Read the following text carefully and solve the tasks that follow:

Web obsession

he Korean camp is quite impressive. There are instructors who look like military soldiers. Its
a camp for young people But these teeens are not fighting alchohol, cigarettes or drugs. In fact,
they have severe cases of what many in this country believe is a new, deadly addiction:
cyberspace.
South Korea is probably the most wired
5 nation on earth. In fact, perhaps no other
country has so fully accepted the Internet. Ninety
percent of homes connect to cheap, high-speed
broadband. Online gaming is a professional sport,
and young people hang out in Internet places
10 that exist on practically every street corner.
But easy access to the Web has created
obsessed users that cannot keep themselves away from their computer screens. However, it may
be a particularly serious problem in South Korea. Users started dropping dead from exhaustion
after playing online games for days on end lots of students have skipped school and meals to stay
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online.
At the camp participants are only allowed one hour of cell phone calls a day and they also
follow a rigorous routine of physical exercise and group activities. The New York Times (adapted)

A. These statements about the text are False. Correct them. 4x4=16
1. The Korean camp aims at training young soldiers.
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2. Most Koreans dont have access to the Internet.
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3. Some players only stop to eat or go to school.

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4. At the camp youngsters can use technology whenever they want.

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B. Match the expressions on the left column with their corresponding meanings in C. Write the
number next to each expressionin column B. 5x2=10

A B C
a. quite impressive (line 1) 1. addicted to
b. severe (line 3) 2. fatigue
c. obsessed (line 12) 3. critical
d. exhaustion (line 14) 4.cruel
e. skipped (line 15) 5. very awesome
6 ineffective
7. missed

Now read this article and answer the questions below

Couple Let Baby Starve To Death While

Raising Virtual Baby Online

By RHODRI PHILLIPS
Published: 04 Mar 2010
A COUPLE addicted to computer games let their
real life baby starve to death while raising a
virtual daughter online, cops said today.

A Korean couple allowed their child to starve to death

because of their addiction to raising a 'virtual' child in a
Second-Life-style game online known as Prius. The
couple spent up to12 hours a day at internet cafes leaving their three-month-old daughter home
alone at their apartment in Suwon, South Korea. Cops say the couple had become obsessed with
living online and neglected their real lives. They raised an avatar baby through their profiles on a
Second Life-style game called PRIUS, while their real daughter was given just one bottle of milk a
day. Dad Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and mum Choi Mi-sun, 25, called the emergency services when they
returned from one online session and found their daughter dead. They told police: "We found she
had passed away when we woke up in the morning." But cops became suspicious about how
severely dehydrated the tot was. A spokesman for the National Scientific Criminal and Investigation
Laboratory, which carried out an autopsy on the girl, said: "She appears to have starved to death
because she was not fed for such a long period of time."

Adapted from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/couple-let-baby-starve-to_n_487287.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2878357/Gamers-tot-dies-of-starvation.html#ixzz13xDnYMX3

C. Complete the missing information in the sentences, according to the text: 3x6=18

1. The Korean couple worried about their virtual daughter but

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home.
3. The baby died because _______________________________________________________

D. Say what/who these words (in bold and underlined in the text), refer to in the text: 4x2=8

1. their (line 2) ______________________________________________________________________

2. they (line 8) _______________________________________________________________________

3. she (line 10) ______________________________________________________________________

4. which (line 12) ___________________________________________________________

E. Complete the sentences with the adequate verb tense (Present Simple/Continuous; Past
Simple/Continuous; Present Perfect) 10x2=20
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1. Recently more and more people ______________________ (become) addicted to the net.
2. In the past our parents _____________________________ (not-use) to do research on the net.
3. Right now I ________________________ (do) this test using the tools a computer provides.
4. Yesterday my brother _________________________ (play) his favourite game online when he
______________________ (lose) the connection.
5. Nowadays all parents ______________________ (believe) the Internet ________________ (bring)
problems to their children. In the past children ___________________ (know) how to have fun. They
_____________________ (not-need) a computer!
6. Over the last twenty years the Internet ____________________ (gain) an important role in society.

F. Complete with for or since. 4x2=8

1. I have had a computer ___________ I was ten years old.

2. She has surfed the net ____________ hours.
3. He hasnt watched TV _____________ he had a bad mark at Maths.
4. You must stop now. You have been playing ________ three hours-

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What do teens want? Tech, tech and more tech. For teens, "as long as it's technology, it's what's
hot".
What do you think? Is there life beyond the
screen? Write your opinion about the impact of
New Technologies on teens lives.

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