To) communicate – communications – communicative – community

1. One of ARPA's goals was to connect mainframe computers at different universities around the country so that they would be able _______ using a common language and a common protocol.

2. I'm in a _______ vein to-night.

3. If you use the Internet, then you probably use Internet-based _______ to contact family, friends or co-workers.

4. Its operators can choose which Internet services to use and which local services to make available to the global Internet ________.

6. What words from the text are defined? Choose them from the databank:

Databank: unique, a route, an interface, anarchy, a host, an operator, an infrastructure, a label, a depletion, a network.

1) a system of computers interconnected by telephone wires or other means in order to share information; 2) a computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem; 3) one who operates a machine or device; 4) absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose; 5) the basic structure or features of a system or organization; 6) without an equal or equivalent; 7) a group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification; 8) an electrical circuit linking one device, esp a computer, with another; 9) an established line of access; 10) the use or consumption of a resource.