Starlight 9 Test 2 (1)
1.Complete the sentences with the correct word restricted, raw, glittered, bitten, edible, manipulate, rotten.
I have learnt that many insects are not only ______ but taste good too!
The gypsum crystal _______ in the light.
That ______dish has a terrible smell.
You should cook the meat a little longer, it is ______ in the middle.
The trainer is able to _______ shark in various poses.
The government _______ the number of alligators each person may hunt.
The diver was _______ on the leg by a shark.
2. Choose the correct item
1. By noon Nick ____for 3 hours.
a) is going to fish b) will be fishing c) will have been fishing d) is fishing
2. The dress is a perfect fit. I think I ____it.
a) ‘m buying b) will have bought c) will be buying d) will buy
3. He is too young ______ in the tournament.
a) compete b) to compete c) competing d) be competing
4) John hopes he ______ an engineer when he is older.
a) is becoming b) will become c) will have become d) will be becoming
5. You mustn’t ________ any football until your leg gets better.
a) be playing b) play c) to play d) playing
6. Ann ______ at a research facility for five years by the end of the month.
a) is going to work b) is working c) will have been working d) will work
7. John’s coach made him ____ harder in preparation for the marathon.
a) training b) to train c) train d) be training
Starlight 9 Test 2(2)
1.Complete the sentences with the correct word mind-boggling, cracks, spoilt, fussy, marinated, knelt, far-fetched
She doesn’t like to eat vegetables, she is such a ____ eater.
Time travel may be a _______ idea, but one day it could be possible.
There are so many uses for nanotechnology, it’s ______
John is a _______ child, he always gets what he wants.
She ________ the chicken for 2 hours before cooking it.
He _______ down on the ground to look at the mineral.
The inventor hopes he ______ the secret to time travel
2. Choose the correct item
1. Be careful! These rocks ______ to fall on you!
a) are going to fall b) will fall c) are falling d) will be falling
2. I promise I ______ you to the festival tomorrow.
a) will be taking b) will take c) take d) am taking
3. I’ll never forget _______ this championship!
a) to win b) win c) to be winning d) winning
4. I ______ my work by 6 o’clock.
a) am finishing b) will have finished c) finish d) going to finish
5. She still refuses ______ roasted bugs.
a) eating b) to be eating c) to eat d) eat
6. Would you ever consider _______ with sharks?
a) to swim b) swimming c) swim d) to be swimming
7. The museum _______ at 9 o’ clock every day
a) opens b) will be opening c) is opening d) will have opened
3. True, False or Not stated
The name of the most well-known Swede of all time — Alfred Nobel — is famous all over the world due to the prize he established. Despite hundreds of publications about the Nobel Prize, most people know very little about the man behind it.
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. When he was four, the family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Alfred studied at home with the best private tutors and quickly mastered chemistry and became fluent in English, French, German and Russian as well as his native language, Swedish. In Russia, Alfred attended neither school nor university.
Alfred left Russia at the age of 18 to take a two-year trip around Europe and to the USA. When he returned to Russia, he began working at his father's arms factory where he experimented with chemistry and explosives.
Later, Alfred Nobel expanded the business to Europe and America. He had homes in six countries complete with laboratories as he was also a workaholic. He said himself that “my home is where I work and I work everywhere”. Alfred Nobel had 93 profitable factories around the world when he died. Many of the leading industries in the chemical field today like ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) came from companies established by Nobel. His 355 registered patents1 showed that Alfred Nobel had a wide range of interests in many fields of technology. There were experiments with imitation leather, artificial rubber and synthetic silk. Nobel tried to improve the electrical battery, the light bulb and the phonograph. He also took photographs from the air, using rockets and parachutes. Alfred Nobel was also a big letter writer, sometimes writing as many as 30 letters a day. It was not only letters that Alfred Nobel wrote. A year before his death, he published his sad novel “Nemesis” that was performed as a play in Stockholm. Nobel was full of paradoxes. He was successful yet felt hopeless. He made a fortune out of war but fought for peace. He was a faithful patriot, yet spent little time in Sweden. He was an outstanding scientist and inventor, yet had only one year of formal schooling and no university degree. He loved family life but had none of his own. His dream of a wife and children never came true.
