UNIT 3 PEOPLES BACKGROUND

UNIT 3. PEOLE’S BACKGROUND
I. Choose the word that has the letter (s) pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. background
B. about
C. harbour
D. founding
2. A. scientist
B. institute
C. radium
D. tragic
3. A. private
B. diploma
C. scientist
D. writer
4. A. education
B. humanitarian
C. tutor
D. subject
5. A. received
B. worked
C. obtained
D. harboured
6. A. harbour
B. hour
C. h obby
D. h usband
7. A. born
B. world
C. for k
D. shor t
8. A. radium

B. atomic
C. mature
D. attend
9. A. place
B. name
C. exam
D. agency
10. A. conditions
B. colours
C. hobbies
D. dislikes
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

A. sufering
A. professor
A. detail
A. chemistry
A.education
A. determine
A. death
A. general

A. memorial
A. letter

B. determine
B. remember
B. expensive
B. prepare
B. experience
B. become
B. dream
B. extremely
B. essay
B. secondary

C. terrible
C. attention
C. bracket
C. receive
C. intelligent
C. together
C. ease
C. degree
C. economics
C. centre

D. service
D. behind
D. everyone
D. degree
D. general

D. basketball
D. repeat
D. research
D. return
D. certificate

21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.

A. language
A. specialisation
A. family
A. basketball
A. travel
A. career
A. awarded
A. imagine
A. private
A. mature

B. package
B. background

B. romantic
B. dancing
B. marry
B. mature
B. academic
B. classmate
B. champion
B. married

C. mathematics
C. radium
C. example
C. handbag
C. champion
C. tragic
C. address
C. ambitious
C. calculation
C. tragic

D. marvelous
D. humane
D. paragraph
D. carpet
D. diploma
D. abroad
D. another
D. humanitarian
D. manage
D. travel

II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others
1. A. background
B. career
C. harbour
2. A. scientific
B. difficulty
C. education
3. A. obtain
B. mature
C. award
4. A. ambitious
B. atomic
C. brilliant
5. A. professor
B. champion
C. institute
6. A. secondary
B. impossible
C. conditional
7. A. sufering
B. general
C. interrupt
8. A. position
B. another
C. determine
9. A. tragic
B. severe
C. tutor
10. A. primary

B. diploma
C. interview

D. private
D. mathematics
D. sufer
D. determine
D. exactly
D. intelligent
D. brilliant
D. appearance
D. humane
D. favourite

III. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the
underlined word or phrase.
1. Marie Curie was born................November 7, 1867.
A. in
B. from
C. at
D. on
2. The new surgeon will ...................her post in May.
A. go on
B. get over
C. take up
D. look after
3. Computer models help to determine whether a particular area is likely to flood.
A. make up
B. find out
C. take over

D. put up
4. He took …………the position that his father had obtained at the college.
A.on
B. to
C. up
D. in


5. Let me give you a little .................................about the president of the company.
A. specialization
B. concentration
C. background
D. degree
6. Jane is always determined to do anything she wants. She's a.....................woman.
A. ambitious
B. strong-willed
C. brilliant
D. humane
7. He passed his exams with flying colour.
A. successfully
B. difficultly
C. badly
D. easily
8. She harbored her hope of being a teacher.
A. gave up her hope of being a teacher
B. had her hope of being a teacher
C. kept her hope of being a teacher in her mind D. built her hope of being, a teacher
9. He behaved like an adult. I think he is more.................... than the other boys at his class.
A. intelligent
B. mature

C. ambitious
D. developed
10. The new road should help ......................traffic problems.
A. raise
B. create
C. ease
D. cause
11. The purpose of the test is to ………. the weight of the chemical element.
A.ease
B. interrupt
C. determine
D. receive
12. In the 19th century, it was ………… for a woman to become a doctor.
A. unable
B. impossible
C. couldn’t
D. incapable
13. Marie Curie was …......…..the Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium.
A.won
B. devoted
C. dedicated
D. awarded
14. ………….her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.
A.In spite of
B. Despite of
C. Although
D. However
15. Marie Curie was the first woman ……….. a PhD from the Sorbonne
A. receive
B. to receive

C. received
D. was received
16. There is no................... explanation for what happened.
A. scientist
B. scientific
C. scientifically
D. science
17. We must send ………….aid to the refugees.
A.human
B. humanism
C. humane
D. humanitarian
18. Nowadays, more and more young people want to have a university ………..
A.educate
B. education
C. educator
D. educational
19. When I was young, I received some …….…..training from my father.
A. scientific
B. science
C. scientist
D. scientifically
20. After the …………… death of her husband, Marie Curie took up his position at the Sorbonne.
A.tragic
B. tragedy
C. tragical
D. tragically
IV. Choose the one word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence.
1. The man looked familiar. I ................... him somewhere before.
A. saw

