Trắc nghiệm tiếng anh 12 unit 8: Life in the future (P1)

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

Question 1:

• a. future

• b. mature

• c. pasture
• d. nature

Question 2:

• a. chore

• b. technology

• c. much
• d. exchange

Question 3:

• a. threaten
• b. earth
• c. healthy

• d. breathe

Question 4:

• a. wipe

• b. allow
• c. powerful
• d. answer

Question 5:

• a. service
• b. practice
• c. office

• d. device

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.

Question 6: Many teenagers show signs of anxiety and ______ when being asked about their future.

• a. depress

• b. depression

• c. depressing
• d. depressed

Question 7: Constant _______ of attack makes everyday life dangerous here.

• a. threat

• b. threaten
• c. threatening
• d. threateningly

Question 8: No one can predict the future exactly. Things may happen ____

• a. expected
• b. unexpected
• c. expectedly

• d. unexpectedly

Question 9: Someone who is _____ is hopeful about the future or the success of something in particular.

• a. powerful

• b. optimistic

• c. stagnant
• d. pessimistic

Question 10: There will be powerful network of computers which may come from a single ______computing that is worn on or in the body. 

• a. device

• b. machinery
• c. equipment
• d. vehicle

Question 11: A _____ is a spacecraft that is designed to travel into space and back to earth several times.

• a. plane
• b. corporation
• c. telecommunication

• d. shuttle

Question 12: An economic _____ is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.

• a. improvement

• b. depression

• c. development 
• d. mission

Question 13: In the future many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs

• a. companies

• b. services
• c. supermarkets
• d. farms

Question 14: The more powerful weapons are, the more terrible the _____ is.

• a. creativity
• b. history

• c. terrorism

• d. technology

Question 15: The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.

• a. speed
• b. expectation

• c. improvement

• d. treatment

Question 16: Let’s put off that meeting to next Monday.

• a. postpone

• b. schedule
• c. arrange
• d. appoint

Question 17: A nuclear station may take risk going off due to unexpected incidents.

• a. demolishing

• b. exploding

• c. developing
• d. running

Question 18: She is looking _____ a new place to live because she does not want to depend ______ her parents any more.

• a. for / on

• b. after / with
• c. up / forward
• d. at / into

Question 19: I was brought ______ in the countryside by my aunt after my parents had pass______ .

• a. on / over
• b. for / on
• c. on / off

• d. up / away

Question 20: Due to industrialization, we have to cope _________ the fact that many species are ______ danger _____ extinction.

• a. over / at / for
• b. at / upon / over
• c. for /on/ with

• d. with / in / of

Question 21: Boys! Put your toys _____ It is time to go to bed. Don’t stay late.

• a. off /on

• b. away / up

• c. down / off
• d. around / for

Question 22: She intended to quit her job to stay ____ home and look ___ her sick mother.

• a. in / at

• b. at / after 

• c. for / over
• d. up / on

Question 23: He is very worried _____ his new job because he is not quite prepared _____ working.

• a. on / over
• b. to / off

• c. about / for

• d. in / at

Question 24: Instead ______ petrol, cars will only run solar energy and electricity.

• a. of /on

• b. for / by
• c. in / over
• d. from / upon

Question 25: She has a promising future ahead _____ her.

• a. for
• b. from
• c. on

• d. of

Question 26: What are your plans for _____ future?

• a. a
• b. an

• c. the

• d. Ø

Question 27: Up to now, ______ space exploring still remains _____ very risky, complex, and expensive endeavor.

• a. the / the
• b. a/ the
• c. a / Ø

• d. Ø / a

Question 28: Within _____ few years, ______ private space travel has gone from concept to reality.

• a. Ø/ an
• b. the / the
• c. the / a

• d. a / Ø

Question 29: With its long days, lack of _____ atmosphere, and wide-open spaces, _____ moon would also make an ideal place to put massive solar power plants.

• a. Ø / a

• b. an / the

• c. the /a
• d. an / Ø

Question 30:  _____ technology is already present in the form of computers, printers, scanners, handheld devices, wireless technologies, and Internet connections.

• a. A
• b. An
• c. The

• d. Ø

Error Identification.

Question 31: Future is a time when most people assume that everything will keep getting better and future generations will enjoy life in a more better world.

