Unit Test 7

Answer all the questions. There is one mark per question.

language

1 Rewrite the sentences in reported or direct speech as indicated.

1 “Could you take your belt off?” the official asked

He asked ________________________________________

2 “You must take your belt off,” he said.

“He told ________________________________________”

3 “Lift up your arms please,” the official instructed.

He ________________________________________

4 I asked him why he wanted me to do this.

“________________________________________”

5 “Where are you travelling to?” he wanted to know

He ________________________________________

6 I informed him I was going to the USA.

“________________________________________”

7 `Have you been there before?' he asked

He ________________________________________

8 “Yes, I have,” I said.

I confirmed ________________________________________

9 “Empty your pockets, please sir”.

He ordered me ________________________________________

2 Put the verbs in the correct form.

The official (10) __________ (check) the man with a hand-held metal detector when the alarm (11) __________ (sound). He (12) __________ (stop) immediately and patted the man's leg. The man (13) __________ (look) very uncomfortable while this (14) __________ (happen). Suddenly the man (15) __________ (start) to run away, but the official who (16) __________ (monitor) the screens on the X-ray machines, (17) __________ (get) up and (18) __________ (run) after him. One man who (19) __________ (stand) in a check-in queue saw the man running and (20__________ (catch) him for the security officer.

vocabulary

3 Choose the correct option.

21 The new __________ fingerprint scanners take a photo of the finger.

a) capacitive b) visible c) optical d) identical

22 Voice __________ software has a lot of applications.

a) recognising b) recognition c) reflecting d) reflection

23 There was a serious security __________ at the airport last week when a man with a knife in his sock managed to board a plane.

a) detection b) procedure c) incident d) checkpoint

24 The airport security official __________ it wouldn't happen again.

a) told b) promised c) informed d) ordered

4 Complete the paragraph with a word from the box.

voltage/capacitance/conductor/battery/circuit/sensor

When the switch connects up the charge (25)__________, the (26) __________ charges up the capacitor. The (27) __________ is the amount of charge which can be held by the capacitor. Below each ridge and valley of the fingerprint, there is a single (28)__________ which has a pair of (29) __________ plates. The processor reads the (30)__________ output of all the cells in the scanner and builds up a picture.

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