10/03/12

10F and 10L (professional courses)

testFINAL TEST OF MODULE 3 – ANSWER KEY

I – ways, human race, transmissions, station

II – 1 false – the space age began in 1944… 2 false – Arthur Clarke predicted a group of satellites orbiting the Earth… 3 true – telecommunications alog wires or through the airwaves… 4 true – These technologies have progressively transformed our lives …

III – CEADBF

IV – 1 The Space Age began in 1944, when the Germans built a rocket that reached the edge of the atmosphere.

2- In what concerns the future of the telecommunications, Arthur Clarke previewed the existence of satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites would permit radio and TV communications in the future.

3- They surely did. They became true, because the text tells us that. Besides, we have now more than a hundred satellites around the Equator.

4- 1969 was really a very important date for Goonhilly Earth Station because it was the first time a TV station could transmit or broadcast to the whole Europe those unbelievable images of the first landing on the Moon that NASA transmitted from the USA.

V- he will be the first – there will be a lot of satellites – he will fight all the threats.

VI- he is going to write – they are going to have – it is going to rain.

VII – computers won’t be very different – they are going to sell…- they won’t enjoy – what time are you going to finish…?

VIII – won’t have – would buy – would be happier – speaks – I would know.

IX – some information ; a/some good advice; a new pair; some petrol; a piece of cake; a glass with some coke.

XI – had started; had waited; had already begun; had already given

XII – 1- When I arrived home, all my brothers had left.

2 – Michael had just got home when I phoned him.

3 – Before I noticed what was happening, all the cars had already bumped.

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