The 9th Form. UNIT 3 What’s Your Knowledge? Lesson 1 Inventions and Discoveries

TEST

1. Read the words and match them with their translations.

1.       To succeed in                                 a) природничі дисципліни

2.       to observe                                      b) залежити від електрики

3.       natural sciences                              c)  застосувати знання та навички

4.       a special technology                       d) закінчити(вищий) навчальний  заклад

5.       to have the greatest impact on       e) досягти успіху в

6.       to apply the knowledge and skills  f) спостерігати

7.       to graduate from                             g) мати найбільший вплив на

8.       to launch a flying machine             h) особлива технологія

9.       the scientific observation                i) запускати (в небо) літаючий апарат       
10.   to depend on electricity                   j) наукове спостереження

2. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1) When I grow up I want to be an_______ and make a time machine to visit the future.

a) inventive                       b) inventor                        c) invention                        d) invent

2) Сhristopher Columbus_________ America by accident.

a) invented                        b) revealed                        c) found out                        d) discovered

3) Which of the following is NOT a measurement of temperature?

a) Watt                                b) Celsius                        c) Fahrenheit                       d) Centigrade

4) What does IT stand for?

a) Information Technology                   b) Interesting Teacher   
c) Informative Tutorial                         d) Intellectual Technology

5) Marie Curie was a famous________ for her work with radioactivity.

a) scientist                         b) scientific                        c) scientologist                 d) science

6) He gives all his time to the______ of the rare genetic disorders.

a) invest                             b) investigate                     c) investigation                d) investigative

3.Make up sentences using the following words:

1) the law of universal gravitation/Isaac Newton/discover

The law of universal gravitation was discovered by Isaac Newton.

2) the phonograph and a light bulb/Thomas Edison/invent

3) prototypes of the helicopter, glider, and military tanks/Leonardo DaVinci/design

4) the first astronomical telescope/Galileo/construct

5) the formula for the volume of a sphere/Archimedes/discover

6) the theory of relativity/Albert Einstein/develop

7) x-rays/Roentgen/discover

4. Read the text and choose the correct item(a ,b, c or d)

         What will our homes be like 100 years 1) __ now? In my opinion, where and how we live will change a lot in the 2)__.

          I think that we 3)__homes   that are more environmentally friendly.  4) __ this happens, we will use alternative 5) __ of energy such as wind and solar power.  I also believe that we will have houses 6)__ we can control with our voices. Life will be 7) __. Lights will go on and windows will open when we ask them to. In the future, there will be underwater cities. In my 8) __  ,there will be so many people by then that there will be no land to build houses on.  No one really knows what the future 9) __ for us, so we need to try our best to make it a better one. After all, as Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is 10) ___ to win or to lose.”

	A	B	C	D
1.	from	of	till	in
2.	past	future	now	after
3.	live	are living	will live	lived
4.	Wherever	If	Because	But
5.	causes	means	sources	ways
6.	that	what	where	when
7.	more easy	easily	easyer	easier
8.	opinion	idea	belief	point
9.	takes	holds	keeps	has
10.	our	ours	we	us