I. Choose the word that has underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1. a. clean b. disease c. mean d. nuclear
2. a. biogas b. energy c. dangerous d. generate
3. a. slum b. nutrition c. abundant d. hunger
4. a. consumption b. solution c. question d. population
5. a. machinery b. cheap c. exchange d. beach
II. Choose the word that has different stress pattern.
1. a. footprint b. wealthy c. pollute d. healthcare
2. a. plentiful b. convenient c. serious d. popular
3. a. gather b. reduce c. provide d. affect
4. a. successful b. renewable c. available d. electricity
5. a. accommodate b. overcrowded c. malnutrition d. population
III. Fill in each blank with a suitable word from the box.
high-speed harmful density slums
eco-friendly flying renewable populated
1. Solar power is ______________ because it doesn't harm the environment.
2. It is predicted that ______________ will be a popular means of transport by 2050.
3. Journey times have been reduced considerably thanks to _____________ trains.
4. Manila is the most densely _______________ city in the world.
5. The United States' population _____________ is 13.5 people per square mile.
6. People living in _____________ lack basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
7. When fossil fuels are burned, they release carbon dioxide and other gases that are ____________ to the
environment.
8. Will ____________ energy replace fossil fuels within 30 years?
IV. Choose the best answer a, b, c or d to complete the sentence.
1. The monowheel looks futuristic, but it can fall ______ very easily
a. up b. down c. over d. out
2. Natural gas is limited and it is harmful ______ the environment
a. for b. in c. with d. to
3. If you turn off the light when you leave the room, you'll use _____ energy.
a. fewer b. less c. more d. most
4. I didn't have my mobile, so Peter lent me _____.
a. mine b. his c. their d. hers
5. I'd prefer to have a _____ that can take me to another place in seconds.
a.teleporter b. monowheel c. hover scooter d. flying car
6. You have never heard about teleportation, _____?
a. do you b. don't you c. have you d. haven't you
7. With a solar PV system, solar panels _____ sunlight right into electricity.
a.create b. generate c. provide d. convert
8. Self-driving cars are expected to be _____ than human-driven ones.
a. more safely b. less safe c. more safer d. much safer
9. Mumbai is land of some of the world's richest people. _____, it is also home to the world's poorest.
a. Although b. Therefore c. However d. Despite
10. "Should I use public transport or a bike to reduce carbon dioxide?"
“_________”
a. Of course. It helps to reduce your carbon footprint, you know.
b. Why not? It will harm the environment.
c. I won't advise you to do so.
d. How about taking your car?
V. Write the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets.
1. In 2017, they ____________ (install) solar panels to provide heat for their hot water.
2. I ____________ (visit) Rio de Janeiro twice so far. It's very diverse!
3. Tomorrow at 8p.m James ____________ (watch) a film on Netflix.
4. I think that driverless cars ____________ (use) widely in the next two decades.
5. Overcrowding ____________ (cause) huge problems such as housing, congestion, unemployment
and air pollution.
6. Look, Janet! The boy over there ____________ (ride) a Segway.
7. Since 1990, the population of the city ____________ (grow) by 110,000 people
8. Hoi Mua Festival ____________ (hold) every March to thank the God for the crop.
9. My father installed glass in the windows to stop heat ____________ (escape)
10. I'd prefer ____________ (have) a hoverboard, so that I can fly to school!
VI. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. The slums are often ____________, with many people crammed into very small living spaces.
(crowd)
2. Most _____________ energy sources are fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
(renew)
3. Dean Kamen is an ____________ of the Segway scooter. (invent).
4. _______________ is about not having enough money to meet basic needs. (poor)
5. _______________ materials can be processed and used again. (recycle)
6. By 2035, the world's population will _____________ 50% more energy. (consumption)
7. New York is one of the most _______________ diverse cities in the world. (culture)
8. Children tend to be more _____________ than adults. (imagine)
VII. Each sentence has a mistake. Find and correct it.
1. The fewer furniture that you have in your bedroom, the bigger it will look.
2. Renewable energy is a practical solution of our electricity needs.
3. By increasing renewable energy, we can reduce air pollution and cutting global warming emissions.
4. In six years' time, we will be travelled across town by flying taxi.
5. People from the countryside move to city to find work and a better standard of living.
6. When you were a child, you used to go to school on foot, weren't you?
7. Friday night, a friend of our from college came up to see us.
8. Another Japanese city, Osaka, also has a very large population with 20.5 million.
VIII. Write questions for the underlined parts
1. A: ________________________________________________________
B: The personal hover scooter can travel at around 30kph
2. A: ________________________________________________________
B: There are approximately 7.6 billion people in the world today.