• a. when
• b. assume
• c. better

• d. more better

Question 32: Many optimist people have made predictions about the positive impact of the increasing mechanization on human life.

• a. optimist

• b. predictions
• c. positive impact
• d. on human life 

Question 33: Imagine an entirely wireless world where the Net is “always on, always there”, we. live in endless sea of data, and objects are alive with intent.

• a. an
• b. where
• c. in

• d. intelligent

Question 34: Electricity is the most critical energy for the future of many countries and cheap, plentiful slentricity is associated for high employment and productivity.

• a. the most
• b. plentiful

• c. for

• d. and productivity

Question 35: Our continuously economic growth, the maintenance of our quality of life, and assurance of our security all depend on a abundant, affordable supply of electricity.

• a. growth
• b. assurance
• c. all

• d. a

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

What happens if, or when, robots are more intelligent than us? If we are going to start to see robots running around with personalities equivalent to human beings, in fifteen or twenty years. It is about time that we start thinking about that now. These machines are being developed. What will be the ultimate effect of this? Should they be allowed to make decisions regarding the application of labour force? What form and how intimate should human-robot relationships become? Is it a good or bad thing if robots become our natural successors and we fade into extinction?

Today’s computers operate using transistors, wires and electricity. Future computers might use atoms, fibers and light. A new NASA-developed computing device allows machines to work much like the brain. This technology may allow fast-thinking machines to make decisions based on what they see. A planetary rover might use this technology to avoid obstacles. A spacecraft might use the technology to avoid hazards and identify a pre-selected landing site with very high precision. The device works much like the brain, whose power comes from the complex networks of interconnections called “synapses” between brain cells. Networks of these brain cells, called neurons, allow humans to make instant decisions based on an observed image or scene.

What might the world be like, if computers with the size of molecules become a reality? There will be the types of computers that may be everywhere, but never be seen. Bio - computers with very small size will target specific areas inside your body. Imagine the ways that billions of tiny, powerful computers will change our society.

Question 36: In the future, robots will take place of the human labor force.

• a. True

• b. False
• c. No information

Question 37: Human beings will be in danger of extinction due to robots’ destruction.

• a. True
• b. False

• c. No information

Question 38: So far, the scientists from NASA have developed machines, which work in the same way as the brain.

• a. True

• b. False

• c. No information 

Question 39: A new NASA-developed computing device can help a spacecraft avoid hazards and identify a pre-selected landing site with very high precision.

• a. True

• b. False
• c. No information

Question 40: New computers in the future, will have such.a small size that they cannot be seen.

• a. True 

• b. False
• c. No information

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

Market trends suggest that the demand for energy resources will (Question 41) _____dramatically over the next 25 years:

• Global demand for all energy sources is (Question 42) ______ to grow by 57% over the next 25 years.
• U.S. demand for all types of energy is expected (Question 43) _____ by 31% within 25 years.
• By 2030, 56% of the world’s energy use will be in Asia.
• Electricity demand in the U.S. will grow by at (Question 44) _____ 40% by 2032.
• New power generation equal (Question 45) _____ nearly 300 power plants will be needed to (Question 46) _____ electricity demand by 2030.
• Currently, 50% of U.S. electrical generation relies on coal, (Question 47) _____  fossil fuel; while 85% of U.S. greenhouse gas (Question 48) _____ result from energy-consuming activities supported by fossil fuels.

If energy prices also go (Question 49) _____ dramatically due to increased demand fad constrained supply, business impacts may include: Reduced profits due to high operating costs, Decline of sales of energy-using products, and Loss of (Question 50)  ____ in energy intensive businesses.

Question 41:

• a. raise

• b. rise

• c. wipe
• d. soar

Question 42.

• a. encouraged
• b. depended

• c. forecast

• d. broadcast

Question 43.

• a. increase

• b. to increase

• c. increased
• d. increasing

Question 44:

• a. last
• b. late
• c. less

• d. least

Question 45:

• a. to

• b. at
• c. for
• d. of

Question 46:

• a. see
• b. notice
• c. look

• d. meet

Question 47:

• a. a

• b. an
• c. the
• d. Ø

Question 48:

• a. inventions
• b. developments

• c. emissions

• d. evolutions

Question 49:

• a. over
• b. off
• c. ahead

• d. up

Question 50:

• a. compete
• b. competitive

• c. competitiveness

• d. competitively