UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE SEDE PALMIRA

EVALUACIÓN FINAL LECTURA DE TEXTOS ACADÈMICOS EN INGLÉS 2

MARZO 09 DE 2020
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Think about these questions and answer them:
1. ¿De qué asunto trata el texto?
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2.¿Cuántas y cuales son las razones que da el autor para estudiar ingeniería industrial?
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3. ¿Cuál es la intención del autor al escribir el texto? ¿De qué forma lo expresa?
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II. ANSWER EACH QUESTION:

1. What is the concern of industrial engineering?

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2. What is the role of an industrial engineer?

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3. What skills are needed for industrial engineering?

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4. What are the qualities for a successful industrial engineer?

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5. What do you need to be an industrial engineer? How can you be it?

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TEXTO CELLPHONES
Comprehension Questions
1. What are two examples of technology that send information over long distances?
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2. What does the author compare to cellphones in this passage?
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3. A cellphone sends and receives information in a speedy way invisible to the human eye.
What evidence from the passage supports this statement?
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4. What is one way that computer use has changed over time?
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5. What is this passage mostly about?
A. computers, the Internet, and how the military uses technology to protect people
B. cellphones, landline telephones, and the reasons people have trouble hearing each other over
the phone
C. mobile phone operators, government officials, and companies that work with one another
D. cellphones, computers, and how they send information from one place to another
6. Read the following sentence: “It’s possible, with current technological capabilities, to transmit digital
information over long distances using coding and decoding processes without losing the contents of the
original information.”
What does the word transmit mean in the sentence above?
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7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
Information is transmitted by different kinds of modern technology, _______ cellphones and computers.
A. in conclusion
B. instead
C. especially
D. never
8. According to the passage, what are cellphones used for?
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9. How does a cellphone transmit information using cellular networks?
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10. At the end of the passage, the author writes, “The Internet is really a collection of networks
working together toward a common goal of allowing information to be shared.” Could cellphones be
described in the same way? Explain your answer.
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GRAMMAR SECTION
I. Combine the following sentences using relative pronouns.

1. Have you started the history project? It is due for next Monday.
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2. Alan broke her leg in a football match. He was playing the match yesterday afternoon.
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3. Nobody told me the homework. Mrs White had given the homework to us last Tuesday.
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4. We spent our holiday in a village. There are only 250 inhabitants there.
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5. Pam introduced me to Mrs Peters. Her daughter is in my class.
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6. We attended an interesting lecture. It was delivered by a well-known scientist.
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II. Rewrite the following passage in the PASSIVE:

Someone broke into a local jewelry shop yesterday. The owner had just locked up the shop when a
robber with a gun threatened him. The robber told him to unlock the shop and give him all the diamonds
in the safe. Then the robber tied him up. The police have organized a search for the robber. They hope
they will find him in a few days. Doctors are treating the owner of the shop for shock.

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III. CONDITIONAL CLAUSES

1. If the suit doesn’t arrive, I won’t be able to go to the wedding.

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2. He is not studying very hard, so he won’t pass his exams

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3. If you don’t book now, you won’t be able to get a ticket.
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4. you shouldn’t use this bike.

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5. she failed her final exams and she had to spend part of the summer studying.
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