Directions: Read the text from a magazine
article in which several important issues during the 21st century. Please match
the name of each issue to one of the statements given below. Your 21st Century Doctor
More and more doctors will use computers for medical diagnosis and treatment.
You will visit your doctor, and find that he uses a computer screen and visual
information about your condition instead of his textbooks. Computers in your
home will enable you to answer interactive questions about your health and show
the alternative results which will affect you if you act in a certain
way. Your 21st Century Car To
pay for roads and transport costs, cars will be billed for using high-speed toll
roads. Computers will record the passage of the car and automatically take the
money from the car owner’s computerised bank accounts. Computers will tell
drivers where they are, showing maps of districts the car is travelling through
on a small screen in the car. Computers will diagnose any problems with a car
engine. Computer connections will list the nearest places of repair. Your 21st Century Teacher An
engineering teacher at the American University of Illinois has had great success
without textbooks, without exams and without deadlines. His students won nine of
the top ten engineering awards in a university competition. Projects the
students worked on included using microcomputers to control wheelchairs and
using microcomputers to mix paints. Two of the top students from this new
teaching method are now running their own companies. Your 21st Century Workplace Women now form
more than half of the workforce, and the percentage is rising. Women continue to
start up small businesses of their own, often working at home. People are
changing careers on average every ten years now, instead of staying in a job for
life. The increase in information and knowledge-based business is reducing the
levels of middle management. Top managers get all the information they need to
work together with front-line staff. Your 21st Century
Environment London, England’s biggest city, often
suffers from air pollution. More than 1000 people a year in London die because
of this poor air quality, especially the very young, the old and cigarette
smokers who are at high risk. Many European countries and the United States
check vehicles for gas and smoke emissions. This is to make sure the levels are
below the permitted output. Germany has 600 sites that monitor carbon
monoxide. Now match each of the issues with the appropriate
statement. Note: there are two extra
statements. Statement A.
Governments and businesses realise that bad air and water pollution affects
everyone, making it difficult for cities to survive and for businesses to make a
profit. B. Some 99 percent of the world’s carbon monoxide
released into the atmosphere comes from motor vehicles. C. Cars
will almost entirely controlled by computers. D. Computers help
the medical workers a great deal. E. A novel way of teaching
may change the way universities are run. F. The changing face
of work and the workplace is one of the most widespread influences in a western
society. G. Specialists are becoming more important than
general workers. Workplace