Listening and

reading
4 Unit 4 Our Techy World

Name Surname Class: 10th Evaluation

Date , 20 Signatures /
(Teacher)(Parent/E.E.)

Part A – Listening
Text 1

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Listen to a text about how coronavirus set the stage for a techno-future
and complete the sentences with 1-3 words.

a. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of a

didn’t seem realistic for most people.
b. Amazon Go is an example of a that has almost
eradicated the need for human staff.
c. During the pandemic, disinfected some hospitals
using ultra-violet light.
d. Contactless options could offer workers against
infections.
e. One of the advantages of robots is that they can’t get .

Text 2

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Listen to a text about personalised AI technology for self-care and
choose the correct option.
a. Maslo’s creators
for Google. d. Colours are part of the design approach to
make them .
1. are still working
1. funnier
2. hope to work
2. more interactive
3. used to work
3. user-friendly
b. After downloading Maslo, users are
encouraged to speak to it a day. e. Now that the website is finally live, what
will be?
1. for a small amount of time
1. the next choice
2. less than a few minutes
2. the next step
3. for a minimum of one minute
3. the next road
c. Computer-based are already
being used by thousands of people.

1. systems
2. assistants
3. tests
Unit 4 Our Techy World
4 Listening and
reading

Read the text attentively.

Part B – Reading
Cyborg Music
Recently, it’s often felt like AI is about to take over the music world, that soon computers will be
making our favourite songs. AI has been used to write classical music and Irish folk songs. It can stitch
together black metal albums and Christmas carols.

Start-ups like Jukedeck, Amper Music and Melodrive have developed AI that can make tunes in
5 the style of your choosing (‘synth pop’, ‘dreamy electronica’) at the click of a button.

The rush to create AI music is nothing new, says Margaret Schedel, a composer and cellist who is
also co-director of computer music at Stony Brook University in New York. People have been using
computers to write classical music since the 1950’s. Computers have also long been able to create music
better than people. In the 1980’s, Xavier Rodet, a French academic, got a computer to ‘sing’ part of
10 Mozart’s The Magic Flute – and just by keeping it in tune, it was better than most amateur opera singers.

Today’s AI researchers are simply extending that work by just using the latest technology like
artificial neural networks modelled on the brain that allow computers to learn by doing, just as a person
does. How do these systems work? Music scores are fed into the system, the AI analyses the scores to
spot patterns such as how the chords change or how long melodies last and then it’ll spit out its own short
15 tunes in response.

Schedel says AI systems are already “very good at rule-based music” like fugues, a type of
classical music in which the melody is repeated using different voices. But when you move into
complicated or human music, like a pop or folk song, AI struggles. “Music is so complicated.

It has so many dimensions that if you get one part of it wrong, people are just like, ‘Eugh!” she
20 says. The fact is that it’s harder to trick our ears than our eyes.

Right now, people are still needed to make AI music sound good. “But don’t put that in your
piece,” she adds, with a laugh, “as then the AI people will come and get me.”
Adapted from: www.bbc.com

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Re-read the text and write true (T) or false (F). Then, correct the false ones.
a. Artificial intelligence is soon going to seize our world.
b. Music composed by computers is a recent thing.
c. Computers can’t produce higher quality music than humans yet.
d. AI investigators have used cutting-edge technology so far.
e. Humans are no longer needed to create good AI music.
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2 Answer the following questions about the text.
a. According to the first paragraph, what contribution has AI made to music?
b. Why does AI struggle when it comes to human music?
c. In your opinion, will musicians be replaced by AI in the future? Account for your answer.
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3 Find antonyms for the following words or expressions in the text.
a. disliked (paragraph 1)
c. oldest (paragraph 4) e. easier (paragraph 5)
b. professional (paragraph 3)
d. forbid (paragraph 4)