Web users going to Wikipedia for news. 1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F): a. News agencies go to Wikipedia to find

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1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	News agencies go to Wikipedia to find the latest news stories.	T / F
b.	Wikipedia is the destination for increasingly discerning web surfers.	T / F
c.	Surfers chose Wikipedia over Google in August for news about Gaza.	T / F
d.	Traditional news services adequately satisfy surfers’ demand for news.	T / F
e.	Wikipedia has 100 times more articles than Encyclopedia Britannica.	T / F
f.	Wikipedia can be edited in real time by anyone.	T / F
g.	Traditional news agencies have rigid editorial approaches.	T / F
h.	Wikipedia has up-to-the-minute coverage of Hurricane Katrina.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

a.	unexpected	easily
b.	emerging	in demand
c.	discerning	absolute
d.	hands down	discriminating
e.	insatiable	surprising
f.	flourished	measly
g.	paltry	put down to
h.	sought after	expanded
i.	stark	surfacing
j.	attributed	voracious

3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

a.	joined the ranks of	the BBC hands down
b.	emerging as the	80,000 articles in comparison
c.	increasingly	online resource of choice
d.	This beat Google News, Yahoo News and	of Hurricane Katrina
e.	adequately satisfy surfers’ insatiable	Internet news sites
f.	a paltry	after information
g.	raises questions	demand for information
h.	provide such sought	with critics
i.	in stark	discerning web surfers
j.	up-to-the-minute coverage	contrast to

GAP FILL: Put the words in the column on the right into the gaps in the text.

BNE: A new and unexpected _______ has joined the ranks of Internet news sites. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is _______ as the online resource of choice for millions of increasingly _______ web surfers. People are eager for more in-depth analysis, context and _______ material about the latest news stories. Hitwise, the Internet _______ measurement site, reports Wikipedia attracted 22.3 percent of people searching for information on the Gaza Strip when Israel _______ its settlements in August. This beat Google News, Yahoo News and the BBC _______ down. It seems the traditional news services are unable to adequately satisfy surfers’ _______ demand for information.		traffic insatiable emerging hands player reference withdrew discerning
Wikipedia was _______ in 2001 and has quickly flourished, growing to almost 700,000 articles in 100 languages. Encyclopedia Britannica has a _______ 80,000 articles in comparison. Wikipedia can be edited in _______ time by anyone, which _______ questions with critics about the legitimacy and accuracy of some of the facts and statements on the site. However, it is the collaborative, community-based _______ of its contributions and editing policies that allows it to provide such sought after information. This is in _______ contrast to the rigid, top-down editorial approaches of other news sites. The popularity of Wikipedia can be also _______ to its having entries on almost anything from the latest bizarre trends to extensive, up-to-the-minute _______ of Hurricane Katrina.		attributed raises paltry coverage founded nature stark real

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