2 .2. Grammar and Vocabular y For questions 1 - 7 , read the text below ...
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2.2. Grammar and Vocabulary
For questions 1-7, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. (7 marks)
The speed of technological change is phenomenal now and, unless you want to (1)
living in the past, you need to learn how to use it. Young people, having grown up with computers, are not afraid of them, but many older people are. There are probably many older people who wish the internet had never been (2)
at all! But they shouldn’t (3)
because now they don’t have to deal with this (4)
. The elderly can learn how to connect to the internet even if they are over 80 years old. Many courses have been set up in order to help older people bridge this technological (5)
. An 85-year-old lady I know asked her grandson to show her how to use a computer and now she loves playing computer games! Not only that, she also now uses the internet to do her shopping: she orders online and gets her food (6)
to her home. But if he had not helped her, she wouldn’t be able to do her shopping and manage her bank accounts from home. Now she (7)
she’d bought a computer years ago.
| 1) | A | remain | B | stand | C | leave | D | get | ||
| 2) | A | discovered | B | invented | C | built | D | constructed | ||
| 3) | A | disappoint | B | decline | C | decrease | D | despair | ||
| 4) | A | lonely | B | yourself | C | alone | D | by them | ||
| 5) | A | hole | B | gap | C | whole | D | crack | ||
| 6) | A | supplied | B | provided | C | bought | D | delivered | ||
| 7) | A | regrets | B | wishes | C | reckons | D | dreams |
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