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Quiz topic: Technology words
For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer.
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
A teenager who spends all day in front of a computer screen is called a
____________.
screenager
cybersickness
ciberwidow
e-cash
2.
If you buy something from the internet, you don’t use cash, you use _________.
a)
b)
c)
d)
dot com
e-cash
travellers cheques
dollars
3.
A business which operates only on the internet is called a _________.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e-cash
dot com
keypal
cybersickness
4.
He spent all day yesterday surfing the net, now he says he’s tired – must be a
touch of _____________!
a)
b)
c)
d)
dot com
cybersickness
screenager
keypal
5.
What do we call someone who keeps in touch with someone in another country – by
email?
a)
b)
c)
d)
6.
a)
b)
c)
d)
keypal
penpal
screenager
dot com
What do we call a woman whose husband uses the internet too much?
Cyberwidow
dot com
widow
housewife
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Quiz topic: Technology words
Answers:
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
A teenager who spends all day in front of a computer screen is called a
____________.
This new word describes a teenager who is always in their bedroom using
the computer. Correct
If you spend too much time in front of the computer, you might start to suffer from
cybersickness – feeling tired and ill.
If a woman’s husband dies, she is called a widow; a cyberwidow loses her husband
to the internet.
If you buy something on the internet, you pay with e-cash - virtual money.
2. If you buy something from the internet, you don’t use cash, you use _________.
a) A dot com is a company which trades only on the internet.
b) If you buy something on the internet, you pay with e-cash - virtual money.
Correct
c) People used travellers cheques in the past when they travelled abroad.
d) Dollars are a type of currency.
3.
a)
b)
c)
d)
A business which operates only on the internet is called a _________
e-cash.
dot com. Correct
keypal.
Cybersickness.
4.
He spent all day yesterday surfing the net, now he says he’s tired – must be a
touch of _____________!
A dot com is a company which trades only on the internet.
If you spend too much time in front of the computer, you might start to
suffer from cybersickness – feeling tired and ill. Correct
This new word describes a teenager who is always in their bedroom on the
computer.
In the old days, children were pen pals, they wrote letters to friends overseas, now
they are keypals; they do it by email.
a)
b)
c)
d)
5.
a)
b)
c)
d)
What do we call someone who keeps in touch with someone in another country – by
email?
In the old days, children were pen pals, they wrote letters to friends
overseas, now they are keypals; they do it by email. Correct
In the old days, children were pen pals, they wrote letters to friends overseas, now
they do it by email – what do we call them?
This new word describes a teenager who is always in their bedroom using the
computer.
A dot com is a company which trades only on the internet.
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6. What do we call a woman whose husband uses the internet too much?
a) If a woman’s husband dies, she is called a widow; a cyberwidow loses her
husband to the internet. Correct
b) A dot com is a company which trades only on the internet.
c) If a woman’s husband dies, she is called a widow, what do we call a woman who
loses her husband to the internet?
d) A housewife is a woman who stays home to look after the children and house.
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