Indespensable device?

I was reading an advertise (1) the other day, which described the cellular telephone as an ‘aid of convenient (2)’. As a techno-phobe who does not possess a mobile phone, still less an on-line connect (3), I was intrigued by the astonish (4) presumptuousness of this claim. An understand (5) reason why I do not have a mobile phone is that I don’t want to be at someone’s beck and call 24 hours a day. But apparent (6) there are plenty of sane adults who do. There are many people who bought their phones on absolute understanding that it was to be used for emerge (7) only. But the insidious thing grade (8) took over their lives to the point where it seems they can bare (9) live without it. Doubt (10), giving a mobile phone to children helps parents to control them, however, the children tend not to develop the able (11) to make their own decide (12).

5. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.

Telephone calls

Today an enormous amount of person (1) and business communicate (2) takes place by telephone and fax machine. It is usually quite easy to make a call to someone in the most remote locate (3) on the other side of the world because these days most long-distant (4) calls travel via satellite. Fifty years ago, however, an nation (5) call was far more difficult to make. It could sometimes take an operate (6) a very long time to make a connect (7), and even then the receive (8) was often rather poor. Telephones at that time could only work between places connected by continue (9) wires which had to cross the oceans. The world’s longest cable still stretches water (10) for fifteen thousand kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean.

6. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных трех вариантов.

Intelligent home

If you are worried about burglary, which in 2003 cost (1) ___ companies millions of pounds in (2) ___, there is good news for you. A traditional (3) ___ system, with specially built security doors and (4) ___ at each door and window, is very expensive to (5) ___. Technology, though, will soon make the “intelligent home” (6) ___ and the whole system will be included in the price of the house. New homes will be built with a special electronic system which will (7) ___ lights, heating, security and anything else the (8) ___ chooses. This means lights can be programmed to be turned on and off automatically at (9) ___ times, making it look as if someone is at home even when everyone is out. (10) ___ can also be opened and closed by the computer, and all (11) ___ can be recorded by video camera, making it possible to protect yourself and your (12) ___.

1	A ensuring	B insurance	C assurance
2	A conversation	B compensation	C convenience
3	A safety	B protection	C security
4	A detectors	B detectives	C senses
5	A equip	B fasten	C install
6	A probable	B possible	C capable
7	A connect	B unit	C linkage
8	A owner	B proprietor	C host
9	A prearranged	B preoccupied	C preset
10	A cushions	B curtains	C cuisines
11	A intruders	B invaders	C investors
12	A proprietor	B possess	C belongings

7. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из предложенного списка.

TELEVISION

accurate attention audience clearer current

delayed discovery events flood important

invented inventor simplified transmission unclear

I f you ask someone who (1) ___ television, they will tell you it was John Baird. While Baird was, of course, extremely (2) ___ in the history of television; it would be more (3) ___ to see his role as part of a chain of (4) ___ which finally led to television as we know it today. The history of television really begins in 1817 with the

(5) ___ by Berzelius, a Swedish chemist of the chemical selenium. It was found that the amount of electric (6) ___ that selenium could carry depended on how much light struck it. The discovery directly led to G.R.Carey, an American

(7) ___ of the first real television system in 1875. His system used selenium to transmit a picture along wire to a row of light bulbs. This picture was (8) ___, however. Over the next years, a number of scientists and inventors (9) ___ and improved on Carey’s system. It was not until 1923 that Baird made his first practical (10) ___. Once again, the picture was transmitted through wires, but it was much (11) ___ than Carey’s had been almost fifty years ago. The Second World War (12) ___ the development of television. After the war, television sets began to (13) ___ the market, with the first mass TV (14) ___ watching the baseball World Series in the USA in 1947. Within a few years, television had captured the (15) ___ of the whole world.

8. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.