RU online? Time spent online

Key
Question 1
a) False: While one might expect students (39%) or the unemployed (32%) to spend above average time on the web, the group that spends the highest proportion of their leisure time on the internet is housewives.
b) True: internet users had 17 online friends although the Chinese, the biggest web users, were less likely to actually meet any of these friends in person.
c) True : a lot of activities which we traditionally did in our spare time are now being done online. Over three quarters of us (76%) have used the internet for banking in the past month
d) True: Three quarters of us have used one of the many news sites (75%) in the last month ... more pleasurable activities such as using a chatroom (13%) are far less popular.

Question 2
a) TNS questioned over 27,000 people who use the internet. The results were categorised according to age group and to occupation and included the reasons for using the internet.
b) The text talks about doing things like carrying out bank transactions, making payments, looking up news and weather forecasts. We can do all these things at the same time and therefore save time.

Question 3
a) finding(s) b) throw up c) turnaround
Question 4
a) TNS, which is a global market information group, surveyed more than 27,000 internet users from 16 countries who were aged between 18 and 55.
b) The younger the user the more time was spent online.
Older people spend less time online than younger people/users.
c) The survey showed that a lot of activities which people had traditionally done in their spare time were now being done online.