sophistication with wireless handheld devices. And it's certainly not a low appetite for digital
services, messaging, music, and authoring. America's youth are among the world's most avid
consumers and users of gaming consoles, email, mp3's, video editing, and web blogs. It's not their
lack of technological sophistication that keeps American teens from investing in souped-up cell
phones; quite on the contrary, it's their access to technologies that are superior for each of these
tasks. They play games on a Playstation, listen to mp3's on an iPod, send messages using a real
keyboard, shoot pictures with a camera, and edit video on a computer.
It's not that American kids don't have cell phones. They do. It's just that they don't have the same
need to use their phones for activities that are already being satisfied better elsewhere.
Even if they don't prove to be eager handset upgraders, America's youth will still rack up airtime on
the cell phones they already have. They're just going to do it the old fashioned way: talking.
By Douglas Rushkoff, Fri Oct 17, 2003
Vocabulary:
7 - What explanation is provided by the text to account for American teens attitude towards
acquiring a sophisticated top-of-the-line mobile phone?
A) American teens simply dont like mobile phones.
B) Teens dont have the technological sophistication to acquire a high-tech mobile.
C) American teens have access to other technological means to perform the same tasks better so
they dont require a sophisticated mobile.
8 - According to the text, for what does an American teen use its mobile phone?
A) Americas youth will mainly use its mobile phone to access the net.
B) Teens will use mobile phones primarily to speak to each other.
C) They will use cell phones to satisfy their needs.
9 - Determine to what the words given below refer to. Tick the correct option:
they (l. 12 )
A) Americans
B) Cell phones
C) English youth
10 - it (l. 15 )
A) Send photos to one another
B) Urgency
C) Wireless access
11 - it (l. 21 )
A) Gadget
B) Net
C) Cell phone
12 - their (l. 31 )
A) Samsung camera phone and Sony handset
B) Wireless devices
C) Americas youth
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13 - Chose the alternative that adequately explains the meaning of the given word or expression:
. fully featured mobile phone. (l. 8/9 )
A) A highly advanced mobile with a wide variety of functions.
B) A standard mobile phone for full use
C) A mobile phone that can take photos
14 - bemoan the rampant consumerism (l. 10 )
A) Study the motives that explain consumerism
B) Complain about the ever rising consumerism
C) Explain why consumerism is decreasing
15 - will still rack up airtime (l. 39/40)
A) They will still spend a certain amount of time talking on the phone
B) They might spend some air on the phone
C) They should use the air to talk on the phone
GRAMMAR
Rewrite the sentences given without changing the meaning they convey. Select the correct
alternative to complete the new sentence.
1.1 - If English youth doesnt buy high tech mobiles, they will continue to have poor access to the
net. Unless English . access to the net.
A) ... teens dont buy mobiles, they will have bad ...
B) ... youth buys high tech mobiles, they will continue to have poor
C) ... youth bought high tech mobiles, they will continue to have ...
1.2 - Why do they want the latest models? The author wondered .. models.
A) why did they wanted the latest
B) if they wanted the latest
C) why they wanted the latest
1.3 - English teens need to have a highly advanced mobile phone in order to access the net and
perform other functions. English teens need to have a highly advanced mobile phone so that
.. functions.
A) they can access the net and perform other
B) access the net and perform other
C) accessed the net and performed other
1.4 - We may attribute American teens reluctance in buying high tech cell phones to their lack of
sophistication. American teens reluctance . sophistication.
A) in buying high tech cell phones may attributed to their lack of
B) in buying high tech cell phones be may attribute to their lack of
C) in buying high tech cell phones may be attributed to their lack of
1.5 - Although they arent eager cell phone users, American teens will still use the phones they
already have. Despite .. will still use the phones they already have.
A) not being eager cell phone users, American teens
B) of not being eager cell phone users, American teens
C) they arent eager cell phone users, American teens
1.6 - Cell phone users want a high tech device will spend huge amounts of money to buy it.
Cell phone users . to buy it.
A) when they want a high tech device will spend huge amounts of money
B) which want a high tech device will spend huge amounts of money
C) who want a high tech device will spend huge amounts of money