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Lesson 3                                    Pre- university

A: Choose the best choice.

1. The scientists researching the ……………… of climate change are making progress.

       1) fuels       2) examples                    3) causes                  4) layers

2.  ……………… refers to the time when all animals or plants of a particular type die.

   1) Pollution            2) Extinction                3) Damage                4) Crisis

3. A usual way in which something happens or is done is refers to as …………………. .

  1) pattern             2) case                  3) example                4) action

4. Processing old materials to use them again is called ………………….. .

    1) industry          2) recycling            3) technology             4) extinction

5. Even a little extra warming may cause problems for the ……… in which we live.

   1) space            2) ocean            3) environment           4) climate

6. This ………………… is suitable for growing different plants and fruits.

   1) scene           2) pace              3) region                    4) capacity

7. He injured his leg on a broken ……………………… .

   1) heart          2) planet              3) climate                  4) bottle

8. It's a new device that changes ……………… energy, coming from the sunlight, into electricity.

    1) global         2) solar                3) chemical                4) nuclear

9. All the roads ending from the capital to the north of the country have blocked by heavy ……………… .

   1) snowfall        2) weather               3) darkness                4) nightfall

10. The children are usually affected by the ………………… in which they grow up.

  1) excitement        2) environment       3) flexibility              4) audience

11. Nowadays solar energy can be used to ……………. building and water.

  1) save                2) produce            3) burn               4) heat

12. Food vitamins are often destroyed in the ……………. of cooking.

   1) calorie            2) condition            3) content          4) process

13. I think David acted quite ……………. in dealing with the serious problem.

   1) constantly      2) basically              3) wisely           4) regularly 

14. You can use the word " …………… " to describe something that happens in all parts of the world or affects all parts of the world.

  1) active          2) global         3) conscious               4) powerful

15. The doctors advised him to move to a warmer ……………….. after his operation.

  1) content        2) occasion     3) trap                      4) climate

16. Aren't you ……………… about your child's health? Why do you let him eat everything he finds?

  1) reduced      2) mild         3) straight                  4) concerned

17. The people in the hotel were ……………… foreign tourists.

   1) firmly     2) efficiently       3) mainly                   4) successfully

18. To stop smoking can ………………… the risk of heart illness.

   1) reduce        2) increase    3) trap                      4) recycle

19. He gave me a ………………… that such a behavior would never happen again.

    1) pattern      2) bracket      3) guarantee          4) definition

20. I don't like this job. I feel ………………. in it.

   1) compared     2) reduced    3) protected           4) trapped

B: Fill in the blanks with the best word given.

        ( concern – produce – warning – reduce – trash – recycled)

 21. Doctors have advised us to ……………….. the amount of fat in our diets.

22. Old newspapers can be ………………….. .

23. Their main …………………………. is unemployment.

24. It's …………………….. ; you can throw it away.

25. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and ……………………. oxygen.

C: For each definition write the correct word. ( the letter is given)

26. make something happen                                      c - - - -

27. a colorless gas with no smell that can be burned to give heat   m - - - - - -

28. damage caused to water, air, etc by harmful materials   p - - - - - - - -

29. trap                                                                     k - - -

30. how hot or cold something is.                                    t - - - - - - - - - -

D: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer.

         Scientists and researchers from different fields tell us that the possible effects of climate change could be big and, in some cases, would cause serious problems. Among the possible effects are increased number of deaths, extinction of group of animals and plants, and a dangerous rise in sea levels. With this in mind, we have to think the costs of action and weigh them against the risk of inaction.

31. What does the underlined sentence mean in the above paragraph?

It means we should ……………………. of action and inaction.

        1) weigh the heaviness                 2) be against the risks

        3) realize the importance              4) think about the weight

32. The word "………….." in this paragraph refers to the death of a particular kind of living things.

    1) serious          2) increase            3) extinction            4) risk

33. What is the best heading for this paragraph?

     1) The Importance of Animals            2) Tomorrow maybe Late

      3) To be a Scientist                         4) A Healthy Weight

E: Cloze Passage: Choose the best choice.

         Javad's hair was too long. He went to a ………..34……. and ask him to ………….35…….. his hair, but when he came out, he was not happy with the …….36……. . His friend saw him. He laughed and said, "what's happened to your ……37………?

Javad said, "I tried a new shop today because the old one was not good, but this one was even ………38…….. .  

34.    1) repairman        2) scientist           3) barber         4) baker

35.    1) pulled             2) serviced           3) cut              4) polluted

36.    1) result             2) average           3) problem       4) program

37.    1) leg                 2) tooth               3) neck           4) hair

38.    1) better            2) nicer                 3) nearer        4) worse

F: Read the sentences and choose the best answer.

39. When scientists talk about the climate change, they are concerned about global warming caused by human activities.   According to this sentence, …………………………… .

1)     human activities have made the Earth warmer

2)     people are more worried about global warming than scientists

3)     climate change is the same as global warming

4)     scientists study global warming in order not to be influenced by human activities

40. Climate is the average of a region's weather over a period of time. For example, it is possible that a winter day in a city could be sunny and mild, but the average weather tells us that its winters will mainly be cold and include snow and rain.  

In the last line its refers to …………………… .

    1) weather       2) sunny             3) city                  4) climate

. . . M Y   D A D

What Children Think of their DAD

Fourteen years old: Don't pay any attention to my dad. He is so old-fashioned.

Twenty-one years old: Him? My Lord, he's hopelessly out of date.

Twenty-five years old: Dad knows about it, but then he should, because he has been around so long.

Thirty years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he's had a lot of experience.

Thirty-five years old: I'm not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.

Forty years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise.

Fifty years old: I'd give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn't appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him