S0lutions Unit 5

MikeShaw :Why didn’t you go to the concert, Lisa? 1 All / Every of our friends were there.

Lisa B: When I tried to buy a ticket, there weren’t 2 some / any left. But that’s a good thing anyway. I 3 couldn’t have / can’t have gone in the end because I was ill yesterday.

MikeShaw: Really? You 4 should have / shouldn’t have phoned me. I 5 might have / might not have come round to see you before the concert.

Lisa B: Thanks, but there was 6 no / any need to do anything like that – I wasn’t really ill. I 7 must have / should have eaten something bad, but I’m fine now. Anyway, how was the concert?

MikeShaw: It was great. And after the show, a 8 little / few of us went to a party and met the band!

Lisa B: Really? They don’t let 9 much / many people go to the band party. It must have been difficult to get in.

MikeShaw: Not really. My cousin Ben knows one of the band members – Suzie Steele. They worked together for 10a little / a lot time before Suzie became famous

Complete the sentences with the adjectives and verbs below, adding prepositions to each one.

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1 I read all of Katy Perry and Rihanna’s tweets. Who do you __________Twitter?

2 Can you ________________ to the bottom of the page?

3 We took the phone back to the shop and complained because we were very __it.

4 Let’s go to the other website. Just ___________ that link.

5 My grandma is very ________ the weather. Her legs hurt when it’s cold.

6 Mandy is ________________ taking selfies. She takes them all the time.

7 It’s a very difficult maths problem, but our teacher has given us three days to _______an answer.

Complete the text with the words below.

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The common 1 ____________ in the photos is technology, namely smartwatches. In the 2 ____________ photo there is a woman on a train who is looking at her watch, 3 ____________ in the second photo there are two men jogging and wearing smartwatches. The woman looks 4 ____________ she is on her way to work and checking her emails. It looks to me 5 ____________ if she’s just had a notification of a new message and is looking to see who the sender is. She is holding a book but her attention is directed at the small screen on her wrist. In the second photo the men are running, 6 ____________ than looking at their watches. It doesn’t look to me as 7 ____________ they’re interested in anything apart from their sport. In my 8 ____________, athletes wear smartwatches to check their performance, such as counting their steps or their heart rates, and not to stay connected with work. They don’t 9 ____________ stressed or like they need to be checking their phones every two minutes. For me, the important 10 ____________ is that we should all have periods of time when we are unconnected from our studies or work, and just use technology for leisure. 

In the past, technology and progress was very slow. People ‘invented’ farming 12,000 years ago, but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go around the world. Then, about 3,500 years ago, people called ‘potters’ used round wheels to turn and make plates. But it took hundreds of years before some clever person thought, ‘if we join two wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move things’. In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a 20th-century invention like the aeroplane, for example. The first aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and the plane only went 37 meteres. It can’t have been very exciting to watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixeen years later, the first plane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men walked on the moon. Technology is now changing our world faster and faster. So what will the future bring? One of the first changes will be the materials we use. Scientists have just invented an amazing new material called graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things. With graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take a few seconds to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of information! Today, we make most products in factories, but in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we won’t make things like cars and furniture in factories − we will grow them! Thirty years ago, people couldn’t have imagined social media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can’t live without them. But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are putting microchips in some disabled people’s brains, to help them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we may all use these technologies. We won’t need smartphones to use social media or search the internet because the internet will be in our heads! More people will go into space in the future, too. Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred years from now, there may be many hotels in space. One day, we may get most of our energy from space too. In 1941, the writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but we should have listened to him. Today, many people are trying to develop a space solar power station. After all, the sun always shines above the clouds! 

1 The writer says that in the past

A people didn’t want to change the world.

B there weren’t many clever people.

C nobody invented anything.

D progress wasn’t as fast as it is now.

2 What does the writer say about aeroplanes?

A The first planes weren’t a success.

B They were the best way to get across the Atlantic.

C They changed transport very quickly.

D They didn’t carry many people.

3 Graphene will help us to

A make things in factories.

B grow things in our gardens.

C produce new materials.

D get information more quickly.

4 What does the writer say about space solar power?

A It’s a science fiction idea, and nobody really thinks it will work.

B People tried it in 1941, but they didn’t succeed.

C It’s an old idea, but people are only starting to develop it now.

D It’s much easier to build a solar power station in space than on Earth.

5 The best title for the article would be:

A The history of science

B From aeroplanes to space travel

C Predictions for the next century

D The speed of change