Часи дієслова (tenses) — теорія і завдання НМТ

Read the text below. For questions (28–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). What is a Robot? When you think of a robot, what do you see? A machine that looks a bit like you and me? The reality is that robots can come in many different shapes and sizes. What a robot looks like depends on (28) _______ purpose. Flying robots (29) _______ look like helicopters, or have wings like insects or birds. Cleaning robots often look like little vacuums. Robots that (30) _______ to interact with people often have a face, eyes, or a mouth – just like we do! (31) _______ they look like us or not, most robots have three essential ingredients that (32) _______ them a robot: sensors, actuators, and programs.

Read the text below. For questions (28 – 32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Why Does Red Mean Stop? The 19th-century Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson, who was active in designing early lighthouses, (28) __________ for an alternative colour to white – most lighthouses had a white beacon – when he built a lighthouse near to one that already existed, because he was afraid ships wouldn’t be able to tell which was which. Of the light sources and (29) __________ glasses available at the time, he found that red was a particularly intense light, meaning it could (30) __________ from the greatest distance. So, in maritime signalling red became an alternative to white, and was later adopted by the Admiralty in 1852 (31) __________ the port-side on steam vessels. Green was adopted for the starboard-side, and vessels seeing the green light on (32) __________ ships had the right of way. When train tracks were developed, engineers adopted this system as meaning stop and go – and the same system continued to be used with cars.

Read the text below. For questions (28–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). My Brother’s Robot My younger brother has been building a robot since January. He says it (28) _______ ready by the summer, but I have my doubts. Every evening he (29) _______ at his desk with a box of wires, and every evening something new goes wrong. Last week the robot, (30) _______ is supposed to bring him tea, drove straight into the wall. If I (31) _______ him, I would have given up long ago. But he never does. Yesterday he told me that the most important part of a robot is not the motor or the camera, but the (32) _______ of its owner.