Feast your eyes on what the Guinness Book of World Records calls the smallest human sculpture in the

world! Here's a 1_________ that will put things into 2_________ for you: the scale of sculptures
created by Jonty Hurwitz approximately equals to the 3_________ your fingernails grow every 5 or 6
hours! With dimensions of approximately 80×100×20 microns, here's how the sculpture compares to
human hair. You can 4_________creating your own sculptures – or 3D printer-friendly captures of
pretty much anything, really – using the Autodesk 123D Catch, a free app, which you can install on
your mobile device.
The sculpture was then 3D printed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Nano Micro Facility. In the
author's own words: "The structure is created using a 5_________new 3D printing technology and
a 6_________called Multiphoton Lithography. Ultimately, these works are created using the
physical 7_________ of two-photon absorption. Art, 8_________ created with Quantum Physics."

Select the most appropriate words for the texts above

1 A association B comparison C appraisal D link
2 A view B outlook C scale D perspective
3 A amount B number C total D expanse
4.A test B experiment C research D investigate
5 A ground-breaking B fresh C novel D first-hand
6 A skill B practice C technique D practise
7 A marvel B wonder C spectacle D phenomenon
8 A literally B plainly C simply D accurately

Scotland

People come to this small northern country for many reasons, lured, perhaps, by the promise of

spectacular (1) ... ?, friendly natives, and a vibrant arts scene. Some are searching for their

family (2) ... ? or others just want to get away from it all and, digging (3) ... ? old memories

from their English Lit class of gallant heroes engaging in larger-than-life struggles,

their (4) ... ? wander to faraway lands, to somehow familiar yet different destinations. Why

not go to Scotland? But what kind of country are they coming to and what should they expect
 once they get there? Scotland (5) ... ? of an area of 30, 418 square miles - so it's a fairly

compact and "doable" country - with a population of about five million people - not too small,

not too big. It is one of three countries that form the political (6) ... ? called Great Britain, the

other two being, of course, England and Wales, which, along with their fourth partner, Northern

Ireland, becomes the United Kingdom. Scotland is bordered on three sides by water and on its

fourth by England, which has had both its advantages and disadvantages. Geographically

speaking, the country can be divided into three broad areas, the Southern Uplands, the Central

Lowlands, and the Highlands. Although the rugged Highlands (7) ... ? about two-thirds of

the land area, the (8) ... ? majority of the population lives in the Central Belt between

Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital.

1. A) scene B) scenery C) view D) panorama

2. A) roots B) race C) basis D) source
3. A) off B) down C) on D) up
4. A) head B) brains C) spirits D) minds
5. A) consists B) includes C) embraces D) comprises
6. A) entirety B) entitle C) entry D) entity
7. A) take out B) take in C) take up D) take off
8. A) expansive B) vast C) expanding D) spacious

The Microscope

An important invention in the development of science and medicine was the microscope. It

was (1) ... ? the principle that light could be “(2) ... ?” or bent, by a glass lens. It was soon
 discovered that tiny objects could be magnified (3) ... ? size when viewed through a glass

lens that had been ground and polished in a specific (4) ... ?. Although the principle was

known to the Chinese as early as 1000 A.D, it was not until the 13th and 14th centuries in

Europe (5) ... ? it was put to practical use in the form of eyeglasses. In Europe the first

microscope was invented by brothers Zacharias and Hans Janssen, two Dutch eyeglass-makers,

around 1590. They built a “compound” microscope, so called because of its two lenses. The

most significant development and use of the microscope during this period, however, belongs

to another Dutch optician, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723). Born in Delft, Holland, he

became skilled at (6) ... ? very sharp and accurate magnifying lenses. Some of his single-lens

microscopes were able to magnify up the three hundred times (7)... ? size, and around 1660

he began serious study using these instruments. He was the first to discover bacteria and other

microscopic organisms, calling these tiny creatures “animalcules”. (8) ... ? to this discovery,

very small creatures such as fleas and maggots were thought to “spontaneously generate” from

a single source, such as rotting meat in the case of maggots.

