Bài tập Unit 15 - Sách Mai Lan Hương

UNIT 15 : Space Conquest
TEST 1
PRONUNCIATION
Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others.
a. foot 	b. moon 	c. look 	d. would
a. gravity 	b. aspiration 	c. biography 	d. possible
a. technical 	b. conquest 	c. psychology 	d. launched
a. national 	b. venture 	c. fortunate 	d. suggestion
a. support 	b. shuttle 	c. success 	d. venture
LANGUAGE FOCUS
Choose the word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon ______ 20 July 1969.
a. in 	b. at 	c. on 	d. of
She is never satisfied ______ what she's got.
a. to 	b. with 	c. for 	d. in .
In 1961 Yuri Gagarin lifted ______ into space aboard the Vostok 1.
a. off 	b. up 	c. on 	d. Ø 
After landing, the team members were greeted like ______ heroes.
a. conquer 	b. conquering 	c. conqueror 	d. conquest
No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space.
a. exactly 	b. clearly 	c. carefully 	d. vividly
Neil Armstrong, an American ______, was the first man to step on the moon's surface.
a. scientist 	b. cosmonaut 	c. astronaut 	d. astronomer
The 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in ______.
a. weight 	b. weighting 	c. weightless 	d. weightlessness
About 100 Russian satellites are the earth. 
a. flying 	b. orbitting 	c. traveling 	d. circuiting
Many people are demonstrating to express their ______ with the new land law.
a. satisfied 	b. satisfactory 	c. satisfaction 	d. dissatisfaction
The astronauts were able to send the information back to the earth.
a. spaceships 	b. space stations 	c. spacemen 	d. space shots
Choose the word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence.
No one is better cook than his mother, ______?
a. is she 	b. isn't she 	c. are they 	d. aren’t they
Do it right now, ______?
a. will you 	b. shall you 	c. do you 	d. don't you
There are no easy ways to learn a foreign language, ______?
a. are they 	b. are there 	c. aren't they 	d. aren't there
He seldom goes to the library, ______? 
a. doesn’t he 	b. is he 	c. does he 	d. isn’t he
Let's go for a long walk, ______?
a. will we 	b. shall we 	c. don't you 	d. do you
I'd lost my key, so I ______ the door when I got home.
a. could lock 	b. wasn't able to lock 
c. couldn't unlock 	d. was able to unlock
When Mr. Lee was younger, he ______ work in the garden for hours.
a. has got to 	b. should be able to 	c. can 	d. could
Yesterday I ______ to a furniture store. I bought a new lamp there.
a. could go 	b. could have gone 	c. went 	d. ought to have gone
Do you think there ______ less conflict in the world if all people ______ the same language?
a. would be/ spoke 	b. were/ would speak
c. were/ spoke 	d. would have been/ had spoken
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, ______ eleven times the size of the earth. 
a. being 	b. has 	c. is 	d. having
Choose the word or phrase - A, B, C or D -that needs correcting.
26. After the stock market crash of 1929, less people were able to find 
 A B (fewer) C 
Employment
 D
27. The average temperature on Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, is
 A B C
about eighty degrees than colder on Earth.
 D (colder than)
28. Halley's comet was named of the astronomer Edmund Halley, who
 A (named after)
was the first to realize that some comets appear in regular cycles.
 B C D
29. A number of people still wants to apply for the position of accountant in
 A B (want) C D
that company.
30. If I were a little taller I could be astronaut, but I don't meet the 
 A B C D
height requirement. (an astronaut)
READING
Fill in each blank space with one appropriate from the box.
manned seriously affected space radiation groundless
weightlessness harmless journey flown appeared effects
Before man had (31) flown in space it was thought that his physical and mental capabilities might be (32) affected by long periods of (33) weightlessness,and that he might be endangered by high levels of (34) radiation. Yuri Gagariri's first (35) space flight in April 1961 showed that man could live in space and, although this (36) journey only lasted for 108 minutes, it gave encouragement to those interested in the future of (37) manned space flight. In fact most of the early fears about man's health in space have proved (38) groundless, and although several odd medical (39) effects have been observed, none has (40) seriously affected man's ability for useful work.
Read the passage carefully, then decide whether the following statements are true (1) or false IF).
Throughout history there have been many great explorers. Have you, for example, heard of Marco Polo, the famous Italian traveler? He was the first European to travel to China. He arrived in China in the late 13th century. About 200 years later, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain by ship. He was looking for a new way to reach India. However, as you probably know, he didn't reach India. He landed in America. Five hundred years after Columbus in the' 1930s a famous explorer named Richard Byrd was one of the first persons to fly over both the North and the South Poles. Today we continue to explore this world and are studying to explore other worlds, too. In the 1930s Russian and American scientists sent many unmanned spacecraft to the moon. These spacecraft sent back very valuable information about the moon. Then on July 16th 1969 the first manned spaceship to the moon left earth. On that day Apollo 11 blasted off with three American astronauts on board. Four days after blast-off, two of these astronauts landed on the moon. They later explored the surface of the moon. About two days after landing on the moon, they started back to the earth. They arrived safely back on earth a few days later. Today we are sending unmanned spacecraft to other planets. In the future, we might walk on Mars or Venus the way we did on the moon. We might even travel to other galaxies. Who knows? One thing we know for sure is that we will continue to explore this world and other worlds, too.
Marco Polo traveled from England to China in the late 13th century. F
While he was looking for India, Christopher Columbus reached America. T
In the 19thcentury Richard Byrd flew over both the North and the South Poles. F
Unmanned spacecraft went to the ,moon before manned spacecraft did. T
Apollo 11 was the first manned spaceship to go to the moon. 	 T
Apollo 11 was damaged in the blast. F
All of the American astronauts on the spaceship landed on and explored the surface of the moon. F
Today we are sending spacecraft with astronauts on board to other planets. F
WRITING
Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence.
______ by meteorites whose impact formed craters of all size.
a. The surface of the moon was shaped
b. The moon whose surface shaped
c. The surface of the shaped moon
d. The surface was forming the shape of the moon
Many craters on the earth's surface were probably formed by very large meteorites ______.
a. when smashed into the ground was an explosion
b. which smashed into the ground and an explosion
c. smashing into the ground and exploding
d. they smashed into the ground and exploded
Throughout history, the moon has inspired not only song and dance ______.
a. but poetry and prose as well 	b. but poetry also prose
c. together with poetry and prose 	d. and also poetry and prose
Claudius Ptolemy, ______ of the first century A.D., left a good description of the geocentric theory.
a. he was an astronomer and a philosopher
b. being an astronomer and a philosopher
c. an astronomer and who was a philosopher
d. who was an astronomer and a philosopher
______ the fifth largest among the nine planets that make up our solar system.
a. The Earth being 	b. The Earth is 
c. That the Earth is 	d. Being the Earth
If my aunt had not fallen down yesterday, ______.
a. her legs would not be hurting now
b. she can walk normally now 
c. she does not have to go on crutches now
d. she would not have been painful now
Glass that has been tempered may be up to ______.
a. as hard as ordinary glass five times 
b. five times as hard as ordinary glass
c. hard as ordinary glass five times 
d. ordinary glass as hard as five times