Bài tập Tiếng anh 12 - Unit 8 Life in the future (Có đáp án)

UNIT 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE

I. Choose the word whose vowel sound is different from that of the provide one.

1. life wipe Chinese micro Jupiter

2. sort worse chore launch thought

3. ahead breath threat disease fresh

4. good could food pull foot

5. out bound found now ought

6. thank space hand happen travel

7. power own our crowd count

8. speed peace scene few piece

9. straight great air take aim

10. achieve peace receive street science

II. Answer these questions, using the words from the box.

What do you call a person who... 1. thinks that the worst thing will happen in every situation? 2. uses violence in order to achieve political aims? 3. is 100 years old or older? 4. tends to expect that good things will happen? 5. travels and works in space? 6. wants to protect the environment? 7. is traveling or visiting a place for pleasure? 8. studies one or more of the natural science? 9. has the legal right to belong to a particular country? 10. has a job in politics, esp. a member of the government?

III. Complete each of the sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets. 1. Inflation will never be completely from the economy. (eradicate) 2. Public cooperation is vital in the fight against .(terrorize) 3. He is now so weak the doctors are about his chances of making a full recovery. (pessimist) 4. The government expressed about the success of the negotiations. (optimist)

5. Many people lost their jobs in the great of the 1930s. (depress) 6. Life varies according to country and gender. (expect) 7. Will the universe continue to expand ? (eternal) 8. The inspectors were impressed by the speed and of the new system. (efficient) 9. He made a very positive to the success of the project. (contribute)

Citizen astronaut tourist pessimist politician terrorist scientist optimist environmentalist centenarian

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10. This enables computers to read handwriting. (technique) 11. She died of a heart attack at the age of only forty-six. (expect) 12. Higher taxes on gas encourage people to on fuel. (economy) 13. The young generations are becoming more and more their outlook. (material)

IV. Fill in each blank with one appropriate preposition.

Ask most people what is happening (1) the world’s population and they are likely to say it is exploding. Ask them if there will be enough food next century and they will say no. Ask them (2) the world’s energy supplies and they will say they are running (3) and we will all be sitting in the dark and cold next century. Ask them what they think (4) raw materials and they will say we are using them up (5) a rate that will mean there are none left (6) our grandchildren. These statements have two things (7) common. They are too gloomy, if not about this century then the next. And they are all wrong. Or so it is persuasively argued (8) a book that tries to chart our future over the next quarter century. Most of the attention the book has received so far has concentrated (9) its forecasts for Britain and the prospect (10) five million unemployed.

V. Fill in each blank with the correct preposition of time or place. 1. The train will be leave a few minutes. 2. Fruit trees generally bloom April or May. 3. Our house is the woods, the river and the village. 4. I worked for that company three years, 2005 2008. 5. The President lives the White House, which is located 1600. Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D. C. 6. Mozart died Vietnam 1791 the age of 35. 7. I saw several people I know at the barbecue Saturday afternoon. 8. People usually give each other presents and cards Christmas. 9. She has been off work Tuesday. 10. Lisa’s birthday is the end of March, March 29. 11. My office is the Administration' Buildingthe third floor. 12. Did you hear that news television or read it the newspaper? 13. Videophones are not practical present, but they may be the near future. 14. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk the moon 21 July 1969. 15. We arrived Paris around noon, but we didn’t arrive our …