SKILLS 1

What is its main idea?

1. Roadrunner is a success.
2. Roadrunner is a car company.
3. Roadrunner's cars have an autopilot function.

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.

In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.

Vehicles will always cause green house gases.

1. True
2. False

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.

In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.

People can connect with others in different cars in the future.

1. True
2. False 

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.

In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.

People will be able to drive safely even in bad weather.

1. True
2. False 

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.

In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.

Cars will notice people when there is a passenger crossing the lane.

1. True
2. False 

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.

In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.

Cars and how to drive will only change after two more decades.

1. True
2. False 

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 1: 

1. travel
2. travelled
3. travelling

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 2:

1. use
2. using
3. used

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 3: 

1. are
2. want
3. will be

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 4: 

1. teleport  
2. hire
3. play

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 5: 

1. fantasy
2. fantasize
3. fantastic

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 6: 

1. transport
2. mean
3. vehicles

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 7:

1. described
2. discription
3. descripting

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 8: 

1. vehicle
2. vehicling
3. vehicles

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (1)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (2)…… planes (perhaps we (3) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (4)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (5)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (6) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (7)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (8)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (9)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (10) ............... may hold.

Question 9: 

1. find it
2. make it
3. do it