Escuela de Educación y Pedagogía

Centro de
Lenguas – Medellín
ENGLISH TEST
UPPER ADVANCED
TEACHER: DANY ALBERTO SUÁREZ MORENO.

FULL NAME: Valentina Serna Herrera I.D.: 000264435

PROGRAM:  Undergraduate  Professional Development X Continuing DATE: 06/ Jun/ 2020
education

WRITTEN PRODUCTION SECTION (30%) Time: 60 minutes 150 words

Reading comprehension section.

BIONIC MAN

The very latest prosthetics

In the James Bond movie Skyfall, there is a frightening moment when the bad guy of the film removes
his prosthetic mouth to show his damaged face. We are scared, but amazed at the possibility. Could
it be possible to replace parts of our body and even improve on the original? The UK’s Channel 4 has
shown a documentary called ‘How to Build a Bionic Man’, featuring psychologist Bertolt Meyer who
himself has a bionic hand. ‘Rex’, the Bionic Man, brings together scientists working on the latest
research to test the limits of prosthetic technology.

Built by leading UK roboticists Richard Walker and Matthew Godden from Shadow Robot, Rex is
currently on display at London's Science Museum. The two-metre tall artificial man has 28 of the
latest artificial limbs and organs and cost almost $1 million to make. He has a 3D-printed skull, a
synthetic blood system and artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea.

Showing technology to the world

Walker describes how their work began about two years ago when the production company contacted
him. His team proposed to obtain the very latest prosthetics and build a human from it. As Walker
says, ‘see if it stands up and walks!’ Their objective was to show people the latest artificial body parts,
all of which can be used in the real world. Rex was born after two and a half months of late nights and
lots of pizza.

Then there are the more conventional prosthetics like the artificial hand, which uses signals from
nerves in the human body for picking up and holding things. Walker explains, ‘to get the hand to pick
something up, we had to simulate the human nerve signals that it would look for in the human body.’

Replacing failed organs

Walker is very surprised by how well technology is being used to build organs to function
effectively when the original organ fails. So the artificial pancreas provides insulin and when
insulin levels fall, insulin is released. When the insulin level rises again, the mechanical pancreas
can absorb it, just like the real pancreas.

If the Bionic Man can be built again in five years’ time, Walker predicts that we will be even more
surprised by what prosthetic technology can do for our bodies.

Answer the questions based on the reading.

1. In the film 'Skyfall', the bad guy ...

a. Uses an artificial mouth to try to frighten people.

b. Uses an artificial mouth because his face was injured.

c. feels both scared and amazed at the same time.

2. Rex, the Bionic Man, ...

a. Was built with technology which was a little limited.

b. Will go on show at a museum in London soon.

c. Has a number of artificial organs in his body.

3. Walker predicts that ...

Walker predicts that we will be even more surprised by what prosthetic technology can do
for our bodies.

4. The bad guy in the latest James Bond film has ______________ because his face was damaged.

a. Two and a half b. a prosthetic mouth. C. Make it better

5. Richard Walker predicts that _______________we will be very surprised by what prosthetic

technology can do for our bodies.

Richard Walker predicts that if the Bionic Man can be built again in five years’ time even, we will be
very surprised by what prosthetic technology can do for our bodies.

WRITING: Making predictions, expectations and guesses.

Writing a persuasive letter (150 - 180). Choose your own invention, write a letter to a potential
investor describing what it does and why it is worth investing in.

Dear Mr. Theo,

My name is Valentina Serna. I have invented an accessory that you can in all
moment because will allow have it in your wrist, this amazing invent is call Clock
Wearable Devices or CWD. Which it could communicate information such as your
heart rate and blood pressure directly to your doctor. CWD is important for you
because in your work (airline pilot) not is possible to have a lot of free time to spend
with your wife and kids. Furthermore, you could suffer from chronic diseases that
would cause severe accidents for you and other families on the airplane.

Clock Wearable Devices will help with your health problems caused by stress in your
work. Because your doctor will know your health condition at any time due to your
hand watch you may have an app that will allow this control in your health.

Also, you may use this accessory to doing exercises or being outdoors with your
family.

Remember Mr. Theo the most important in all moments is your health to can
enjoying your wife and kids.

I look forward to your call, CDW will change your life.

Note: Remember to check your writing for mistakes (grammar, spelling, capitalization, cohesion and
coherence.