Reading comprehension

Task 3

• In this article about an intelligent car some parts of sentences have been left out.

• Your task is to reconstruct the text by filling in the gaps (17-23) from

the list (A-I) below.

• Remember that there is one extra phrase that you will not need.

• Write the letters in the white boxes next to the numbers as in the

example (0).

ROBOTIC CAR DEVELOPED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Scientists at Oxford University have developed a new car that can "see" the world around it

The adapted car can use data from technology (0) ________ . Professor Newman, the project

leader, is convinced that on-board computer capacity will have a great effect on motoring in

the future. He said: "You can imagine one company advertising a model of car

(17) __________ and then another manufacturer will come out with one that does fifteen

minutes."

Already there are cars (18) __________ and last year Google announced its self-
driving car, saying that it had driven more than 140,000 miles on American roads. The Oxford

car differs from Google's, because (19) __________ and uses a three dimensional map of

streets.

Prof Newman added: "Think of the impact (20) __________ : they have totally

changed them, and the same thing is going to happen on the roads. In the future autonomous

robotic vehicles will take us safely and efficiently from A to B (21) __________ .

The advantage of computer assisted vehicles is that they will never get tired and they

can connect to the internet to communicate with other cars. As Prof Newman explained: "We

need cars that do the thinking and concentrating for you, cars that (22) __________ . If the

going is slow why can't I watch the show I missed last night, Skype with the kids, read a book

(23) __________ and get the car to handle the job of the trip for me?"

The legal problem of how people can insure an autonomously driven car is one of the

questions that will need to be resolved, but for now Professor Newman says he wants to

concentrate on making the technology work.

(www.bbc.co.uk)





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0) C

A) it had a built-in computer

B) that can park themselves

C) such as cameras, radar and lasers to drive itself

D) while allowing human drivers to take a rest

E) it has fewer sensors

F) that computers have had on offices

G) do not want you to do the driving all the time

H) which drives itself for ten minutes a day

I) or send that last email

17)

18)

19)

20)

21)

22)

23)

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Task 4

• Read this funny story about three accidents and then

read the half sentences that follow the text.

• Your task is to match the half sentences based on the

information in the story.

• Write the letters (A-I) in the white boxes next to the

numbers (24-30) as in the example (0).

• Remember that there is one extra letter that you will

not need.

THREE ACCIDENTS

A man was working on his motorcycle in the garden while his wife was making dinner. He

started racing the engine of the motorcycle and somehow it started moving, so the man was

dragged through a glass door and the motorcycle ended up on the floor inside the house. The

wife ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the

motorcycle lying next to him and the glass door shattered. She immediately called an

ambulance.

 After the husband was taken to hospital, the wife pushed the motorcycle outside.

Seeing that petrol had spilled on the floor, she wiped it up with some paper towels and threw

them into the toilet.

 Two hours later, after arriving home from the hospital, the husband looked at the

shattered door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became depressed, went into the

bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it

into the toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a very loud

explosion.

 She ran into the bathroom and found her husband on the floor. He was suffering burns

on his bottom and the back of his legs. The wife called for an ambulance again and the same

crew was sent. They loaded the husband onto a stretcher and began carrying him down to the

street.

 While going down the steps, the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had

burned himself. She told them, and they started laughing so hard that one of them tipped the

stretcher and dropped the husband. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his ankle.

(www.urbanlegends.about.com)

írásbeli vizsga, I. összetevő 10 / 12 2014. május 8.

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0) The man was repairing his

motorbike

24) The wife called an

ambulance

25) The wife threw the dirty

towels into the toilet

26) The man was really sad

27) The accident in the

bathroom happened

28) The cigarette was still

burning

29) The man had to be carried to

the ambulance

30) The third and last accident

happened

A) because the situation was so

funny.

B) because the wife hadn’t flushed

the toilet.

C) when it accidentally crashed

into the house.

D) so his wife helped him get into

the ambulance.

E) after cleaning up the mess.

F) because her husband was

injured.

G) because his legs were injured.

H) after getting home and seeing

the results of the accident.

I) so the toilet exploded.

0) C

24)

25)

26)

27)

28)

29)

30)

This is the end of this part of the exam.

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