Test A
1 Choose the correct words to complete the online chat.
Mel17 Is that a new phone, Steven?
StevenJ Yes, it is. And I’m really pleased with it. It’s got 1any / some really nice apps on it. And I wanted to
get this phone because 2many / little of my friends have it.
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Mel17 All / Every the shops are advertising that phone at the moment because it’s very new. So it 4can’t
/ must have been expensive.
StevenJ Well, it cost 5many / a little more than the other phone I was looking at. But I went to 6a
little / a few shops in town and bought it at the cheapest place.
Mel17 You 7shouldn’t have / should have got it without talking to me first. My dad is the manager of a
phone shop. He 8must have / could have given you a discount.
StevenJ Yeah, I know that. But I didn’t want to bother you, or him. He 9can’t have / could have
been really busy yesterday because it was a Saturday and town was full of people. And anyway, he
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might not have / must have remembered me.
2 Complete the sentences with the correct affirmative or negative form of the cues in the box.
can / see could / do might / read must / take should / tell
1 Mandy hasn’t answered my email. But she _______________________ it yet.
2 Thanks for helping me with my project, Tessa. I _______________________ it without you.
3 You _______________________ Renata in town this morning. She’s in Germany at the moment.
4 The first computers were as big as a room and they had thousands of parts. It _______________________
people ages to build them!
5 I’m really sorry, Matthew. I _______________________ you a lie.
3 Complete the sentences with the adjectives and verbs below, adding prepositions to each one.
familiar harmful keen log scroll set unhappy
1 Something’s wrong. I can’t ________________ to my computer.
2 How do I ________________ a new Facebook account?
3 Kerri bought a new laptop because she was very ________________ her old one.
4 I’m going to ________________ to the top of the article and read it again.
5 I’m ________________ this program because I’ve used it before.
6 Old batteries pollute the environment, and they are very ________________ animals.
7 I’m not very ________________ high-tech fantasy films like Iron Man, but many people love them.
4 Complete the text with the words below.
as first look see seems show though unlike view whereas
Both photos 1____________ people using smartwatches. In the 2____________
photo, there is a woman on a train who is looking at her watch, 3____________ in the
second photo there are two men jogging and wearing smartwatches. The woman
looks as 4____________ she is on her way to work and checking her emails. It
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____________ to me that she’s just had a notification of a new message and is
looking to see who the sender is. She is holding a book, but her attention is directed
at the small screen on her wrist. 6____________ the first photo, the second photo
does not show the men looking at their watches. It doesn’t look to me
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____________ if they are interested in anything apart from running. In my
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____________, athletes wear smartwatches to check their performance, such as
counting their steps or their heart rates, and not to stay connected with work. They
don’t 9____________ stressed or like they need to be checking their phones every
two minutes. The way I 10____________ it, we should all have periods of time when
we are unconnected from our studies or work, and just use technology for leisure.
5 Read the text and answer the questions.
In the past, technology and progress was very slow. People ‘invented’ farming
12,000 years ago, but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go around the world. Then,
about 3,500 years ago, people called ‘potters’ used round wheels to turn and make
plates. But it took hundreds of years before some clever person thought, ‘if we join
two wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move things’.
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century
invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December
1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 metres. It can’t have been
very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the first
plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the
moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the
future bring?
One of the first changes will be the materials we use. Scientists have just invented an
amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things.
With graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your
phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most
products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we
won’t make things like cars and furniture in factories − we will grow them!
Thirty years ago, people couldn’t have imagined social media like Twitter and
Facebook. Now we can’t live without them. But this is only the start. Right now,
scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people’s brains, to help them see,
hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We
won’t need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the
internet will be in our heads!
More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun,
and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we
may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote
about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should
have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power
station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds!
1 The writer says that in the past
A people didn’t invent many things. C people didn’t want to use wheels.
B most inventions were to do with farming. D it took time for new ideas to change
things.
2 Why does the writer use the example of the aeroplane?
A To explain how space travel started. C To show how an invention developed quickly
B Because he thinks it’s the most important invention in history. D To explain why transport changed in the 20th
century.
3 What does the writer say about the future of communication?
A We won’t need devices like smartphones. C We won’t use the internet as much.
B We can’t know what the most popular social media will be. D Microchips will become faster.
