The Quiz # Practice Reading

The quiz below is based on the passage CYBERTHEFT AGREEMENT WITH CHINA . Read the passage to answer the questions.
Given below are two columns, one with word and the other with meaning. Match the word with their correct meaning.

WORDS MEANING
 1.somber  (i)directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc
 2.retrospectively  (ii)the disposition or regulation of the partsor functions of any organic whole; an organized system or method
 3.possibility  (iii)prepared, done, or acting with sole or chief emphasis on salability,profit, or success
 4.individuals  (iv)a single human being, as distinguished from a group
 5.agreement  (v)gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted
 6.sanctions  (vi)Stealing of financial and/or personal information through the use of computers for making its fraudulent or other illegal use
 7.conduct  (vii)to utter a threat against; menace
 8.pageantry  (viii)spectacular display; pomp
9.hacking  (ix)of or in the future
 10.backdrop  (x)authoritative permission or approval, as for an action
 11.declared  (xi)forward or onward movement towards a destination.
 12.alleged  (xii)an open conflict of opposing ideas, forces, etc
 13. threat  (xiii)replacement of a single course of stonework by two or more lower courses
 14.conference  (xiv)the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement
 15.progress  (xv)an indication or warning of probable trouble
 16.prospectively  (xvi)publicly avowed or professed; self-confessed
 17.promised  (xvii)personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment
 18. cybercriminals  (xviii)an express assurance on which expectation is to be based
 19.wary  (xix)a person who translates
 20.individuals  (xx)a meeting for consultation or discussion
21. prospectively  (xxi)to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons)
 22.insist  (xxii)to provide a setting or background for
 23.confrontation  (xxiii)arising from or characterized by caution
 24.friction  (xxiv)dissension or conflict between persons, nations, etc., because of differing ideas, wishes, etc
 25.translator  (xxv)directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc
 26.engage  (xxvi)to lay emphasis in assertion
 27.cybertheft  (xxvii)a single human being, as distinguished from a group
 28. commercial  (xxviii)of or in the future
 29. threatened  (xxix)declared or stated to be as described; asserted
 30. economies  (xxx)A cybercriminal is an individual who commits cybercrimes, where he/she makes use of the computer either as a tool or as a target or as both

ANSWERS

  1. v
  2. i
  3. xxv
  4. iv
  5. xiv
  6. x
  7. xvii
  8. viii
  9. xiii
  10. xxii
  11. xvi
  12. xxix
  13. xv
  14. xx
  15. xi
  16. ix
  17. xviii
  18. xxx
  19. xxiii
  20. xxvii
  21. xxviii
  22. xxvi
  23. xii
  24. xxiv
  25. xix
  26. xxi
  27. vi
  28. iii
  29. vii
  30. ii

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