Mobile Phones & Spider-Goats: Comprehension & English Usage

Mobile Phones

Comprehension (4 points)

1. 1) No, because dangerous effects have not been shown conclusively.
2. 2) Because they used the phone while they were driving.

1. 3) True… advanced features are packed into extremely light and tiny models (lines 5-6).
2. 4) True… mobile phones can be a serious threat to health, for children in particular (line 7).
3. 5) False… what for many people is a useful device can be a nuisance for others (line 11).
4. 6) False. Some people even claim that… (lines 12-13).

Use of English (3 points)

1. 7) Luxury (l.1)
2. 8) Light (l. 6)
3. 9) Sickness, illness, disease
4. 10) Headache, backache, stomach-ache… toothache, heartache
5. 11) She said: “We’ll go and get some food.”
   She said they/we would go and get some food.
6. 12) I asked my father to buy me a mobile.
7. 13) The traffic warden gave the driver a ticket.
   A ticket was given to the driver (by the traffic warden).
   The driver was given a ticket (by the traffic warden).
8. 14) If I didn’t have a mobile phone… my boyfriend would buy me one.

From Spider-Man to Spider-Goat

Comprehension (4 points)

1. 1) He invented them thanks to the new talents provided by the radiation and the spider’s bite.
2. 2) Because some genetic engineers have introduced spider silk genes into goats in order to get the silk protein from the goat’s milk.

1. 3) False. Because “it is stronger than steel” (line 6).
2. 4) True. Because “they tend to eat each other” (lines 6-7).
3. 5) False. It is “nearly as elastic as nylon” (line 12).
4. 6) True. “It could be used in medical supplies, space equipment . . . .” (line 12).

Use of English (3 points)

1. 7) Fasten, join
2. 8) Weaker, feebler, softer
3. 9) Method (line 7)
4. 10) Friendship, friendliness
5. 11) The world can only be saved by some superheroes who have supernatural powers.
   The world can only be saved by the supernatural powers (that) some superheroes have.
6. 12) John complained that he felt sick at the thought that they would begin to experiment with humans.
7. 13) I would have agreed if . . . they had given me a good reason.
8. 14) A huge variety of genes has been identified.