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ANSWER KEY
VOCABULARY
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a. to join something
b. I.T.
c. a cable
d. figurative
e. to cope with something
f. to replace something
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to connect something to something else Information technology
a wire or lead
metaphorical, not literal
to be able to do something easily, without problems
to be instead of something, to substitute for something
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LISTENING SECTION 1
3.
a. to be wired
b. to be connected via a cable into the telephone network and then to the internet.
(This first meant the computer was connected, and then the person who used the computer)
4.
a. True – “if you’re talking about electricity that’s not surprising I suppose: wires join
electrical things – but people being wired?”
b. False – “(it) came in in the 1990s”
c. False – “your computer was now wired in through a cable into a telephone line”
LISTENING SECTION 2
5.
b. to be ready and able to do something an efficient way
6.
a. No – “Actually, all this is history now: in the last year or so, “wired” has been replaced very largely by “wireless” as the coolest term to use”
b. Wireless technology
c. No – “It hasn’t happened yet, but it will!”
EXTRA WORK
1.
a. descriptive
b. to handle something
c. coolest
LANGUAGE
2.
a. went down to the wire (to go down to the wire)
b. behind the wire
c. got our wires crossed (to get your wires crossed)
d. a live wire
e. wire (to wire somebody something)
f. wiry
g. wired (to be wired)
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