Science technology

Science technology can be found in nearly all aspects of everyday life. For instance, if electricity had never been discovered, electric appliances, heaters, lights, and television would never exist. Electronic components found in radios, televisions, watches, and calculators are now smaller and more reliable than before. Advances in electronics are responsible for what is called the computer age. Because of the computer technology, information can be processed in seconds.

At one time, computers were extremely expensive. They were rarely found outside the laboratories and large businesses. Since they are now more economically made, computers can be found in many homes, schools, stores, and libraries. Computers facilitate travel plans by providing travel agents with easy access to flight schedules, prices, and seating availability. Businesses use computers to track inventory, purchase and sell stocks, calculate payrolls and perform many other functions. Computers are also used as educational devices in schools, to monitor home-heating systems, and to guide satellite and space probes. In the future computers may have microprocessors produced in outer space, because the environment there is devoid of the Earth’s dust and gravitational forces.

The battle against disease and illness has also gained much from science. Safer surgical procedures are now in use including those for organ transplantation and coronary bypass surgery. Many procedures have been improved because of the development of specialized medical instruments. Some instruments enable physicians to see inside the body without making a single incision. Others can carry out essential bodily functions, such as pumping blood or breathing. Medical researches are making progress toward the production of artificial blood, which may eventually eliminate the threat of contracting diseases transmitted during blood transfusions. One such disease is acquired immune deficiency syndrome, also know as AIDS. This fatal disease attacks the immune system, rendering it incapable of warding off infections.

Elliot Mitchell, Science teacher, Latin School of Chicago

I- COMPREHENSION

15 points

A. Answer these questions: (4 points)

1. How is science technology present in our daily life?

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2. What are the advantages of using computers?

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3. Which example shows that medical instruments have become better?

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4. How can artificial blood contribute to diseases’ elimination?

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B. Are these sentences true or false? JUSTIFY (4 points)

1. The computer age is due to the progress of electronics.

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2. Computers are still expensive to manufacture now.

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3. Space exploration doesn’t make use of computers.

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4. Doctors are unable to see inside the body without cutting it.

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C. What do the underlined words in the text refer to: (3 points)

1. there (paragraph 2)

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2. Others (paragraph 3)

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3. it (paragraph 3)

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D. Find in the Find in the text words or expressions which mean the same as: (4 points)

1. machines (paragraph 1)

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2. planned programme (paragraph 2)

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3. buy (paragraph 2)

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4. deadly (paragraph 3)

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II-LANGUAGE:

(15 points)

A. Rewrite the following sentences beginning with the words given (5 points)

1. It isn’t compulsory that the patient takes three pills per day

The patient…………………………………………………………………

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2. The manager has dismissed the new secretaries

The new secretaries……………………………………………………………

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3. Although the doctor prescribed Samir 5 tablets a day, he took more than 10.

In spite of………………………………………………………………...........

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4. Physics is the scientific study of forces and qualities such as light, sound, pressure and gravity

Physics can……………………………………………………………………

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5. “Why don’t you have a rest for a while!” Said Samir to his brother

Samir suggested………………………………………………………………..

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B. Choose the right vocabulary item and fill in the blanks: (4 points)

elicits uninterested illicit disinterested

1. I don’t think the TV presenter was fair and …………………. Rather, he was totally biased.

2. It is………………………. to sell and consume drugs. It is punished by the law

ensure negligent assure negligible

3. This type of training will ………………..…… or guarantee you a brilliant future.

4. “Stop being indifferent to your studies! You’re such a ………………boy!” Said the mother to her son.

C. Put in the appropriate Article where necessary: (3 points)

1. Mother: “ Karim, today’s ……3rd of July! Your birthday! I’ve got ……. present for you”

Karim : “Oh my God! What’s ……. nice surprise! Thanks mum !”

2. Manager: “Sophie, bring me ……….. report I asked you to finish yesterday!”

Sophie: “right now, Sir. (to her colleague) No way!…… secretaries are

…… time busy!”

D. Match the sentences in “A” with what they express in “B”: (3 points)

III- WRITING: (10 points)

Not only does technology have advantages but also some disadvantages. Write an essay and show how technological machines, vehicles, instruments…etc affect badly our modern life

(cars, planes, TV, phone, ….)

II- COMPREHENSION

15 points

A. Answer these questions: (4 points)

1. How is science technology present in our daily life?

Through electric appliances (heaters, light, TV…)

2. What are the advantages of using computers?

-They facilitate travel plans by providing travel agents with easy access to flight schedules…

-They are used in business to track inventory, purchase and sell stocks…

-They are used in schools, to monitor home-heating systems

-They are used to guide satellite ad space probes

3. Which example shows that medical instruments have become better?

Some instruments enable physicians to see inside the body without making a single incision.

