Examination Card №28

I. Reading
Kaithlynn is a tour guide who introduces Italy to the visitors and tries to teach them Italian.

She says that the first people in Italy were Greek in the eighth century. Now, Italy has the fourth largest population in the European Union. Kaithlynn tells about Monte Bianco, the highest point in Italy, and the Po River which is the largest and the longest in the country.

Tuscany is a popular vacation destination and is well-known for its beautiful landscapes and picturesque towns and villages.

Rome is the capital of the country known as the eternal city because it has survived wars, plagues, natural disasters etc. The tourists will visit Naples, Milan, Florence and Venice during their trip.

Venice is built on 118 small islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice. It is especially famous for the Carnival, which is held since 1268 to celebrate Lent, where people dress up in fancy costumes and masks.

II. Writing
Dear Helen,
Your parents phoned this morning. They wanted to remind you of your granny's birthday tomorrow. They asked you to send them an email with birthday greetings so that they could put it in the family greeting postcard. Your Mum will give you a call at 6 pm.
Her new mobile telephone number is 095-221-15-55.
Best wishes,
Ann

III. Speaking
Many people are wondering what the future city will look like. If I were to look into my crystal ball, what I would see is that future cities will be clean, green and full of optimism and hope.

The city of the future will be cleaner and greener because of solar and hydrogen energy. Elevated hydrogen trains (Hyrail) will be powered by solar energy that electrolyzes water for fuel cells.

The future cities of America and elsewhere will also be heavily equipped with solar panels. There will be photovoltaic panels on the rooftops on almost every building and the windows of each building will work as solar panels as well.

And, of course what would a future city be without a future car for every driver? These future cars will run on hydrogen, electricity, biofuel and even air. There may even be a few future flying cars that sail above traffic during rush hour.

In the cities of the future, every building will have smart technology. The smart technology will distribute and conserve energy through the building where it is needed most. Also, many buildings using solar energy will produce more electricity than they consume.

City life in the future will be a bit different than it is today. Future phones and laptops will have merged into small hybrids with WiFi everywhere and VoIP the standard for carrying voice and video data.

Life in the future city will have people even more plugged in than they are today. Virtual conferencing using virtual reality will be standard.

Future robots will have taken over the many tasks. People will only travel for vacation as the need to travel for business will be eliminated with the virtual business world. And for people who do want to go on vacation will do so either on supersonic jets or Maglev bullet trains.

The typical future city will also be filled with people using jetpacks instead of driving their own vehicles or in addition to their vehicles.

This vision of what the future cities will look like is all based upon emerging technology that is available now. This emerging technology of course has to be refined, downsized in many cases and of production quality. Look for nanotechnology to have taken over in many fields.

The future city will be a bright, hopeful place filled with green energy, interconnectivity and applied virtual reality.

Date: 2016-01-03; view: 677