Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 26 How the Internet Is Changing Our Language There are words that we say today that 70 years ago weren’t even in (25) ____. If a person were to remark to a 1950s businessman, “Go and check this website out on the Internet and get back to me via Facebook,” the businessman would ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29. Fill in the appropriate word in question 26

How the Internet Is Changing Our Language

There are words that we say today that 70 years ago weren’t even in (25) ____. If a person were to remark to a 1950s businessman, “Go and check this website out on the Internet and get back to me via Facebook,” the businessman would have no clue as to what had just been said. We know exactly what the words mean, though, so they (26) _____ perfect sense to us.

The problem that people are encountering today is the same as the 1950s businessman would have encountered - he would have come (27)____a word that would mean nothing because he lived in a world where Internet technology is changing and progressing today at an even faster (28)_____, and this is creating changes in the way we communicate. Our words are different, and even our means of (29) _______ those words across are different as well. Forget about a 60-plus year difference; we speak much differently than we did even 10 or 20 years ago.