Choose the correct words in the box and write them on the blanks in suitable sentences.
| guarantee | imagination | inform |
| value | accurate | consequence |
1. : correct and true in every detail
2. : to promise to do something; to promise something will happen
3. : a result of something that has happened, especially an unpleasant result
4. : to think that somebody/something is important
5. : the ability to create pictures in your mind; the part of your mind that does this
6. : to tell somebody about something, especially in an official way
I'm sorry I can't hear what you _____ because everybody _____ so loudly.
Nam is politely declining Lan's invitation to her birthday party next weekend.
- Nam: "I’d love to but I won't be able to attend your birthday party. I'm taking my final exam next weekend."
- Lan: "_____"
She's 85 now, but she will insist _____ doing all her own housework.
_____ traffic was there on the motorway today?
Much of the world’s coffee _____ in Brazil.
Crossword puzzles, _____ became popular in the 1930s, were invented in 1913.
She stopped _____ some apples on her way to work.
Complete the conversation between two friends, Anita and Ivan. Read the conversation and choose the best answer. Write a letter (A–G) for each answer. You do not need to use all the letters.
A. Only to the shops. I needed a birthday present for my mum.
B. I had a bit of a problem on Saturday.
C. How did you get there?
D. I couldn't find my keys.
E. at least you’ve got them now.
F. did you get her anything in the end?
G. Do you think that'll be OK?
Ivan: Hi Anita. How was your weekend?
Anita: Great, thanks. What about yours?
Ivan: OK, but
Anita: Did you have trouble with your car again?
Ivan: In a way.
Anita: Did you want to go anywhere special?
Ivan:
Anita: So
Ivan: I bought some chocolates from the local shop.
Anita: She’ll love them.
Ivan: I hope so! I found my car keys this morning. They were in the bathroom.
Anita: Well,
Ivan: Yes, so I can drive you home, if you like.
Read the text. Choose the correct word from the box to fill in each blank.
| formerly | self-access courses | culture | convenient |
| published | available | really | personal satisfaction |
Some people return to college as mature students and take full-time or part-time training courses in a skill that will help them to get a job. The development of open learning, making it possible to study when it is for the students, has increased the opportunities to many people. This type of study was restricted to book-based learning and correspondence course but now includes courses on TV, CD-ROM or the Internet, and at language or computer centers. Americans believe that education is important at all stages of life and should not stop when people get their first job. About 40% of adults take part in some kind of formal education. About half of them are trying to get qualifications and skills to help them with their jobs, the rest are taking recreational subjects for . Schools and community colleges arrange evening classes, and a catalog of courses is by local boards of education.
Read the passage.
Monkey Plays Video Games With His Mind
A company called Neuralink has shared a video which appears to show a monkey playing a video game. That’s fairly unusual, but what makes the video even stranger is that the monkey is playing the video game with just its mind.
The monkey in the video is called Pager, and he’s a rhesus macaque. Pager has two of Neuralink’s special Link devices inside his brain. The devices were planted in Pager’s brain by a surgeon. These devices are connected to 2,048 wires which lead to the parts of Pager’s brain that control movements of the arms and hands. Scientists taught Pager to play a video game. They used a banana smoothie as a special treat to reward him when he played the game correctly. Soon Pager was eager to play well in order to get more smoothie.
At first, Pager controlled the video game using a joystick, which is a normal gaming controller. But as Pager played, his Link devices wirelessly sent out information about the signals his brain was using to control his arms and hands. Neuralink’s scientists recorded all of these signals. Then they used computers to match up the signals from Pager’s brain to the movements that his hands were actually doing. This was challenging work and the scientists counted on artificial intelligence (AI) to help them decode Pager’s brain signals. The final step was to have a computer make moves in the video game as if Pager had actually moved the joystick. If Pager thought about moving the joystick up, the computer would send an “up” signal to the video game. At first, the researchers let Pager keep moving the joystick with his hand, even though it was no longer connected to the computer. But soon Pager was able to play the video game using just his brain.
Even though Neuralink’s work right now focuses on animals and video games, there’s a very serious purpose behind it. Neuralink wants to make it possible for humans who have lost the ability to control their bodies to interact with the world around them. Elon Musk, the company owner, says that in the near future Neuralink hopes to allow a paralyzed person to control a smartphone just by thinking. He believes they’ll be able to do it faster than someone who is using their hands. The next step would be to allow them to control a computer.
(Adapted from newsforkids.net)
Now use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER to answer each question.
1. How many devices are put into Pager's brain?
2. What was used as a reward for Pager when he plays the game in the right way?
3. How were Pager's brain signals sent to the scientists? through
4. What did the scientists need to understand the monkey brain signals?
5. In the last step, the computer used Pager’s brain signals to in the video game.
6. Whom does Elon Musk want to help with Neuralink?
Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
I very rarely go into the city centre, so I don’t know where to shop.
=> I am in the city centre.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Our car stopped on the motorway, so we had to call for help.
=> Our car broke , so we had to call for help.
Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Jack is so arrogant, I can't stand him.
=> Because Jack's such , I can't stand him.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
He asked me, "Do you understand all the rules?"
=> He asked me all the rules.
Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
Seeing a cartoon for the first time was an exciting experience.
=> I a cartoon before so it was an exciting experience.
Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.
I enjoy watching football more than motor racing.
=> I rather than motor racing.