Listening Test 2 10th form 2011-2012

Name: __________________________________________ Class: 10 A Date:___ February 12

Evaluation: ______________________________________ Teacher:__________________________

A. Listen to the film script carefully and fill in the gaps with the missing words or expressions :
( 25x 8=200p)

Those were the ____________ after the icecaps melted because of the
greenhouse gases and the oceans had risen and drowned so
___________________ along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam,
Venice, New York forever lost. Millions of people were ______________.
Climate became chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in
_____________countries. Elsewhere a high degree of _________________
survived when most governments in the ________________ world introduced
legal sanctions to license pregnancies. Which was why _______________,
who were never hungry and did not consume _________________ beyond those of their first manufacture
were so ______________ an economic link in the chain mail society. AT CYBERTRONICS CORP:
To create an _________________being has been the dream of man since the birth of _______________.
Not merely the beginning of the ____________________, when our forebears astonished the world with
the first thinking _________________: primitive monsters that ____________ play chess.
How far we have come! The _______________ ___________ is a reality of perfect simulacrum,
articulated in limb, articulate in ___________, and not lacking in _______________ response
SHEILA: Ahhh!! HOBBY: ...and even pain _________________ response. How did that make you
feel? Angry? Shocked? SHEILA: I don't understand.
HOBBY: What did I do to your ________________? SHEILA: You did it to my hand.
HOBBY: Aye. There's the rub. Undress. At Cybertronics of New Jersey, the artificial being
_________________ its highest form. Universally adopted mecha, the basis for hundreds of models,
serving the human race in all the multiplicity of ______________________. That's far enough. But we
have no reason to congratulate ourselves. We are, rightly, proud of it, but what does it amount to?
Sheila, open. A sensory toy, with _______________ behavioral circuits, using neurone sequencing
________________ as old as I am. I believe that my work on mapping the impulse pathways in a single
neurone can _____________ us to construct a mecha of a qualitatively different order. I propose that we
_______________________, who can love.
in Artificial Intelligence opening scene by Steven Spielberg 2001

Unit 2- Set 1/2 Innovation and Progress Teacher: Margarida Barreiros