Bài tập nâng cao tiếng anh 12 - unit 8

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Unit 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE
I. Choose one word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest
1. A.wipe B.alive C.micro D.link
2. A.cleaner B.threat C.ahead D.instead
3. A.breathing B.ethane C.thank D.healthy
4. A.choose B.moon C.food D.look
5. A.burden B.survive C.curtain D.furnish
II. Choose a word in each line that has different stress pattern
1. A. labour B.future C.device D.modern
2. A.eternal B.terrorist C.contribute D.volcano
3. A.eradicate B.technology C.incredible D.pessimistic
4. A.authority B.unexpected C.centenarian D.corporation
5. A. domestic B.depression C.disappear D.efficient
III. Choose the best answer for each of the following sentences
1. My friend’s uncle has been MP (Member of Parliament) for five years.
A.a B.an C.the D.Ø
2. This year conference coincide two other major conventions.
A.on B.to C.for D.with
3. Mr.Smith helped her start the motorbike.
A.The B.A C.An D. Ø
4. I in the middle of the film and woke up at the end.
A.hung up B.fell out C.dropped off D.put down
5. handball is fast becoming popular sport worldwide.
A.The - the B. Ø - a C.A - Ø D. - the
6. Dave paid everyone’s lunch yesterday, as he just won some money the lottery.
A.for - on B.for - for C.on - on D.on - for
7. She spends hours talking to her friends.
A.on phone B.on the phone C.at a phone D.at phone
8. In the future factories will be largely by robots.
A.jogged B.done C.played D.run

9. Artificial intelligence is to have a large influence on our lives.
A.subject B.alike C.bound D.busy
10. On the , optimists believe that life will be much better than it is today.
A.contrary B.contrast C.opposition D.opponent
IV. Fill in each space with a correct preposition to complete the following sentences.
1. Jane is very strict the children in her class. She’s particularly strict puntuality. However,
her relationship the children is a happy one.
2. Helen was very jealous her sister popularity. Her sister was very popular the teachers at
school. She impressed them her work and her personality.
3. You say we’re a country rich tradition. Surely that’s true most countries. What’s
important us is that we should remain true our best traditions.
4. I’d like to congratulate you your cooking. You’ve certainly succeeded turning out a
wonderful meal. You’d have no difficulty finding a first-class job as a chef.
5. There’s going to be an improvement the weather. The weather has a great in fluence my
mood.
V. Put a/ an/ or Ø in each space to complete the following sentences:
1. When I left station, I had to stand in queue for taxi for long time.
2. We took trip around London and saw Tower Bridge.
3. happiness of the majority depends on hard work from everyone.
4. summer I spent in USA was one of best in my life.
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5. I don’t like milk in coffee.
6. I always wanted to be astronaut but ambition wore off.
7. Please watch cabin attendant as she demonatrates uses of oxygen mask.
8. We arranged accommodation on outskirt of city.
9. You have to use at least pint and half of milk.
10. Could you give me information I asked for in letter.
VI. Correct the errors in the following sentnces. There are two errors in each sentence:

