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Staying safe online

Part 3.- For questions 3.1-3.8, read the text 'Staying safe online.' Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).


Example (0) SURPRISING


Staying safe online

One of the most (0) _______(SURPRISE) features of the computer age is the huge amount of time that young people spend communicating with each other. Whereas a generation ago children would go home after a (3.1)__________(TIRE) day at school and watch TV, we are likely to do something much more (3.2)__________(SOCIETY), such as chat online with their friends.

Others exchange information on increasingly (3.3)_________(POPULATION) social networking sites such as Facebook. What some parents find rather (3.4)_________(WORRY), however, is how easily they can make online 'friends' who they have never actually met, and also the amount of information that their children are so (3.5)________(ENTHUSIASM) when putting onto these websites for anyone to see.

Parents are right to be (3.6)_______(ANXIETY), but with many children spending hours a day online it is simply (3.7)________(PRACTICE) for adults constantly to watch over them. All they can do is advise them to be extremely (3.8)________(CAUTION) about contact with strangers, and to warn them not to put personal information such as their phone number or home address online.

MAY, Pete (2014) Compact First Workbook. 2nd edition. Page 6. Cambridge University Press: Italy.

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