September 2023

English Exam - DPM

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Listening Mark:

Exercises 1 and 2

You will hear an expert talking about teens on social media.

In the first part, he points out the pros. (______/50)
Activity A
1. Circle the correct option.
1.1. When using social media, teens become more informed about
a) world currencies.
b) local and international events.
c) important decisions.
1.2. School work becomes
a) more facilitated.
b) more difficult.
c) more distant.
1.3. Teenagers’ self-esteem
a) is freely expressed.
b) reflects their personality.
c) is improved.
1.4. Social media offers teenagers with disabilities
a) equal opportunities.
b) different opportunities.
c) different activities.
1.5. Social media allows teenagers to
a) assist in getting jobs.
b) post job vacancies.
c) have access to job opportunities.
2. Match to find 5 pros of teens on social media. (____/50)
They become 1. a. self-esteem.
It is easier to 2. b. interact with others.
It boosts 3. c. more informed.
It helps teens with disabilities 4. d. getting jobs.
It assists in 5. e. study and do research.
1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____.

Exercise 3

In the second part, he points out the cons.

3. Cicle the corrrect option. (_____/100)

The negative effects of social media on teenagers’ lives are:

1. Teens are exposed to cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is one of the more (1) positive / negative influences that presents itself on
social media especially for teenagers. It gives a platform for cyberbullies to taunt and bully
others. It is easier to bully others through social (2) media / sites than to do it physically. Due to
the huge level of networking offered by social media, cyberbullying moves from bad to worse in
a matter of days causing (3) long / larg lasting pain.

2. Decrease in productivity levels

Social media is very engaging and leads to teenagers
spending a lot of time on them. They may neglect
their (4) school work / homework, extra-curricular
activities and even their friends and family so that
they can play a game or chat about various things not
related to school work. This clearly reduces their (5)
productivity / production levels. Such kids even
start failing in school work and may end up being
addicted to social media platforms.

3. It destroys (6) drill / skills

The increase in the time spent interacting in the (7) virtual / real world of social media affects
the face-to-face communication and social skills of teenagers. You can find very outspoken
kids on social media being quite reserved when it comes to face-to-face interactions. Knowing
where to hold our hands and what kinds of (8) face / facial expressions to make are something
that comes with face-to-face interactions.

4. It leads to disclosing too much information

Social media has a way of making teens disclose a lot of information that they would not
disclose face to face. By (9) sending / giving out too much information, for example about
where they live, where they go to school and other (10) personal / personnel / detail teens
 Reading Mark:

I. Read the following text carefully.

Where are we going?

Human brains will be boosted with artificial intelligence (AI) at some point after the year
2030, one of the foremost thinkers on AI has said. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google,
has suggested that the brain will connect to online AI to become a “hybrid of biological and non-
biological thinking”. Tiny “nanobots” made from DNA strands would connect our brains to the
Internet, thus allowing us to augment our own intelligence with artificial intelligence.
In the late 2030s or early 2040s, after the power of artificial intelligence has exceeded that of
our own, our hybrid thinking will be predominantly non-biological. “We’re going to gradually merge
and enhance ourselves. That is the nature of being human ─ we transcend our limitations.” He
suggested that we would be able to back up the information in our brains and save it online. Mr
Kurzweil, the author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, has been described by Bill Gates, the former
boss of Microsoft, as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence”. Mr
Kurzweil believes that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence in 2029 at a point known
as the “singularity”. However, he also believes that a super intelligent being would be subservient to
the needs of humans because it would have been created by man.
In the past year, a number of scientific figures, including Stephen Hawking, have discussed
the perils of allowing AI research to continue without limiting what computers and robots will be able
to do. Professor Hawking said in December that the development of full artificial intelligence could
spell the end of the human race. Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at the University of
Oxford, wrote in Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies that the first artificially super
intelligent being would probably wipe out the human race.
Mr Kurzweil, however, has said that although humans should be aware of the potential
dangers of AI, there is a moral imperative to keep developing it. “Technology is a double-edged
sword,” he told the Exponential Finance conference in New York. “Fire kept us warm and cooked
our food but also burnt down our houses. Every technology has had its promise and peril.”
He went on to say that AI was “not an alien invasion of these intelligent machines to displace
us. We will use them to make ourselves smarter”. He suggested that search engines would soon
know us very well. “They’ll watch everything we’re reading, writing, saying and hearing. They’ll be
like a search engine assistant,” he said, which would “answer your questions before you ask them,
or even before you realise you have a question”. He also predicted that people would switch from
desktop to portable computers and that computer displays would be built into spectacles, which has
already happened with Google Glass. However, he had also said that self-driving cars would be on
the road by 2009. “If I had said 2015, I think it would’ve been correct,” he commented, “so even the
predictions that were wrong were directionally correct.”
1. Match three of the following headings to paragraphs 1, 3 and 5. Two of the headings do
not apply. Write only the letters. (30/____)

a) Plugging in
b) A singular example of creativity
c) Experts warn about AI
d) The ability to anticipate innovation
e) The end of human expertise
Paragraph 1: ___________ Paragraph 3: ___________ Paragraph 5: ___________

2. Choose the correct option (A, B, C or D) to complete the sentences. (20/_____)

2.1. The main issue discussed in the text is

(A) the implications of the interdependence of man and machine.

