1) What did the woman have implanted into her brain?
A) An electronic system
B) A tiny electronic device
C) A camera
D) Some new nerves
2) What is teraplegia?
A) Paralysis of the legs
B) Paralysis of the vocal cords
C) Paralysis of the eyes
D) Paralysis of all four limbs and the vocal cords
3) What was the aim of implanting the device?
A) To help the woman speak
B) To help the woman communicate
C) To help the woman walk
D) To help the woman remember stuff
4) What does the system include a combination of?
A) Software and programming
B) Hardware and gears
C) Programming and gears
D) Hardware and software
5) What did the woman move with the device?
A) Her arms
B) A wheelchair
C) A curser
D) Her legs
6) Do the researchers still believe that this is good technology?
A) Yes newer versions are getting better.
B) No they do not.
C) No it is too expensive.
D) No it stopped working.
7) What did the study achieve?
A) To demonstrate that implants did not work.
B) To demonstrate that implants did work.
C) To demonstrate that implants were impractical.
D) To demonstrate that implants lasted a long time.
8) What signals does the device pick-up?
A) Signals for movement.
B) Signals for planning movement
C) Signals’ for speech
D) Signals for emotions
Exercise 4 – I predict a riot: Where the next dictator will fall
Read the long reading passage 4 on page 74 of the course book and answer the following questions.
1) According to the article what was nowhere on the horizon?
A) The sunset
B) Revolutionary change
C) Rebellion
D) Protests
2) How often has the US military been able to predict political instability?
A) Twice
B) Many times
C) Never
D) Not very often
3) What can accumulate stresses while showing no changes?
A) Politicians and civil servants
B) Ecosystems and societies
C) Students and teachers
D) Governments and dictatorships
4) What was the main cause of these changes?
A) Food prices
B) It doesn’t list a main cause.
C) External forces
D) Young people
5) How can regime shifts be predicted?
A) To look beyond individual behaviour
B) To look at individual behaviour
C) To look at specific individuals
D) To look at whole countries
6) What does the article say about social data?
A) That its use is over rated
B) That it could be useful
C) That it should be recorded carefully
D) That it may be hard to find
7) What can they predict?
A) The trigger for change
B) The build up of forces for change
C) The time scale of change
D) The level of change
8) What is the use of predicting when change will happen?
A) So societies can protect themselves
B) So people can speed up the process
C) So the US military can be ready
D) So that everyone can hide