The Black Hole of Technology vocab quiz

What is the meaning of the word devouring as used in the sentence? The black hole of endless, unimportant streams of technology-enabled information is devouring everyone living in the twenty-first century.

• spitting out
• eating quickly

• Taking in greedily

• nurturing

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the meaning of the word absorbing as used in sentence? No matter how much people may look at information, it does not mean they are absorbing it.

• To forget information quickly
• To share information with others
• To fully take in or understand information

• To reject or ignore information

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the meaning of the word process as used in the sentence? No one stops to process information anymore to determine its significance or importance.

• Think about or analyze information
• Cook food slowly
• Stop the flow of a liquid
• to show how to do in steps

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CCSS.L.5.5C

What is the meaning of consumed as used in the sentence. Not once do we stop. Before being introduced to my phone and computer, I had been more appreciative of the world around me. Now, I’m always consumedby my “tech,” and I never stop to take a break.

• to eat food

• completely disinterested
• moderately engaged
• fully absorbed or engrossed

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CCSS.L.5.5C

What is the meaning of the word digesting as used in the sentence? The answer was pretty clear, so keeping one ear with the guide, and turning the rest of myself to the temple, I soaked in the extraordinary sight before me. For once, I wasn’t digesting useless information.

• To break down food in the body
• Thinking over, mentally taking in

• To ignore food in the body
• storing information

• To build up food in the body

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CCSS.L.5.5C