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Student’s Name:
4D THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY _________________

SECTION A: KEY TERM MATCHING

Match the following key terms with their definitions.

1. Information technology (A) a business which uses the Internet to sell goods or
2. communications services, especially one which does not have shops or
3. telecommunications offices that people can visit or phone
(telecoms) (B) a company that does all or most of its business on the
4. telecoms revolution Internet
5. disruptive technology (C) a company that runs a mobile phone business
6. high-tech sector (D) a method of sending many electronic messages at the
7. social change same time, using a telephone line, satellite dish, or
underground cable
8. mobile phone operator
(E) a new technology, such as computers and the Internet,
9. pay-as-you-go system
which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that
10. dot-com existed before
11. e-business (e- (F) a system in which you pay for something, such as a mobile
commerce) phone call, when you actually use it rather than before or
12. broadband afterward
(G) businesses which produce or develop advanced
technologies, such as computers and mobile phones
(H) change in human society, such as changes in the way
people interact with each other or changes resulting from
new technology or new institutions
(I) the exchange of information over significant distances by
electronic means and all types of voice, data and video
transmission
(J) recent, sudden changes in telecommunications such as
the increased use of the Internet and mobile phones
(K) the systems and processes that are used to communicate
or broadcast information, especially by means of
telephone wires, underground cables, satellites, or radio
waves
(L) the theory and practice of using computers to store and
analyze information
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SECTION B: KEY TERM MATCHING

Match the following key terms with their definitions that follow.

(A) telecommuting (B) globalization (C) (user) interface

(D) teleworking (E) liberalization (F) search result
(G) database (H) menu (I) deregulation (J) media

1. working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and computers
to keep in touch
2. a work arrangement in which the employee works outside the office, often working
from home or a location close to home (including coffee shops, libraries, and various
other locations)
3. the way in which big companies do business all over the world
4. the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade
5. the process of making laws less strict, so that people or companies have more freedom
6. a large amount of data stored in a computer system so that can be found and used
easily
7. all the organizations, such as television, radio, and newspapers, that provide news and
information for the public, or the people who do this work
8. a list of things on a computer screen which one can ask the computer to do
9. the way a computer program presents information to a user or receives information
from a user, in particular the layout of the screen and the menus
10. the list created by search engines in response to a query

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SECTION C: TERM SUPPLY

Supply the following definitions with appropriate terms you have learned from this unit.
1. I ___________________________ is the computer network which allows computer
users to connect with computers all over the world,
and which carries e-mail.
2. W __________________________ is a computer system which links documents and
pictures into a database that is stored in computers
in many different parts of the world and that people
everywhere can use.
3. I ___________________________ is a company that provides Internet and e-mail
services.

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4. g___________________________ refers to a market for something that exists

throughout the world.
5. g___________________________ is a company or industry which sells its products or
services in many different parts of the world.
6. m __________________________ has branches or owns companies in many different
countries.
7. d __________________________ refers to information in a form that can be stored
and used, especially on a computer.
8. h __________________________ is a link to another part of the document or to
another document.
9. b __________________________ is a computer program that finds information on the
Internet and shows it on the computer screen.
10. I ___________________________ is a computer network used for exchanging or
seeing information within a company.
11. k ___________________________ is a word that is typed into a computer so that it will
search for that word on the Internet.
12. p __________________________ is a secret group of letters or numbers that must be
typed into a computer before a system or program
can be used.
13. l ___________________________ is the act of starting to use a computer system,
usually by typing a name or word that was
previously chosen to use.
14. s ___________________________ is a computer program that searches for documents
containing a particular word or words on the
Internet.

Mobile phones and the

internet have become a part
of the daily life as more and
more people are going with
faster communications and
modern ways of doing
business.

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