PART 1 (EXAM 1) - READING - FCE CAMBRIDGE FIRST CERTIFICATE PRACTICE TEST/EXERCISE

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Social networking sites like Q. 7) facebook, are internet sites which have been created to enable people to communicate with their friends and family, and also to meet people who may be interested in the same things as they are. Over the years, there have a few others, like Myspace, and Linkedin, some of which were very popular but then lost their popularity. They were not intended for the same kinds of people, because Q. 2) Linkedin was created for professional people to exchange information between themselves, while Myspace and Facebook were more for social interaction, although the Q. 1) people using facebook tend to be older than the people who used Myspace. An interesting phenomenon is the influence the internet has had on the English language, by Q. 3) Q. 8) the creation of new verbs. Now you can 'Google' something, or you can 'Facebook' your photos, which means upload your photos to the internet. As you 'google' somebody to see who they are, you can also 'Facebook' somebody to see who their friends are, and whether you have any friends in common, or ask to 'Facebook' someone, which means Q. 10) ask for permission to add them to your list of friends. Q. 4,9) Both Facebook and Myspace have become very versatile words, unlike Q. 5) Linkedin which has not yet become a verb in this way. Another addition to the language is the distortion of existing words. So, while you're 'facebooking' or 'myspacing' you may also find yourself Q. 6) 'commenting', which means writing a comment on someone's Facebook or MySpace page. This, of course, is very normal, because a language is really a living thing, in that it reflects what people are doing and saying at any given time.

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