MUET ASSIGNMENT

The arrival of the Internet has virtually redefined mankind. Never before has communications been so smooth, fast and accessible. The effect of this legacy gives one the power to command a worldwide audience at one's fingertips. All that is needed is a computer and a telephone line. Today, there is more information posted on the Net than any library in the world. The information from the Net aids numerous individuals and organisations ranging from students conducting research to multinational organisations in need of the latest expertise.

    

   The Net has, however, generated more criticism than it can possibly handle. The large amount of inaccurate information in cyber space angers all levels of society. It has become a channel for some irresponsible users to champion their own selfish causes while others go on spree of character assassinations. Today, even ten or twelve - year - old minors can set up their own webpage, publish and disseminate their ideas regardless how malicious, erroneous or dangerous their ideas may be. This gets even more ugly in today's dog - eat - dog business environment where not only characters but also the reputations of companies and nations are stake. Large organisations have been crippled by irresponsible " netizens " who post and circulate incorrect information and rumours via the Internet. An example of this when an unidentified source claimed that the Japanese giant Sony intended to buy out ailing software company Apple Computers. It generated shock waves and unnecessary damaging panic in the stock market and computers industry.

   Today, the days of protecting access to corporate computers and data with user passwords are no longer safe. With an ever increasing number of contentious " netizens " working hours on their computers, the ability of hackers to breach any password clearly indicates that information can never be too " safe ". The most worthy of all hackers is probably the Analyzer, who at the mere age of seventeen successfully broke into the Pentagon files. Besides spreading top - secret information, the Net is also capable of spreading dangerous virus, which can only be detected after damage has been done. When twenty - four - year - old Chen from Taipei created the Chernobyl computer virus with the aim to humiliate and take revenge on incompetent anti - virus software producers, disaster struck a number of countries in Asia and the Middle - East. Turkey and South Korea each reported 3 000 000 computers damaged on that black Monday, 26 April 1999. Young talents like the Analyzer and Chen make it difficult and expensive for governments, banks, organisations and even individuals to operate using the Internet without first realising the risks and commitment involved.

   E-mail, a form of cyber - culture that universally revolutionised communication, has today become nightmare. Workers everywhere today are handling volumes of data which threaten to engulf them. On top of that, they have to deal with unsolicited junk e - mail which causes information overload. In 1997, the British business fielded 794 million items of unsolicited mail and 65 per cent of managers in the UK considered themselves as victims of information overload. All these have prompted many e - mail users to close accounts since their addresses have over time found their way to persistent salesperson.

   The rampant display of pornography and violence on the Internet have become a subject of grave concern among parents and governments. The impact of explicit pornography material certainly can affect the minds of both adults and youngsters. The Net too has been linked as a source that has brought about an overall increase in crime all around the world. Many criminals are known to have been influenced by websites on the Net, gaining their violent inspiration from numerous gruesome sites available to all. These sites feature graphic displays of mutilation of justifications of the comission of hate crimes.

   The " Information Super Highway " , the " Gutter of Misinformation " and the " Playground for Irresponsible Individuals " - call it what you want, but no one can ignore what the Net has done and is capable of doing for mankind in the future. What needs to be done is to inculcate a greater understanding of this powerful tool at all levels - from governments and organisations, to schools, parents and childrens, before a certain equilibrium can be reached.

( MUET express for Advanced Learners, pg. 49 & 50 )

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PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

DEFINITION: To express an action that happen now, in the future or around now.

Example:

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

gaining

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

PRESENT PERFECT

Been

Have

Don’t

has

SIMPLE PRESENT AND PAST TENSE

PRESENT TENSE		PAST TENSE
Engulf	Working	Broke	Reached
Take	Protecting	Claimed	Crippled
Capable	Breach	Influenced	Considered
Operate	damaging	Generated	Posted
Angers	Deaf	Needed	Redefined
handle	Set up	Involved	Detected
Humilate	Need	Damaged	Reported
spreading	Aids	created
Publish	Go
Become	Effect
Command	Struck
Threaten	Buy
Post	Deal

CONJUNCTION

DEFINITION: Also called as joining words are used to join sentences, words, phrases and clauses.

Example:

CONJUNCTION
And	Than
Tomorrow	However
That	For
While	Or
But	with
Which	since

PREPOSITION

DEFINITION: How a relationship between places, people and things.

Example:

PREPOSITION
Of	To
At	On
In	From
And	By
Via	With
Into	Besides
After	for

ARTICLES 

DEFINITION: Type of determine which include words like `this,my,their,each and any` are used at the beginning of a noun phase to identify exactly what or who the noun refer to.

