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Science technology
Science technology can be found in nearly all aspects of everyday life. For instance, if electricity had never been discovered, electric appliances, heaters, lights, and television would never exist. Electronic components found in radios, televisions, watches, and calculators are now smaller and more reliable than before. Advances in electronics are responsible for what is called the computer age. Because of the computer technology, information can be processed in seconds.
At one time, computers were extremely expensive. They were rarely found outside the laboratories and large businesses. Since they are now more economically made, computers can be found in many homes, schools, stores, and libraries. Computers facilitate travel plans by providing travel agents with easy access to flight schedules, prices, and seating availability. Businesses use computers to track inventory, purchase and sell stocks, calculate payrolls and perform many other functions. Computers are also used as educational devices in schools, to monitor home-heating systems, and to guide satellite and space probes. In the future computers may have microprocessors produced in outer space, because the environment there is devoid of the Earth’s dust and gravitational forces.
The battle against disease and illness has also gained much from science. Safer surgical procedures are now in use including those for organ transplantation and coronary bypass surgery. Many procedures have been improved because of the development of specialized medical instruments. Some instruments enable physicians to see inside the body without making a single incision. Others can carry out essential bodily functions, such as pumping blood or breathing. Medical researches are making progress toward the production of artificial blood, which may eventually eliminate the threat of contracting diseases transmitted during blood transfusions. One such disease is acquired immune deficiency syndrome, also know as AIDS. This fatal disease attacks the immune system, rendering it incapable of warding off infections.
Elliot Mitchell, Science teacher, Latin School of Chicago
I- COMPREHENSION (15 points)
A. Answer these questions:
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1. How is science technology present in our daily life?
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2. What are the advantages of using computers?
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3. Which example shows that medical instruments have become better?
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4. How can artificial blood contribute to diseases’ elimination?
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B. Are these sentences true or false? JUSTIFY
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1. The computer age is due to the progress of electronics.
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2. Computers are still expensive to manufacture now.
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3. Space exploration doesn’t make use of computers.
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4. Doctors are unable to see inside the body without cutting it.
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C. What do the underlined words in the text refer to:
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1. there (paragraph 2)
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2. Others (paragraph 3)
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3. it (paragraph 3)
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D. Find in the Find in the text words or expressions which mean the same as:
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1. machines (paragraph 1)
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2. planned programme (paragraph 2)
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3. buy (paragraph 2)
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4. deadly (paragraph 3.................................................................................................................................
II-LANGUAGE
A. Rewrite the following sentences beginning with the words given
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1. It isn’t compulsory that the patient takes three pills per day
The patient…………………………………………………………………
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2. The manager has dismissed the new secretaries
The new secretaries……………………………………………………………
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3. Although the doctor prescribed Samir 5 tablets a day, he took more than 10.
In spite of………………………………………………………………...........
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4. Physics is the scientific study of forces and qualities such as light, sound, pressure and gravity
Physics can……………………………………………………………………
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5. “Why don’t you have a rest for a while!” Said Samir to his brother
Samir suggested………………………………………………………………..
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B. Choose the right vocabulary item and fill in the blanks
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elicits uninterested illicit disinterested
1. I don’t think the TV presenter was fair and …………………. Rather, he was totally biased.
2. It is………………………. to sell and consume drugs. It is punished by the law
ensure negligent assure negligible
3. This type of training will ………………..…… or guarantee you a brilliant future.
4. “Stop being indifferent to your studies! You’re such a ………………boy!” Said the mother to her son.
C. Put in the appropriate Article where necessary
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1. Mother: “ Karim, today’s ……3rd of July! Your birthday! I’ve got ……. present for you”
Karim : “Oh my God! What’s ……. nice surprise! Thanks mum !”
2. Manager: “Sophie, bring me ……….. report I asked you to finish yesterday!”
Sophie: “right now, Sir. (to her colleague) No way!…… secretaries are
…… time busy!”
D. Match the sentences in “A” with what they express in “B
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A
1.Footballers have to undergo extensive physical training
2.Patiens need to get enough rest to recover quickly.
3.I don’t have to finish my treatment. The doctor told me so.
4. Pedestrians mustn’t cross the road at green lights.
5.Students shouldn’t waste their time in front of the Television.
6.Obese people ought to go on a diet.
a. it’s necessary
b. it’s undesirable
c. it’s forbidden
d. it’s obligatory
e. it’s desirable
f. it’s not compulsory
III- WRITING
(10 points)
Not only does technology have advantages but also some disadvantages. Write an essay and show how technological machines, vehicles, instruments…etc affect badly our modern life
(cars, planes, TV, phone, ….)
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