Tests 1-5
A - Listening comprehension
Marc Goodman is a global security adviser and futurist. He is the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and serves as Chair of Policy, Law & Ethics at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University. He spoke at TED Global in June 2012.
I sincerely want to believe in emerging technologies, but my work as a police officer and global security strategist working in more than 70 countries around the world has taught me that there is a darker side to these emerging technologies.
The criminal underground is highly innovative and often acts as an early adopter of emerging technologies. As a young police officer, I observed gang members and drug dealers using beepers and mobile phones, long before they were in common use by the general public. Today, criminals are even building their own encrypted radio communications networks, such as the nationwide system developed by narco cartels in Mexico.
Technology has made our world increasingly open, and for the most part that has huge benefits for society. Nevertheless, all of this openness may have unintended consequences.
Newer forms of technology are also subject to criminal misuse. Robots are becoming more commonplace, and international organized crime groups and terrorists have lost no time in using these technologies as part of their field operations. For example, drug traffickers in Latin America are using robotic submarines to deliver thousands of tons of cocaine annually to the United States.
Last year, the FBI arrested a man in Boston who planned to use remote-controlled robotic aircraft packed with explosives to attack both the U.S.
Pentagon and Capitol building. In the future, as robots become more widely used, their criminal use and exploitation could also spread.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/29/opinion/goodman-ted-crime/
index.html (abridged and adapted, accessed December 2012)
1.1 b.
1.2 a.
1.3 b.
1.4 c.
2. a. increasingly; b. huge; c. society; d.
Nevertheless; e. openness; f. unintended.
3.1 There is a darker side as far as emerging technologies are concerned and criminals are the first to adopt them and use them in their favour.
3.2 Encrypted radio communications networks; robotic submarines to deliver cocaine; remote-controlled robotic aircraft with explosives.
b. False. “The threat is serious, and the time to prepare for it is now. I can assure you that the terrorists and criminals are.”
c. False. “There is little to suggest police will be any more prepared for these emerging threats than they were for basic cybercrimes.”
d. True. “Given the rapid acceleration of technological development, any system that relies on a small, elite force of highly trained government agents may be doomed to failure.”
3. a. unprecedented (l. 1); b. hackers (l. 8);
c. pace (l. 12); d. outpace (l. 14).
4.1 DNA advances will allow new developments in medicine but they may also facilitate the manipulation of diseases and their usage as chemical weapons.
4.2 There is a race because as new developments are attained and new discoveries are made in order to improve people’s lives so is the number of people who try to profit from them and use these developments and discoveries for crime and self-profit increasing.
4.3 Marc Goodman believes that the solution for fighting cybercrime is everyone’s responsibility and each one of us should be vigilant in order to ensure the security and the future that people deserve.
C – Language
1. a. am not going to attend another TED talk;
b. will win against.
2. a. begins; b. will be; c. are going to arrest;
d. are giving.
3. a. is going to be transformed for the better by scientists’ discoveries; b. world has been considerably changed by the pace of innovation;
c. in the use of robotics will be witnessed (by us).
B - Written comprehension internet and even non-native speakers use this language in a significant and meaningful way.
4.3 The internet allows the languages to develop because so many people use internet nowadays, in different languages, but at the same time
b. are used to working;
c. are used to using/use.
4. a. used to run;
b. used to think;
c. am used to carrying;
d. didn’t use to like;
e. used to be;
f. used to use;
g. am used to hearing.
D - Written production
4.1 Russia is trying to create a nuclear propulsion system that allows spacecraft to travel further without causing radioactive contamination.
4.2 Not really new as in the 1960s three Russian professors had already presented this idea of the nuclear propulsion system to allow space travel although the subsequent studies were more weapon oriented than space oriented.
4.3 Russia intends to conquer space and be the first in line to do it. Russia wants to explore our solar system, especially Mars, Jupiter, Venus and the moon.
C – Language
1. a. … an electric ion propulsion system is proposed by the new project.
b. … amount of electric power will be supplied by the nuclear reactor.
c. … expect the Russian government to spend a lot of money on this project.
d. … have used nuclear power in the last decades.
2. a. about; b. up; c. off;
d. into; e. up.
3. a. will have; b. are going to start;
c. will operate; d. will find;
e. will develop.