1. A time you spend on the relaxing pastime is good for you.
2. The leader of team is usually called the captain.
3. The new campaign against the smoking is directed at the young men.
4. A half the time I get a phone call it’s wrong number.
5. A painting I like best is the one not for a sale.
6. Everything now depends from the weather tomorrow morning.
7. They wouldn’t let me in a pub because I was below age.
8. Helen had a great admiration about her history teacher.
9. I arranged to meet John after the work yesterday but he didn’t turn on.
10. Could you put the eye at the washing while I’m out.
VII. Give the correct form of the given words to complete the following sentences.
1. We are really about the peace process in the region. OPTIMISM
2. People believe that he was killed by a group of . TERROR
3. The earth is being by pollution. THREAT
4. As the child’s head went under the water for the third time, I stood and watched to help. I
can’t swim. POWER
5. In the future cars can run on anything from to methane gas. ELECTRIC
6. I’m afraid you’ll have to see Mr.Pound. All matters concerning finance are his RESPONSE
7. Although she arrived , we made her welcome just the same. EXPECT
8. Tom fell into a deep on hearing the news. IMPRESS
9. He was very sad because he was told that his best friend got an disease. CURE
10. I’m sorry I haven’t phoned. I’ve been busy this week. CREDIBLE
VIII. Fill in each numberd blank of the following passage with a suitable word.
LIVING IN THE SKIES
Louis Hidalgo considers life in the next 20 years, with two-kilometre high buildings, and Japanese
cities that touch the sky.
Imagine a building one third of the (1) of Mount Everest, built by robots, and containing a
whole city. Imagine you can walk out of your front door in a T-shirt and shorts on a cold winter’s day and take
a lift (2) 500 floors to school. Imagine you can see the sea a mlie below you. Imagine can never open
a window. Imagine…..

Well, if Japanese architects find (3) money for their project, in the next 20 years you’ll be able
to live in a building like that.
Ohbayyashi Gumi has designed a two-kilometre high building, Aeropolis, (4) will stand right
in the middle of Tokyo Bay. Over 300.000 people will live in it. It will be 500 floors high, and in special lifts it
will (5) just 15 minutes to get form the top to bottom. Restaurants, offices, flats, cinemas, schools,
hospitals, and post offices will all be just a (6) lift stops away. According to the architects, Aeropolis
will be the first “city to touch the skies”.
“When we get to the middle of this century, Tokyo will have a (7) of over 20 million people,”
said design manager Mr.Shuzimo. “There isn’t enough land in Japan. We’re going to start doing tests to find
the best (8) to build it. I hope people will like living on the 500
th
floor.”
Won’t people want ro have trees and flowers around them? “ We’re going to have green floors, (9)
children can play and office workers and eat their lunch-break sanwiches,” explained Mr.Shuzimo.
What about fires? “If there is a fire, it will be put out by robots. I hope we’ll get the money we need to build.
As (10) as we do, we’ll start. This will be the most exciting building in the world”.
IX. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
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The big isue for the plan-makers planning for the futre is size, not speed. With the skies already full of
air traffic, and with worse to (1) , the important questions for the designers are how many passegers
they can (2) into the new super-planes and who will be (3) to bild them first.
(4) yourself ten years from now in a packed airport departure lounge. Eoght hondred passegers
are waiting with you for their first flight on one of a remarkable range of super-planes, and the chech-in time
(5) have been as much as four hours before take-off to (6) for the extra people. Impossible?
Far from it. Designs for these planes are already (7) on computer at the world’s top aircraft
manufacturers, waiting to be turned (8) reality.
The airlines badly nee the new jets to (9) with future increase in passenger (10) . A
billion passengers a year are currently carried by air, but that figure is (11) to double bt the year 2020.

The only practical (12) of avoiding making the skies even busier is to build much bigger planes. The
(13) to build the new jets is the hottest contests in the airliner business. Manufacturers are working
(14) with the major airlines to produce designs that will please airlines and passengers (15) .
1. A.go B.happen C.come D.sit
2. A.possible B.able C.proper D.capable
3. A.Consider B.Suppose C.Imagine D.Regard
4. A.can B.need C.ought D.may
5. A.watch B.allow C.look D.permit
6. A.supplied B.given C.stored D.carried
7. A.as B.by C.into D.for
8. A.deal B.treat C.manage D.succeed
9. A.amounts B.sums C.quantities D.numbers
10.A.expected B.thought C.known D.hoped
11.A.scheme B.process C.way D.plan
12.A.game B.sport C.match D.race
13.A.tightly B.strongly C.closely D.firmly
14.A.equal B.alike C.similar D.same
X. Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question.
Until recently, the “science for the future” was supppsed to be electronics and artificial intelligence.
Today it seems more and more likely that the next great breakthroughs in technology will be brought about
through a combination of those two sciences with organic chemistry and genetic engineering. This combination
is the science of biotechnology.
Organic chemistry enables us to produce marvellous synthetic materials. However, it is still difficult to
manufacture anything that has the capacity of wool to conserve heat and also to absorb moistrue. Nothing that
we have been able to produce so far comes anywhere near the combination of strength, lightness nad flexibility
that we find in the bodies of ordinary insects.
Nevertheless, scientists in the laboratory have already succeeded in “growing” a material that has many
of the characteristics of human skin. The next step may well be “boitech hearts and eyes” which can replace
diseased organs in human being. There will not be rejected by the body, as is the case with organs from
humans.

