Current Test.

Science and Technology

1. Listening
As you listen, fill in the missing words (10 points)
Frank is in favour of genetically modified food because he believes it is safer than ordinary food
and also that it can help to 2 control and raise food for poor countries. He also thinks it should be
used to make more vitamin-enhanced 3 food with vaccine and to change the habitats of species
that are in danger of losing their habitats and becoming 4 extinct Ann disagrees. She thinks GM
foods are potentially 5 dangerous. She is worried about rich countries dominating poor countries
when they control the food supplies. She doesn't like the fact that companies are using her as 6
guinea pig for their GM 7 experiments Ann thinks that there are 8 chemical substances used on
GM food that is responsible for the 9 illness in the numbers of some birds. Frank says there is 10
some evidence to prove this.

2. Vocabulary

1. Choose the right variant (10 points)

1. Einstein made major contributions for/ to/ in/ from quantum mechanics, statistical
mechanics and cosmology.
2. The story of Newton’s discovery under the apple tree is irrefutable/ undeniable/ clear-cut/
debatable.
3. Scientists are improving robots for space exploration/ investigation/ development/ inquiry.
4. !!!If several new observations do not agree with predictions, then scientists may change the
theory to explain/ fit/ interpret/ account for the new observations.
5. Earth’s atmosphere can distort/ deduce/ interpret/ emit an image in the telescope.
6. !!!The model is supported by comprehensive and accurate explanations based on current
scientific information/ observation/ evidence/ precedent.
7. Any theory is grounded on/ in/ from/ of several scientific disciplines.
8. We have to embrace scientific progress, since it’s morally/ genetically/ eventually/
virtually impossible to hold it back.
9. When given a difficult task, why do some people see it through/ out/ forward/ by, while
others give up?
10. Genetic invention/ engineering/ intervention/ modification can now manipulate the
development of life.

2. For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap (10 points)
1. Technology provides us with many labour-_ saving _______ devices for our homes.
2. Not every country is as economically advanced as Germany.
3. !!!Science has always depended on researches to determine if theories are really correct.
4. Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radiation in 1900.
5. Scientists do experiments in a laboratory.
6. The telephone was invented in the 1870s.
7. Scientists have to do a lot of research into the possible side effects of new drugs.
8. People can agree to be a guinea pig in clinical trials.
9. It used to take many years of development before new high-tech products could become
commercially successful.
10. One of the most important qualities for any scientist is patience.

3. Complete the text with necessary words. Choose the adjectives you may need from the
list below (10 points)

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 cutting edge, durable, easy to use, environmentally friendly, green, handy, hard-
wearing, obsolete, out-of-date, practical, state-of-the-art, user-friendly
A recent vote on the Internet on the best piece of technology of the 20th century had no real
surprises. The calculator, when it first appeared was 1 practical and 2 cutting edge saving the
mathematical lives of many students in maths exams! Thirty years after this gadget first
appeared, it has still not become 3 out-of-date and is used by family accountants everywhere.
The digital watch was a 4 state-of-the-art product when it first appeared. Now it seems 5
obsoleted
However, it was still the third most popular on our list.

3. Grammar
1.Choose the correct variantt (10 points)
1 Barbara is__________ to coming first to the office.
a) use b) should c) likely d) accustomed
!!!2 I could phone the restaurant if you like, but I __________ them.
a) had better you phoned c) would rather you phone
b) would sooner you phoned d) would rather you to phone
3 That’s the bay to __________ I used to go swimming.
a) where b) whom c) what d) which
4 He does all the counting in his head __________ is only natural for him.
a) ,which b) that c) what d) ,this
!!!5 The article__________ you are referring _____ was not published in our newspaper.
a) whose … to b) what … that c) that … for d) which … to
6 Do not try to operate the devices __________ functions are unknown to you.
a) of which b) that their c) whose d) whom
7 The problem __________ never occurred.
a) I had expected it b) who I had expected c) what I had expected d) I had expected
8 The person __________ the invention had to back down and admit that further tests were
necessary.
a) announcing b) announced c) being announced d) which announced
9 A speech will be made by the principal _________ you will be presented with your certificate.
a) whose b) , of whom c) for whom d) , from whom
10 We’ll miss the lecture, unless you __________.
a) hurry b) don’t hurry c) will hurry d) didn’t hurry