B. have seen
C. had seen
D. see
2. Last night a tornado swept through Rockville. It ................. everything in its path.
A. destroyed
B. was destroyed
C. had destroyed
D. has destroyed
3. When we.........................the bill, we left the restaurant.
A. had paid
B. were paying
C. paid
D. had been paying.
4. When the firework....................of, the dog....................away.
A. had gone/ ran
B. went/ had run
C. went/ ran
D. went/was running
5. After it …………….dry for two months, it rained heavily last night.
A. was
B. has been
C. had been
D. would be
6. When I ……….to visit him, he ……….to work.
A.came / gone
B. came/ had gone
C. had come/went
D. had come/had gone
7. Martin Luther King………….a famous speech "I have a dream" in 1963.
A. made

B. did
C. had made
D. had done
8. Before taking another degree in mathematics, Marie Curie…………..a physics degree.
A. earned
B. had earned
C. was earning
D. has earned
9. I was very nervous about my new job, because I …………… with computers before.
A. never worked
B. worked never
C. had never worked D. never had worked
10. She ……………delighted. She had passed all her exams.
A. had been
B. was
C. had
D. is


11. We didn't go to the cinema because we ……………that film.
A. saw already
B. already saw
C. already had seen D. had already seen
12. I ………………the village because I had been there before.
A. had recognized
B. recognize
C. recognized
D. have recognized
th
13. In the early 20 century, Marie………………the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbonne.

A. had become
B. had became
C. became
D. becomes
14. Marie and Pierre ……………….one year after they met each other in the school of Physics.
A. got married
B. married
C. had got married D. had married
15. Before Pierre Curie died tragically, he …………………..university professor.
A. obtained
B. had obtained C. has obtained D. obtains
16. Before my brother …………………..the university, he had served in the army for 3 years.
A. entered
B. had entered
C. enter
D. was entering
17. When they met again, they ……………each other for 5 years.
A. haven't seen
B. hadn't seen
C. didn't see
D. had seen
18. When the police came, the theft ……………………..
A. had already left
B. leave already
C. has already left D. was already leaving
19. Peter no longer owned a bike. He …………………it.
A. sold
B. had sold
C. sells
D. has sold

20. The guide ……………us tickets for a film, but my husband had already seen it.
A. ofer
B. has ofered
C. ofered
D. had ofered
V. Identify the one underlined word or phrase - A, B, C or D - that mast be changed for the sentence to be
correct.
1. Before she became a film star, she has been a stand-up comedian
A
B C
D
2. She was sad after she reads her boyfriend’s letter.
A
B
C
D
3. Hardly he had entered the office when he realized that he had forgotten his wallet.
A
B
C
D
4. After Son had returned to his house, he was reading a book
A
B
C
D
5. Almost 300 million people had visited America’s national parks every year.
A
B
C

D
6. After Tom ate dinner, he wrote several letters and went to bed
A
B
C
D
7. The manager has finished working on the report last night, and now she will begin to write
A
B
C
D
the other proposal.
8. Hardly did he enter the room when all the lights went out.
A
B
C
D
EXERCISE
9. Peter had already saw that musical before he read the reviews about it.
A
B
C
D
10. John lived in New York since 1960 to 1975, but he is now living in Detroit.
A

B

C

D

11. No one would have attended the lecture if you told the truth about the guest speaker.
A

B

C

D

12. The president went fishing after he has finishes with the conferences .
A
B C
D
13. Champlain founded a base at Port Royal in 1605, and builds a fort at Quebec three years later.
A
B
C
D
14. Before she moved here, Arlene had been president of the organization since four years.
A

B

C

D

15. By the time we got to the party, they were eating everything.
A
B
C
D
16. Before he had come back home, Jack had visited his uncle.
A
B
C
D
17. They have studied English before they went to London.
A
B
C
D
18. By the time the police come, the robber had run away.
A
B
C
D
19. We went out for a walk after we had our dinner.
A
B
C
D
20. Hardly he had entered the office when he realized that he had forgotten his wallet
A
B
C
D

VI. Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank.
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist and chemist, was a courageous and determined woman. She left her
home for Paris to (1) ……………her interest in science. Living in (2)……………, she still (3) ………….to graduate at the
top of her class. She met Perrie Curie shortly after graduation and married him a year later. Together, Perrie and
Marie (4) ………….. the most famous husband and wife partnership in science history. They (5) …………….. the
Radioactive elements, Polonium and Radium. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
1. A. follow
B. take
C. pursue
D. satisfy
2. A. poverty
B. loneliness
C. wealth
D. difficulty
3. A. made
B. managed
C. harboured
D. worked'
4. A. built
B. organized
C. established
D. formed
5. A. discovered
B. invented
C. built
D. made.
VII. Read the passage, then choose the one best answer - a, b, c or d.
Personal computers, or PCs, are an important
part of out eve everyday lives. Many people cannot
imagine life without them. One the most important people in making these machines work is Bill Crams.

Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State. He grew up in a rich family. His parents sent him to a private
school. There he met his business partner, Paul Alien. When they were in the eight were in the eighth grade, they
were
ere writing programs for business computers and making mores.
In 1973, Gates was accepted at Harvard University. His parents were happy. They thought he would get over
his obsession with and become a lawyer like his father. Two years later, Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a
computer program with his friend Allen. They worked eighteen hours a day in 'a dormitory room at Harvard. They
were writing the program that would run one of the first personal computers. In 1975, they created a com pany
called Microsoft to sell their product. Allen became ill with cancer and left Microsoft in 1983. He recovered a few
years later and started his own company. Meanwhile, Microsoft became a giant company. By 1990, at the age of
thirty-four, Gates was the youngest billionaire in the history of the United States. He was the "King of Software".
He achieved his success with a lot of hard work. For more than ten years, he worked sixteen-hour days, seven days
a week. He had a dream and the will to succeed. By 1997, he was the richest man in the United States.
1. According to the writer, …………….
a. people cannot live without personal computers
b. computers play an important part of our lives
c. Bill Gates invented personal computers
D. Bill Gates is the most important people in computer science
2. The words 'dropped out of in line 10 mean
A. graduated from
B. got over
C. took part in
D. stopped taking class at
3. According to the passage, ………………
a. Bill Gate's parents wanted him to become a computer programmer.
b. Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft they want to sell their program for personal computers
c. Paul Alien left Microsoft because he wanted to start his own company.
d. Bill Gates met his business partner at Harvard.
4. How old was Bill Gates when he became the richest man in the United States?
A. 34

B. 51
C. 42
D.44
5. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
a. In a few years, Microsoft became a very large company.
b. Bill Gates and Paul Allen first wrote programs for business computers when they were about fifteen.


c. Bill Gates earned his success by working very hard.
d. Bill Gates is the richest man in the United States.
VIII. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the sentence printed before.
1. In spite of her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard.
A. She worked very hard in difficult conditions.
B. She worked very hard but she still lived in difficult conditions.
C. She worked very hard even though her living conditions were difficult.
D. She worked very hard because her living conditions were difficult.
2. It was impossible to find Toni anywhere.
A. Torn was unable to go anywhere
B. Torn could not be found anywhere.
C. It was possible to find Torn.
D. Torn could go anywhere he liked.
3. Fewer people came to the meeting than we had expected.
A. Too many people came to the meeting.
B. There were more people at the meeting than we had expected.
C. There were not enough seats for all people as we had expected.
D. We had expected more people to come to the meeting.
4. Michael took a deep breath and dived into the water.
A. After Michael had taken a deep breath, he dived into the water.
B. Having taken a deep breath, he dived into the water.
C. After Michael took a deep breath, he had dived into the water.

D. A & B are correct.
5. Steve left before my arrival.
A. When I arrived, Steve had already left.
B. Steve left as soon as I arrived.
C. While Steve was leaving, I arrived.
D. Steve hadn't left until I arrived.
6. Although they were very poor, the children seemed happy.
A. The children seemed unhappy because they were very poor.
B. The children were very poor, so they seemed happy.
C. Despite their poverty, the children seemed happy.
D. The children seemed happy whether they were poor or rich.
7. Although the weather changed, the picnic went ahead as planned.
A. In spite the change in the weather, the picnic went ahead as planned.
B. In spite of the weather changed, the picnic went ahead as planned.
C. In spite the change in the weather, the picnic went ahead as planned.
D. In spite of changing the weather, the picnic went
8. They worked very hard in spite of their old age.
A. Despite they were old, they worked very hard.
B. Although they were old, they worked very hard.
C. Though they were old age, they worked very hard.
D. Even though they old, they worked very hard.
9. He was tired, but he agreed to play tennis.
A. Although he was tired, but he agreed to play tennis.
B. Because he was tired, he agreed to play tennis.
C. In spite of his tiredness, he agreed to play tennis.
D. Despite tired, he agreed to play tennis.
10. Barry continued to smoke even though we had advised him to quit.
A. Barry took our advice so he stopped smoking.
B. If we had advised Barry, he would have quit smoking.
C. Barry did not quit smoking because of our advice.

D. Despite being told not to smoke, Barry continued to do.