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Questions. Module 3. Science and society. Grammar revision. Verb. Passive forms. 1. Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using ‘people’, ‘somebody’, or ‘they’, write a passive sentence with an appropriate verb form.
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Questions
1. According to the passage, where is “the most expensive house” located?
a. on the surface of Mars
b. Hollywood, CA
c. circling above Earth
d. New York City
2. Which of the following sequences shows the construction of the ISS in the correct order?
a. Operating systems and hardware were built, then living quarters were delivered, then the first residents arrived, then docks for incoming spacecraft were added.
b. Operating systems and hardware were built, then docks for incoming spacecraft were added, then living quarters were delivered, then the first residents arrived.
c. Living quarters were built, then operating systems and hardware were delivered, then docks for incoming spacecraft were added, then the first residents arrived.
d. Docks for incoming spacecraft were built, then living quarters were delivered, then operating systems and hardware were delivered, then the first residents arrived.
3. The countries that worked together to build the ISS did not originally plan to build a shared space station. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?
a. “Many different governments cooperated in order to plan and build the ISS, including the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Europe. ”
b. “By combining forces, they reasoned, they could split the cost of constructing a space station, and also share resources while onboard the station. ”
c. “Many countries used their spacecraft to deliver the parts for the ISS, little by little, into space. ”
d. “These entities decided to work together on the project only after developing plans independently for related space projects. ”
4. What has helped make the ISS mission successful so far?
a. Money collected from space tourists.
b. People from many countries working together.
c. Competition between the United States and Russia.
d. Money donated by America to pay for the ISS.
5. What is this passage mostly about?
a. The construction and mission of the ISS.
b. The most expensive houses in the world.
c. How astronauts can live on this ISS.
d. The financial cost of building the ISS.
Module 3
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Academic Word List: access, adequate, adjust, alter, amend, annual, apparent, approximate, attitude, attribute, aware, capacity, challenge, clause, commit, communicate, compound, concentrate, confer, cycle, decline, despite, dimension, discrete, domestic, draft, emerge, enable, enforce, entity, equivalent, error, ethnic, evolve, expand, expose, external, facilitate, generate, generation, goal, grant, hence, hypothesis, implement, implicate, impose, integrate, internal, investigate, license, margin, mental, modify, monitor, network, notion, objective, obvious, occupy, output, overall, perspective, precise, predict, prime, principal, prior, promote, pursue, ratio, reject, resolve, retain, revenue, series, stable, subsequent, substitute, summary, sustain, target, transit, undertake, welfare, whereas
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GRAMMAR REVISION
Verb. Passive Forms
1. Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using ‘people’, ‘somebody’, or ‘they’, write a passive sentence with an appropriate verb form.
Example: We can solve the problem. = The problem can be solved.
1. Someone had reported the theft to the police. 2. Someone has given £ 1, 000 to the charity. 3. Someone will demonstrate the program to the students. 4. Someone explained the procedure to me. 5. People are destroying large areas of forest every day. 6. Somebody has bought the land next to the university. 7. I hope they will have completed all the marking by tomorrow. 8. They should have finished the library by the time you arrive. 9. People expect better results soon. 10. Students should send their complaints to the head of department. 11. They had to postpone the lecture because of illness. 12. An electrical fault could have caused the fire. 13. They are going to hold next year's conference in Birmingham. 14. Everyone knows this fact very well. 15. You must write the answers on the examination paper in black ink.
2. Active to Passive: Convert the following sentences into passive ones.
Example: This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of a world court of justice. = In this paper the advantages and disadvantages of a world court of justice are considered .
1. In this paper, we address the need to promote awareness. 2. We summarize the latest developments in search engines. 3. This survey has highlighted the urgency of the situation. 4. This work aims to find an alternative to school education. 5. We have not included details on this progress in this document. 6. In Section 4 we attempt to make some sense of these findings. 7. Future work will deal with this aspect. 8. One of the advantages of PCA analysis is that it enables one to classify new samples quickly.
3. Passive to Active: convert the following sentences into active ones.
Example: In the Methodology, it is shown how to follow the steps. = In the Methodology, we show how to follow the steps.
1. All the relevant values are reported in Table 1. 2. The results are shown in Figure 2. 3. This quantity was determined from the values in Table 2. 4. This meant that the values could be determined. 5. The model was built in accordance with Smith and Jones. 6. An increase in the speed that the reader can read the paper was recorded. 7. Ten datasets were generated. 8. In the present study, a new methodology for solving the meaning of life was developed.
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