Example :

A	An	The
A number	An unidentified	The risks
A channel	An ever increasing	The aim
A spree		The ability
A telephone line		The days
A computer		The rampant
A worldwide		The latest
		The Net
		The information
		The world
		The stock market

PRESENT PARTICIPLE

DEFINITION: Is a verb that used to name action. Each main verb has 4 forms. 

They are :

1.    base form : eg. speak

2.    past form : eg. spoke;

3.    past participle : eg. spoken;

4.    present participle : eg. speaking.

Example :

PRESENT PARTICIPLE

damaging

PAST PARTICIPLE

DEFINITION: A participle that expresses completed action

Examples :

PAST PARTICIPLE

Been

Done

ADVERB

DEFINITION: An adverbs modifies the meaning of a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Examples: 

ADVERB
Virtually	Never
Before	So
However	More
That	Regardless
how	to
Even	This
Where	Not
Also	Cripple
Out	Probably
Successfully	Without
Buy	when

ADJECTIVE

DEFINITION: A describing word. It usually describes a noun or a pronoun.

Examples :

ADJECTIVES
redefined	Smooth
fast	Accessible
One	Worldwide
One’s	Possibly
what	Greater
This	Powerful
level	Certain
Large	inaccurate
Graphic	selfish
Malicious	erroneous
Dangerous	minor
ugly	Only
Irresponsible	Incorrect
Unidentified	Japanese
Ailing	Corporate
Safe	Ever
Persistent	Many
Involved	Individuals
Expensive	Difficulty
Young	which
Secret	Mere
Worthy	Never
Number	violence

VERBS

DEFINITION: A word that represents an action or a state of being.

Examples:

‘s’ ending	Without ‘s’ ending	‘ed’ ending
gets	Circulate	Influenced
indicates	post	Considered
causes	disseminate	Created
angers	Publish	Reported
aids	Set up	Crippled
gives	Go	Claimed
	Working	Posted
	Breach	Generated
	Broke	Reached
	Protecting	Detected
	Champion	Intended
	Command	Redefined
	Conducting
	Operate
	Threaten
	Engulf
	Capable
	Ignore
	Call
	Feature
	Gaining
	Aim
	spreading
	Known
	Struck
	Take
	Close
	Arrival
	Been
	Humilate
	Affect
	impact

                                                                                         

NOUNS

DEFINITION: The part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea. The following words are nouns: child, town, granite, kindness, government, elephant, and Taiwan. In sentences, nouns generally function as subjects or as objects. 

Examples : 

NOUNS
Internet	Mankind
legacy	effect
our	Command
audience	fingertips
Today	information
Net	library
Worla	students
Organization	individuals
critism	Handle
Channel	irresponsile
Users	Champion
causes	spree
Character	Assassionations
Set up	ideas
Today	Webpage
Business	reputation
Companies	Commitment
Risks	banks
Goverments	Talents
Damage	virus
Capable	Analyzer
Nackers	Indicates
Increasing	Passwords
Access	today
Computers	Software
Giant	Source
Example	Line
Telephone	Stake
Nations	Cyber
Culture	Communication
Victims	Managers
Items	Accounts
Address	Salespersons
Pornography	Justifications
Crimes	grave

PRONOUNS

DEFINITION: A word that takes the place of a noun. She, herself, it, and this are examples of pronouns.

Example:

PRONOUNS
This	There
Any	It
Some	Their
Most	All
Who	Themselves
They

SINGULAR

DEFINITION: The form of word which express only one.

Example: 

SINGULAR
Arrival	Has
Communicatins	One
Society	Space
Has	Rumours
Organization	Netizens
It	Waves

PLURAL

DEFINITION: Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more.

Examples:

PLURAL
Angers	Levels
Schools	Parents
Child	Others
Post	Circulate
Data	Computers

PUNCTUATIONS MARK

DEFINITION: The use of symbols not belonging to the alphabet of a writing systems to indicates aspect of the intonation and meaning not otherwise conveyed it in the writing language.

Types of the punctuations:

1.    Full stop (.)

2.    Comma (,)

3.    Exclamation mark (!)

4.    Quatation mark (“ “)

5.    Apostrophe  (‘)

6.    Questions mark (?)

7.    Colon (:)

8.    Semicolon (;)

PUNCTUATION MARK	EXAMPLE
Full stop	.
Comma	,
Exclamation mark	!
Quatation mark	“ “
Question mark	?
Semicolon	;
Colon	: