공통영어1 YBM 김은형 4과 변형문제

British writer Oobah Butler wanted to experiment with how easily ____ can manipulate public opinion online.

He created a fake restaurant called The Shed at ____.

Butler set up an account for his “restaurant” on a ____ online review site.

He ____ not provide an exact address and wrote it was reservations only.

He did this to make people think The ____ was a special restaurant.

He faked photos of The Shed’s ____ with shaving cream, whitening tablets, and even his own foot.

He then ____ his friends to write favorable fake reviews on the review site.

Things quickly got, in Butler’s words, “a little out of ____.”

From the ____ of the charts of the review site, The Shed continuously climbed the London rankings.

He started getting e-mails and phone calls ____ reservations.

Interest further increased when he ____ callers The Shed was “fully booked for the next six weeks.”

Even funnier, food suppliers started guessing The Shed’s address and sent ____ free samples, and many job applications came in.

These things happened without ____ serving a single meal.

The Shed eventually became London’s number-one restaurant on ____ of the most trusted restaurant review sites.

According to Butler, The Shed held that ranking for two ____.

Butler’s story ____ that much of what we see on the Internet cannot be trusted.

This emphasizes the importance of ____ literacy.

Digital literacy is about more ____ just using computers.

It is the ____ to use digital technology to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information.

To become digitally literate, we ____ to develop an attitude and knowledge that enable us to detect false information online.

False information is any ____ that misinforms or deceives people.

It can be about anything such as ____, the environment, and economics across many platforms.

It can be influential, as The Shed ____ shows.

If people had been digitally literate, they would not have ____ fooled by The Shed experiment so easily.

Digitally literate people would have carefully considered information about The Shed ____ being distracted by other people’s reactions.

They would have been suspicious that the restaurant ____ not have an address.

They would have wondered why reviews on the ____ did not appear in other more credible media.

If they had done these things, they would likely have suspected that something was not ____.

Fortunately, The Shed incident was an experiment that caused little ____.

However, false information can ____ emotional or financial harm to people.

For example, false information ____ a certain gender or belief group can stir up hatred against that group.

It ____ cause fights between those who support the group and those who do not.

In addition, misleading online reviews about questionable products often trick people into ____ money.

To avoid ____ deceived by false information, we need to develop a habit of critically evaluating what we see online.

If you see a story that looks too ____ or too bad to be true, check the source first.

Look at the website the story comes ____.

Does it look real? Are there spelling errors? Does it have other stories or just the one you ____?

Check that the story contains references and links to ____ information.

Click on those links and see if the ____ information looks reliable.

Websites with false information often do not have many real stories about ____ topics.

They also often have lots of advertisements that ____ up when you visit the sites.

You should ____ check the credibility of the content creator.

If a story ____ no writer’s name, this could be a sign that its content is questionable.

If there is a name, find ____ what and where the person has reported before.

If the person has not written anything else or writes for a website that ____ unreliable, think twice before believing the content.

Finally, check ____ else is reporting the story.

If no ____ media are reporting the same story, the story may not be true.

Pick a few keywords from the story and put them in a ____ site to see if other media are supporting the story.

Sorting through the vast amount of information created and ____ online is challenging.

However, it is important that we know ____ false information is and how it spreads.

The better we recognize false information, the better we will be at ____ it and helping others do the same.