In 1864, a deadly explosion killed his younger brother. Deeply affected, Nobel developed a safer explosive: dynamite. Soon the newspapers accused Alfred Nobel of being the “salesman of death”, even though 90 % of dynamite use was for non-violent purposes. However, Alfred Nobel himself knew that “there was nothing that could not be abused”. He never tried to defend his revolutionary invention. But Nobel was disappointed with how he might be remembered and decided to establish the Nobel Prizes to honour men and women for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for working towards peace. . A prize in economics “in memory of Alfred Nobel” was added in 1969.
Alfred Nobel spoke several foreign languages.
2.Alfred Nobel graduated from St. Petersburg University.
3.Alfred Nobel was a successful businessman.
4.Alfred Nobel was happily married.
5.Alfred Nobel’s dynamite was used only for military needs.
6.All the categories of the modern Nobel Prize were established by Alfred Nobel himself.
7.Alfred Nobel was awarded a special prize for creating artificial materials.
8.Alfred Nobel’s novel was an enormous success.
3. True, False or Not stated
Alexander Graham Bell was a famous scientist, teacher of deaf people1 and inventor, who is widely known for the creation of the telephone. His father, grandfather and brothers had all been associated with work on speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf. The family greatly influenced Bell's life and work, making him look past people’s disadvantages and find solutions to help them.
Alexander Bell was born in 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a young child, Bell received his early schooling at home from his parents. At the age of 10 he asked his father for a middle name like his two brothers. For his 11th birthday, his father allowed him to adopt the middle name "Graham", which was the surname of a close family friend. However, for most of his life he remained "Aleck" to close relatives and friends.
Alexander attended the Royal High School in Edinburgh, which he left at age 15, completing the first four forms only. He was not a good pupil, to the disappointment of his father. His main interest was in the sciences, especially biology, and he was indifferent to other school subjects. After graduation from university, Bell became his father's assistant. He taught deaf people to talk by using his father's system.
Both of Bell's brothers died of tuberculosis. In 1870 his family, in search of a healthier climate, moved to Canada. Soon, Alexander was invited to Boston to teach at Sarah Fuller's School for the Deaf, the first such school in the world. Throughout his life Alexander Bell continued to educate deaf people.
From 1873 to 1876 Bell experimented with many inventions, including an electric speaking telegraph (the telephone). The money for his work came from the fathers of two of his students. One of these men had a deaf daughter, Mabel, who later became Bell's wife.
In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Bell invented his telephone and in 1877, he created the Bell Telephone Company. By 1886, over 150,000 people in the U.S. owned telephones. Later, Bell company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone. However, Bell considered his most famous invention an interruption to his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.
Although Alexander Graham Bell is most often associated with the invention of the telephone, his interests were extremely varied.
The magazine Science was founded in 1880 because of Bell's efforts. He took part in creating the National Geographic Society and became its second President. He was also involved in hydrodynamics (the study of the forces of water), and projects related to the development and design of aeroplanes. Alexander Graham Bell had 18 patents granted in his name alone and he shared 12 with colleagues. Bell's inventions included a metal jacket to assist in breathing, a device to locate icebergs, a metal detector, and investigations on how to separate salt from seawater.
Bell died at the age of 75 on August 2, 1922. His contribution to the modern world and its technologies was enormous.
1.Alexander Bell’s mother taught deaf people to talk.
2.Alexander Bell got his middle name from his family friend.
3.Alexander Bell was the best pupil at school.
4.There were several telephones in Alexander Bell’s study.
5.As the president of the National Geographic Society, Bell travelled a lot.
6.All Alexander Bell’s inventions were connected with improving the telephone.
7.After university Alexander Bell started to work with deaf people.
8.The creation of the telephone was sponsored by Bell’s father.
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