Exercise 8. Choose the right variant from the given below and translate the text.
A new report shows what life might be (1) ______ in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much (2) ______ than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble' cities, and holidays in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts (3) ______ space, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be (4) ______ different to how we do these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine (5) ______ the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even (6) ______ unbelievable.
Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most (7) ______ to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have (8) ______ work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will (9) ______ you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less (10) ______ for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give (11) ______ treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used (12) ______ on Earth. A prediction that was missing was whether people would still need to study English.
| 1. | (a) | likely | (b) | like | (c) | liked | (d) | liking |
| 2. | (a) | tall | (b) | taller | (c) | tallest | (d) | tally |
| 3. | (a) | by | (b) | at | (c) | to | (d) | on |
| 4. | (a) | total | (b) | totally | (c) | totality | (d) | totals |
| 5. | (a) | what | (b) | which | (c) | who | (d) | how |
| 6. | (a) | much | (b) | many | (c) | more | (d) | most |
| 7. | (a) | likely | (b) | like | (c) | liking | (d) | liked |
| 8. | (a) | virtually | (b) | virtue | (c) | virtual | (d) | vitality |
| 9. | (a) | certain | (b) | permit | (c) | allow | (d) | let |
| 10. | (a) | need | (b) | go | (c) | do | (d) | have |
| 11. | (a) | us | (b) | them | (c) | they | (d) | we |
| 12. | (a) | up | (b) | in | (c) | by | (d) | of |
Exercise 9. Fill in the gaps (1-10).
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1. bump
2. motorists
3. study
4. happen
5. text
6. holes
7. injuries
8. straight
9. safely
10. serious
11. ahead
12. cases
13. complex
14. air
15. properly
16. final
Reading or writing (1) ____________ messages while you are walking is dangerous. A new study says it is more dangerous than texting while driving. The (2) ____________ is from the University of Buffalo in the USA. Researchers found that there are more (3) ____________ per kilometer to texting pedestrians than there are to texting (4) ____________. Their report says walking is not as easy as we think it is. We need to focus on many things at the same time to walk safely in a (5) ____________ line. The research team said that people forget how to walk properly, so dangerous things (6) ____________ to them. They (7) ____________ into walls and other people, walk into cars, fall over things in the street, and even fall into (8) ____________ or down stairs.
A University of Buffalo professor said walking is a (9) ____________ action. He said there are several reasons why texting stops people from walking (10) ____________. One reason is that they cannot see the path (11) ____________ of them. Another is that they are focused on their fingers on their mobile phone keyboard instead of their feet on the street. A (12) ____________ reason is that their minds are somewhere else and not on thinking about walking from A to B (13) ____________. The professor said over 6,000 people visited his hospital last year because they were injured while texting. He said the worst (14) ____________ are head injuries. When a pedestrian is tossed into the (15) ____________ after being hit by a car, he/she has nothing to protect the head, and the damage can be (16) ____________.
Exercise 10. Fill in the gaps.
device
release
willing
need
substitute
up
secure
explored
voice
leader
experts extract
fail
unveiled
solution
wirelessly
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information have come (1) ____________ with an ingenious device that might, one day soon, replace the (2) ____________ for passwords. A press (3) ____________ explains: "Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password." Their research (4) ____________ the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a (5) ____________ for passwords. This resulted in the creation of the Neurosky MindSet headset – a $100 (6) ____________ that can read brainwaves. The team believes this new technology is (7) ____________, accurate, and user-friendly. They also believe people would be (8) ____________ to replace passwords with pass-thoughts.
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The project's findings were (9) ____________ at the 2013 Workshop on Usable Security at the Seventeenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Team (10) ____________ Professor John Chuang explained his new technique provides a more (11) ____________ -safe and cheaper (12) ____________ than things like fingerprint scans, retina scans, or facial or (13) ____________ recognition. He said his team's inexpensive headset connects to a computer (14) ____________ using Bluetooth and is little different to headsets used with mobile phones, music players, and other computing devices. However, security (15) ____________ expressed concern regarding the ability of software that can "hack" people's minds to (16) ____________ things like ATM PINs.
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