For today we have two paragraphs given below. There are some blanks in between these paragraphs. You need to apply your General Knowledge and English skill to feel those blanks from given four options for each of the blanks.
Twenty (1)____________(hours, weeks ,years, days) ago, kids in school had never even heard of the internet. Now, I’ll bet you can’t find a single person in your school who hasn’t at least heard of it. In fact, many of us use it on a regular basis and even have access to it from our homes! The ‘net’ in (2)____________(net practice, netting, internet, network) really stands for network. A (3) __________ (internet, computer, cable, network) is two or more computers connected together so that information can be (4) _________( shared , created, lost, hidden ), or sent from one computer to another. The internet is a vast resource for all types of information. You may enjoy using it to do research for a school project, downloading your favorite songs or communicating with friends and family. Information is accessed through web pages that companies, organizations and individuals create and post. It’s kind of like a giant bulletin board that the whole world uses!
Just because you read something on a piece of paper someone sticks on a bulletin board doesn’t mean it’s good information, or even correct, for that matter. So you have to be sure that whoever posted the (5) ___________ (information, bulletin board, news, internet ) knows what they’re talking about, especially if you’re doing (6) __________ (research ,lunch, recess, sports )! But what if you’re just emailing people? You still have to be very careful. If you’ve never met the person that you’re communicating with online, you could be on dangerous ground! You should never give out any personal information to someone you don’t know, not even your name! And just like you can’t (7) __________ (find, believe, go, come) the information on every (8) ___________ (shop, mall, shopping center, website) out there, you can’t rely on what strangers you ‘meet’ on the internet tell you either. Just like you could make up things about yourself to tell someone, someone else could do the same to you! But since anyone can put anything on the (9) ____________ (floor, newspaper, magazine, internet), you also have to be (10) __________ (careless, incautious, careful, happy) and use your best judgment and a little common sense.
Invention of Microscope
It happened over 300 years (11) _______ (after, ago, before, since) in Holland. Anton van Leeuwenhoek (AN-tun van LAY-vun-hook) had a new microscope that he had (12) __________ (lost, made, did, delivered). One day he (13)_________ (looked ,broke, went, fell ) through it at a drop of lake water. What he saw surprised him.
The water was alive with what Leeuwenhoek called "wee beasties." The microscope made tiny organisms look 200 times (14) __________ (darker, farther, larger, smaller) than life size. Leeuwenhoek was one of the first scientists to see living things that were that (15) _______ (life, bigger, darker, small). His work was a giant (16) _________ (tower, turtle, step, gorilla) for science.
Today, microscopes are much stronger. An electron microscope can make tiny organisms look 200,000 times (17) ___________ (life, over, small, under) size. A few electron microscopes can see individual atoms. Pictures can be made to show the objects or organisms much bigger. The pictures add greatly to what we know about tiny objects and (18) (microscopes, electrons, organisms, gravity). Microscopes have come a long way in 300 years!
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Answers
1. years
2. internet
3. network
4. shared
5. information
6. research
7. believe
8. website
9. internet
10. careful
11. ago
12. made
13. looked
14. larger
15. small
16. step
17. life
18. organisms
{2006/09/06}
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