2. Complete the sentences using the words in bold (20 points)

1. It’s a shame we didn’t go out for dinner. WISH

We wish we had gone..
2. This was a very wrong thing to do. SHOULD
It should have been very wrong.
3. July was the month. My sister was born then. WHICH
… in which my sister was born.
4. I bought two coats yesterday on sale. None of them fitted. WHICH
None of coats, which I bot yesterday, fitted
5. I am sure he was going to tell you something. MUST
He must have told you!
6. He shouldn’t have used my computer. SOONER
I`d sooner he hadn`t used…
7. I don’t believe he said this. COULD
He couldn`t have said this.
8. Possibly, they are still waiting in the hall. MIGHT
They might be waiting..
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9. She turned so white, one could think she was of marble. AS THOUGH
…as though she was going...
10. I believed you in the past. I cannot do it now. USED
I used to believe you in the past, but I cannot do it now

Correct the sentences. Remember, there may be punctuation mistakes (10 points)
1. The committee is supposed to come up with the new proposal in a week.
2. !!!when computers will think like humans more people would lose their jobs.
3. Mr. Coleman, our neighbour, fell seriously ill on Saturday.
4. I’d rather didn’t go there, but I had no choice.
5. He could have become a brilliant writer, but under the influence of his family he chose
mathematics.
6. The place where the battle took place /in/ has been built up.
7. There's a chance that I may be late, in which case I'll phone you.
8. Everyone admires her. She's the kind of person, whom everyone looks up to.
9. He was the first elected leader of the country, not hereditary.
10. Lynn writes gloomy books about lonely hearts, who are married.

4. Reading
Fill in a necessary word (10 points)
Does technological progress work backwards?
The bath was invented before the bath plug. The bath plug 1 still not have been invented before
the bath, except as a small object with which to play ice hockey. The order in 2 when inventions
are made is very important, much more important than 3 have ever been realised, because we
tend automatically to think that later inventions are better than 4 old ones. A moment's thought
will show this is not so.
If, for example, a solution to today's urban traffic problems was proposed in the shape of a small
man- powered two-wheeled vehicle which 5 had make the motor car look like a cumbersome
over-powered 6 vehicle, a space rocket trying to tackle suburban problems, we would greet it as
a great technological!!! 7________-through. 'Bicycle makes car obsolete!' we would cry.
Unfortunately, the bike came first, so we shall always unconsciously see it as a cinder version of
the car.
Other things which may have been 8 invented too early are the airship, the radio, the railway
train, the piano-roll player and the cuff-link. Consider also the zip. Zips represent a technological
advance on buttons, being faster and more complete. They are 9 much more liable to come adrift,
break, jam. malfunction, stick and catch. Buttons can only go wrong 10 as the thread is faulty.
Even then, buttons can be mended by the user. Zips rarely can.

5. DERIVATIVES
Complete the text by changing the word in capitals at the end of the line into a suitable form to fill the
gap. (10)
1. He eventually succeeded in finding a solution to his problem. SUCCESS
2. Leonardo is popularly held as one of the most important POPULIST
figures of Renaissance.
3. The circumstances surrounding the crime were very mysterious MYSTERY
4. The discovery of gold in California made lots of people rich. DISCOVER
5. Humans need to think about the limits of developing (development of) technology.
DEVELOPMENT
6. How many home (house) devices can you name? HOUSE
7. It is a cosmic model describing the development of our COSMOS
Universe.
8. Communicators often make an assumption that their audience will COMMUNICATE
be reasonably well-educated and aware of some of the
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 fundamental science.
9. I was shocked by her inability to cope with even minor difficulties. ABLE
10. For safety reasons, you should always wear a crash SAFE
helmet when on a motorbike