If someone said they’d pay you $1,800 to stay off social media for six years, would you do it? Could you?

In 2016, Lorna _______ her 12-year-old son Sivert to stay off social media until he was 18. If he made it, she’d award him the _______ on his eighteenth birthday. On February 19, 2022, Sivert received his _______. Sivert thought it was a great _______ at the time. “I thought it was _______ indeed. What’s 6 more years?” he recalled.

“It’s the _______ money I’ve ever spent,” said Lorna. “We are not against social media, but it’s the _______ use of it. It’s about not letting yourself get _______ affected by it.” Lorna has three older daughters, and she’d already seen problems from their _______ activities. When one of her daughters was 16, Lorna ________ her phone. Her daughter later thanked her for doing so, as it improved her mental health.

Sivert said it wasn’t that ________ to live without social media for six years. “There wasn’t a time when I thought of giving up,” he said. “Staying away from social media also meant I had more time to ________ my studies and sports instead.”

Other parents have seemed ________ trying a similar challenge with their kids. “I advise ________ the behavior you want to see in your children. If they see you before the ________ all day, they will follow your example,” said Lorna.

Computers have done us a lot since they turned up. In the future they will play a more important part in many ____, such as education, transport, personal lives, scientific research and so on. Nowadays computers are being used in _____ and industry and can help the farmers to ____ the conditions of the plants.

More and more computers will come into our daily life with the ____ of science and technology. If you want to change money or pay your electricity bills, you won’t have to go to the ____. A computer and a telephone will help you. It can also help you to do the housework and it can even _____ human voices and carry out the instructions. It is ____ that the majority of the labor force will work at home. People will be able to use the videophone for conferences. This can help us to save a lot of energy and _____. It is said that trains in Japan will have no _____, because they’ll be well _____ by computers, which can also tell the best _____ between trains.

Computers programs for ____ whole texts are already well developed. You can _____ the name of a certain subject and a ____ list of book titles will ____ on your screen. You may choose whichever you want.

A “blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a_________way of saying “web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a_________, and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They_________news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain_________to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their_________and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has_________more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most_________with teenage girls. They use them to_________their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study_________says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

__________, some people develop__________blogs to present political and other ideas. __________, the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their__________.

At the same time, some longstanding blogs have__________. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. Com”. He said the site became too expensive to __________. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had written on it. They were upset that the site had been closed.