Name _ Class _ Gold Pre-First Unit Test VOCABULARY Complete the text with words from the box There is one word you not need to use applications / avatar / commit / crash / download / implications / log / monitor / password / printed / software / virtual / virus Computer technology has developed dramatically over the last ten years Today we are able to almost anything with our electronic devices We can (1) onto our email, our Twitter and Facebook accounts wherever we are (providing we haven’t forgotten the (2) needed to so), keep in touch with all our friends and make new friends every second of the day The internet has created a (3) world where we can play games, become whoever we want to be, creating our own (4) which can look like us, and we can use it for serious research We can (5) films, music and all sorts of different (6) which allow us to almost everything with our smart phones or tablets In addition, computer technology has meant that instead of keeping (7) records, organisations can now keep all their information digitally, saving both space and money However, the downside to all this connectivity is that people have found new ways to (8) crimes On the one hand there is the hacker who sends a(n) (9) to your email account, which will make your computer (10) if you open it On the other hand there are the serious criminals who try to get into bank accounts or government systems and steal top secret (11) Although the (12) of this could be terrifying, computer experts are working hard to keep us safe /12 PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2013 Pearson GRAMMAR Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the verb in brackets We (not finish) the job by tomorrow evening Shops (disappear) completely by the end of the century I think I (live) in the same house in twenty years’ time because I love it This time tomorrow, we (lie) on a beach on a Greek island! /4 Complete the gaps with ONE word Yesterday I interviewed the Prime Minister about his government’s plans for the future I asked him (1) he planned to make many changes to education He said they (2) going to make a lot of changes and that his government (3) be spending a lot of money building new schools He said that five new schools would (4) been built by 2020 I then asked him where the money (5) coming from He explained that the government would have (6) increase taxes to make it possible, but that he thought people would understand it (7) necessary I then pointed out that they (8) not even have enough money to give current teachers a pay rise, at which point he left the interview! I wonder what he (9) say tomorrow! /9 TOTAL PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2013 Pearson /25