Read the article below and then put a cross on the letter that best fits each space.. Before him, people thought that heavy things always fell faster 7 _________ light things.. Combine t
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I Read the article below and then put a cross on the letter that best fits each space
Galileo was one of the first modern scientists He was (1) in Pisa, Italy, in
1564 At first he studied philosophy But (2) he studied mathematics and astronomy He was very interested (3) _ the way the earth and other planets move around the sun He found out several important (4) about our world He also started a new way of working in science
Galileo is famous (5) his study of how things fall He was the first person to (6) _ experiments about this problem Before him, people thought that heavy things always fell faster (7) _ light things He found out that this was not true
He took a heavy ball and a light ball and he (8) them both from a high place They fell (9) the same speed This meant that weight is not important This is the law of falling bodies It is an important law for (10) our world
10.a making b.understanding c.dropping d.falling
II Combine the following pairs of sentences, using the second sentence as an adjective clause :
1 I must thank the people I got a present from them
- _
2 The people were nice We visited their house
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3 The town is small I grew up there
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4 Yesterday I ran across an old friend I hadn’t seen him for years
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5 1960 is the year The revolution took place then
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6 Mr Lee teaches chemistry I met him yesterday
- _
7 Martin speaks both Spanish and English Her mother is Spanish
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8 I haven’t seen him since the year They got married in that year
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III Supply the missing prepositions
Trang 21 I think Celia is very angry _ me
2 They went ahead contrary _ my advice
3 He’s really ashamed _ what he did
4 I can’t deal _ this problem
5 He is looking forward _ meeting his friend
6 We’re excited _ the wedding
7 This service is free _ charge
8 I congratulate you _ your success
9 London’s full _ tourists at the moment
10 Ican’t compare my flat _ yours
IV Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets :
1 Yesterday at a restaurant, I (see) _ Pam, an old friend of mine I
(not, see) _ her for years At first, I (not, recognize) _ her
because she (lose) _ at least fifty pounds
2 At least two hundred people were waiting in line (buy) _ tickets to
the game Some of them (stand) _ in line for more than four hours We
(decide) _ (not, try) _ (get) _ tickets for ourselves
3 Million years ago, dinosaurs (roam) the earth, but they (become)
_ extinct by the time humankind first (appear) _
4 - He (lose) his job last month and since then he (be) _ out
of work
- Why (he lose) his job ?
- Because he (be) very rude to his boss
5 While I (have) breakfast at a restaurant yesterday, I (see)
Jane At first I (not recognize) her because she (lose)
at least fifty pounds
V Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the
same as the sentence printed above it :
1 We finished the work in two hours
It took
2 To advertise this new kind of soap is necessary
We find it _
3 I’m very pleased that I’ll go to London next week
I’m looking _
4 He started playing football five years ago
He has _
5 Whose is the car? It’s parked outside
Whose _
6 The room is going to be painted next week
We
7 We must finish those letters by 5 o’clock
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8 Because of driving too fast, he caused a serious accident
Because he
9 She wrote a letter in thirty minutes
It
10 Tom finds it difficult to meet people
Tom has
11 I expect that he will get there by lunch time
I expect him _
12 Keep quiet or I’ll scream
Unless _
13 I regret speaking to him so severely yesterday
I wish
14 Unless he phones immediately, he won’t get any information
If
15 We got lost because we didn’t have a map
If
16 We didn’t have enough rain, so we could not grow rice
If
17 The sky was so clear that I could see millions of stars
It was
18 It was such a long homework that I couldn’t finish it
The home work
19 It’s a long time since I last went to a football match
I haven’t
20 The last time I saw Dick was in 1985
I haven’t