TEST YOURSELF 6

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.

They did not let me in because I was not a member of the clu

1. They invited me although I was not a member of the clu
2. They did not allow me to enter because I was not a member of the clu
3. They invited me to the clubs as if I had been a member.
4. They asked me to get out of the club because I was not a member.

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.

Can you account for your strange behavior?

1. Does your strange behavior make anybody surprised?
2. Can you please stop behaving strangely?
3. Can you give a good explanation for your strange behavior?'
4. Is your strange behavior only for me?

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.

Optimists believe that life will be far better than it is today.

1. Optimists cannot tell any differences between today life and future life.
2. It is believed by optimists that there will be no changes for life in the future.
3. Optimists believe that today's life is not as good as it will be.
4. Optimists believe that we will have a worse life in the future.

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.

In spite of his poverty, he led a devoted life to the revolutionary cause.

1. He could not devote his life to the revolutionary cause because of his poverty.
2. If he had not been so poor, he could have devoted his life to the revolutionary cause.
3. Poor as he was, he leg a devoted life to the revolutionary cause.
4. He led a devoted life to the revolutionary cause, but he was so poor

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.

Most bosses cannot put up with irresponsibility.

1. Irresponsibility is what most bosses are trying to fin
2. Most bosses cannot tolerate irresponsibility.
3. Irresponsibility is a must to please most bosses.
4. Without responsibility, most bosses will not offer you a jo

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Computer and telecommunications are already giving us access to large amounts of information. They are increasing our brain power. As computers become more powerful they will grow more intelligent. There seems no reason why machines should not become more intelligent than people in the future. Computers will start to design and build other computers. They will then be able to evolve. There will then be two forms of "life". Many thousands of years in the future there might be competition for power between computers and life. Which will win?

Well, computers certainly have many advantages over life. They can

process large amounts of information quickly

be switched off for years, then start to work perfectly when they are switched back on

be made very small, and control tiny machines

work together in networks to solve big problems

Furthermore

Electronics is much simpler than life's chemistry and does not need liquid water.

Unlike animals, which rely on plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy, semiconductors (the material that" computers are made from) can turn sunlight directly into electricity.

When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious

Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers are believed to be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. It will be computers, not people, to colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from. However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make anew, even more powerful form of intelligent being.

In the future, mankind and computers will have a serious war for survival.

1.  True                        
2.  False                       
3.  No information

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Computer and telecommunications are already giving us access to large amounts of information. They are increasing our brain power. As computers become more powerful they will grow more intelligent. There seems no reason why machines should not become more intelligent than people in the future. Computers will start to design and build other computers. They will then be able to evolve. There will then be two forms of "life". Many thousands of years in the future there might be competition for power between computers and life. Which will win?

Well, computers certainly have many advantages over life. They can

process large amounts of information quickly

be switched off for years, then start to work perfectly when they are switched back on

be made very small, and control tiny machines

work together in networks to solve big problems

Furthermore

Electronics is much simpler than life's chemistry and does not need liquid water.

Unlike animals, which rely on plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy, semiconductors (the material that" computers are made from) can turn sunlight directly into electricity.

When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious

Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers are believed to be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. It will be computers, not people, to colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from. However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make anew, even more powerful form of intelligent being.

A computer can design and build other ones.

1.  True                        
2.  False                       
3.  No information

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Computer and telecommunications are already giving us access to large amounts of information. They are increasing our brain power. As computers become more powerful they will grow more intelligent. There seems no reason why machines should not become more intelligent than people in the future. Computers will start to design and build other computers. They will then be able to evolve. There will then be two forms of "life". Many thousands of years in the future there might be competition for power between computers and life. Which will win?

Well, computers certainly have many advantages over life. They can

process large amounts of information quickly

be switched off for years, then start to work perfectly when they are switched back on

be made very small, and control tiny machines

work together in networks to solve big problems

Furthermore

Electronics is much simpler than life's chemistry and does not need liquid water.

Unlike animals, which rely on plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy, semiconductors (the material that" computers are made from) can turn sunlight directly into electricity.

When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious

Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers are believed to be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. It will be computers, not people, to colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from. However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make anew, even more powerful form of intelligent being.

Computers will have instincts to fight as human beings do.

1.  True                        
2.  False                       
3.  No information

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Computer and telecommunications are already giving us access to large amounts of information. They are increasing our brain power. As computers become more powerful they will grow more intelligent. There seems no reason why machines should not become more intelligent than people in the future. Computers will start to design and build other computers. They will then be able to evolve. There will then be two forms of "life". Many thousands of years in the future there might be competition for power between computers and life. Which will win?

