IV. Fill in the gaps with the correct word derived from the words in brackets.

It's Wednesday, late afternoon, in Seattle, and I'm writing about classical composers – Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and so on, 30 of them for a multimedia product on European history. It's an odd 1) _____ (to assign). I've never written about music or studied the people who make it. My speciality before I started writing for CD-Rom companies was 2) _____ (environment) journalism and what I know about classical composers is, basically, Amadeus. But 3) _____ (to ignore), in the new 4) _____ (electron) literature, isn't always an obstacle. The irony of the so-called 5) _____ (to inform) revolution is that consumers neither like nor expect long, densely written texts on their computer screens.

Long texts addle the eyes; they slow the rapid-fire 'interactive' process; steal precious screen space from the 6) _____ (to animate), video and multimedia's other, more 7) _____ (to remark) gewgaws. So we writers needn't be experts so much as filters whose task is 8) _____ (absorption) and compress great gobs of information into small, easily digestible, on-screen chunks. Brevity and blandness: these are the elements of the next literary style. Of roughly 1,000 'essays' I've 'written' for CD-Rom companies here in Seattle over the last year and a half, 9) _____ (few) than 40 ran longer than 200 words – about the length of the paragraph you're reading now – and most were much, much shorter.

V. What does the writer imply about the term 'information revolution'?

A It accurately summarizes the present situation.

B It wrongly suggests that information is important.

C It reflects the way people view the changes.

D It would be more appropriate for literature.

VI. What is the attitude of the writer towards the texts he writes?

A He is dismissive of them.

B He feels they are useful.

C He thinks they are well written.

D He likes their brevity.

VII. Read and translate the text. Annotate it in Ukrainian:

Text B

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