Test 1

Task 1.Read the text and fill in the gaps using the words from the list
. 1.virtual
2.telecommunications
3.the standards
4.competition
5.interchangeable
6.increase
7.tendency
____________ will make a high-quality education accessible for everybody. The costs for giving a
____________ lecture to one student and one thousand of
students are equal. This unimaginable scale of economy (and as a result – marginal costs of zero) will
greatly ____________ educational level. ____________ will be almost the same in all countries thus making
the workers worldwide more ____________. This will back up the globalization ____________. And strong
rising ____________ from newly educated people of third world will increase the desire to study among
American and European students.

Task 2.Match the following words with their definitions.

1. acquire
2. to shift
3. requirement
4. visual
5. substantially
6. infancy
7. sufficient

a. if an idea, attitude or plan shifts, or someone shifts it, it changes.

b. by a large amount or degree.
c. to get something by buying it or being given it.
d. something that a rule, law, contract etc. states that you must do.
e. relating to things that you can see.
f. As much as is needed.
g. the time when you are a baby or a very young child.

Task 3.. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences choosing the right words from Task 2.. Put them in the
proper forms.
1. Public opinion had ________ sharply to the left following the war. 2. Television news brings us
_______images from around the world. 3. The business was ________ from Orion four years ago.
4. Do these goods comply with our safety _______. ?
5. We have _________ increased the number of courses. 6. There is now _________ evidence to prove his
claims. 7. Tourism on the island is still very much in its ________.