Стр.GV2 Grammar & Vocabulary ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 9 класс
Text completion 3 Read the text below. Use the words in brackets in the correct form so that they fit the text.
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Text completion
3 Read the text below. Use the words in brackets in the correct form so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1-9).
Computer technician
Simon used to work for a computer company as a computer technician helping people with computer problems by phone. You 1) would not believe some of the things people have said to him! One day, for instance, a frustrated customer had difficulty 2) turning on her new computer.
After checking that It was plugged in, Simon asked her what happened when she pushed the power button, he’d never heard a reply as funny as 3) (she).
She 4) replied, “Well, I pushed and pushed on the foot pedal and nothing happened.’ Well, the ‘foot pedal’ turned out 5) to be the mouse! Another time, a woman called about a problem with her printer. Simon asked If she 6) was running it under Windows (the operating system). The woman said, “Ho, my desk Is next to the door. But that’s a good point. The man next to me 7) sits under a window and there’s no problem with his computer!’ He thinks the 8) (funny) thing is that he has lost count of the number of times people called to ask where the ‘Any’ key was after 9) reading the command ‘Press any key’!
Word formation
4 Read the text below. Form derivatives from the words in brackets so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1-6).
Mind-Reading Cars
A car manufacturer Is currently working on developing a very special kind of car. The car will have an 1) unbelievable ability; it will be able to taskread the mindtask of its 2) driver. If the scientists working on the project are 3) successful, in the future a car may be able to make a right or left turn, for instance, just by detecting what a motorist Is thinking. By measuring brain activity and eye 4) movement patterns together with scanning whattasks around the car, the scientists hope that the car will be able to prepare for the turn by predicting what the 5) motorist wants to do. They believe that this would greatly improve road 6) safety.