3. A: ________________________________________________________
B: I prefer jetpacks to flying cars
4. A: ________________________________________________________
B: Vietnam still relies on non-renewable energy sources
5. A: ________________________________________________________
B: Nuclear power isn't used extensively because it's both expensive and dangerous
6. A: ________________________________________________________
B: They used to live in the Dharavi slum when they were in Mumbai.
7. A: ________________________________________________________
B: Self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020.
8. A: ________________________________________________________
B: It takes just two and a half hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka by bullet train.
IX. Choose the correct answer which fits each gap.
There are number of things we can do if we want to help save our (1) _____. For example, if we stop
wasting paper and recycle paper and cardboard, we'll save some of the millions trees which are cut
(2) _____ every year. As far as the problem of rubbish is concerned, if we recycle bottles and cans
and organic waste, and stop taking (3) ______ from the supermarket, this will all make a big
difference. We also have to stop making (4) _____ car journeys so as to cut down air pollution. Try
walking or using a bike (5) _____. Water is another problem, and we should all (6) _____ showers,
not baths, to save water. Finally, we need to stop using so (7) _____ energy, so try changing to (8)
_____ light bulbs, and turning off unnecessary lights.
1. a. moon b. planet c. home d. source
2. a. out b. up c. down d. into
3. a. shopping b. recyclable c. plastic d. paper
4. a. abundant b. unnecessary c. unlimited d. inconvenient
5. a. instead b. replace c. despite d. in place
6. a.make b. take c. get d. wash
7. a. lots of b. little c. much d. many
8. a. waste-energy b. save-energy c. high-energy d. low-energy
X. Read the passage carefully, then do the tasks.
Self-driving cars have the potential to make travelling easier and safer than ever. Getting around
an unfamiliar city could be as simple as opening an app and hailing an autonomous car. Technically
speaking, self-driving cars are already on the road, thanks to a number of brands - but they're not
legally allowed to fully drive themselves yet on public roads, and may not be for a while yet.
There is a long list of companies working on self-driving vehicles, from traditional car
manufacturers such as BMW, Audi and Volkswagen, to tech companies such as Uber, Tesla and
Google. The most notable company in this field is Tesla, which is constantly rolling out software
and hardware updates for its cars to improve their autonomous capabilities little by little. Its
Autopilot system can already drive a car better than a human, Tesla says, though right now you're
only legally allowed to use it to help you stay in lanes on a motorway, change lanes when needed,
and adjust the car's speed based on the traffic around it.
A. Match the synonyms.
1. potential a. driverless
2. unfamiliar b. launch
3. autonomous c. change
4. notable d. strange
5. roll out e. possibility
6. adjust f. famous
B. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1. Self-driving cars make it easier for people to get around a strange city.
2. Self-driving cars can fully drive themselves on public roads right now.
3. Lots of companies are working towards developing self-driving vehicles.
4. Tesla constantly updates its car's software to improve self-driving capabilities. 5.Tesla says that
its Autopilot system is better than a human driver.
6. Right now, Tesla Autopilot can only be used to change lanes on the highway.
XI. Write the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one
1. Keep the environment clean or we will suffer from pollution.
If ____________________________________________________________________
2. I last visited my native village when I was ten.
I haven't ______________________________________________________________
3. Humans don't drive as carefully as self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars ________________________________________________________
4. There aren't many people who still want to stay in the village.
There are only _________________________________________________________
5. The population of Los Angeles is over 3 million.
Los Angeles ___________________________________________________________
6. People will use flying cars to travel across the globe some day.
Flying cars ____________________________________________________________
7. Developing countries have more population problems than developed countries.
8. Developed countries _____________________________________________________
9. Veronica is one of my good friends.
Veronica is a ___________________________________________________________
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