The discovery of DNA - Module 5

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · First Expert Student's Resource Book, Pearson Education

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.

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similar

alike

resembled

accepted

agreed

admitted

allowed

making

doing

holding

carrying

looked

appeared

existed

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thinking

trying

working

seeking

however

whereas

unlike

despite

telling

dropping

giving

saying

presented

awarded

donated

celebrated

One of the (0) ___ moments in science occurred in 1953, when Francis Crick and James Watson at Cambridge University discovered the structure of DNA. They said that DNA was (1) ___ to two spiral staircases going up and down at the same time. Scientists all over the world (2) ___ this 'double helix' model immediately. The discovery was, of course, the result of years of hard work, and Crick and Watson weren't the only scientists who had been (3) ___ out research to find out what DNA (4) ___ like. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College, London, had also been (5) ___ on the problem. They used X-ray analysis of DNA. (6) ___ Crick and Watson preferred to build models. One day, without (7) ___ a word to her, Wilkins showed Franklin's results to Watson, and it was those results which helped him to discover the real structure of DNA. In 1962, Watson, Crick and Wilkins were (8) ___ the Nobel Prize for their work. Rosalind Franklin, who had died four years earlier, was not even mentioned at the ceremony.

The discovery of DNA

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