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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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Text finding expression
Hello people I have a problem with this text:
"I come to this discussion not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone searching for answers to an emerging medium that is not my native language. Like many of you in this room, I'm a digital immigrant. I wasn't weaned on the web, nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. They'll never know a world without ubiquitous broadband internet access.
"We need to realize that the next generation of people accessing news and information, whether from newspapers or any other source, have a different set of expectations about the kind of news they will get, including when and how they will get it, where they will get it from, and who they will get it from.
While local tV news remains the most accesed source of news , the internet and more specifically ,internet portals ,are quickly becoming the favoured destination for news among young consumers..
And their attitudes towards newspapers are especially alarming. Only 9 percent describe us as trustworthy, a scant 8 percent find us useful, and only 4 percent of respondents think we're entertaining. Among major news sources, our beloved newspaper is the least likely to be the preferred choice for local, national or international news going forward.
Task Find the words or expression in the speech that mean the same as the definition below:
I have to find expressions in the text:
a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age ( expression)
centralized?
b)
found everywhere .... I found no expression
c) honest and reliable .....
d) hardly enough ; not as much as there should be ......
e) in the future ( expression )
I posted this question in some forum , but I didn t got an answer.
Can somebody help me?
Could I do it so?
Is this expression right?
a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age ( expression)
centralized?
c ) trustworthy?
e) going forward
Are my thoughts right?
"I come to this discussion not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone searching for answers to an emerging medium that is not my native language. Like many of you in this room, I'm a digital immigrant. I wasn't weaned on the web, nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. They'll never know a world without ubiquitous broadband internet access.
"We need to realize that the next generation of people accessing news and information, whether from newspapers or any other source, have a different set of expectations about the kind of news they will get, including when and how they will get it, where they will get it from, and who they will get it from.
While local tV news remains the most accesed source of news , the internet and more specifically ,internet portals ,are quickly becoming the favoured destination for news among young consumers..
And their attitudes towards newspapers are especially alarming. Only 9 percent describe us as trustworthy, a scant 8 percent find us useful, and only 4 percent of respondents think we're entertaining. Among major news sources, our beloved newspaper is the least likely to be the preferred choice for local, national or international news going forward.
Task Find the words or expression in the speech that mean the same as the definition below:
I have to find expressions in the text:
a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age ( expression)
centralized?
b)
found everywhere .... I found no expression
c) honest and reliable .....
d) hardly enough ; not as much as there should be ......
e) in the future ( expression )
I posted this question in some forum , but I didn t got an answer.
Can somebody help me?
Could I do it so?
Is this expression right?
a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age ( expression)
centralized?
c ) trustworthy?
e) going forward
Are my thoughts right?
Top answer
Anonymous Find the words or expression in the speech that mean the same as the definition below: ... a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age b)found everywhere c) honest and reliable d) hardly enough; not as much as there should be e) in the future "I come to this discussion not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone searching for answers to an emerging medium that is not my native language. Like many of you in this room, I'm a digital immigrant.
- Anonymous Find the words or expression in the speech that mean the same as the definition below: ...
- a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age b)found everywhere c) honest and reliable d) hardly enough; not as much as there should be e) in the future "I come to this discussion not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone searching for answers to an emerging medium that is not my native language.
- Like many of you in this room, I'm a digital immigrant.
- I wasn't weaned a on the web, nor coddled on a computer.
- Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know.
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AnonymousFind the words or expression in the speech that mean the same as the definition below: ..."I come to this discussion not as an expert with all the answers, but as so
a) to be strongly influenced by something from a young age
b)found everywhere
c) honest and reliable
d) hardly enough; not as much as there should be
e) in the future
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I think your answers for (c) and (e) are correct. "centralized" is not right for (a).
Here are some clues to what I think the other answers are:
The main word in the expression that is the answer to (a) starts with "w".
The answer to (b) starts with "u".
The answer to (d) starts with "s".
Here are some clues to what I think the other answers are:
The main word in the expression that is the answer to (a) starts with "w".
The answer to (b) starts with "u".
The answer to (d) starts with "s".
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GPYsome cluesOops! It seems I let the cat out of the bag. Sorry.
CJ
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