4. How can artificial blood contribute to diseases’ elimination?

by avoiding to contract diseases transmitted during blood transfusions.

-blood transfusion is the direct cause of contracting diseases.

age.)

B. Are these sentences true or false? JUSTIFY (4 points)

1. The computer age is due to the progress of electronics.

True (advances in electronics are responsible for what is called the computer 2. Computers are still expensive to manufacture now.

False (Since they are now more economically made)

3. Space exploration doesn’t make use of computers.

False (to guide satellite and space probes)

4. Doctors are unable to see inside the body without cutting it.

False (enable physicians to see inside the body without making a single incision

C. What do the underlined words in the text refer to: (3 points)

1. there (paragraph 2)

outer space

2. Others (paragraph 3)

Some instruments

3. it (paragraph 3)

the immune system

D. Find in the Find in the text words or expressions which mean the same as: (4 points)

1. machines (paragraph 1)

appliances

2. planned programme (paragraph 2)

schedule

3. buy (paragraph 2)

purchase

4. deadly (paragraph 3)

fatal

II-LANGUAGE:

(15 points)

A. Rewrite the following sentences beginning with the words given (5 points)

1. It isn’t compulsory that the patient takes three pills per day

The patient doesn’t have to take three pills per day.

2. The manager has dismissed the new secretaries

The new secretaries have been dismissed.

3. Although the doctor prescribed Samir 5 tablets a day, he took more than 10.

In spite of the doctor’s prescription (5 tablets a day), Samir took more than 10.

4. Physics is the scientific study of forces and qualities such as light, sound, pressure and gravity

Physics can be defined as the scientific study of forces and qualities such as light, sound, pressure and gravity.

5. “Why don’t you have a rest for a while!” Said Samir to his brother

Samir suggested………………………………………………………………..

Samir suggested that his brother should have a rest fro while.

B. Choose the right vocabulary item and fill in the blanks: (4 points)

elicits uninterested illicit disinterested

1. I don’t think the TV presenter was fair and disinterested. Rather, he was totally biased.

2. It is illicit to sell and consume drugs. It is punished by the law

ensure negligent assure negligible

3. This type of training will ensure or guarantee you a brilliant future.

4. “Stop being indifferent to your studies! You’re such a negligent boy!” Said the mother to her son.

C. Put in the appropriate Article where necessary: (3 points)

1. Mother: “ Karim, today’s the 3rd of July! Your birthday! I’ve got a present for you”

Karim : “Oh my God! What’s a nice surprise! Thanks mum !”

2. Manager: “Sophie, bring me the report I asked you to finish yesterday!”

Sophie: “right now, Sir. (to her colleague) No way O secretaries are

the time busy!”

D. Match the sentences in “A” with what they express in “B”: (3 points)

III- WRITING: (10 points)

Not only does technology have advantages but also some disadvantages. Write an essay and show how technological machines, vehicles, instruments…etc affect badly our modern life

(cars, planes, TV, phone, ….)

Try to pay attention to

· The layout

· Paragraph organization

· Paragraph building (techniques of developing a paragraph)

· Diction

· Writing mechanisms (grammar, spelling, punctuation...etc)

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Advantages of technology

Topic sentence

Technological innovation is critical to our progress for many reasons.

Developing sentences

First and foremost, technology fuels sustainable economic expansion –creating high-wage jobs, world-class exports, and driving productivity and growth so critical to our long-term global competitiveness. Second, innovations also improve our quality of life... from new drugs and cures that help people live longer and healthier lives, to agricultural advances that permit more bountiful harvests with less herbicides and pesticides. Third, advances in technology are vital to our efforts to protect our homeland, hardening our infrastructure, detecting dangers, and empowering our defenders. Finally, energy innovations are the key to meeting our future power needs while protecting our environment, and technology holds extraordinary promise for the future of education. To sum up ,……

Concluding sentence

To sum up, by importing technological gadgets from around the world we help improve the standard of living of all the people living in our country.

Disadvantages of technology

Topic sentence

On the other hand, dangerous technology has no single clear definition, but includes at least, in roughly rising order of potential danger: First, ….

Concluding sentence

To conclude, the prevalence of such dangerous technology efforts to discover, invent, or improve it, lead some to argue for a more conscientious use of this useful, yet very dangerous weapon.