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20. Write a personal letter to your friend living abroad on one of the following topics “How I took part in an academic activity or event”; “How is scientific knowledge changing nowadays?”. Write at least 250 words.
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20. Write a personal letter to your friend living abroad on one of the following topics “How I took part in an academic activity or event”; “How is scientific knowledge changing nowadays? ”. Write at least 250 words.
SELF-STUDY ACTIVITIES
21. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: past simple, present perfect.
1. We ________(be) informed that you are an expert in the field. 2. Since my last email to you I ________ (ascertain) that… 3. John ________(phone) and ________ (say) that… 4. Lara Fortress ________ (call) this morning. 5. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you but I ________ (be) out of the office last week. 6. For some reason my last email ________ (have) delivery problems. So, here it is again just in case you ________ (get) it first time round. 7. Sorry I accidentally ________ (hit) the send button. 8. OK, I’m sorry. You are right. I ________ (misunderstand) what you were saying.
22. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: past simple, past continuous.
1. Overall, a preference for symmetry ________ (be) more marked when females ________ (assess) male faces rather than female faces. 2. The study shows that the assistants who ________ (plan)to leave their present employment within the next three months ________ (be) better educated than those who ________ (plan) to stay. 3. Analysis on whether a helmet was ________ (wear) at the time of the accident ________ (show) that no fractures ________ (occur) in the six instances when a helmet ________ (wear). 4. Most of the patients ________ (treat) with no other medications, except for five who ________ (receive) hypnotics. Written informed consent ________ (obtain) from all subjects. 5. Questionnaires ________ (administer) to international travelers departing from Heathrow Airport and who ________ (go) to destinations that were high risk for malaria. 6. In the late 1990s, Rupert Burgess ________ (work) on robotics at the University of Manchester, while I ________ (work) on neo-androids at the University of Sussex. This shared interest ________ (lead) to our joint collaboration.
23. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets: future simple, future continuous.
1. Interest in this technology is growing and managers ________ (see) many “success stories” in this field in the short term. 2. Future users ________ (search) for results which are orders of magnitude longer than those common today. It ________ (be) impractical to store the entire text string in the main memory. 3. You ________ (decide) approximately in what year each text was written. 4. This year, approximately 10 million women ________ (turn) 50, at a rate of 5, 000 per day. Based on the age incidence data for breast cancer, within the next 10 years 269, 000 women per year ________ (be) afflicted with breast cancer. 5. This is going to have major implications for the way languages ________ (be) taught. 6. At a time when more and more people ________ (need) to communicate in a language other than English, the pool of teachers who can teach these languages ________ (shrink). 7. At any time, 3 in 20 of such patients ________ (suffer) from depression. 8. Future work ________ (investigate) how to prevent these accidents from happening.
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24*. Fill in the gaps with the most appropriate words from the list.
primarily, site, re-evaluate, corporations, constantly, credited, technically, obtain, dominant, sequential, negative, institution, unachievable, circumstances, computes, published, assists, residing, illustration, justifiably
1. He was arrested by police in the act of trying to _________ a false passport. 2. Our brain _________ millions of bits of information every second of every day. 3. A human-looking robot which _________ the elderly with daily chores has recently been developed in Japan. 4. My bank has _________ my account with the amount that was mistakenly charged to us without reason. 5. The dream of peace in the Middle East sometimes seems completely _________ given the current poor state of relations between countries in the region. 6. This magazine is _________ aimed at adolescent girls. 7. Liona spent the summer working at an archaeological _________ in the northern part of the province. 8. The downturn in the economy has forced us to _________ our investment goals. 9. Sociologists consider the family to be the most basic social _________ 10. He is from England, but is currently _________ in Australia. 11. 2001 was the first whole year of _________ growth in the economy of Taiwan since 1947. 12. Sophie did a nice _________ of a girl's face in colored pencils for her art class. 13. Studies show that 70% of the world's coffee market is controlled by just four multinational _________. 14. Much evidence exists suggesting that the seafloors are _________ moving, and continually being created and destroyed. 15. Poland was the _________ political power in eastern Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. 16. These ten photos are _________, and were taken over a 10-day period. 17. In 1507, the first map of the Earth was _________ showing the Western Hemisphere. 18. Barry hasn't been doing a very good job at work lately, but I think we have to recognize that this is understandable, given the _________ of his wife's illness. 19. Steve was _________ angry when he found out he had been let go, just so the boss could hire his nephew. 20. Possession of marijuana is _________ illegal, but the police tend to ignore possession of small amounts of the drug.
25*. Choose the correct option: deeply, strictly, strongly, tightly, thoroughly.
1. When writing a user manual only give the information that is strictly / strongly / tightlynecessary and use the simplest possible way to express any concept. 2. All samples were checked deeply / strongly / thoroughlyfor any possible form of contamination. 3. These two findings deeply / strongly / tightlysuggest that formal language represents an easier element for translation than informal language. 4. Human advances during the twentieth century were deeply / strongly / tightlylinked with an unprecedented rise in total energy consumption… 5. We find these results to be deeply / strongly / thoroughlydisturbing and they deeply / strongly / tightlysuggest that parents need to take more control over what websites their children have access to. 6. This topic has not been investigated deeply / strongly / thoroughly. Taken together, the data demonstrate that lipocalin 2 is strictly / strongly / thoroughl y induced by TLR stimuli, and that it has an important function in innate defense against bacterial infections. 7. A / P is deeply / strictly / stronglydependent on the degree of oxidation, degradation and polymerization. 18. After analyzing all the results strictly / strongly / thoroughly, we conclude that this polymerase is deeply / tightly / thoroughlybound to the nuclear matrix.
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