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The following activity is challenging. It requires you to select a word from the table above and to use the correct form of that word. Green signals correct, red signals incorrect. If you can't get the correct answer after three tries, write a question mark in the blank. You will see the correct answer in blue text. [Open table from here.][Close Table]

1. Gigabyte's teacher says that she of her virus writing, yet she believes that the harm she causes is . I with her. No one writes a virus and executes it without intending to spread it.

2. Many virus writers themselves from their crime. In fact, Gigabyte blames the "stupid people" who open the email attachments that erase their files.

3. Gigabyte seems like a kid. She isn't friendly with her peers and, in fact, her closest friend seems to be her pet ferret.

4. How she became so antisocial is . We don't know anything about her parents or her early childhood.

5. Hacking into computers and spreading computer viruses are considered activities. Victims of such crimes would like to see stiffer penalties and longer prison terms for perpetrators of these crimes.

6. Computer hackers who disable phone lines are to the health and safety of large populations of people. They don't concern themselves with the danger they pose to persons who may need emergency services.

7. Failure to make a connection between their actions and their consequences results from the that occurs through extensive computer use. The hacker misses all the spoken and visual cues of communication.

8. Fred was fired for the accounts payable department at a large firm.

9. He was a very poor manager known for being completely . His office was a total mess.

10. In the developing world, millions of people die of due to severe environmental conditions and of curable diseases due to the lack of medicines.



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