1. Find modal verbs in the text and write it.

2. Find the sentences with passive voice and write it.

                                                                                         The Meaning of Communication

          Communication is basic to social (1) and to group life. As the socialogist uses  this  word, it  means  the  interchange  of  thoughts, opinion,feelings and (2). This may be done through speech, writing and (3), and also through other  forms  of  expression, such  as  art, music and dancing. Using these resources of (4), man makes his needs, feelings, and thoughts known and understood. He can also learn what other people want and how they feel and think. Without communication there  could  be  no  organized  collective  life. In  simple societies, communication is almost always (5). In the modern world   communication  can  no  longer  remain  a  matter  of  face-to-face contacts. Much of it becomes (6), transmitted by impersonal (7) to a  large  audience, whose  members  are  generally  unknown  to  the originators of the communication. In other words, it becomes (8) communication.

         The term mass communication is used in two senses. In the first place, it may refer to the (9) — that  is, to  the  mechanical  devices used to (10) ans (11) message from the sender to the  receivers. Newspapers, books, (12), (13)  as  well  as  the telephone  are  the  chief forms we employ for this nowdays. In the second sense, mass communication  refers  to  the  message  itself, specifically  to  a  message which reaches large numbers of people.

          So the mass media are rapidly becoming the chief source of communication throughout the world.

3. Make 3 questions for dicussing of this text.

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