The word ‘they’ in paragraph 2 refers to _______
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His application was _______ because he didn’t have necessary qualifications for the job.
He managed to finish his essay before the deadline, but his teacher decided to move the _______ by asking him to write it in no more than 100 words.
Unsurprisingly, almost every client gave negative feedback on that hotel due to their poor service.
In some urban areas, new residential developments _______ with security features such as massive metal fences.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SPORT
The first sports game was televised in the USA more than fifty years ago. Over the following decades television provided sports coaches with a wealth of information to analyse. By viewing recordings, they could study the number of passes received, tackles avoided, distances covered, speeds achieved and a host of (26)_______ factors relating to the performance of their teams or athletes. Most of this data, (27) _______, consisted of bare statistics without any meaningful context. However, the use of artificial intelligence (Al) is now enabling an alternative (28) _______ to coaching. Al means the development of computer systems that can perform tasks usually associated with human intelligence, such as decision making.
Al doesn't get tired, has extraordinary powers of vision, particularly for objects moving at speed, and is capable of making complex (29) _______ very quickly. Research has shown that, particularly over a whole day's worth of events, computers are just as reliable as human judges when it comes to giving gymnasts a score. However, computer scientist Henri Simeonson has been quick to warn about some potential difficulties. In particular, Simeonson is concerned that Al is vulnerable to hackers, (30) _______ might be able to influence the outcome of a tournament.
(Adapted from IELTS TRAINER 2 by Cambridge University Press)
The head of the department was amazed _______ students’ positive response to the study trip abroad.
When a show is popular, everyone is content but if its popularity _______ , it is likely to be scrapped.
His room was _______ decorated in gold and silver, whereas his brother's was extremely plain and dowdy.
That he was offered a full-time position at a multinational gave others the impression that he was the cat’s whiskers.
Peter and Mark are talking about the rise of online game.
Peter: “Playing online game on a regular basis can help to boost one’s creativity.”
Mark: “ _______ . A lot of young people are addicted to it and then ignore their school work.”
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
Until relatively recently, newspapers were our primary source of daily news. They must now compete, however, with online news, social media and television in a progressively digital age. The internet is changing the way people get their news, leaving a dwindling audience willing to pay for their daily paper. But given that the form first emerged in early-17th century Europe, it’s probably about time the medium got overhauled. Newspapers have witnessed an extraordinary era of change: from the evolution of democratic institutions and political parties to the reshaping of whole countries and continents.
By the end of the 19th century, newspapers were using a visual template not unlike those of today, and had become the source of not only large profits but also unaccountable political and social influence for their owners – a trend that has continued to the present day. Newspapers prospered in this form for more than 150 years, and in many countries, daily life would have been inconceivable without access to one. But in many places, the continuing existence of newspapers is under threat.
Circulation figures for all types of newspapers, local, regional and national, bear out the fact that, in many Western nations at least, sales of printed newspapers had been falling for many years prior to the emergence of the internet. What is also beyond question, though, is that the arrival and exponential growth of the World Wide Web, leading to near-universal coverage, has accelerated this process greatly. Observing the rapidity and extent of this process around the world provides a fascinating insight into social change.
We now live in an age where speed and convenience have gained precedence over reliability and quality in most aspects of our existence. Regarding the former, newspapers only allow readers to get updated about events some considerable time after they have actually happened, while online users can access them more or less at the moment at which they occur. Printed newspapers, therefore, provide a less efficient source of news and, furthermore, do so in a less environmentally-friendly way than the internet, and at a direct cost to the consumer. Moreover, with news also available on tap through social media, consumers are continually bombarded from all sides, and therefore may not wish to have each story explained in great detail, as is the case in much of the printed media. Social media sites have also proven to be one of the most effective means of getting information out rapidly, and on a huge scale: news can now be tweeted before the mainstream media have even started their coverage.
(Adapted from Exam Booster Advanced by Carole Allsop, Mark Little and Anne Robinson)
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Linda and Tom are at the library.
Linda: “These books are too heavy to carry.”
Tom: “ _______ ”
Careful _______ should be given to the problem of child abuse.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
She stops using public transportation to go to school.
