unit 16 INVENTIONS
TEST I
I. Which word in each line does not belong to the group?
microphone television paper sewing machine
pulp wash weigh cook
sugar cocoa taste butter
inventor typewriter writer architect
II. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. Some people think suddenly have an idea which
results in a revolutionary invention. (INVENT)
2. Nowadays, a lot of important are carried out by
scientists working for large industrial films. (INVENT)
Methods of have developed the newspaper industry- over the past hundred years (PRINT)
The facsimile was by Alexander Bain in 1843.
(INVENT)
New ideas can be by private inventors. (DEVELOP)
The learned how to make paper in the seventh
century. (JAPAN)
My friend is very fat so she wants to lose (WEIGH)
Is Quang Trung School your first position? (TEACH)
III. Put the verb in brackets into the correct tense of the active or passive form.
1. It`s a huge company. Two thousand people (employ)
there.
2. The explosion (happen) just after 9 p.m. Fortunately
no one (hurt)
3. All the children (send) home when the school`s central
heating system (break) down last winter.
4. I wonder why Mary (not invite) to Lee`s party last
Saturday.
5. When Michelle lived in Italy, she always (have) dinner at
9 p.m.
The watch isn`t worth much but it has sentimental value. It (give) to me on my 21st birthday.
The hotel we stayed at was quite good. The rooms (clean)
everyday and the towels (change)
every other day.
8. While Alan (drive) home late last night, he (run)
out of petrol.

IV. Use sequence markers first, then, next, etc. to describe the whole process of cooking rice.







(1) , the amount of rice required is- measured.
(2) , the rice is washed in cold water. When it is clean, the rice
is put in a pan. (3) , the rice is mixed with water. The rice is
cooked slowly for twenty minutes. (4) , the pan is taken off the
stove.

V. Make complete sentences, using the given cues.
Telephone / invent / Alexander Graham Bell /1876.
Watching / television / consider / most / popular / kind / entertainment /nowadays.
After / many / experiments / finally / first / successful / flight / make / by / Wright brothers.
Computers / use / more / popular / next century.
Advanced technological / achievements / should / apply / all / fields / our life.
(L My Son / recognize / world heritage /1999.
VI.* Find the mistakes in the following sentences and correct them.
Computers are kept records of our aches and pains, analyze them and are helped doctors diagnose and prescribe medicine for us.
The mail sort by computers before delivery.
Children educate in part by television directed by computers.
Your study .will improve when you know how use computers more effectively.
Computers use in directing flights of planes and controlling their airspeeds.
VII. Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Yesterday evening three people (1. kill) and forty others (2.
injure) in the explosion at Hepelworth`s Department Store
in London. People (3. believe) that the explosion (4.
cause) by a b(W> and a young man (5. arrest)
in connection with the incident.