Английский язык. Методические указания и контрольные задания №1. Очирова М.И. - 18 стр.

4.   “they” (point 1) stands for   I. Read the text. You can use a dictionary.
a)   the two Viking boats
b)   the Irish lands               How much do we know about the world we live in? Some of us
c)   the two Viking leaders        don’t know much, it seems. Scientists at Oxford asked people
d)   two thousand years            the following simple questions:
                                   - Does the earth go round the sun?
5.   “one” (point 2) stands for    - Does oxygen come from plants?
a)   boat                          - Does sunlight cause skin cancer?
b)   land                          - Is the centre of the earth hot or cold?
c)   leader                        - Did the earliest people live before, at the same time as or
d)   king                              after the dinosaurs?
                                   - If milk is radioactive, can you make it safe by boiling it?
6.   “men” (point 3) means
a)   swimmers                      How many of the answers do you know? The Oxford scientists
b)   Vikings                       were surprised to find that many of the men and women they
c)   soldiers                      questioned had no idea of the facts. About 40% of the people
d)   children                      didn’t know that the earth went round the sun, or that oxygen
                                   came from plants. While 90% of the people knew that sunlight
                                   could cause skin cancer, and 80% knew that the centre of the
7.   “explains” (point 4) means    earth was very hot, 54% thought, wrongly, that the first people
a)   understands                   lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. And 35% of people
b)   tells                         thought that radioactive milk could be made safe by boiling it.
c)   knows                         How important is this? Does it matter if people don’t know
d)   suggests                      whether or not the earth goes round the sun? Perhaps not. But
                                   we do have to make up our minds about many things which
8.   “fast” (point 5) is           need an understanding of science. Should the government build
a)   an adverb                     more nuclear power stations? Is it a good thing to spend money
b)   a noun                        on space research? Is it right to carry out experiments on ani-
c)   a verb                        mals? If we have no basic knowledge of science, how can we
d)   an adjective                  make intelligent democratic decisions on questions like these?

                                   II. Now read the following sentences. Write S if the sentence
Text 2                             says the same thing as the text, and D if it says something
                                   different.