4. a. used to look; b. are used to considering;
c. used to predict; d. are used to living;
e. are used to developing.
D - Written production Open answer.
Answer key
circulating in the internet about each one of us, all the conversation, pictures, texts that we or our friends or family have published there.4.2 I think the teacher acted like that because she was afraid of new technologies and of the effect they might have on her personal life and on the life of her students. At the same time, it seems to be an area she doesn’t understand and as such she rejects it rather than trying to understand the way it works.
4.3 For the speaker, it is obvious that we live in a technological world, where the internet plays a prime role and it can’t be ignored. It really has to be explained to the younger ones, making them understand the positive and negative aspects of the possibilities it offers.
C – Language
1. a. … on Facebook have been created by all my friends.
b. … was asked for a commentary to publish on the school site. (by the students)
2. a. … challenge didn’t disturb the teacher.
b. … wasn’t telling the story.
c. … of internet greatly outweigh the negative ones.
3. a. didn’t use to watch; b. am used to streaming;
c. are used to going.
4. a. I didn’t use to participate on chats. b. I used to publish everything about me and my family on Facebook. c. I am used to accessing all types of chats. d. I am used to selecting all the information I post on Facebook.
D - Written production space and diminishing the environmental impact from production but it can also have negative consequences as we don’t know how long we can save our information.
4.2 E-books are becoming popular but it doesn’t mean that they are more popular as the number of printed books is still really high and it doesn’t seem to be diminishing.
4.3 Nowadays most people read their news on the internet, on websites like Yahoo or Google, and on digital versions of newspapers, magazines and journals (popularised by iPad, etc.).
C – Language
1. a. continue; b. in the process of; c. finish;
d. recover.
2. a. go away; b. bring round; c. come across;
d. put off.
3. a. am going to transfer; b. will have disappeared;
c. are; d. are reading.
4. are going to be – will be; had – will have;
there aren’t – won’t be; was – will be;
are receiving – will receive;
is being – will be.
D - Written production
Open answer.
UNIT ________________________________ CLASS _________ DATE ___ / ___ / ___ TERM _________
TEST CORRECTION GRID
A - Listening
comprehension B - Written
comprehension C - Language D – Written Prod.
Total Mark
• Short answer (blank filling)
• Correct / incorrect
- Sequencing items will only be given marks if the whole sequence is correct - One mark off in true / false items for each incorrect quotation from the text, when applicable
- One mark off in true / false items for each incorrect answer, if quotation from the text is correct, when applicable
• Short answer (sentence completion;
rephrasing)
• One mark less for each language mistake, up to a maximum of 3 marks
• Incomprehensible or decontextualised answers will be marked wrong
• Short answer (text comprehension) • One mark less for each language mistake, up to a maximum of 3 marks
• The answer should demonstrate the comprehension of the text, using student’s words
• Incomprehensible or decontextualised answers will be marked wrong
• Essay 41 to 50: The student shows excellent writing skills; totally respects the topic or the text type; presents his own ideas about the topic, contextualises and develops them; uses appropriate and varied cohesive devices; organises the text in a coherent manner; mistakes (structure or spelling) are irrelevant for the comprehension of message.
31 to 40: The student shows reasonable writing skills; respects the topic or the text type;
presents some ideas about the topic and contextualises them; uses simple cohesive devices to organise the text, but not always successfully; choice of words is good; makes few mistakes (structure or spelling) which hardly affect message.
21 to 30: The student shows some writing skills; respects the topic or the text type;
presents
some ideas about the topic and tries to contextualise them; uses some cohesive devices but the text is slightly disorganised; choice of words is reasonable; makes some mistakes (structure or spelling) which sometimes make message slightly confusing.
11 to 20: The student shows poor writing skills; mostly respects the topic or the text type;
presents some ideas about the topic but the text is slightly confused; uses few cohesive devices but the text is not well organised; choice of words is poor; makes many mistakes (structure or spelling) which sometimes impede meaning.
0 to 10: The student shows very poor writing skills; doesn’t fully respect the topic or the texttype; ideas are scarce and mostly decontextualised; uses few cohesive devices and the text is disorganised; choice of words is very poor; makes many mistakes (structure or spelling) which sometimes make message incomprehensible.
Note: the student will get 0 marks if the topic or the text type is not respected, or if the whole text is incomprehensible or illegible.