(B) the risk artificial intelligence poses to mankind.
(C) the way we will become virtual beings.
(D) the process by which “nanobots” will take over our brains.

2.2. In the text, the writer

(A) predicts what will happen to AI.

(B) makes a case in favour of AI.
(C) highlights the role scientists play in the creation of AI.
(D) presents predictions scientists have made about AI.

2.3. In paragraph 3, Professor Hawking

(A) predicts the first super intelligent being will destroy mankind.
(B) expresses his deep concern about the boundaries of AI.
(C) shows he is worried about what robots can already do.
(D) claims that AI scientists are being irresponsible.

2.4. In paragraph 4, it is suggested that

(A) technology creates chaos.

(B) progress is at stake.
(C) AI is extremely dangerous.
(D) evolution is inevitable.

3. Identify what the following words refer to. (15/______)

a) “That” (l. 8) __________________________________
b) “it” (l. 14) ___________________________________
c) “which” (l. 28) ________________________________
 II. Read the following text.

Will TV survive the online revolution?

Is it time to hang up our TV remotes and surf the net? Not yet.
Every day there is an article predicting the death of regular
broadcast TV. The articles always cite someone the author
knows or the author as having “cut the cord” and stopped
watching regular TV.
At face value, it is easy to see why journalists would be
predicting the demise of broadcast TV. There is the
increasing availability of TV shows and other video on the
Internet either through services provided by the broadcasters
themselves or through YouTube and other sites.
However, most video content is still watched on a conventional TV set and that is not surprising. Although we
live at a time when things appear to be rapidly changing, change is always uneven. Many people still lack the
incentive to change from regular TV.
Watching TV requires a single unthinking act of pressing a button on a remote. The hardest decisions that
then need to be made in the ensuing five hours are whether to switch channel and when to get up for food
and “comfort” breaks. The alternative, to substitute five hours of active decision-making and sourcing content
on the Internet, would actually be quite demanding.
The other consideration is that TV viewing is often a social activity. At least it involves more than one person.
This again makes it harder to make decisions about what content to find and watch.
There is no doubt that we are changing habits in terms of accessing media of all kinds. The impact on TV,
however, is likely to be much slower than for other industries. Viewing figures for TV have remained largely
unchanged with the development of the Internet. If anything, people are “wasting” even more time by
supplementing TV with videos on other platforms.
Even for the most dedicated of couch potatoes, there are only so many cute cat videos anyone can watch.
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1. Say whether the following statements are true or false. (____/30p)

a) The Internet has replaced conventional TV.

b) There is more and more video content online.

c) Many people are motivated to change from regular TV.

d) Watching TV doesn’t require much thought.

e) Many people watch television socially.

f) There aren’t any online videos that may interest TV viewers.

2. Match each word in column A with the idea they refer to in column B. Two ideas do not
apply. (____/30p)

Column A Column B

1. that (l. 11) ______ a. most video content is still watched

on TV
2. it (l. 18) _______
b. involving more than one person
3. This (l. 17)_______
c. TV viewing

3. Match each expression in column A with its definition in column B. (____/40p)

Column A Column B

a. the possibility to obtain something

1. cut the cord (l. 5) _____ more easily

2. face value (l. 6) ______ b. a lazy and inactive person who

spends a lot of time watching TV
3. increasing availability (l. 7)____
c. the apparent worth or implication of
4. couch potato (l. 23) ______ something
d. end your connection
4. Read the article and decide if the following sentences are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F): (35/____)

a. Companies allow telecommuting because they believe it is more productive. _______

b. The survey only included people who worked for themselves. ___________
c. the biggest group of telecommuters in the survey were executives. _______
d. Nearly half of the participants in the survey work from home often than four years ago. ________
e. People in top positions spend less time working outside the office than those loswer
down._______
f. Most people would be prepared to earn less if they could work from home. _____________
g. Social networks like Facebook are very important to telecommuters. __________
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Grammar and Vocabulary Mark:

Activity A
1. Choose the most suitable word for each gap. (12/____)

a) times / lives
b) launched / lunched
c) communicates / talks
d) change / share
e) radically / radical
f) downloaded / uploaded

Social media

Once upon a time, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube. Our (1) ______________ did
not revolve around a stream of status updates, tweets, videos and filtered photos. That was just some years
ago.
Since Mark Zuckerberg (2) ______________ Facebook in 2004, we’ve seen social media evolve from a fad
to a phenomenon that has triggered a paradigm shift in the way the world (3) ______________. It has
empowered individuals to voice their opinions and concerns and (4) ______________ content on their
mobile devices in ways no one could have imagined. Along the way, geopolitics and the world of business
has been (5) ______________ transformed. The power of social media is exponential. Numbers tell the
story. Today there are 2.5 billion active Facebook users, Twitter boasts 270 million active users that send
500 million tweets per day. Each day, 4 billion videos are viewed on YouTube (that’s 46,296 per second)
and 60 million photos are (6) ______________ on Instagram.
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3. The words in bold are jumbled. Write the correct word. (15/____)

a. My phone has got a great __________ (marcea) so I take a lot of pictures with it.
b. I find it difficult to use a small ____________ (brakdeoy). I often make mistakes.
c. We each have a ___________ (potpal) which we use at school.
d. I want to get a gaming _____________ (smoue) for my computer.
e. Can I use your______________(trinpre)? Mine is broken.
f. I like the _________ (cresen) on this computer because the colours are really
bright.

