1. PRUEBA NACIONAL DE INGLÉS DE ADELANTO DE 6TO AÑO
PERÍODO ABRIL- 2008
Liceo Nº MARKS
Group: WRITTEN TEST: / 65
Name: ORAL EXAM:
Date: April FINAL MARK:
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
1. Fill in the blanks while you listen:
Part A)
Chip shop
More than 90% of the world's 1)………………… phones are powered by technology created
by 2)……………………. firm Arm. It designs chip architectures that it licenses to
semiconductors 3)…………………… such as Qualcomm and Broadcom.
Ian Drew from Arm said 4)………………..mobile phones demanded ever more
5)………………………..power. But 6)…………………… chips with greater processing was not a
straightforward, he 7)……………………...
"If you look at a 8)…………………. phone the first thing you The future of the internet
have got to do is get within the half a watt 9) …………………. and computing applications is
not going to be in the home or
"It needs to get into your pocket. And there's no fan. It
at the office; it's going to be
needs to work for days 10) ………………… than hours."
mobile
Nigel Clifford, Symbian
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2. Part B)
Now listen to the second part of the report and choose the correct option a,b,c
1- By using multi core….
a- You won’t be able to use 3D graphics, video or games simultaneously.
b- You’ll be able to select the processor you want (choose) to use.
c- You’ll need to have (purchase/buy) a bigger processor
2- Coretex A9 is
a- the company responsible for building the new multi cores
b- a mobile phone which will have two integrated chips
c- a chip structure which will integrate multi cores in only one chip
3- (The companies) Symbian and Arm
a- are investigating together the future uses of multi-core mobiles
b- don’t agree on the future uses of multi-cores
c- say it’s impossible to switch off the cores that aren’t required by the mobile user.
4- The next generation of applications on a phone
a- will require a Single Processing System
b- will be powered by Symmetrical Multi Processing
c- won’t require any special processing system
5- Silicon vendors (sellers)
a- still haven’t decided how to integrate the new system
b- have already solved the integration of the system
c- are optimistic about sales
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3. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the following digital article and do the exercises that follow.
Why the future is in your hands
By Darren Waters
Technology editor, BBC News website
Sales of smartphones are expected to overtake
those of laptops in the next 12 to 18 months as
the mobile phone completes its transition from
voice communications device to multimedia
computer.
Convergence has been the Holy Grail for mobile phone
makers, software and hardware partners, as well as
consumers, for more than a decade.
And for the first time the rhetoric of companies like
Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, who have boasted of
putting a multimedia computer in your pocket, no longer
seems far fetched.
"Converged devices are always with you and always
connected," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia chief
GPS is starting to appear on more
executive at last week's Mobile World Congress in handsets
Barcelona.
Last year Nokia sold almost 200m camera phones and about 146m music phones,
making it the world's biggest seller of digital cameras and MP3 players.
In the coming year the firm predicts it will sell 35 million GPS-enabled phones as
personal navigation becomes the latest feature to be assimilated into the mobile phone.
2. Answer these questions
 How much has technology developed according to the passage?
 What will the new mobile phone be like?
 How successful have sales of mobile phones been?
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4. 3. True or False. Find the evidence.
1. In the near future more laptops than phones will be sold.
2. GPS is becoming more and more popular.
3. This article was published in USA.
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4. Find the words that correspond to these definitions.
a- Small devices that can work with a battery and are easily carried. ________________
b- The process or a period of changing from one condition to another.________________
c- People who own a business and share the profits. ___________________
d- Speech or writing that is intended to influence people but that is not completely honest or
sincere. ________________
e- To talk with too much pride about something that you have or can do. ______________
f- Very difficult to believe. ____________________
g- The part of a telephone that you hold close to your mouth and ear to speak and listen
________________________
7 marks (1 each)
LANGUAGE IN USE
5. Complete with the correct form of the verbs choosing from the chart.
Nowadays, Convergence …………………by a combination of software, services and
hardware.
The first phones powered by a chip running at 1Ghz ………………… the market later this
year, seven years after the first desktop chip ……………….. the gigahertz barrier.
Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon chipset will debut inside a number of handsets, including
some from Samsung and HTC. "It's a first in the industry for a wireless chipset," …….
……… ” Mr. Pineda.
As well as raw horsepower Snapdragon also features a dedicated application processor,
as well as the ability to handle 12 megapixel digital photos and up to 720p high
definition video imaging.
Mr. Clifford from Symbian said the mobile industry …………………..deliver multi-function
devices which did not compromise, as he had said in the previous interview.

5. will be driven is being driven was driven
hit has hit will hit
was breaking broke has broken
says had said said
had to must would
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6. Report these words said by technology specialists using : say- ask and tell
1. “All of those single use devices – MP· players, digital camera, GPS-are collapsing onto
the phone.”
A specialist ……………………………………………………………………………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………………………. …
2. “We are going past the point where this was a phone with a few other things”.
Another expert …………………………………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. “Will mobile phones evolve into multi-functional devices?”
Some time ago Luis Pineda ………………………………………………………….…………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
6 marks (2 each)
7. Finish these sentences.
 If technology hadn´t evolved so much … …… ……………………………………………..
 If you had the chance to have a multimedia computer in your pocket,
…………………………….……………………………………………………………………...?
 ………………………..………………………………………… , people wouldn´t use them so
often.
6 marks (2 each)

6. 8. Join these sentences using the relative pronouns between brackets.
1. The future of the internet in computing application is not going to be in the home or at
the office. It is going to be mobile.- (Which)
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. Yan Drew said future mobile phones demanded even more processing power. Yan
Drew is from Arm company.- (Who)
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
3. More than 90% of the world´s mobile phones were created by British firm Arm. Mobile
Phones are powered by technology.- (That)
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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7. WRITING
9. Choose one of these topics to write a composition of about 100 words. Use the
template provided to write your composition.
 Do you think the future is in your hands?
 Is technology always the right answer? / 13