Review 4 - Language

Read the text, and choose the best answer for the following questions  Mind-blowing facts about modern communication The Internet holds about 5 million terabytes of data. That’s about the same as 1 million human brains. According to experts, there are about 2 billion Internet users in the world. 70% of people in developed countries go online, but only 20% of people in developing countries can access to the Internet. The average Internet user has 25 online accounts and logs in 8 times a day. 30% of Internet users have just 1 password for all their online accounts, and the most common password is “password1”. About 55% of users choose words which have some personal meaning, and 15% write down both their password and username. Many people use Wi-Fi hotspots in public places, such as café, airports and hotels. 46% of them are worried about viruses and hackers. Many people type in personal information while using public Wi-Fi: 22% regularly type in email passwords, 21% log onto Facebook and 8% do online banking, but they are unaware about how to be totally secure. The first computer virus appeared in 1981. The first virus to affect mobile phones appeared in 2005. And the first anti-virus software came out in 1990. There are now about 6,000 new computer viruses every month. 87% of Internet users go online with their smartphone at least once a day. About 80% keep their smartphone turned on 24-7 and 23% use it during mealtimes. 500,000,000 people in the world have a Facebook account – that’s about one in every 13 people. The average user has 130 “friends”, and 48% of adults check their Facebook page as soon as they wake up in the morning. Every 20 minutes, Facebook users around the world upload 2,716,000 photos.

Read and choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the passage. Bicycles The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most  surprising  is  that  it  was  not  (4) ........... earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci had drawn picture for bicycle and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced until long after he died. A person riding a bicycle use very little energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so in developed (5) .........., most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel (6) ......... if they ride to work. It’s because (7)........ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes (8) ........... to ride a bicyle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work (9) .......... their cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious. (10) ........... the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths only for bicycle and to make it so difficult and expensive for drivers to their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.