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Multiple Choice

1. Choose the correct option. Read the functions and
match them with the computer elements from the box. Read the passage and answer questions 4 and 5.

a Keyboard b Motion sensor c Projector
d Hard disk e Mouse

1. It detects the physical movements on a device or
within an environment.
2. It controls a cursor and can move and select text, icons,
files and folders.
3. It takes a computer-generated image and reproduces it
onto a screen or wall.
4. It lets you input letters, numbers, or symbols into a Houses are very different today from the ones 100 years
computer or is used to type text. ago. Today, there are TVs, video recorders, electric cookers,
5. It stores and provides relatively quick access to large and washing machines. And during the next few years,
amounts of data on a set of surfaces. houses will change a lot more. They’ll become ‘smart’. A

A) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-e computer will control every room in the house. And this
B) 1-b, 2-c, 3-e, 4-a, 5-d computer will understand your voice! For example, you’ll
C) 1-e, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b, 5-c ask for music, and the computer will play your favourite
D) 1-b, 2-e, 3-c, 4-a, 5-d CDs automatically. You won’t have to programme the
E) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-e, 5-d video recorder in your living room since the computer
will remember your favourite TV shows and record them
automatically. To give another example, the kitchen of
the future will be very different from today’s kitchens.
The fridge won’t only keep your food cold –it’ll know how
much food you’ve got. When necessary, it’ll buy more
2. “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” food from the Internet. The cooker will be ‘intelligent’
What can be the meaning of the quote above? too, and it’ll understand recipes and prepare your food
automatically. Every meal will be perfect! In short, life will
A) When you use technology, you should be relaxed about become much easier for us thanks to smart homes.
it.
B) Technology has lots of advantages but no disadvantages. 4. What can be the best title of the text?
C) Servants use technology better than masters. A) Some Intelligent Things in Our Lives
D) We should benefit from the advantages and avoid the
harmful effects of technology. B) Artificial Intelligence
E) Dangerous masters use technology for their destructive C) Features of Smart Homes
aims. D) Smartphones and Smart TVs
E) Ups and Downs of Technology

3. Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

My digicam makes getting photos far easier as it saves a 5. What can be inferred from the passage?
great deal of time. I don’t have to get a photographer to A) Smart homes will make our lives more accessible in the
develop negative films and _______________. future.
A) gets a photographer to establish them B) Smart computers will control every function of our brains.
B) have them printed C) Smartphones will know what is on our minds.
C) got them used D) Smart robots will clean whole house every day.
D) makes photographer collect them E) Smart cookers will prepare food more deliciously than
E) allows a photographer to save them we can.

ORTAÖĞRETİM 8 ENGLISH-12
GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