2024年4月16日发(作者：悟悌)

Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet

Vocabulary

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed

2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to other people

3.

possible

liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as

4. more information than one can cope with

5. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seem so real

that for most purposes they can be regarded as real

II. Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with a phrase from the box in its

appropriate form.

1. for the better

2. at the expense of

3. was confronted with

4. took advantage of

5. in earnest

6. are available for

7. prior to

8. would give ... pause to think

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. alienating 2. globalization

3. fragmenting 4. addict

5. exaggerates 6. Depression

7. simulated 8. gratified

IV. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in

each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. A 2. B 3. B 4. C

5. B 6. A 7. D 8. D

2024年4月16日发(作者：悟悌)

Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet

Vocabulary

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed

2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to other people

3.

possible

liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as

4. more information than one can cope with

5. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seem so real

that for most purposes they can be regarded as real

II. Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with a phrase from the box in its

appropriate form.

1. for the better

2. at the expense of

3. was confronted with

4. took advantage of

5. in earnest

6. are available for

7. prior to

8. would give ... pause to think

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. alienating 2. globalization

3. fragmenting 4. addict

5. exaggerates 6. Depression

7. simulated 8. gratified

IV. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in

each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. A 2. B 3. B 4. C

5. B 6. A 7. D 8. D