unit 9

Vocabulary

1- Cancer is a terrible...................... that people of any age can get. (P T)

                  a- toxic                 b- ill           c -sick                d - illness

2- Our house has been much less hot since my father .................... air conditioning. (P T)

              a- put           b- did                   c -installed               d- made

3- It is not always easy to get a mobile phone………… in the desert. (P T)

           a- sign              b- noise                 c- signal                  d- side

4- The police do not know the……….. of the accident in the street yesterday. (P T)

               a- challenge                   b -reason                 c -cause                  d -benefit

5- The light from the sun that damages our skin is.................... . You can't see it. (P T)

            a- interrupted                b- informed                 c -irrational                 d -invisible

6- We get the signal for our mobile phones from that tall................. on the hill. (P T)

                    a_ match                   b- mast             c- maze                d- post

7- Most scientists agree that human activity is the .................... of global warming.

                  a) Result                  b) reason              c) cause                        d) case

8- Our English teacher wants us to form a................ between our school and a school in England.

               a-tie                   b-clash               c-sign                  d-link

9- It is sometimes difficult to get a telephone....................... in remote parts of the country.

           a-signal               b-pole             c-sign                     d-note

10- Diabetes is a/an......................... which affects a lot of people.

               a-injury                b-wound                c-illness                   d-condition

11- Hala's grandmother is very ill. She has ..............................

              a-cancer               b-headache               c-dizziness                d-seasickness

12--They have put a new telephone......................... on the roof of that building.

             a-stick                b-mast                    c-signal                d-pole

13-- My mother bought a new washing machine and my uncle is going to ............... it this evening.

               a-fix                 b-install               c-repair                 d-do

14-- The car should not be parked there so the police will have it ... removed... .

             a-fixed                  b-removed                  c-cleaned                    d-serviced

15- You can see some air pollution, but a lot of it is ........................

              a) visible                b) visual                   c) invisible                  d) vision

16- Children grow fast and ..........................a lot of weight in their teenage years.

              a) win               b) gain                 c) beat                         d) earn

17- It is not usually possible to .....................zoo animals into the wild, because they would not know how to survive.

                     a-capture                   b-release                c-hunt                     d-launch

18- It was a long and difficult ......................to build the bridge, but cars can use it now.

               a) operation            b) production              c) process               d)processing.

19- I wrote a letter to my friend so the language was very ……………..

                a-impolite               b-unintelligent              c-informal               d-incapable.

20- Tarek fell off his bike this morning, but fortunately he was ....... ………………...

              a-injured                   b-infected                  c-wounded                    d-uninjured

21- This timetable is very old and the information is ..................

                a-informal                   b-inaccurate            c-impossible              d-unintelligent

22- It is ...... …….. to eat with your mouth open.

             a-impatient                  b-inaccurate              c-impolite                      d-impossible

23- The primary school children were very noisy and the teacher started to be ...... ………..

            a-impatient                  b- unintelligent                   c-polite                   d-patient

24-A tour guide cannot be ....... ….. because he or she meets so many different people from many different countries.

            a-polite                           b-intolerant                  c-intelligent                   d-patient

25- Scientists do not think that all animals are ........ ……... Some of them are very clever.

                 a-unintelligent                  b-inaccurate                    c-impatient               d-impolite

26- The …………of the experiment surprised everyone.

                 a) Result                    b) reason                    c) cause                      d) case

27- You will never ………….. Much if you don’t work hard .

                    a) take                b) achieve                 c) disprove                        d) admit

28- At school , students learn many subjects , but when they get to university they usually…….

                 a) economise                  b) nationalise                 c) specialise                       d) recognise

29- Scientists often do experiments to prove a particular ……………

                a) writing                         b) look                   c) conflict                   d) theory

30- I found playing the guitar very difficult at first ,but in the last two weeks I’ve ……improved

              a) regularly                  b) slowly                     c) gradually                             d ) mentally

31- People who have ………….must be very careful about what they eat .

                   a) fitness                b) diabetes                   c) cancer                  d) amnesia

32- ………….anyone can travel to the moon .

               a) Theoretically              b) practically                  c) Really               d) Privately

33- I’m eating less than usual because I don’t want to ………..too much weight

               a) achieve                  b) gain                c) beat                       d) earn

34- Scientists test their ………………..by doing experiments

               a) searches                        b) processes                    c) operations                   d) theories

35- When the earth moves , it causes earthquakes .This is a completely natural ……..

              a) process                    b) amount                  c) book                      d) weight

36- A huge ………….of water came down the river and flooded the city .

                  a) number                b) amount                     c) quality                d) lot

37- We visit our grandparents ……………We see them every Monday .

                 a) gradually               b) regular                    c) regularly                      d) totally

38- The little boy who was hiding behind the door thought he was ……….but you could just see the top of his head

              a) visible                   b) visual               c) invisible                           d) vision

39-She has been …………... since she was a child.

               a-diabetes                        b-sugary                c-diabetic                   d-honey

40-There was a…………... improvement in her school work

               a- bad               b-rapid                 c-terrible                   d-gradual

41-My doctor didn’t know what was wrong with me, so he sent me to see a………………..

                 a-scientist                     b-specialist                     c-geologist                        d-botanist

42-after working for 10hours, I feel as I have ………….nothing.

                    a-achieved                      b-launched                    c-succeeded                              d-acknowledge

43. Most secondary school teachers ................ in one or two subjects.

                  a- specialise                b- work                  c- achieve                         d- concentrate

44. Experiments are used to test scientific ................ .

                  a- thoughts                     b- processes                c- models                  d- theories

45-The patient has to control how much sugar he eats because he has ..........

                a) influenza              b) amnesia                    c) cancer                       d) diabetes

46-Salma intends to .........................in criminal law when she goes to law school.

                       a) specialise                    b) achieve                     c) gain                         d) release

47- After the storm, there was a huge ................ of water on the roads.

                    a) floods               b) number                 c) amount                         d) lot

48. Her parents ................ have meetings with the teachers at her school.

               a) totally                  b) gradually                       c) slowly                  d) regularly

49- Trees go through the …………… of growing and losing leaves every year.

              a) problem            b) production                          c) process                       d) product.

50-In…………, everyone has to pay tax. .

             a) theorem               b) threat                c) theory                  d) therapy

51. The spotted skin of the frog renders it almost ……………………. to its enemies.

          a. intelligent              b. invisible              c. impossible                 d. informal