Question

OPTION A ARE YOU A PHUBBER?

1 “Stop Phubbing” is a campaign aimed to embarrass people over the rude use of mobile phones. "Phubbing" is a
2 slang word that means ignoring others in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention.
3 “Tweeting” during weddings, or “instagramming” at dinner with friends are cases of phubbing. Posters have been
4 created for use in cafes, bars and restaurants, with slogans including "Respect the food and the company you are in”
5 or “Put your phone away and have a chat in the real world."
6 The campaign creator, Alex Haigh, an Australian student, explained how the idea of the campaign was born: "A
7 group of friends and I were chatting when someone commented how annoying being ignored by people on mobiles
8 was. It's the people who do it all the time that we are targeting. It's a paradox. You disconnect from those around you
9 in favour of those pretty much anywhere else. This often irritates your friends, unless they're phubbing too, in which
10 case you all might as well have stayed home."
11 Joseph Haddad, who owns a cafe in Brunswick, Germany, has displayed posters of the campaign to try to
12 discourage bad manners: "It happens a lot, people come in and we ask them, ‘what would you like?’ and they stay on
13 their phones. And we see a lot of people who are sitting at the table with friends, and they are on Facebook, or
14 Twitter... don't you think they should be talking to each other instead?" Although the first “Stop Phubbing” campaign
15 group started in Australia, at least five others have appeared as indignation about this new type of rude behaviour
16 grows all over the world.

II * USE OF ENGLISH (4 points; questions 7-12, 0.25 points each; 13-17, 0.5 points each)

7. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE WORD MEANING “to try to make people not want to do something.”
8. GIVE ONE OPPOSITE FOR “rude” (adjective) (line 15) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT.
9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: “Phubbers should apologize... their behavior.” with / at / for / on
10. GIVE AN ADJECTIVE WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “talk” (verb).
11. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “irritating” (adjective).
12. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “I wish I... (pay) more attention to my friends the last time
I met them.”
13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “You should talk to each other face to
face.” You had...
14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “I lost my cell phone at the cafeteria.”
15. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “Waiters ask customers to stop phoning while they are ordering.”
16. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “These people are not listening to their friends now," said the
waiter.
17. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If I left my mobile phone at home...”

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Answer 1

7. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE WORD MEANING “to try to make people not want to do something.”

The word in the text that means “to try to make people not want to do something” is discourage.

8. GIVE ONE OPPOSITE FOR “rude” (adjective) (line 15) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT. 

Polite - having or showing behavior that is respectful and considerate of other people.

9. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: 

“Phubbers should apologize..for. their behavior.” with / at / for / on

10. GIVE AN ADJECTIVE WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “talk” (verb).

Talkative - fond of or given to talking.

11. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “irritating” (adjective).

Annoying -  That causes irritation or annoyance.

12. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: 

“I wish I..had paid. (pay) more attention to my friends the last time I met them.”

13. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED. “You should talk to each other face to face.” 

You had better talk to each other face to face, paying attention to each other. 

14. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “I lost my cell phone at the cafeteria.”


Where did you lose your cell phone?

15. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “Waiters ask customers to stop phoning while they are ordering.”

Customers are asked to stop phoning while they are ordering by waiters.

16. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: “These people are not listening to their friends now," said the waiter.

The waiter said that those people were not listening to their friends at the time.

17. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE: “If I left my mobile phone at home...”

I would be worried about who was trying to communicate with me the whole time I didn’t have it in my hands

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