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1 What is the best title for the passage?

The Advantages of SNS
✔ The Social Effects of SNS

The Protest of Iranian People
The Violence of Iranian Government

2 The phrase cut off in the passage is closet in meaning to

paid off gone off
called off ✔ blocked off

3 Which of the following does NOT match in the passage?

(a) social networking services
✔ (b) the world

(c) Some Iranian people
(d) messages

4 Which of the following best fits in the blank of the passage?

✔ gave the Iranian people a global voice
caused many troubles among Iranian people
could help the government stop the protests
made Iranian people realize the importance of protest

Summarize the Text

Complete the summary with the words in the box.

to make people silent sent messages to people came up with good ideas
to report on the events what happened in Iran fun ways to communicate

Social networking services are , but are also changing the way

people send and receive information. In Iran, the government used violence

after a bad election. Furthermore, the media was not allowed

. In spite of this, some Iranian people to

let the world know about their situation. They all over the world by

using Twitter. The whole world could learn .

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