Study the Active Vocabulary. Insert the missing words.

### Exercise 2. Insert the missing words: 1. Email (or Internet) helps you to send letters quickly. 2. If there is an interesting programme on TV, it's difficult for a person to **resist**. 3. During the last two **decades**, scientific progress and digitization took place. 4. For some people, the computer is an equivalent of the **typewriter**: a device for printing and editing documents. 5. Do you have many **relatives**? Yes, I have parents, grandparents, two sisters and three brothers. 6. I don't buy **albums/CDs** any more, all my photos are on my computer. 7. The computer is a multifunctional device. So the **advantage** is that it can be used both for work and for leisure. 8. The **industrial** age was followed by the microelectronic one. ### Exercise 3. Continue the following statements: 1. The atomic, space and energy age was followed by the information (or digital) age. 2. It's difficult to imagine social and economic consequences of such rapid technological development. 3. Computers have simplified many complex calculations and communication processes. 4. The computer helps us to buy goods, find information, and communicate with people worldwide. 5. Leisure time is also influenced by various entertainment gadgets. 6. You no longer go to music shops because you can download music online. 7. You needn't write letters to your relatives as you can send an email or message. 8. The computer and TV set are used mostly for entertainment, but they also serve educational purposes. 9. The best decision is not to give these devices complete control over your life. 10. When you have a rest, prefer real communication to virtual interactions.