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Practice test 5

I. Fill in the missing words.

You answered 0 of 15 questions correctly in this part of the test.

  1. She's not used to  [working] in a team. She works better on her own.
  2. Can you see that flying object  [in] the sky?
  3. It's going  [on] for midnight. We'd better go home.
  4. Their children are alleged  [to] have broken the window.
  5. Don't hang  [around] ! We have a train to catch.
  6. Jim and Jack are so much alike that their own mother can hardly  [tell] them apart.
  7. Our company has decided to do  [away] with the old machinery.
  8. She can't get  [by] on such a small income.
  9. The teacher asked him what he  [was] thinking about.
  10. The doctors were able to track  [down] the cause of the infection.
  11. Are the governments of the world  [covering] up the truth about UFOs?
  12. I've never heard  [of] such name.
  13. It's no  [good] explaining it to him. He won't understand it.
  14. Did you see that black sedan? I think we were  [being] followed.
  15. My job is quite hard but  [on] the whole I like it.
II. Read the text and fill in the missing words. Use only one word for each space.

You answered 0 of 15 questions correctly in this part of the test.

NEW POLICE CARS HAVE VOICE RECOGNITION A police officer sees a bank robbery suspect speed by and says "pursuit." Automatically, the cruiser's blue lights, siren, flashing headlights and video camera turn on. The car also sends a message to dispatch giving the location and saying the officer is chasing someone. This voice-recognition system is not (1)  [a] prototype -- it's on patrol in New Hampshire today, and if the robbery scenario were to occur, officers could keep (2)  [their] hands on the wheel and eyes on the road instead of fiddling with switches, buttons, dials and microphones (3)  [while] they weave through traffic. It's (4)  [called] Project 54, after the 1960s police television comedy "Car 54, Where Are You?," and its global positioning system even answers the show title's question. University of New Hampshire engineers started (5) [developing] the system in 1999 after they witnessed the number of tasks officers perform (6)  [behind] the wheel. "To pull you over for doing one thing, they have to do 12 different (7)  [things] ," engineer Brett Vinciguerra said. "They have to turn the lights on, turn the siren on, figure (8)  [out] where they are, pick up the radio, turn on the video camera, radio in that they are pulling someone over." (9)  [after] two years of testing, state police have about 75 smart cruisers on patrol, with several (10)  [ones] added weekly. UNH and several surrounding communities also use the smarter cars. A system with similar goals is (11)  [being] developed by Visteon Corp. of Dearborn, Michigan. Called TACNET, a prototype is being tested by North Carolina State Police and in Maryland, Michigan and California. It should be on routine patrol this fall, (12)  [said] sales manager Jeff Pauley. Users of Project 54 say it has transformed radio communications for them. (13)  [instead] of tapping a button to change channels, an officer now presses a button on the steering wheel -- a reprogrammed cruise control switch -- and tunes the radio to any community or troop station by calling out its name. The system uses a variety of standard voice-recognition programs, though officers can still operate equipment by (14)  [hands] . Vincent Stile, president of the Association of Police Communications Officials, kicked Project 54's tires at a recent convention and says he'd recommend (15)  [it] widely. "It's not a novelty," said Stile, head of radio operations for the Suffolk County Police Department on Long Island, New York. "It should be put into play."