ENGLISH V

UNIT 2
WHAT DOES ENGINEERING DO: SYSTEMS AND PROCESS.
WHO IS WHO IN ENGINEERING

UNIT II - MODULE II - ORAL COMMUNICATION: LISTENING

Listen to the following biographies recorded in the CD and answer the questions based
on what you have listened to:

Michael Faraday

1. According to the lecture, he has been considered the greatest experimentalist

because.
a. His ideas were very brilliant.
b. He made a lot of money from that.
c. He became common ideas into modern physics.
d. There were few experimentalists at that time.

2. According to the listening, how did he get a job as an assistant?

a. By looking through the ads
b. By sending notes from a lecture.
c. By being in touch to a CEO at that time.
d. By working as an apprentice.

3. According to the lecture it can be inferred about his job in the lab that he.
a. Had a lucrative job.
b. Got a promotion
c. Was a relaxed apprentice.
d. Made lots of friends at his work.

4. It can be inferred from the field theory that Faraday

a. Had a very strong mathematical foundation.
b. Had a very poor mathematical foundation.
c. His foundation was not into the mathematical field.
d. He was concerned about another field.
William Bradford Shockley

1. According to the lecture Shockley was not a

a. A teacher
b. A researcher.
c. A chemist
d. An engineer.

2. According to the passage what was the most important thing done in his career.
a. Having been a director
b. Having discovered the transistor.
c. Having been a deputy.
d. Having been so critical.

3. It can be inferred from the lecture that he

a. Was an activist.
b. He supported black people’s intelligence
c. Was famous in the eighties.
d. Was a good teacher

4. According to the lecture which of the following is not true.

a. He was very skillful with guns.
b. He worked for an evaluation group.
c. He created a laboratory on his name
d. He shared a Nobel Prize.

Cheng Fung Yuan

1. According to the lecture, it can be told that he was

A. An old scientist.
B. A modern scientist.
C. A scientist from the 18th century.
D. A scientist from the 16th or 17th century.
 2. He was involved in the following fields.
a. Electromagnetism
b. Bioengineering.
c. Medicine
d. Mechatronics.

3. From the lecture, It can be inferred that he

a. was a professor.
b. Was very active in the “bio” field.
c. he worked hard in the mechanical industry.
d. he had a lot of free time to research.

4. According to the lecture what happened to him in the 40’s

a. He got a job.
b. He devoted his time to study.
c. He became popular.
d. He was a father.

Steven Paul Jobs

1. What will be the name that best suits the lecture?

a. Apple vs. Microsoft, eternal enemies.
b. A very intelligent man on computers.
c. A visionary who changed the way we use computers.
d. A person who never stopped thinking.

2. According to the lecture he is best known as a man who.

a. created animated movies

b. invented the IPod?
c. helped make Apple what it is today.
d. was a dropout.
3. According to the lecture he started Apple 1
a. by mortgaging his house.
b. by selling his belongings.
c. by being granted a loan.
d. by being bailed out by his parents.

Steven Paul Jobs

4. Which of the following is not true?

a. The company was named Apple due to a happy summer at a farm.
b. Bill Gates liked him.
c. He liked Bill Gates as well
d. He co-founded Apple, was fired and rejoined the same company.

Thomas Alva Edison.

1. According to the listening the word “addle” best describes.

a. Intelligent and smart.
b. confused
c. Stupid.
d. gullible.

2. According to the article which of the following is not true.

a. He was kicked out from the school.
b. He had a lot of siblings.
c. He was very healthy.
d. His mother taught him at home.

3. According to the lecture, the following topics are not mentioned

a. His family.
b. His inventions.
c. His health problems.
d. His birth and death dates.
4. It can be inferred that one of the most important people in his career was:
a. his mother
b. his first wife
c. his children.
d. his father.