Стр.15 Рабочая тетрадь Модуль 2 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 7 класс

2b Vocabulary

1. Fill in: investors, user-friendly, commitment, popularity, performance, headquarters, brainchild.
   1. This amazing new website is the ______ of two sisters from London.
   2. Social networking sites are growing in ______.
   3. They both share a ______ to improving Internet safety.
   4. The small business is looking for support from ______.
   5. I like this laptop because of its speedy ______.
   6. The company’s new ______ are in San Diego, California.
   7. This mobile phone is very ______; anyone can understand it.
2. Choose the correct word.
   1. A lot of friends ______ them in their effort to create a search engine.
   2. Tim’s success is showing no sign of ______.
   3. Gary ______ a new website last month.
   4. A lot of film studios are now using Facebook to ______ their films.
   5. Peter received a lot of ______ for his actions.
   6. Use more than one social networking site to ______ your list of contacts.
   7. The company realised that it needed a ______ design for its website.
   8. They ______ that it was their idea to create the website.
3. Choose the correct preposition.
   1. It all started ______ a discussion ______ making the Internet easier to use.
   2. They listed the results ______ to popularity.
   3. They disagree ______ most issues ______ the Internet.
   4. The first ten results appeared ______ the webpage.
   5. John was inspired ______ a website he saw and started his own online business.
   6. She responded ______ my request ______ an email.

Grammar

4. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.

   YouTube

   In 2005, three young men, Chad Hurley, Steve Chan and Jawed Karim, ______ the company “YouTube”. The men ______ while they ______ at another Internet company. They ______ ideas about the Internet when they ______ that it was not easy to post and share video clips on the Internet. So, the men ______ to create a website to do exactly that. In February 2005, they ______ youtube.com and ______ online. YouTube ______ an instant success as it was user-friendly with a modern design. Everyday, while more and more people ______ videos to the site, even more people ______ the videos. After only a few months online, videos ______ more than 130 million viewers. In 2006, the three founders of YouTube ______ their company to Google for 1.65 billion US dollars! YouTube is the third most visited website on the Internet after Google and Facebook!