The six degrees of separation - Module 4

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Expert Proficiency, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in CAPITALS at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

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KNOW

CONCLUDE

POPULAR

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REPRESENT

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The idea that we live in a web of communications and that you're (0) ___ only six steps away from direct contact with your favourite film star is not a new one. Indeed, it (1) ___ the internet and mobile telephony by several decades. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram established that it was (2) ___ easy to contact anyone in the USA via the postal system, even if their address was (3) ___ to you. However, his findings were deemed (4) ___ , since some messages never reached their target. Interest in the idea was revived by John Guare's play Six degrees of separation in the 1990s, and then (5) ___ by an online game (6) ___ the Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which players link any actor to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible. More recently, people have tested out the theory using social networking sites like Facebook. There are still questions about how (7) ___ the results are, but the latest technology lends considerable weight to the underlying (8) ___ of the theory.

The six degrees of separation

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