1 . What d oes USB stand for? What kind of file is a ZIP file?
a. Upload Software Button b. U lti mate System B rea kdown c. U n iversal Serial Bus
What key com ma n d w i l l q u it a n y program ?
a . Alt + F4 b. Alt + Tab c. Control + Z
3. W hich of the fol lowing w a s the first I n stant Messa g i n g program ? a . MSN Messenger
b. Yahoo ! M essenger c. ICQ
4. When was Twitter l a unched?
a . 2009 b. 2007 c. 2005
• What can you do on your computer that you couldn't do five years ago?
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a . a compressed file b. a n a n i mation file c. a system fi le
When did Sony m a nufacture the first com mercial CD?
a. 1982 b. 1 972 c. 2002
W hich of the following is the l a rgest measurement of m e mory?
a. a kilobyte b. a g i gabyte c. a megabyte
What was the first ful l-length c o m puter-generated f i l m ? a . T h e l ncredibles
b. Toy Story c. The Lion King
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READING
4. Complete the sentences according to the information in the text. Remember to use your own words.3 4
1 . Identifying the M a i n Idea: Read the first
sentence of each paragraph in the text.
In which paragraph/s will you find the answer to each of the following questions?
1 . Why a re some people against Street View?
2. How is Street View produced ? 3. What do people use Street View for7 4. What photographs may have upset people7 5 . What does a Google veh icle look l i ke ? 6. How does Google justify Street View?
7 . What is the writer's opin ion of Street View?
2. Read the text and check your a nswers to Exercise 1 .
3 . Guessing Meaning from Context: Find
the following words in the text. Read the entire sentence and try to guess each word's meaning.
stroll (line 1 2) • pasted (line 2 5) • blurs (line 47)
EXAM FOCUS
SENTENCE COMPLETION
1. Read the part of the sentence that you have been given and identify keywords. Find the relevant part of the text by looking for keywords or synonyms.
2. Read that part of the text a nd decide what information is needed to complete the sentence.
3. Complete the sentence. Use the words in the text, but remember to make the necessary grammatical / structural changes.
Example Question
Complete the sentence using your own words.
If the Street View vehicle photographs your house, anyone ... .
Therefore, the structu re of the rest of the sentence m ust be changed.
Answer: If the Street View veh c e photogra phs you r house, a nyone will b e a b l e t o see 1t on t h e I nternet.
1 . France is an example of a cou ntry . 2 . People have criticised Street View because
they . .
3. Vil lagers in England feared that burglars . . . . 4. One picture showed a man cl i m b i ng a fence.
He m ight . . . .
5 . You can cl ick on a l i n k if you want Google to . . . . 6. People want to satisfy their curiousity in spite
of .
5. Choose the best answer according to the text.
1 . Google Street View . . . . a . is available i n every cou ntry
b. shows streets and the outside of houses c. shows the i nteriors of people's homes d. was fi rst started in G reat B ritain 2. Street View cameras . . . .
a . snapped 35,998 pictu res of B ritish roads b. take 3-5 pictu res every second
c. take video i mages of streets and houses d. use sophisticated tech nology
3. The angry husband . . . .
a . rea l ised that his wife was i n nocent b. cli mbed a fence to get i nto his house c. was a contractor
d. photographed his wife with another man 4. Google claims that . . . .
a . people can ask not to be photographed b. many people ask to have i mages removed c. nothing shown on Street View is private d. Street View does not photograph faces 5. Street View ca n be used by travellers to .
a . start a travel blog b. view their desti nations
c. decide whether to buy a house d. find out hotel prices
6. Find words or expressions in the text that mean:
1 . going slowly (paragraph 1 ) 2 . equi pped (paragraph 3) 3. very happy (paragraph 4)
4. responds to an accusation (paragraph 6) 5. stronger (paragraph 7)
• Would you mind if a photograph of you or your home appeared on Goog le Street View?
Why or why not?
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If you see a stra nge-looking car crawling down your street, a long pole protruding from its roof, then hurry and tidy u p you r garden. The car is the Goog le Street View vehicle, and perhaps you r home is being 5 photog raphed right now. If it is, soon close-up views of
30 property exposed for all to see. In one affl uent village in southeast Engla nd, residents formed a human chain to prevent the vehicles from entering, fea ring the images wou ld be used by burglars. Parents a re said to be especially concerned about pictu res of their your home will be available on the Internet for anyone 35 children outside schools.
to see. And by the way, if you were outside when the There have been plenty of i ncidents where people camera passed by, then you're i n the pictu re, too.
With Goog le Street View, you can now explore
1 0 h u nd reds of cities and towns a l l over the world. You
just zoom into any street, look a round, and then take a virtual stroll throug h the neig hbou rhood, viewing houses, trees, cars and people as if you were there.
Street View began in the United States in May 2007,
1 5 and was launched in Great Britain in March 2009.
were caught on camera in emba rrassing situations.
One woma n, for exa mple, was photog raphed as she was leaning out of her window with a man. When her 40 angry husband confronted her, it tu rned out the man was only a contractor. Another image shows a man climbing a fence. Is he a burglar, or did he just forget his keys?
Goog le retorts by saying that what you see on it's now ava i lable in other countries, including the 45 Street View is exactly what you'd see walking down Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Austra lia and the street. Moreover, s pecial Street View technology New Zea land.
How is it done? In the U K, for insta nce, for nearly 20 a year a n entire fleet of Goog le vehicles d rove
down 35,998 kilometres of British roads. Fitted 50
automatica lly blurs faces and licence plates so that they cannot be recog nised. Every image also conta ins a link which can be clicked by a nyone who wants to have an i mage removed, and it will be taken off as quickly a s possible.
with panoramic cameras using advanced imag ing tech nology, each camera sna pped a picture every 3-5
seconds. Then the tens of mil lions of individual images 25 they had captured were "pasted" together digitally to
simulate a continuous jou rney.
Si nce being lau nched, Street View has been i ntensely criticised as an i nvasion of privacy. lt seems that not everyone is overjoyed at having their
There's no denyi ng that Street View can be usefu l, whether you are looki ng for a house to buy, a re planning a trip and want to see the hotel you'll be 55 staying at, or feel like having a nosta lgic look at you r
child hood home. In these days of bloggi ng, YouTube and Face book, it seems the urge to satisfy our cu riosity is more pressing than our desire for privacy.
affluent (line 30) means odinerado not ofluente retort (line 44) means replicor not retorcer removed (line 50) means quitodo not removido
VO CABULARY
Words from the Text
1 . Are the statements true or false? Pay
attention to the words in colour. Correct the false statements.
2. Choose two possible answers for each
question. Pay attention to the words in colour.
1 . How can you use a pole 7
4. Complete the sentences with the prepositions below.
prepositions given for each group.
1 . hear of I a bout I from