The Importance of Science - Test 6

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English First 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

claim

demand

tell

review

basis

cause

point

sake

gain

profit

advantage

value

brought on

carried out

pulled out

set off

plan

idea

mind

thought

reaching

aiming

targeting

designing

sources

origins

structures

foundations

held

felt

chose

used

The aim of science is to (0) ___ out how the world and everything in it, and beyond it, works. Some people, though, (1) ___ that much of what is done in the name of science is a waste of time and money. What is the (2) ___ in investigating how atoms behave or in studying stars billions of kilometres away? Science, they argue, is of (3) ___ only if it has some practical use. When the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell (4) ___ experiments with electricity and magnetism in the 19th century, he had no particular end in (5) ___ and was certainly not (6) ___ to make money; he was simply trying to reveal more about how the world works. And yet his work laid the (7) ___ for our modern way of life. Computers, the internet, satellites, mobile phones, televisions, medical scanners all owe their existence to the fact that a scientist (8) ___ the need to understand the world a little better.

The importance of science

open

think

find

look

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