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ProgressTest 2.1-2.2 U2

The document is a test focused on understanding fake news, including listening, reading, and language exercises. It covers topics such as the impact of fake news on social media, ethical perceptions, and strategies for identifying misinformation. Additionally, it includes grammar and writing tasks related to the subject of fake news.

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2 TEST
Name ___________________________________________________ No. _______ Class: _________ Date ___________

LISTENING

1. Listen to a report about fake news. Say if the sentences are True or False.
a. Americans consider false news a major problem alongside racism and terrorism. T F
b. We read and share fake information mainly because its content is misleading. T F
c. People tend to believe that information shared by family and friends on T F
social media is accurate.
d. The information we read on social media seems as trustworthy as the T F
one given by experts.
e. A media bubble is a set of people who have similar opinions. T F
f. Social media supports a wide range of opinions which help us detect fake news. T F
g. Fake news promotes a simple but sensational narrative about ordinary events. T F
h. Stories covering topics that trigger emotions and feelings are amongst T F
the most popular.

2. Listen to a report about fake news on social media. Answer the questions
by completing the answers. Write no more than six words.

a. do you fight fake news on social When you ____________________________


media?
b. do social media platforms make By ____________________________________
money?
How…
c. is the news on your feed filtered? Based on _____________________________
d. can you help prevent the spread of By ____________________________________
fake news?
e. can social media be a powerful tool? When managed with __________________

3. Listen to a journalist giving tips on how to spot fake news.


Fill in the gaps with one word.
a. Check for the author’s name. Is the name _________________ or missing? Most authors who put
time into _________________ articles will likely have their name attached to it.
b. News articles should provide you with facts from several _________________. If the article
_________________ only one side of the arguments, readers aren’t seeing the full story.
c. Older articles may not be _________________. People sharing an older article may discover that
some information has been _________________ or debunked.
d. Is the article or online content informative in some way? Try to think critically about the information
you receive. Be _________________! Can you _________________ the facts? Are sources offered?

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READING

Read the news article carefully.

FAKE NEWS HEADLINES


Encountering fake news headlines
in social media more than once lowers
people’s ethical disapproval of these
publications and makes people more likely
5 to share them on social media, according
to a new Psychological Science study.

The rise of technology and the growing


popularity of social media created ample
opportunities for the circulation of fake
10 news articles that are intentionally false
and misleading. Despite spreading questionable information, fake news articles were found
to be more likely to go viral which further increases their reach in society. These trends
explain the need for developing a better understanding of how people interact with fake news
and what promotes social media users to share these articles further.

15 The researchers conducted a study exploring how seeing fake news headlines multiple
times affects people’s perception of these articles. Drawing on existing knowledge,
researchers were interested in how seeing the same misleading headline repeatedly affects
one’s ethical assessment of it and one’s propensity to share it.

The study relied on four experiments involving 2,587 participants in total. The experiments
20 examined whether deliberate consideration would affect participants’ ethical perceptions as
well as their intentions to like and share the reviewed fake news articles with others.

Experimental results indicate that repeatedly encountering an article on social media


makes it seem less unethical to share it. In three out of four experiments, participants
demonstrated greater likelihood to like and share fake news articles despite being explicitly
25 told that the articles were false.

“The results should be of interest to citizens of contemporary democracies,” said Daniel


A. Effron, a London Business School associate professor of organisational behaviour.
“Misinformation can strengthen political polarisation and undermine democracy, so it is
important for people to understand when and why it spreads.”
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1. Find synonyms for the following words in paragraphs two and three.
a. doubtful questionable
b. influence reach
c. encourages promotes
d. carried out conducted
e. tendency propensity

2. Say who or what the following words refer to.


a. them (line 5) fake news headlines_____
b. it (line 19) misleading headline
c. their (line 22) participants’
d. it (line 30) misinformation

3. Explain the meaning of these expressions.


a. “Drawing on existing knowledge” (line 17)
The expression means to use previous knowledge to help understand something.
b. “participants demonstrated greater likelihood to… share fake news articles” (lines 24-25)
The expression means that it was more probably that participants would share fake news articles.

4. Complete the sentences with ideas from the text.


a. People’s ethical approval of fake news headlines increases when they read fake news headlines
more than once.
b. Technology and social media platforms have intensified the circulation of fake news articles.
c. Researchers wanted to know if participants’ ethical awareness changed when they thought
carefully about them.
d. The results of the experiments are crucial for democratic states since they may indicate that
misinformation can strengthen political polarisation and weaken democracy.

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USE OF LANGUAGE

1. Complete the sentences with the words/expressions from the box. Two aren’t used.

catfish lifecasting profile crowdfunding virus digital footprint

a. crowdfunding is an excellent idea. It allows you to go online to ask users for small contributions
to support projects and causes on a global level.
b. The more time we spend online, the more of a digital footprint we leave.
c. Virtual money scammers often target elderly women to catfish because they are lonely and want
to feel that someone loves them.
d. You must register and create a personal online profile before using this site.

2. Match the wordson the left with their definitions on the right. Two definitions aren’t
used.

1. A malicious form of internet advertising used to spread malware.


2. Theft of funds by an attacker pretending to be the owner of an
account.
a. phishing 6 3. The repeated use of electronic communications to harass or frighten
someone, for example by sending threatening emails.
b. identity theft 8
4. The act of gaining unauthorised access to a computer system or
c. malvertising 1 network.
d. hacking 4 5. Unlawful action against any person using a computer, its systems,
and its online or offline applications.
e. cybercrime 5
6. Using fake email messages to get personal information from internet
f. cyberstalking 3 users.
7. The action of damaging the good reputation of someone.
8. Misusing personal information by getting access to a victim’s credit
card, bank statements and personal computer.

3. Rewrite the following sentences in the passive. Leave the agent out when it is not
needed. Start as suggested.
a. Google and Facebook will shortly announce new measures to tackle fake news.
New measures tackle fake news will shortly be announced by Google and Facebook.
b. Lots of websites publish fake news stories for entertainment and parody.
Fake news stories are published by lots of websites for entertainment and parody.
c. Someone has sent me some popular digitally manipulated photographs.
I have been sent some popular digitally manipulated photographs.
d. Content creators are using sensationalist and untruthful headlines to gain more website visitors.
Sensationalist and untruthful headlines are being used by content creators to gain more website
visitors.
e. The journalist gave us a few tips to spot false information online.
We were given a few tips to spot false information online by the journalist.

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4. Choose the correct option to complete eache sentence.
4.1 ________________ the rapid spread of misinformation, fact-checking has become more prevalent
in journalism in recent years.
a. As b. Consequently c. As a result of

4.2 Fake news may lead to confusion about social and political issues; ________________, it’s
important to read news from different sources.
a. since b. as a result of c. therefore

4.3 My parents think I’m careless and irresponsible ________________ I’ve shared some misleading
posts.
a. because b. because of c. so

4.4 Modern editing software has made it easy for people to create fake images. ________________,
only 50% of online users can tell when images are fake.
a. So b. As a consequence c. Thus

4.5 You should apologise ________________ publishing an untrue story.


a. about b. for c. with

4.6 Some cybersecurity firms specialise ________________ exposing misinformation.


a. in b. on c. about

4.7 Why do you insist ________________ reading news on those parody websites? They’re not funny
at all!
a. with b. in c. on

WRITING
With the continuing growth of the Internet, fake news is everywhere.
Write a newspaper article with a fake story invented by you.
Write no less than 160 words.

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