B2 Destination - Unit 6 (1)

Choose the correct answer: MODERN SCIENCE: It seems entirely … to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and other institutions around the world,

• A. physical
• B. natural
• C. typical
• D. real

Choose the correct answer: attempting to ... the way the world works.

• A. create
• B. invent
• C. construct
• D. discover

Choose the correct answer: However, it hasn't always been that …

• A. route
• B. method
• C. way
• D. technique

Choose the correct answer: Although the scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could work out the ... of natural events just by the power of thought.

• A. aims
• B. reasons
• C. causes
• D. impulses

Choose the correct answer: During the 17th century, more and more people began to realize that they ... test their scientific ideas

• A. calculate
• B. estimate
• C. measure
• D. test

Choose the correct answer: by designing a relevant … and seeing what happened.

• A. experiment
• B. research
• C. attempt
• D. analysis

Choose the correct answer: A lot of ... was made in this way by individual scientists.

• A. development
• B. experiment
• C. discovery
• D. education

Choose the correct answer: These men and women often worked alone, carrying out ... into many different areas of science,

• A. research
• B. prize
• C. gift
• D. reward

Choose the correct answer: and they often received very little ... for their hard work.

• A. award
• B. prize
• C. gift
• D. reward

Choose the correct answer: At the start of the 20th century, though, it became ... that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. This individual scientist disappeared, to be replaced by flighty qualified teams of experts. Modern science was a boom.

• A. clear
• B. true
• C. accrate
• D. actual