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Quick Test Unit 9RT

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30 questions
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I Choose a proper modal verb.
Your hair’s too long. I think you _____ get it cut.

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Your clothes smell, and you’ve got a cough. You _____ smoke.

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I’m going to bed. I _____ be up early tomorrow.

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I’d like to meet your boyfriend. You _____ invite him round.

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I _____ tell my parents where I am, then they don’t worry.

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You _____ come with me if you don’t want to. I’ll go on my own.

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I _____ work very hard because I have an exam next week.

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You _____ work hard after your exam. You can have a holiday.

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My father is a customs official so he always ____ wear a uniform at work.

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.....but my mother is a teacher so she ____ wear a uniform at work.

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I phoned the plumber because I _____ smell gas in the kitchen.

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Jane and John saved and saved, and finally they _____ buy the house of their dreams.

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I phoned yesterday, but I ____ get an answer. Where were you?

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The neighbours were having a row, and I _____ hear every word they said.

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____ you speak French before you moved to Paris?

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II Match the following words with the appropriate definition.
encourages a process or activity to develop more quickly.

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to base something on something

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to describe or express something as an amount or a number

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to receive an electronic signal and change it into a different form

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to get back or find something that was lost, stolen or missing

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an amount or a number of something

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a secret way of writing, especially one in which a set of letters or symbols is used to represent others.

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III Fill the gaps with the right word.
The information … produces a message, or information, to be transmitted.

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Random disturbances, or …, on the channel cause the received signal to be somewhat different from the transmitted one.

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The idea that something as … as ‘information’ could be quantified, analysed, and reduced to a mathematical formula attracted tremendous attention.

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Information theory was introduced as a means to study and solve problems of communication or … of signals over channels.

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The …, or transmitter, processes the message and changes it to a signal suitable for the channel.

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It demonstrates that any communication system can be separated into components, which can be treated independently as … mathematical models.

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Based on the received signal, the … then makes an estimate of the message and deliver it to the destination.

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Using a statistical description for data, Shannon showed how information could be quantified with absolute …. .