurant, hotel, etc: b____________

19. detailed plan or route of a trip: i_____________

20. the action of stealing: t______________

21. easily damaged by something negative or harmful: v______________

22. the condition of being fat or overweight in a way that is dangerous for health: o___________

23. have a connection, be directly related to something: p_____________

Exercise 24. a). Find the following words and word combinations in the article and give their definition in English. Use the dictionary or browse the Net if necessary.

1. a network

2. a standardized communication protocol

3. a global social village

4. online

5. a click away

6. real-time communication

7. video conferencing

8. a chat

9. messaging services

10. to form a community

11. search engines

12. government law and services

13. a trade fair

14. to seek web assistance

15. a website

16. homeschooling

17. to surf the Web

18. social networking

19. to secure online profiles

20. financial transactions

21. E-commerce

22. a utility bill

23. theft of personal information

24. spam

25. obstruct the computer system

26. use bots 

27. malware threats

28. crash the system completely

29. IP

30. IP targeted virus

31. virtual

32. online gambling

33. gaming addiction

B) Think of your own examples illustrating the meaning of the expressions above. You can combine two or more expressions in one sentence.

Exercise 25. Find the opposites of the following words in Exercise 22. With the help of what

prefixes are they formed?

disadvantage, possible, dispensable, use, legal, reliable, conspicuous,

appropriate, attended.