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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. Somewould argue that virtual existences created by someusers 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
2. There is a small difference in meaning between the two words.
A. mild B. s light C. mode
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