III Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb do, get, find.
1. _____ your best to complete the test.
2. I _____ this all impossible.
3. Please _____ me right: I just take care of you.
4. Do you really want to _____another chance for the exam?
5. The rain was hard, we could _____ nothing, and stayed at home.
6. Will you _____ me a favour please, stop cheating off.
7. Sarah, right now _____ dressed and go to school!
IV Complete the sentences with the words from the box:
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1. Farmers work with _____________ and plants.
2. Psychologists are very ___________ at talking to people.
3. Do you think its important to ___________ right?
4. You have to work hard to be a _____________.
5. Who likes working ___________ his own?
6. Football players work ___________ a team.
7. Doctors help to ___________ health problems.
Activate B1, Unit 1 Vocabulary ten-minute test
I Complete the sentences with the correct preposition:
7. She knows she is good ___ what she does.
8. I get annoyed ___ my brother when he plays music too loudly.
9. I sometimes get really worried ___ tests at school.
10. Im not interested ___ classical music.
11. My mum is really worried ___ me when Im late from school.
12. Im never fed ___ ___ English.
II Choose the correct form to complete the sentences:
6. She felt really frightened / frightening the first time she sang for an audience.
7. We were surprised / surprising by the news.
8. You look really amazing / amazed in this new look!
9. If I feel bored / boring, I leave.
10. Have you ever done anything more interested / interesting?
III Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb do, get, find.
8. _____ your best to complete the test.
9. I _____ this all impossible.
10. Please _____ me right: I just take care of you.
11. Do you really want to _____another chance for the exam?
12. The rain was hard, we could _____ nothing, and stayed at home.
13. Will you _____ me a favour please, stop cheating off.
14. Sarah, right now _____ dressed and go to school!
IV Complete the sentences with the words from the box:
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8. Farmers work with _____________ and plants.
9. Psychologists are very ___________ at talking to people.
10. Do you think its important to ___________ right?
11. You have to work hard to be a _____________.
12. Who likes working ___________ his own?
13. Football players work ___________ a team.
14. Doctors help to ___________ health problems.
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Read the texts A-G and match a headline 1-8 to every text. There is one extra headline.
1.Family problems
2. First signs of recognition
3.A giant of science
4.Beaten by a competitor
5.Other achievements
6. His life is remembered
7. Proved right in the end
8. A comfortable beginning
A. Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor who developed the Periodic Law and a periodic table of chemical elements. This allowed him to predict the properties of elements that had not yet been discovered at the time. He is internationally recognised as one of the greats of the world of science and scientific research.
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B. Dmitri Mendeleev was born in 1834 in the village of VerkhnieAremzyani near the Siberian city of Tobolsk. He was the youngest child in a very large family. Although the exact number is not known, he had between eleven and sixteen brothers and sisters. In his early years, the family was quite well-off, as Mendeleevs father was a teacher of fine arts, philosophy and politics.
C. The Mendeleev family fortunes changed when Dmitris father became blind and had to give up teaching. His wife was now forced to work to support the family, and she re-opened an old glass factory which belonged to her family. But later, the factory was destroyed in a fire and, because of poverty, the family had to move to Saint Petersburg.
D. Dmitri Mendeleev began his scientific career teaching chemistry, and by 1864 he had been made a professor at Saint Petersburg State University. He soon began to be noticed by chemists around the world, and it wasnt long before he had turned Saint Petersburg into an international centre of excellence in the field of chemistry research.
E. Mendeleev was not the first to work on a periodic table of elements. Another scientist, Lothar Meyer from Germany, published an almost identical table a few months after Mendeleev. However, only Mendeleevs table contained predictions of undiscovered elements. Many scientists didnt believe his predictions, but two of the missing elements were later discovered, establishing without doubt the accuracy of his table.
F. Apart from his work in the field of chemistry research, Mendeleev was a founder member of the Russian Chemical Society. He also helped establish the first oil refinery in Russia and was, at one time, director of the Russian Bureau of Weights and Measures. Finally, Mendeleev is also credited with having introduced the metric system into Russia.
G. Mendeleev died at the age of 72 in 1907. His life is commemorated with a museum in his honour at Saint Petersburg State University. A street in Saint Petersburg is named after him, as well as a crater on the far side of the moon. The Russian Academy of Sciences annually awards the Mendeleev Gold Medal for achievements in chemical science and technology.
