Тест по английскому языку в 10 классе по теме "Технологии"

10 Form .

Technology

Test

I. Read the texts and match them with the headings. There is one extra title.
1. The very start
2. Protection or a new danger
3. Champions in texting
4. Back to real-life communication 5. Mobiles in the classroom
6. Needed in the next world
7. No benefits but glamour
8. Rescue Service function
A. The first call from a mobile phone was made in 1973. Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the call from the pavement of Sixth Avenue in New York to show off to his competitor – engineer Joel Angel. He said, "I'm ringing you just to see if my call sounds good at your end." With the first mobile phones, only voice calls were available and there was no texting facility.
B. Recently the most expensive phone in the world was presented. It is the iPhone5 with a case made of 24 carat gold with 600 diamonds! The home button of the smartphone is made from a rare black diamond and the company logo is covered with small diamonds. The cost of this device is about $15 million. The technical characteristics of the iPhone 5 are no different from the regular models.
C. Mobile phones are permitted at school in the UK, but students are not allowed to use them in class. Teachers can take away phones if these rules are broken. School students can use their phones at breaktime and at lunchtime. However, some teachers in British schools complain that students don’t always follow the rules and that lessons are disrupted by people texting, receiving calls, looking at social networking sites, watching videos and even making videos in class.
D. The mobile phone is a way to warn people about disasters. Some countries have worked out the following system: phone companies automatically notify their population in advance about emergencies and disasters. Such warnings are very efficient and free of charge. Japan and Finland were among the first countries who understood the necessity of this system.
E. Parents want their kids to be safe. Are children safer with a mobile phone or without? Many parents want their children to have a phone so that they can be in contact at any time or in any place. On the other hand, for lots of parents a phone is a source of possible danger. Parents worry that their child may meet the wrong kind of ‘friends’ on social networking sites or that they might receive cruel messages from school bullies.
F. The idea of sending short text messages was originated in 1984. It was later brought to life by a group of engineers from different companies. Writing text messages became extremely popular in Asian countries, especially in Korea. Korean teenagers are certainly text message fans. They send over 200,000 text messages a year, that's about 60.1 texts per day. This hobby must have made their fingers really fast.
G. It’s becoming common practice in Ireland to bury people with their mobile phones. In the past, families often put photos or favourite things of the dead in the coffin. Now mobile phones have replaced these old-world customs. Mobiles have become an essential object for their owners during their time in this world, so logically they may want to keep them forever.
II. Read the text and fill in the gaps with phrases 1 – 7. There is one phrase you will not need.
Mobile phones
On New Year’s Day, 1985, Michael Harrison phoned his father, Sir Ernest, to wish him a happy new year. Sir Ernest was chairman of Racal Electronics, the owner of Vodafone, A __________.
At the time, mobile phones weighed almost a kilogram, cost several thousand pounds and provided only 20 minutes talktime. The networks themselves were small; Vodafone had just a dozen masts covering London. Nobody had any idea of the huge potential of wireless communication and the dramatic impact B __________.
Hardly anyone believed there would come a day when mobile phones were so popular C __________. But in 1999 one mobile phone was sold in the UK every four seconds, and by 2004 there were more mobile phones in the UK than people. The boom was a result of increased competition which pushed prices lower  (ред.)

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and created innovations in the way that mobiles were sold.
When the government introduced more competition, companies started cutting prices to attract more customers. Cellnet, for example, changed its prices, D __________. It also introduced local call tariffs.
The way that handsets themselves were marketed was also changing and it was Finland’s Nokia who made E___. In the late 1990s Nokia realized that the mobile phone was a fashion item: so it offered interchangeable covers which allowed you to customize and personalize your handset.
The mobile phone industry has spent the later part of the past decade reducing its monthly charge F __________, which has culminated in the fight between the iPhone and a succession of touch screen rivals.
1. that there would be more phones in the UK than there are people
2. the leap from phones as technology to phones as fashion items
3. and his son was making the first-ever mobile phone call in the UK
4. the move to digital technology, connecting machines to wireless networks
5. trying to persuade people to do more with their phones than just call and text
6. that mobile phones would have over the next quarter century
7. and relying instead on actual call charges
III. Use the words in the appropriate forms.
A) Among the e-mails waiting for me at work one morning was one from a member of my staff. It was sent from his personal e-mail address and there was only his home phone number. Thinking something was wrong, I immediately called (1) HE. A sleepy female voice answered and told me he was at work and (2) COME home late in the evening. The (3) BAD moment was when I remembered that I had recently asked staff members to give me their home numbers. I went right down to the employee’s office to apologize for my call.
(4) LATE, however, he thanked me. I had awakened his daughter, who had an exam that morning but had forgotten to set her alarm. Thanks to my call, she hadn't missed the exam.
B) Do you think about electricity when you switch on the light? Do you think about (5) SCIENCE issues when you use a microwave, a cell phone or a laser printer? No, we already got used to all those devices and take them for granted. Now we have much more (6) AMBITION projects on the mind – launching space apparatus to Mars and studying the deeps of the ocean. If the (7) TECHNOLOGY development of society doesn’t slow down in the near future, (8) SCIENCE will make major breakthroughs in (9) COMMUNICATE technologies, space technologies and genetic. Nanotechnologies and robots will widen people’s abilities (10) DRAMATICAL. It’s (11) REAL an exciting time to live in, as so many (12) FANTASY things are happening around.
C) People spend hours talking on their mobile phones. There is an opinion that it may be (13) HARM to their health, but it is difficult to know for sure. Some research shows that mobile phones may cause brain problems. On the other hand, some doctors say mobiles are not (14) DANGER at all. No matter what doctors say, it’s just (15) POSSIBLE to live without a mobile phone today. It has become a very (16) USE device and people can’t do without it. It makes our life (17) COMFORT and saves time. People can get in touch with each other quickly. Mobile phones make (18) COMMUNICATE easier.
IV. Writing.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend, Ben.
… I can’t imagine my life without my computer and the Internet! Now I can write all my stories and immediately send them to my friends to read...
…What do you use your computer for? How much time do you spend working on your computer? What else do you do in your free time? …
Oh, I have some great news! My elder brother promised to be back home from college on my birthday …
Write a letter to Ben. (100–140 words).
In your letter:
- answer his questions.
- ask 3 questions about his elder brother.  (ред.)

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