3.5 Internet terms

Choose the best words to complete the sentences.

1. "The website gets a thousand hits a week" means the website has a thousand _________ a week.

a. sales b. visits c. search engine matches

2. The words, images and other material that make up a website are called __________.

a. the contents b. the content 3. Designs and drawings in websites are usually called __________.	c. the filling
a. web pictures b. web graphics 4. Moving pictures in websites are usually called __________.	c. web illustrations
a. cartoonsb. movies	c. animations

5. Websites with sounds and/or video clips and/or animations have __________ content.

a. multimedia b. many-media c. mixed-media

5. A space in a website where you enter information (address, password etc.) is called a __________.

a. box b. strip 7. A hyperlink (see 3.3) is often called just __________.	c. field
a. a link b. a hyper 8. In real time (see 3.4) means __________.	c. an HL
a. during working hours b. instantly	c. in British Standard Time

9. A place with computers for public internet use is usually called an internet café or __________. even if they don't serve coffee.

a. web café b. computer café 10. Internet cafés offer internet __________.	c. cyber café
a. connectionb. availability	c. access

11. A program that adds functions to a browser (eg Shockwave) is called a __________.

a. plug b. plugged-in 12. Temporary internet files are stored in the __________.	c. plug-in
a. cashb. cache	c. cashe

13. Colours which all browsers can display without problems are called __________ colours.

a. browser safe b. browser acceptable c. browser easy

3.6 E-commerce Shopping on the net

A. Fill the gaps, then put these stages in order (number them 1 to 8).

account add browse checkout confirm delivery details invoice

shopping basket sign in

1

You usually have to allow at least two working days for ¹______________.

Choose an item, and ²______________ it to your ³______________.

Click ⁴ "______________". Now it's too late to change your mind!

When you have finished shopping, click "proceed to ⁵______________".

Usually, you will receive an ⁶______________ by email.

Enter your name, address and card ⁷______________.

Before you can start shopping, you usually have to ⁸______________ to the site. (If you don't already have an ⁹______________, you have to create one.) ¹⁰____________ the website, and decide what you want to buy.

B. Put the words into the spaces.

bid down encrypted online outbid padlock secure server system

1. Sites that ask for your credit card number or other personal information should use a _________________, so the data you send is _________________.

2. A: "Have you ever bought anything on an auction site like eBay?"

B: "No. Once I made a _________________ on something, but I was _________________ a few seconds before the auction closed."

3. The _________________ symbol means that a web-page is secure.

4: I couldn't book my flight _________________ because the airline's ________________ was _________________.