Unit 1 "Science and Technology" Form 11 II semester

1.What is another word for a computer screen?

a) A monitor

b) A database

c) RAM

2. Someone whose job is to invent things is...

a) a wheel

b) a penicillin

c) an inventor

II. Complete the sentences with the words from the box:

appliances, device, gadgets, machine, machinery, motor.

1. Empty the washing ________.

2. They have installed all the latest household ________.

3. The factory's current technology requires new industrial ________.

4. The tin-opener is a handy ________.

5. ________ are small mechanical tools.

6. ________ bikes are dangerous to ride.

III. Choose the right variant.

1. ________ is the study of how living things relate to their environment.

a) Geography

b) Economics

c) Engineering 

d) Ecology

2. A person who studies or does research in the science is ________ .

a) an artist

b) a scientist

c) scientific

d) an inventor

IV. Complete the text with the name of the corresponding invention and discovery.

The first ________ that was made for individual use was called Apple II, and it was launched in 1977 by Apple Computers. It was sealed in a plastic case: it had a keyboard, a video unit and removable floppy discs. It was sold for € 3800 in today’s money.

a) the automobile 

b) the atomic bomb  

c) DNA

d) the television set

e) the washing machine

f) the personal computer

g) the mobile phone

V. Complete the text with the name of the corresponding invention and discovery.

________ was invented by a Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1926, and it was first demonstrated in Selfridges, a department store in London. It was built of old cans, bicycle parts, lenses, string and sealing wax.

a) The automobile 

b) The atomic bomb

c) DNA

d) The television set

e) The washing machine 

f) The personal computer

g) The mobile phone

VI. Choose the correct option.

What are you up to tonight? How about going to the cinema? - Oh, I am sorry. I’m busy tonight. I need to finish my essay and _________ on the topic “The influence of social media on teenagers”.

VII. Choose the correct option.

People shouldn’t take natural ______________ like water, gas, oil for granted. We should use them wisely.

VIII. Choose the correct option.

What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at home? - I’ve got no______ at home, so I am just sitting here to kill the time.

IX. Choose the correct option.

It's a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles.

X. Choose the correct option.

Someone whose job is to invent things.