Exercise 1. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.
1. pessimistic; 2. sounds; 3. last; 4. virtual; 5. connected; 6. real; 7. around; 8. feel; 9. activities; 10. going; 11. specialists; 12. grown.
In the ... thirty years, the Internet has ... dramatically. In 1983 there were only 200 computers ... to the Internet; now there are ... 50 million and this growth is clearly ... to continue. Some experts are … about the future. One worry is the ... of cybercriminals. However, many ... see our future in ... reality – the use of computers with ... and images that make you ... as if you are in a … situation.
Exercise 2. Study the text and choose the correct variant for the sentences below.
Mensa is the international society for highly intelligent people. The name of the society comes from the Latin word for a table. It was founded in 1946. People of all ages and types can be its members. To join, people do a series of timed tests at home. If they do well on these tests, they write to Mensa and take a supervised test. On the basis of the results, they are invited to join. Mensa's 100.000 members come from the top two percent of the population. Isaac Asimov, the scientist and science fiction writer, is one of Mensa's most famous members. There is also a junior Mensa for five to eleven-year-olds. The qualifying mark in the test is 148 points. Recently a twelve-year-old schoolboy, Oliver Jenkin, scored 177 points in the Mensa test. Although Oliver doesn't consider himself to be a genius, his mother says he has only ever slept for four hours a night, spoke his first word (hello) when he was four months old and was singing nursery rhymes when he was eight months old. By the time he was four he was reading books on archaeology, but his teachers thought he was backward. He tried to do badly at school because he didn't want to draw attention to himself. However, this achievement is nothing compared with twelve-year-old Adragon Eastwood Demello, an American boy who lives in California. He scored 225 points. He spoke at seven weeks, was a brilliant chess player at two and a half, learned Greek, physics and philosophy at four, geophysics at six and was building computer-controlled robots at the age of eight. His father wants him to win the Nobel Prize by the age of sixteen.
1. Adragon Eastwood Demello...
a) wants to win the Nobel Prize;
b) is a wonder-child;
c) learned Greek at ten.
2. To be invited to Mensa a person must...
a) be famous;
b) be a man of genius;
c) do well on a series of special tests.
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3. Mensa is...
a) the Latin word for a society;
b) the clever people's club;
c) a society with limited membership.
4. Oliver didn't get good marks at school because he...
a) wanted to draw attention to himself;
b) was keen on archaeology;
c) was shy.
5. The minimum number of points an applicant must score in tests is…
a) 148; b) 177; c) 225.
Exercise 3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin …1… born into a large, wealthy family. His parents wanted him to become a doctor like his father and grandfather before him but he had other interests. As a child he helped his older brother, Erasmus, to carry …2… chemistry experiments.
At 16 he was sent to the University of Edinburgh to train …3… a doctor, but he soon found that performing gory operations disgusted him and so he transferred to the University of Cambridge to become a clergyman. There he …4… meet up regularly with friends …5… were interested in animals and plants and they often went on trips into the countryside to find …6… more about the natural world. …7… this interest, Charles was very keen on hunting and would keep a record of how many birds he …8… shot by tying knots in a …9… of string.
…10… completed his exams, Darwin had to …11… a decision about his future. Luckily a friend had …12… down the offer of a job as a naturalist on the ship HMS Beagle …13… Darwin accepted in his place and the rest is history.
Variant 2
Exercise 1. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.
1. diagnosis; 2. true; 3. accurate; 4. everyday; 5. has; 6. working; 7. to take; 8. way; 9. result; 10. computers; 11. questions; 12. partially.
Computers have become part of … life. Computer scientists are now ... at the next generation of ... : one, which will have ... intelligence. The first step on the ... is the development of "expert systems". An "expert system" is ... intelligent. At Stanford University a computer ... been developed for medical ... . It can tell doctors which ... to ask, and which measurements ... . It can then analyse the … and make an ... diagnosis.
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