Номер 3, страница 66 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс (starlight) тренировочные упражнения в формате огэ (гиа) Комиссаров, Кирдяева

3. Read the dialogue and choose the correct answer.

Tim: Look, Dave, I've got a new smartphone. These days we have all types of new technology, computers, laptops, MP3s...

Dave: Can we just end this right now? You know I'm not a fan of all these gadgets.

Tim: What? You don't like technology?

Dave: No, I don't like technology.

Tim: What do you mean you don't like technology?

Dave: I think technology has betrayed its original aim. I mean, you know, technology was originally invented to make people's lives more convenient and comfortable, give us more free time. But it doesn't, on the contrary...

Tim: Yeah, but technology does make your life easier, like it saves us time, it communicates...

Dave: But does it save us time?

Tim: I think so. I mean, before you had to go out, walk to the post office and post a letter, now you can just write and send it via e-mail from home. Before you had to walk to a phone. Now the phone is in your pocket. You can just pick it up and call anytime, anywhere in the world.

Dave: Kind of. I agree with that, but sometimes that walk to the post office is pleasant, and you can meet a friend or two on the way. And with all this technology you no longer notice the world around you. You are locked. You're working on the computer while you're listening to your MP3 player, and then you get home after school, the first thing you do is check your e-mail. And then your voice mail and then you send an e-mail to someone and then... what about face-to-face communication? I'm afraid we'll soon forget how to talk.

Tim: Yeah, maybe you're right. There's so much information around. It comes in pictures, photos, e-mails, TV news. And I agree it's more than we want to see or hear.

Dave: Of course. I don't think we have to see so much news or read so many different things on the Internet and see so much on television and the DVD player. I think we fill our time with things that are not really needed. Just remember when was the last time you wrote a nice handwritten letter to one of your friends, and put it in an envelope and then in the mailbox.

Tim: I've no idea. Probably never. But I'd like to receive one, it's more personal and addressed to and written especially for you.

Dave: So, technology is good but I think it's sometimes betrays its original purpose.

1. Dave doesn't like technology because he thinks _______.

a) it makes our lives too convenient.

b) it doesn't fulfill its original aim.

c) it gives us more free time.

2. Tim says that technology _______.

a) makes things easier and convenient.

b) offers quick mail service.

c) helps you work from home.

3. Dave is sure that our social lives have become _______.

a) more comfortable.

b) busier.

c) more isolated.

4. Both friends agree that people _______.

a) don't need so much information.

b) need the news from different sources.

c) need the latest news from TV.

5. Tim admits that he wants to _______.

a) write a letter.

b) get a letter.

c) send a letter.

3. Read the dialogue and choose the correct answer.

Tim: Look, Dave, I've got a new smartphone. These days we have all types of new technology, com-puters, laptops, MP3s...

Dave: Can we just end this right now? You know I'm not a fan of all these gadgets.

Tim: What? You don't like technology?

Dave: No, I don't like technology.

Tim: What do you mean you don't like technology?

Dave: I think technology has betrayed its original aim. I mean, you know, technology was originally in-vented to make people's lives more convenient and comfortable, give us more free time. But it doesn't, on the contrary...

Tim: Yeah, but technology does make your life easier, like it saves us time, it communicates...

Dave: But does it save us time?

Tim: I think so. I mean, before you had to go out, walk to the post office and post a letter, now you can just write and send it via email from home. Be-fore you had to walk to a phone. Now, the phone is in your pocket. You can just pick it up and call anytime, anywhere in the world.

Dave: Kind of. I agree with that, but sometimes that walk to the post office is pleasant, and you can meet a friend or two on the way. And with all this technology you no longer notice the world around you. You are locked. You're working on the com-puter while you're listening to your MP3 player, and then you get home after school, the first thing you do is again check all your possible up-dates. And then you voice mail and then you send an email to someone and then... what about face-to-face communication? I'm afraid we'll soon forget how to talk.

Tim: Yeah, maybe you're right. There's so much infor-mation around. It comes in pictures, photos, emails, TV news. And I agree it's more than we want to see or hear.

Dave: Of course. I don't think we have to see so much news or read so many different things on the Internet and see so much on television. I think we fill our time with things that are not really needed. Just remember when was the last time you wrote a nice handwritten letter to one of your friends, and put it in an envelope and then in the mailbox.

Tim: I've no idea. Probably never, but I'd like to get one, it's more personal and addressed to and written especially for you.

Dave: So, technology is good but I think it sometimes betrays its original purpose.

1. Dave doesn't like technology because he thinks _____.

a) it makes our lives too convenient.

b) it doesn't fulfill its original aim.

c) it gives us more free time.

2. Tim says that technology _____.

a) makes things easier and convenient.

b) offers quick mail service.

c) helps you work from home.

3. Dave is sure that our social lives have become _____.

a) more comfortable.

b) busier.

c) more isolated.

4. Both friends agree that people _____.

a) don't need so much information.

b) need the news from different sources.

c) need the latest news from TV.

5. Tim admits that he wants to _____.

a) write a letter.

b) get a letter.

c) send a letter.

1. Дейв не любит технологии, потому что он считает, что ____.

Ответ:

b) it doesn't fulfill its original aim.

b) она не выполняет своего первоначального назначения.

2. Тим говорит, что технологии ____.

Ответ:

a) makes things easier and convenient.

a) делают вещи проще и удобнее.

3. Дейв уверен, что наша социальная жизнь стала ____.

Ответ:

c) more isolated.

c) более изолированной.

4. Оба друга согласны, что людям ____.

Ответ:

a) don't need so much information.

a) не нужно так много информации.

5. Тим признает, что он хочет ____.

Ответ:

b) get a letter.

b) получить письмо.