Universidad Técnica De Oruro Designed by Lic.

Alba Colque Miranda

Facultad Nacional de Ingeniería LIN 1103 - C

QUIZ 2
NAMES: ……………………………………………..DATE:………..……. SCORE……..……./100

I. DIRECTIONS
READ YOUR LESSONS AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. SOME OF THEM MUST BE INVESTIGATED.

1. What could be prevented if we drove thinking cars?

2. How can rooms be designed in future houses?
3. What kind of animals will be in smart houses?
4. What do shuttle flights mean?
5. Why The Space Station Freedom project collapsed? Mark a, b, c or d.

a. One of the solar panels failed to deploy, which cut the power supply and interfered
with the spacecraft’s controls.
b. Because of its own weight in 1990, when the design was found to be 23% overweight,
over budget, too complicated to assemble while providing 34% too little power for its
users
c. Because the temperature readings from sensors located on the left wing were lost.
Then, tire pressure readings from the left side of the shuttle also vanished.
d. A stray spark started the fire in the pure oxygen environment inside the module, and
design flaws in the hatch door made it impossible to open in time to save the
astronauts.

6. Which generation of computers used microchips?

7. What does EDVAC mean?
8. What can´t robots do ?
9. What are the problems when translating a passage into other languages?
10. Why are LASERS used for?

NOTE: YOU MUST ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH.