Unit 1: The Dying Sun

Choose the correct option.

1- A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth.
(a) Boldly (b) scarcely (c) tightly (d) sufficiently

2- Most of them are large enough that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed and leave no room to spare.
(a) Apartment (b) lodgings (c) space (d) quarter

3- There word immense means:

(a) Enormous (b) fast (c) great, huge (d) bright

4- These millions of stars wandering through about in space.

(a) roaming (b) walking (c) running (d) swaying

5- And total number of stars in the universe is probably something like the total number of grains of sand.
(a) Certainly (b) surely (c) habitually (d) perhaps

6- It needs suitable physical conditions for its appearance.

(a) Approval (b) stay (c) looks (d) existence

7- We may think of them as a collection of fires scattered through space.

(a) Spread (b) wander (c) moving (d) circulating

8- Stars are providing warmth in surrounding.

(a) Around (b) areas (c) outside (d) inside

9- In the immense stretches of space beyond the Milky Way.

(a) Vast (b) areas (c) heat (d) chill

10- There is an un-imaginable cold of hundreds of degrees of frost.

(a) Chill (b) freeze (c) fig (d) mist

11- Probably only one star in 100000 has a planet going around.
(a) Travelling (b) wandering (c) circling (d) moving

Unit 2: Using the Scientific Method

Choose the correct option.
1- Today we are better able to explain happenings which used to be considered strange and mysterious.
(a) Spooky (b) great (c) inexplicable (d) understanding
2- We are also more critical in our thinking than our ancestors.
(a) Brother (b) forefathers (c) relations (d) neighbors
3- Suppose you had been an unusually strong little fellow.
(a) Habitually (b) occasionally (c) exceptionally (d) rarely
4- You would undoubtedly have had measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, and diphtheria.
(a) Uncertainly (b) greatly (c) unduly (d) surely
5- Even then your battle for life was not over.
(a) Race (b) chance (c) struggle (d) desire
6- A disease once started, spread through a community.
(a) Society (b) city (c) village (d) province
7- Today babies are born in hospitals where there is little likelihood of their getting a disease.
(a) Time (b) chance (c) danger (d) possibility
8- Household garbage and other refuse were thrown in streets.
(a) Waste (b) deny (c) thing (d) objects
9- Today our city streets are paved and well drained.
(a) Narrow (b) wide (c) even (d)cemented
10- Sewage from all sections of a city is carried through sealed pipes.
(a) Cemented (b) iron (c) airy (d) distribution
11- Today most city governments have departments of sanitation which keep the cities clean.
(a) Cleanliness (b) sweeping (c) naming (d) water
12- Through the use of the scientific method it has been demonstrated that unsanitary conditions cause the spread
of disease.
(a) Written (b) explained (c) won (d) understood
13- A century ago it was common practice in many cities to bring water by the bucketful for household use.
(a) Plentiful (b) in buckets (c) sackful (d) mouthful
14- It was therefore used very sparingly for bathing and cleaning purpose.
(a) Profusely (b) rarely (c) wastefully (d) economically
15- This is remarkable advance from the bucket system of supplying homes with water.
(a) Significance (b) backward (c) little (d) separable
16- Most of their foods had to be produced on their own farms or in their own gardens.
(a) Eaten (b) picked (c) planted (d) yielded
17- People living in cold climates had none during winter months.
(a) Cities (b) towns (c) weather (d) areas

Unit 3: Why Boys Fail in College

1- They really have the native ability to do so.

(a) Local (b) mental (c) innate (d) physical
2- They find it almost impossible to sit at a desk and concentrate on the task assigned.
(a) Given (b) registered (c) grasped (d) concentrated
3- So far as I can see cannot be eradicate by anyone.
(a) Finished (b) eliminated (c) leave (d) banish
4- The boy should make himself cultivate poise and calm a smothers the fidgets.
(a) Hesitated (b) penetrate (c) produce (d) harvest
5- The word poise means:
(a) Pose (b) passion (c) balance (d) pressure
6- The word fidget means:
(a) Gadgets (b) anxiety (c) brackets (d) habits
7- He is following a direction mapped out by his parents.
(a) Decided (b) visional (c) advised (d) planned
8- I have made many warms enemies among the parents of college students.
(a) Brave (b) active (c) cruel (d) hot
9- The good lord never intended their son to be physician.
(a) Denied (b) wanted (c) invited (d) hindered
10- As a general thing, the boy wins out in such controversies.
(a) Succeeds (b) fails (c) finds out (d) single out
11- The word controversies means:
(a) Adversaries (b) necessitation (c) beauties (d) conflicts
12- If the college is alive to its work of advice, such cases are caught.
(a) Live (b) good (c) active (d) unaware
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