Підручник Англійська мова 9 клас для спеціалізованих шкіл з поглибленим вивченням англійської мови - Л.В. Калініна - Генеза 2017 рік

Unit 4 Science and technology

4.5. Your Test Pack

A. Use of English

1. Fill in the sentences with the correct forms of the words.

2. Insert correct prepositions where necessary.

1. I don’t object _________your making experiments.

2. Young people participated _________ the competition for promising scientists.

3. Ukrainian scientists succeeded _________ designing electric welding me thods.

4. I approve ___________ carrying out scientific experiments at school.

5. My teacher insists ____________ my continuing scientific research in the field of chemistry.

6. My friend dreams ________ becoming a great physicist.

7. Stephen Hawking is interested _________ studying the Universe.

8. My teacher suggested ___________ discussing the results of the research.

9. My little brother is fond _________ playing computer games.

10. We all enjoyed ________ listening to the lecture of an inventive genius.

B. Listening

Listen to the text and correct a mistake in each statement.

1. The Pulitzer Prize is a British award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism and literature.

2. Joseph Pulitzer is an Armenian-American.

3. It was first established in Washington DC.

4. Prizes are awarded once in 2 years.

5. 24 categories may be nominated for a prize.

6. Works can only be entered into a maximum of three prize categories.

7. The prizes are announced each February.

8. The winners of the prize are chosen by a special board from every University.

9. A famous poet Robert Frost won the prize five times.

10. The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded in June 4, 1927.

C. Reading

Read the text below. For questions (1-10) choose the correct answer (A,B,C,D).

There is an example at the beginning.

Charles Robert Darwin was an English C (0) who established that all … (1) of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution … (2) from a process that he called natural … (3). He published his theory in 1859 and the scientific community and much of the general public came to… (4) evolution as a fact in his lifetime». But it was not until the… (5) of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that the natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences» … (6) the diversity of life.

Studies at University of Cambridge … (7) his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an … (8) geologist whose observations and theories… (9) Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage… (10) famous as a popular author.

In recognition of Darwin’s pre-eminence as a scientist, he was one of only five 19^th century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

D. Writing

Write a speech about your favourite technological piece.