Additional Passage 19/02-23/02

It is 10, and your calls go to voicemail and the silence grows deeper by the minute. You may
start to worry: Could something have happened to your friend? What else could explain his
disappearance? Eventually, a social media update or a mutual friend will give you the
answer. Your former friend is alive and well. But he has just vanished from your life. He is
ghosting you.
Ghosting means cutting off all communication without offering an explanation. The term
originated in the context of dating, but ghosting also occurs in friendships, and is even
becoming a noticeable trend in professional relationships.
Ending relationships is nothing new, and there are several different strategies people can
choose. Perhaps we have just started to notice that ghosting is a common strategy, largely
because technology has changed the way we interact with one another. "I am guessing that
people ignored each other for a long time. It is just a lot more obvious now because of social
media and technology," Collins told Live Science. "When it is so easy to contact each other,
it becomes very clear somebody is ignoring you intentionally."

Gholipour, B. (2019). Why Do People Ghost?

https://www.livescience.com/64661-why-people-ghost.html

1. What is the theme?

A) Ghosting as a novel way of ending various relationships
B) Ghosting as a break in communications with other people
C) Ghosting as a strategy to break interpersonal relationships
D) Ghosting as a way to break relationships between couples
E) The breakdown of labor communications called ghosting

2. The antonym of the verb IGNORING is

A) remarking.
B) attending.
C) observing.
D) speaking.
E) following.

3. It is inferred that, in the 70s,

A) the ruptures were unknown.
B) no one disappeared from work.
C) friends were friends forever.
D) nobody broke their friendships.
E) ghosting could go unnoticed.

4. With respect to a person who uses the rupture technique called ghosting, it is false to
argue that
A) this person stops using social networks.
B) this person can communicate with others.
C) social networks could reveal his decision.
D) he has broken a relationship surprisingly.
E) he is ignoring someone with obvious intent.

5. If Mary told Pedro that friendship with him is over because she considers him a traitor,
then
A) Mary would be using a novel technique of breaking up with people.
B) Pedro could communicate with her using communication networks.
C) Mary would be using a different break-up technique from ghosting.
D) Mary could later use the new technique of rupture called ghosting.
E) Mary would take the decision to get away from her current friends.