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Unit 3 Vocabulary exercises Ⅰ. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. 1. It is my personal belief that human potential can only be realize by the globalization of ideas. 2. ...the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users. 3. ...he said he was addicted, and has forced himself to go off-line. 4. Automobile ownership because commonplace and suburbs were created.Progress was their mantra. 5. However, based on my personal experience I can understand how, as they surf the web some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload. 6. Some would argue that virtual existences created by some users who debate, shop, travel and have romance on line are in fact not real. KEY 1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed 2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to others 3. liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as possible 4. a word or phrase which is often repeated to express a belief 5. more information than one can cope with 6. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seems so real that for most purposes it can be regarded as real Ⅱ. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning. 1. The president warned, America must get rid of the hangover we all have because of economic binge we just went through, referring to the long period of inflated stock prices that sent Americans streaming into the market. A. indulgence B. speculation C. habit D.inflation 2. There is a small difference in meaning between the two words. A. mild B. slight C. moderate D. minimal 3. Crab connoisseurs need not lament because king crab legs are still available at the festival, along with plenty of other seafood. A. mourn B. fell regret C. depress D. dissatisfy