UnitTest 09

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Gold Pre-First Unit 9 Test
VOCABULARY
1 Complete the text with words from the box. There is one word you do not need to use.

applications / avatar / commit / crash / download / implications /
log / monitor / password / printed / software / virtual / virus

Computer technology has developed dramatically over the last ten years. Today we are able to do almost
anything with our electronic devices. We can (1)__________ onto our email, our Twitter and Facebook
accounts wherever we are (providing we haven’t forgotten the (2)__________ needed to do so), keep in touch
with all our friends and make new friends every second of the day. The internet has created a (3)__________
world where we can play games, become whoever we want to be, creating our own (4)__________ which can
look like us, and we can use it for serious research. We can (5)__________ films, music and all sorts of
different (6)__________ which allow us to do almost everything with our smart phones or tablets. In addition,
computer technology has meant that instead of keeping (7)__________ records, organisations can now keep
all their information digitally, saving both space and money.
However, the downside to all this connectivity is that people have found new ways to (8)__________ crimes.
On the one hand there is the hacker who sends a(n) (9)__________ to your email account, which will make
your computer (10)__________ if you open it. On the other hand there are the serious criminals who try to get
into bank accounts or government systems and steal top secret (11)__________. Although the
(12)__________ of this could be terrifying, computer experts are working hard to keep us safe.
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GRAMMAR

2

Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the verb in brackets.

1

We ______________ (not finish) the job by tomorrow evening.

2

Shops ______________ (disappear) completely by the end of the century.

3

I think I ______________ (live) in the same house in twenty years’ time because I love it.

4

This time tomorrow, we ______________ (lie) on a beach on a Greek island!
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3

Complete the gaps with ONE word.

Yesterday I interviewed the Prime Minister about his government’s plans for the future. I asked him
(1) __________ he planned to make many changes to education. He said they (2) __________ going to make
a lot of changes and that his government (3) __________ be spending a lot of money building new schools.
He said that five new schools would (4) __________ been built by 2020. I then asked him where the money
(5) __________ coming from. He explained that the government would have (6) __________ increase taxes to

make it possible, but that he thought people would understand it (7) __________ necessary. I then pointed out
that they (8) __________ not even have enough money to give current teachers a pay rise, at which point he
left the interview! I wonder what he (9) __________ say tomorrow!

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