The application of biotechnology to energy production seems even more promising. In 1996 the famous
science-fiction writer, Athur C.Clarke, said that we may soon be able to develop remarkable cheao and
renewable sources of energy. Some of these power sources will be biological. Clarke and others have to give
up our dependence on non-renewable power sources. Coal, oil and gas are indeed convenient. However, using
them also means creating dangerously high levels of pollution. It will be impossible to meet the growing
demand for energy without increasing that pollution to catastrophic levels unless we develop power sources
that are both cheaper and cleaner.
It is tempting to think that biotechnology or some other “science of the future” can solve our prolems
for us. Before we surrender to that temptation we should remember nuclear power. Only a few generations ago
it seemed to promise limitless, cheap and safe engergy. Today those promises lie burries in a concrete grave in
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a place called Chernobyl, in the Ucraine. Biotechnology is unlikely, however, to break its promises in quite the
same or such dangerous way.
1. According to the passage, the science of the future is likely to be .
A.electronics B.biotechnology C.genetic engineering D.nuclear technology
2. Organic chemistry helps to produce materials that are .
A.almost as strong, light and flexible as an insect’s body
B.almost as good as wool
C.not as good as natural materials
D.stronger, lighter and better than natural materials
3. According to the passage, it may soon be possible to .
A.make something as good as human skin
B.cure certain diseases that damage human organs
C.take an organ from one human and give it to another human
D.make useful substitutes for human hearts and eyes.
4. What does the passage say is one of the worst problems caused by the use of coal, gas and oil?
A.They are no longer as easy to use as they once were.
B.They are so cheap that people waste them.

C.They are too expensive for poorer people in many parts of the world.
D.They are very bad for the wolrd around us.
5. Which of these statements do you think best summarize what the passage is about?
A.We have good reasons for hoping that biotechnology will help us to solve some but not all our
problems.
B.Science has promised to solve our problems in the past but has often created even worse problems for
us.
C.Because of biotechnology, nuclear power and other scientific achievements, the future will be much
better.
D.Despite the prolems we have had with nuclear technology, it is still the best way to produce power.
XI. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the
original sentence. Use the word given and other words as necessary. Do not change the form of the given word
(use 2-5 words in total)
1. There is no ice-cream left.
run We ………………………….....ice-cream.
2. Bob’s training accident means he couldn’t take part in the race.
prevented Bob’s training accident ………………………….....part in the race.
3. Micheal didn’t listen to what his doctor told him.
notice Micheal took ………………………….....advice.
4. When he was a child in the countryside, Nam went swimming almost everyday.
his Nam went swimming almost everyday ………………………….....in the countryside.
5. All the witnesses said that the accident was my fault.
blame All the witnesses said that ………………………….....the accident.
6. They are letting Peter out of hospital next week.
released Peter………………………….....hospital next week.
7. I do not intend to tell you my plans.
intention I………………………….....you my plans.
8. I couldn’t decide whether I prefered the blue shirt or the green one.
choice I couldn’t …………………………..... the blue shirt or the green one.
9. She didn’t thank us for our help when she left.

us She left ………………………….....our help.
10.Carol is the only person I know who enjoys homework.
apart I don’t know ………………………….....Carol who enjoys homework.
THE END
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