Mass media

real life as quickly asthey can do it in internet games. In real life they can not simply press "escape".

1) Как Интернет влияет на нашу жизнь?
2) В глобальной сети можно найти любую информацию за несколько минут.
3) Интернет уже изменил нашу жизнь и работу.
4) Интернет умножает наши знания об окружающем мире; там есть много качественной информации, которая может помочь нам понять многие сферы, такие как наука, медицина, искусство и т. д.
5) Многие дети проводят около экрана компьютера больше часов в день, чем у них уходит на другие занятия, включая обучение и сон.
Key:
1) How does the Inter - net affect our lives?
2) In the global network you can find any information in a few minutes.
3) The Internet has already revolutionized the way we live and work.
4) The Internet may increase our knowledge of the outside world; there is much high-quality information that can help us un - derstand many fields of study: science, medicine, the arts and so on.
5) Many children look at a screen for more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and sleeping.
TASK 2
Read the following text. Complete the sentences using the correct word from the box. Use each word ones only. There is an extra word which you do not need to use.
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The most negative effect of the Internet could be peoples
(1) to it. People often feel a strange and powerful (2) to spend time on the network. Addiction to acomputer screen is (3) to drug or alcohol ad - diction: people (4) never believe they are ad - dicted. One more disadvantage of the Internet is the (5) of information control. Children receive (6) ac