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Unit Test 2 | Group A

DICTATION, LISTENING, COMMUNICATION, READING


Name: _____________________ Class: ____

DICTATION COMMUNICATION
1 [Track 04] Listen and write the sentences that you 3 Complete the conversation with 1–2 words in each
hear. gap.
____________________________________________ A: It’s raining again. And it’s Saturday morning. What bad
luck!
____________________________________________
B: Never mind. There’s a robotics exhibition on at the
____________________________________________ Science Museum. 1 ____________ ____________ going
to see that?
____________________________________________ A: I don’t think much of that idea, to 2 ____________.
B: Why not? It could be really interesting.
____________________________________________
A: The main reason is I’ve seen enough robots and AI in
____________________________________________ science fiction films to fill several lifetimes. Why do I
need to see any more?
____________________________________________ B: I think you watch too many films. OK. Let’s stay in then
and play a board game. You can’t 3 ____________ with
____________________________________________
that.
A: You need three people at least to play a board game.
___ / 10
There are only two of us.
B: So 4 ____________ we invite a few friends around to
LISTENING play?
A: Hmm. That 5 ____________ quite a good idea.
2 [Track 05] You are going to hear people talking in
five different situations. For questions 1–5, listen B: OK. Great. Let’s go for it!
and choose the correct answer a, b, or c. ___ / 10
1 You hear a message on a telephone answering
machine. Why is the speaker calling?
a To check the details of a talk.
b To offer to write a talk for someone else.
c To ask for help with a talk.
2 You hear two people talking about a science museum.
The girl says the museum should
a pay more attention to new technologies.
b offer activities for everyone.
c organize learning sessions.
3 You hear a man talking on the radio.
What type of information is he giving?
a A weather update.
b An item of science news.
c A travel announcement.
4 You hear two friends talking about an article they’ve
both read. How does the girl feel about it?
a Disappointed that it’s not very clear.
b Worried about some of the conclusions.
c Unhappy that she couldn’t understand it.
5 You hear a science writer talking about his work.
What is he doing?
a Explaining why he’s changing the way he
discusses science in schools.
b Saying why it’s important for children to do science
at school.
c Complaining about the way science is taught in
schools.
___ / 10

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READING
4 Read the blog article and complete sentences 1−5
1 The writer mentions that drones will soon be used
with one to three words in each gap.
for ________________________.
Drones in Space 2 As astronauts travel through space, NASA needs
to consider their ________________________.
The last few years have seen big changes in drone
3 ________________________ is the focus of the
technology and drones have become a familiar part of our
majority of studies into living on other planets.
lives. People use them in climate monitoring, rescue, and
4 Instead of using rotor blades, models developed for
amateur photography. When you think about it, space space will be powered by
exploration seems a logical next step! In fact, NASA and ________________________ or water.
other space agencies have already started to develop 5 Scientists are planning to use
drones for this purpose. ________________________ as power source for
A range of applications the batteries in drones on other planets.
As humans travel into the Solar System and galaxies ___ / 10
beyond, there are many ways drones will be able to help us.
During space travel, safety is one of the most important
TOTAL ___ / 40
things for space agencies like NASA to think about.
Astronauts will need to avoid getting into danger on the
surfaces of planets and asteroids. Drones could be used
to identify the most extreme conditions by collecting
information about the air, temperature, pressure and other
factors. They could also identify the safest ways to move
around.
At the same time as looking out for safe ways to travel,
drones launched by these agencies could also find possible
locations to build colonies on other planets. At the moment
most of the research has focused on Mars, where there are
already plans to establish bases there after 2020.
Special challenges
Conditions on Mars are very different to those on Earth.
With no atmosphere, it is very important to decide on the
correct mass of the flying drones. If they are too heavy,
they won’t be able to get into the air; if they are too light
they will be difficult to control. Drones won’t have the usual
rotor blades which make them look like small helicopters.
Instead, technicians have been experimenting with models
that use gas or water jets to get into the air and fly around.
NASA admits that controlling the drones will also be difficult
because the remote control devices we use with drones on
Earth won’t work in space. Instead, scientists plan to
program the drones so that they can collect information on
their own. Scientists have also been developing lightweight
solar batteries so that drones can use this source of energy
when sunlight is available.
In other ways, the drones will look like the ones we know:
they will be about the same size and shape. There will be
a camera underneath, pointing downwards to photograph
the surface. One day a drone might take a photograph of
something nobody has ever seen.

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