Well, computers certainly have many advantages over life. They can

process large amounts of information quickly

be switched off for years, then start to work perfectly when they are switched back on

be made very small, and control tiny machines

work together in networks to solve big problems

Furthermore

Electronics is much simpler than life's chemistry and does not need liquid water.

Unlike animals, which rely on plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy, semiconductors (the material that" computers are made from) can turn sunlight directly into electricity.

When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious

Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers are believed to be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. It will be computers, not people, to colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from. However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make anew, even more powerful form of intelligent being.

Computers will explore the universe.

1.  True                        
2.  False                       
3.  No information

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

Computer and telecommunications are already giving us access to large amounts of information. They are increasing our brain power. As computers become more powerful they will grow more intelligent. There seems no reason why machines should not become more intelligent than people in the future. Computers will start to design and build other computers. They will then be able to evolve. There will then be two forms of "life". Many thousands of years in the future there might be competition for power between computers and life. Which will win?

Well, computers certainly have many advantages over life. They can

process large amounts of information quickly

be switched off for years, then start to work perfectly when they are switched back on

be made very small, and control tiny machines

work together in networks to solve big problems

Furthermore

Electronics is much simpler than life's chemistry and does not need liquid water.

Unlike animals, which rely on plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy, semiconductors (the material that" computers are made from) can turn sunlight directly into electricity.

When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious

Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers are believed to be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. It will be computers, not people, to colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from. However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make anew, even more powerful form of intelligent being.

If a computer has not been used for a long time, all data will lose.

1.  True                       
2.  False                       
3.  No information

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could  _____ such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. 

1.  enjoy                         
2. play                    
3.  take                    
4.  do

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately predict the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed up  so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

It is predicted that one billion people will be 65  _____ older by 2030. Japanese scientists are already developing robots to  _____ after the elderly and robots will be a permanent _____ of everyday life all across Europe. 

1. ​or/look/ feature
2. and/take / human  
3. but / follow /personality  
4. nor/ run/character

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately  _____ the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed  _____ so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

1. predict/ up
2. diagnose /on   
3. prefer/  over   
4.  tell / above

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately predict the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed up  so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

It is predicted that one billion people will be 65 or older by 2030. Japanese scientists are already developing robots to look after the elderly and robots will be a permanent feature of everyday life all across Europe. People in 2030 will routinely reach the age  of 130. The weather in 2030 is likely to be extreme, but the solution to the energy crisis will be to harness natural clean energy sources, such as solar, hydro, wind and geothermal. The internet will have developed into a "super combined web" which is always on and always ____. 

1. contacted                    
2. stuck                              
3. connected             
4. attached

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately predict the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed up  so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

It is predicted that one billion people will be 65 or older by 2030. Japanese scientists are already developing robots to look after the elderly and robots will be a permanent feature of everyday life all across Europe. People in 2030 will routinely reach the age of 130. The weather in 2030 is likely to be extreme, but the solution to the energy crisis will be to harness natural clean energy sources, such  _____ solar, hydro, wind and geothermal. 

1. as to                         
2.  as many as           
3. more                              
4. as

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately predict the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed up  so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

It is predicted that one billion people will be 65 or older by 2030. Japanese scientists are already developing robots to look after the elderly and robots will be a permanent feature of everyday life all across Europe. People in 2030 will routinely reach the  _____ of 130. 

1. old                              
2. elder                               
3. aging                              
4. age

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase

If you think that life in. 2030 sounds unrealistic, consider this: how many people in 1985 thought that computers and mobile phones could play such a central role in our lives today or that children would be gaming on the Internet. No one can accurately predict the future. One thing is certain: the rapid change that we have seen since the 1980s will not slow down. It will speed up  so much that, in some ways, our lives in 2030 will be unrecognizable today.

It is predicted that one billion people will be 65 or older by 2030. Japanese scientists are already developing robots to look after the elderly and robots will be a permanent feature of everyday life all across Europe. People in 2030 will routinely reach the age  of 130. The weather in 2030 is likely to be extreme, but the solution to the energy crisis will be to harness natural clean energy sources, such as solar, hydro, wind and geothermal. The internet will have developed into a "super combined web" which is always on and always connected . It is also explained that some aspects of daily life in 2030 will seem very _____ to today. We will still live in houses and apartments, although they will be much more energy efficient. Children will still go to school, but will be aided by virtual learning.

1.  familiar                      
2. similar                  
3. different                
4. fond