SPT 9 Test 4
Vocabulary
1 Fill in the correct phrase.
• figurative speech • artificial brain • phone line • email account • broadband connection • emotional response
1/ Scientists are working on creating a(n) ……. which will make robots think on their own.
2/ Why don't you get a(n) ............? You'll be able to get on the Internet much faster than you do now.
3/ I can't send or receive anything over the Internet until I've set up my .....
4/ Do you believe robots will ever be able to understand idioms or other parts of……….
5/ George didn't have an Internet connection, so he checked his ....... to see if it was working.
6/ You can't expect a robot to show a(n) ........! They have no feelings!
2 Fill in the correct word. There are three words you do not need to use.
• caters • exists • discover • divided •invented • overcome • subscription • modem • perform • deletes • become • server • build
7/ Some experts believe that robots with human intelligence will someday ........... a reality.
8/ I don't think that a machine that can think on its own ....................
9/Timothy can't connect to the Internet because his computer doesn't have a(n)......................
10/ Did you know that there are robots which can
..............tasks such as serving tea and vacuuming the carpets?
11/ One of the problems robotics experts have to …..
when creating a household robot is getting it to understand and respond to everyday language.
12/ John cancelled his monthly .......... to his Internet Service Provider because it was too expensive.
13/ Ben used recycled materials to ....... his robot for the science exhibition.
14/ Andy has ..................a new gadget again; he really loves making things.
15/ Experts are ...... as to whether robots will ever take the place of human teachers in the classroom.
16/ John never goes anywhere without his laptop,
as it ..................for all his business needs.
3 Underline the correct verb form.
17. By the end of the year, Eric will be working/ will have been working on his new computer gadget for almost seven months.
18. Are you showing/Will you show me how to get free music downloads from the Internet?
19. You can't carry all these bags yourself. I am taking/ 'll take some of them off your hands.
20. This time next week we will be enjoying/will have enjoyed ourselves at the Notting Hill Carnival.
21. Be careful! You will spill/are going to spill coffee on your keyboard!
22. The lecture will have started/starts at 6 pm so we have plenty of time to get there.
23. Mr Higgins is giving/gives a demonstration of the new robot tomorrow evening.
24. By this time next month, we will have completed /will be completing our computer training course.
25. I am installing/will install the anti-virus software on your computer as soon as I get home tonight, I promise.
26. Do you buy/Are you buying Peter a new games console for his birthday?
4 Read the text and match the headings (A-F) to the paragraphs (41-45). There is one extra heading you do not need to use.
A A DIFFICULT DECISION
B NOT LOOKING YOUR AGE
C AN ANCIENT DESIRE
D THE NEGATIVE SIDE
E NUMBERS DON’T LIE
F DON’T QUESTION IT
27 .............
For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of cheating death and the aging process. In their fantasy world, they live forever and remain young and beautiful in old age. Well, it may sound incredible, but there are some scientists who believe that mankind will soon have the technology to make this dream come true!
28...............
Sounds like science fiction? Maybe. But remember that technology gives us the ability to do things today that people living only a few decades ago would have considered magic. Therefore, there is no reason why we shouldn't believe that experts will make all this possible.
29 ............
Some scientists believe that medical technology is moving so fast that by the end of this century, advanced anti-aging technologies will be available, and it will let people live for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years if they want to. Of course few people would want to live
to 1000 if, they had to spend hundreds of years looking and feeling like a 90-year-old. But some researchers think medicine will be able to keep people looking and feeling as beautiful and fit at 500 years old as they were at the age of 25!
30 ............
Naturally, the possibility of living 50 long raises many problems if people don’t die, how will the Earth cope when it gets so overcrowded? Many people believe that scientists should not develop anti-aging technology, and that they should let nature take its course as it has been doing tor millions of years.
31 ............
Of course, most scientists believe that humans will never possess such technology. But if living to 1000 becomes possible, do you think it would be a dream ... or a nightmare? And, if you had the choice, would you choose to live forever?
29-31 –«5»
23-28 –«4»
19-22 –«3»
0-18 –«2»
SPOTLIGHT 9 TEST 4 MODULE 4 — ОТВЕТЫ
A
1 emotional response 4 phone line
2 broadband connection 5 figurative speech
3 email account 6 artificial brain
В
7 become 11 caters 15 build
8 perform 12 exists 16 invented
9 subscription 13 modem
10 divided 14 overcome
C
17 will have been working 22 starts
18 Will you show 23 is giving
19 will take 24 will have completed
20 ’ll be enjoying 25 will install
21 are going to spill 26 Are you buying
F 27 С 28 F 29 A 30 E 31 В
6 561
6 045 
