Задание 38 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
The Benefits of Modern Technology
Modern technology has brought about enormous improvements in communications and yet many people are still very worried ABOUT / FOR / AT / WITH AS using the latest computer technology. I am often surprised to meet people who still don’t know what the ‘e’ in e-mail stands for and they are too EMBARRASSING / EMBARRASSED / EXHAUSTING / EXHAUSTED to ask. They assume you have to be skilled INTO / ABOUT / TO / IN computers to send a message via e-mail but in fact it is the simplest thing in the world.
It is also cheaper to send an e-mail message than to send an ordinary letter or a ‘snail’ message which also takes much longer. An e-mail message is only LITTLE / SLIGHTLY / LESS / LEAST more expensive than a local telephone call to send; on top of the call itself you also have to pay a fee to your ‘server’. If you send a letter by SECOND-HAND / LOW-PAID / PART-TIME / FIRST-CLASS mail it will take a couple of days to get there whereas an e-mail will not take longer than a few seconds.
Once you become CAPABLE / ACCUSTOMED / CLEVER / GOOD to using the system you will be amazed at how much more CONFIDENT / CERTAIN / EFFICIENT / SKILFUL it is than other means of communication. Of course, before you have access to e-mail, you will need a fairly powerful computer, which can be quite expensive.
The Benefits of Modern Technology
Modern technology has brought about enormous improvements in communications and yet many people are still very worried ABOUT using the latest computer technology. I am often surprised to meet people who still don’t know what the ‘e’ in e-mail stands for and they are too EMBARRASSED to ask. They assume you have to be skilled IN computers to send a message via e-mail but in fact it is the simplest thing in the world.
It is also cheaper to send an e-mail message than to send an ordinary letter or a ‘snail’ message which also takes much longer. An e-mail message is only SLIGHTLY more expensive than a local telephone call to send; on top of the call itself you also have to pay a fee to your ‘server’. If you send a letter by FIRST-CLASS mail it will take a couple of days to get there whereas an e-mail will not take longer than a few seconds.
Once you become ACCUSTOMED to using the system you will be amazed at how much more EFFICIENT it is than other means of communication. Of course, before you have access to e-mail, you will need a fairly powerful computer, which can be quite expensive.
