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exercise 14 Choose the best alternative.
1. My friends and I used to be active members of our school’s science club.
2. I used to think I would become a chemist.
3. People who are used to waking up early in the morning find it easy to start school at 8 am.
4. When we were little, every one of us used to dream about becoming the next great inventor.
5. I’m still not used to reading books in English.
6. I think I’d better get used to studying in other languages.
exercise 16 More advanced. Choose the best alternative. Trying to predict the future can be difficult if not impossible. What appears to be the next success story now might be thrown in the bin tomorrow. However, there are inventions that have the potential to alter the world we now know. The DEKA prosthetic arm will allow amputees to raise their hands above their heads. This lets them perform much more complicated tasks than ever before. The Smart Pipe is designed to reduce the amount of wasted clean water by monitoring water flow and leaks in public water systems. The leaking is estimated to have cost millions of dollars annually in the US. In the future you might end up seeing delivery people and construction workers wear Titan Arms. In addition to helping them lift heavy things, Titan Arms could be used by people with back injuries caused by lifting heavy things or even by people recovering from a stroke. Slingshot is a device made to clean water from almost any source. One device would be sufficient to serve the needs of 300 people. After a decade of being developed, the Slingshot technology is now to be taken to parts of Africa and Latin America.
exercise 17 More advanced. Fill in according to the clues.
1. If you were to see some of the smartest animals in the world go / going about their daily routines, you couldn’t help but be amazed about how smart they are.
2. Being closely related to human beings, chimpanzees also have the ability to perform complex tasks.
3. While we may look very different, chimpanzees and humans have remarkably similar ways of communicating.
4. You might have heard a parrot say / saying ‘Polly wants a cracker’ before, but they are not only capable of repeating human phrases, they also know how to use the conveyed information to solve problems. So repeating human words is just one of their many tricks.
5. Octopuses use their ink to disorient their victims before killing them with their tentacles. They have been known to break into fishing boats and have been seen to eat / eating the catch.
6. In addition to surprising scientists with their amazing physical abilities, rats have also been shown to be ingenious at solving problems.
7. Research has shown that pigs compete with one another to learn new skills, usually related to gathering food.
1. My friends and I used to be active members of our school’s science club.
2. I used to think I would become a chemist.
3. People who are used to waking up early in the morning find it easy to start school at 8 am.
4. When we were little, every one of us used to dream about becoming the next great inventor.
5. I’m still not used to reading books in English.
6. I think I’d better get used to studying in other languages.
exercise 16 More advanced. Choose the best alternative. Trying to predict the future can be difficult if not impossible. What appears to be the next success story now might be thrown in the bin tomorrow. However, there are inventions that have the potential to alter the world we now know. The DEKA prosthetic arm will allow amputees to raise their hands above their heads. This lets them perform much more complicated tasks than ever before. The Smart Pipe is designed to reduce the amount of wasted clean water by monitoring water flow and leaks in public water systems. The leaking is estimated to have cost millions of dollars annually in the US. In the future you might end up seeing delivery people and construction workers wear Titan Arms. In addition to helping them lift heavy things, Titan Arms could be used by people with back injuries caused by lifting heavy things or even by people recovering from a stroke. Slingshot is a device made to clean water from almost any source. One device would be sufficient to serve the needs of 300 people. After a decade of being developed, the Slingshot technology is now to be taken to parts of Africa and Latin America.
exercise 17 More advanced. Fill in according to the clues.
1. If you were to see some of the smartest animals in the world go / going about their daily routines, you couldn’t help but be amazed about how smart they are.
2. Being closely related to human beings, chimpanzees also have the ability to perform complex tasks.
3. While we may look very different, chimpanzees and humans have remarkably similar ways of communicating.
4. You might have heard a parrot say / saying ‘Polly wants a cracker’ before, but they are not only capable of repeating human phrases, they also know how to use the conveyed information to solve problems. So repeating human words is just one of their many tricks.
5. Octopuses use their ink to disorient their victims before killing them with their tentacles. They have been known to break into fishing boats and have been seen to eat / eating the catch.
6. In addition to surprising scientists with their amazing physical abilities, rats have also been shown to be ingenious at solving problems.
7. Research has shown that pigs compete with one another to learn new skills, usually related to gathering food.