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Question 1
1.

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

Question 2
2.

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

Question 3
3.

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

Question 4
4.

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

Question 5
5.

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

Question 6
6.

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

Question 7
7.

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

Question 8
8.

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

Question 9
9.

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

Question 10
10.

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

Question 11
11.

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

Question 12
12.

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

Question 13
13.

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

Question 14
14.

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

Question 15
15.

____ you speak French before you moved to Paris?

Question 16
16.

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

Question 17
17.

to base something on something

Question 18
18.

to describe or express something as an amount or a number

Question 19
19.

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

Question 20
20.

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

Question 21
21.

an amount or a number of something

Question 22
22.

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

Question 23
23.

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

Question 24
24.

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

Question 25
25.

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

Question 26
26.

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

Question 27
27.

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

Question 28
28.

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

Question 29
29.

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

Question 30
30.

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