NAME: ______________________________________ C.I.

: _________________ DATE: ______________

Technological Progress
Over the past thirty years or so the quality of many people's lives 1. has deteriorated in some respects because of
technological progress. Those people living near airports 2a. are constantly assailed by the noise of increasingly larger and
more powerful jet aircraft 2b. taking off and 2c. landing. We 3. have ugly buildings which 4. have sprung up in towns and
cities. Some of these 5. are blocks of flats-high-rise buildings built because of the high price of land, which 6. seem more like
breeding boxes than houses where people 7. have space to live. Worse still, much of our building effort 8. has been
channeled into the construction of more and more large office blocks at the expense of much 9. needed housing for the
growing urban population.
PART III: TRANSLATE INTO SPANISH THE PARAGRAPH. USE YOUR DICTIONARY
Los ultimos treita años el progreso tecnologico ha deteriorado la calidad de Vida de muchas personas. Estas
personas viviendo cerca de aeropuetos estan constantemente asaltadas por el incremento del ruido por los aviones
a reaccion cada vez mas grandes y potentes que despegan y aterrizan .
Nosotros temenos edificios feos que han surgido en pueblos y ciudades. Algunas de estas son bloques de
edificios de gran altura construidos debido al alto precio de las tierras que parecen mas a cajas que a casas donde
la gente tienen un espacio para vivir. Pero aun por mucho de nuestros esfuerzo de contruccion se ha canalizado la
construccion de mas bloques de oficinas a expensas de la grand cantdad de viviendas para la creciente población
urbana.

PART I: GIVE THE UNDERLINE VERBAL TENSES ON THE TEXT ABOVE. LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE
 1 Has deteriorated in some respects because of technological progress ( Pte Perfect).
 2a. Are constantly assailed by the noise of increasingly larger and more powerfull jet aircraft(Pte simple)
 2b.taking off and ( Pte Progressive o Gerundio).
 2c. landing.(Pte Progressive o Gerundio).
 3.have (presente simple)
 4. . have sprung (Pte Perfect).
 5. Are( Pte simple)
 6.seem ( Past PArticiple)
 EXAMPLE: 7. People have space to live ( Pte. Simple)
 8.has been channeled into the construction of more and more…(Past Perfect).
 9 needen housing for the growing uran population( Past Simple)
 PART II: COMPLETE THE IDEA IN THE SENTENCES ACCORDING TO THE PARAGRAPH.
1. It's obvious in the passage that ----.
A) the quality of people's lives has declined by technology
B) those people living around airports are happy with their condition
C) technology progressed the life standards
D) airports are usually constructed in urban areas
E) people want to live near airports

2. We have ugly buildings ----.

A) so we need to improve technology
B) because the land is expensive
C) but we don't have much complaint about it
 D) where people find enough space to live
E) which have appeared only in rural areas

3. Technological progress ----.

A) has negative effects on people's lives
B) requires more large office blocks
C) became much faster than expected

D) enabled people to live in large blocks

E) force us to find ways to own land