Bài 1 :
1. Complete the gaps in the stories about discoveries 1-8 with the words in the box. Which sentence do you think is false?
(Hoàn thành những chỗ trống trong câu chuyện về những khám phá từ 1-8 bằng những từ trong khung. Theo bạn câu nào là sai?)
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capsule – drug – electricity – headaches – life – microchip – radar – species
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1
People invented the wheel more than 5,000 years ago. Recently, in a survey of the most important inventions of all time, people chose the wheel, the internet and _____.
2
Before Robert Watson- Watt designed a modern _____ system, people had more primitive methods for detecting an enemy.
3
John Pemberton was a pharmacist who hoped to cure _____ with a mixture of coca leaves and cola nuts. An assistant accidentally added water, creating a drink which later became Coca-Cola.
4
We have been exploring space since the 1960s. Nowadays, scientists are researching how we can adapt to _____ in space in the future.
5
In 1865, Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon. In this story, he imagined astronauts travelling from Florida to the moon in an aluminium _____. In 1969, that really happened.
6
People sometimes experiment with their own bodies. Professor Kevin Warwick implanted a _____ into his arm and into his wife’s arm. Now, when she feels something, he feels it too.
7
When researchers develop a new _____ they often use animals to test it, but they also pay people - ‘human guinea pigs’. These people stay in comfortable clinics and receive good care while they do this risky job.
8
Scientists identify approximately 18,000 new _____ every year. In 2015, they discovered this beautiful sea creature near Japan. They also found the fossil of a unicorn, which has become extinct.
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