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Computer technology has become a major part of people’s lives. This technology has its own special words. One example is the word mouse. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device     1     you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer, or cursor, on the computer screen.

    2     (use) a computer takes some training. People who are experts sometimes     3     (call) hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

    4     well known computer word is Google, spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular “search engine” for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google    5     in mathematics, googol, spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one-hundred zeros.

       When you “Google” a subject, you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to Google their friends or themselves to see    6     many times their name appears on the Internet.
       If you Google someone, you might find that person’s name on a blog. A blog is the     7     (shorten) name for a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories, comments, pictures and links to other Web sites. Some people add information     8    their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.