4. Match the words to their meanings. (15/____)

1 stream
2 download
3 blogging
4 online
5 graphics
6 software
a) move something from the internet to your computer
b) connected to or available on the internet
c) the programs you use on a computer
d) the pictures in a film or game
e) writing regular articles on the internet
f) watch or listen to something on the internet
5. Complete the compound nouns with the words in the box. (5/____)
cell | laptop | page | player | software

1 web
2 MP3
3 computer
4 phone
5 computer

6. Choose the correct words. (14/____)

a. Lucy gives / takes a lot of photographs on her camera.
b. I need to upload / download a piece of software onto my computer.
c. How often do you make / take a phone call?
d. When you open / turn on the file, you can continue writing.
e. Anna makes / sends a lot of text messages to her friends.
f. Michael opened / started a conversation with Geraldine.
g. Steve wanted to stay in last night and watch /look a DVD.

7. Choose the best answer (A, B or C) to fill each gap. (32/____)

1 A open B look C watch

2 A upload B download C load
3 A offline B line C online
4 A CD B computer C cell
5 A doing B taking C watching

6 A mouse B keyboard C screen

7 A software B laptop C graphics

8 A web B camera C printer

8. Choose the correct verb tense to complete each of the following sentences: (30/____)

1. I ________ for seven hours last night.

was slept

slept

has slept

2. I ________ that you were here.

wasn't knowing

didn't knew

didn't know

3. When I came to this city, I ________ anyone.

haven't known

didn't know

wasn't knowing

4. You know where I live - I ________ in the same place for the past three years.

have been living

had lived

was living

5. You ________ my brother, have you?

haven't seen

didn't see

didn't saw

6. Where ________ last night?

have you gone

did you went

did you go

7. I ________ in bed when I heard the accident outside.

was lying
 lay

have lain

8. Did you just _________ me a liar?

call

called

have called

9. She is a mean person. I don't like ________ to her.

talk

talking

have talk

10. I don't know how ________.

dance

dancing

to dance

9. The sentences are in the ACTIVE VOICE. Choose the most correct way of saying the same
thing in the PASSIVE VOICE: (26/____)

1. They were interviewing her for the job.

She ________________ for the job.

was being interviewed

was interviewed

has been interviewed

2. Tom is writing the letter.

The letter ________________ by Tom.

was written

is being written

has been written

3. Everyone understands English.

English ________________ by everyone.
 is understood

has been understood

was understood

4. The employees brought up this issue during the meeting.

This issue ________________ by the employees during the meeting.

has been brought up

is brought up

was brought up

5. The professor told him not to talk in class.

He ________________ by the professor not to talk in class.

has been told

was told

was being told

6. They say that women are smarter than men.

Women ________________ to be smarter than men.

were being said

were said

are said

7. The fire has destroyed the house.

The house ________________ by the fire.

has been destroyed

was being destroyed

is destroyed

8. She would have told you.

You ________________ by her.

would have been told

 would be told

were being told

9. She would reject the offer.

The offer ________________ by her.

will have been rejected

would be rejected

will be rejected

10. This surprises me.

I ________________ by this.

would have been surprised

will be surprised

am surprised

10. Choose the correct answer: (36/____)

1.-The people ....... moved in next door seem very friendly

who

whom

which

2 - The man ..... answered the phone was rather rude

which

that

whom

3 - The day ...... I started work there was a disaster

which

that
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4 - The man ....... house was robbed has still not been paid by the insurance company

which

that

whose

5 - Who's moved the papers ...... I left on my desk?

who

whom

which

6- They arrested the man ...... was over the alcohol limit

who

which

whom

7 - The men, ....... were in a hurry, didn't finish the job properly

that

who

which

8- Two guys, ....... car had broken down, asked me for a lift

whose

whom

which

9 - The boxer ...... career was ruined by health problems was on TV last night

whose

whom
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Writing Mark:

1. In your opinion, why has social media been so successful?

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2. From the list below (A to D), choose which of these aspects of new technologies you
consider to be the most dangerous. Justify your choice in 20 to 30 words. (_____/40)
 (A) machines taking over the world
(B) addiction
(C) online fraud
(D) cyber bullying
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3. Write an argumentative text (150-180 words) on

ONE of the following topics.
A. “Social media: the best place
to hang out!”
or
B. “The printed media is doomed to become extinct.”

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