1. A) based upon B) based by C) based in D) based at

2. A) refracted B) retracted C) retorted D) retraced
3. A) by B) on C) in D) with
4. A) procedure B) manner C) fashion D) character
5. A) when B) than C) then D) that
6. A) granting B) grinding C) scraping D) rubbing
7. A) present B) substantial C) actual D) current
8. A) According B) Due C) Owing D) Prior
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits
each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Our obsession with recording every detail of our happiest moments could
be 0__________our ability to remember them, according to new research.
Dr Linda Henkel, from Fairfield University, Connecticut, described this as the ‘photo-
taking impairment effect’. She said, ‘People often whip out their cameras almost
mindlessly to 1__________ a moment, to the point that they are missing what is
happening 2__________ in front of them. When people rely on technology to remember for
them — 3__________on the camera to record the event and thus not needing
to 4__________ to it fully themselves — it can have a negative 5__________ on how well they
remember their experiences.
In Dr Henkel’s experiment, a group of university students were 6__________ on a tour of a
museum and asked to either photograph or try to remember objects on display. The
next day each student’s memory was tested. The results showed that people were
less 7__________ in recognising the objects they had photographed 8__________ with those
they had only looked at.

D intruding
0 A interfering B upsetting C damaging
1 A seize В grasp C capture D snatch
2 A quite В right C merely D barely
3 A counting В settling C assuming D swearing
4 A engage В apply C attend D dedicate
5 A result В aspect C extent D impact
6 A steered В run C led D conveyed
7 A accurate В faithful C exact D factual
8 A measured В compared C matched D confronted
 Horses

Horses and donkeys were (1) ... ? comparatively late compared with other animals, probably

around 4000 BC in Western Asia. By that time, people in many parts of the world were no

longer (2) ... ? on hunting and gathering their food, but had become nomadic stockbreeders

or settled farmers, raising livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats and, in the static

communities, growing and harvesting food plants.

They still hunted wild (3) ... ? , but could now do so with the (4) ... ? of domestic dogs, the

close animal companions who also helped them to protect and control their flocks and herds.

Their needs for meat, milk, skins and wool were being (5) ... ? , and it may not have been

immediately obvious to them that the horse had anything more to offer than the

occasional (6) ... ? of the chase and a different type of meat. The horse did have something

more to offer. It had the potential to (7) ... ? nothing less than a revolution (8) ... ? power and

transport, a dramatic development that transformed the ability of humans to wage war.

1. A) tamed B) accustomed C) trained D) domesticated

2. A) sustained B) reliant C) liable D) subject
3. A) game B) play C) sport D) contest
4. A) aim B) compliments C) assistance D) intention
5. A) met B) come C) undergone D) faced
6. A) kick B) thrill C) emotion D) inspiration
7. A) bring off B) bring in C) bring out D) bring about
8. A) on B) at C) in D) for
 Meteors

Most of us have (1) ... ? at the sky and seen what is commonly called a falling, or shooting,

star. These (2) ... ? streaks occur when meteors, object generally (3) ... ? from the size of

dust (4) ... ? to fist-size masses, enter the earth’s atmosphere at speeds up to 44 miles per

second and ionized (or heated) to incandescence 50 to 75 miles above the earth. Few of these

objects survive their encounter (5) ... ? our atmosphere.

What we see here on earth, mostly at night, is a (6) ... ? of light that lasts about a half a

second on the (7) ... ?. Generally speaking, the larger the material that enters the earth’s

atmosphere, the brighter the meteor. Brighter meteors will occasionally leave a smoke trail

behind in their path lasting a few seconds; trails produced by very bright meteors,(8) ... ?to

as fireballs, may last minutes. Fireballs that appear to break up or produce sound are

called bolides, from the Greek word bolis meaning missile.

1. A) looked out B) looked through C) looked up D) looked up to

2. A) monotonous B) momentum C) momentous D) momentary
3. A) classifying B) ranging C) ranking D) fluctuating
4. A) particles B) participants C) particulars D) participles
5. A) to B) into C) with D) on
6. A) slash B) strip C) streak D) smear
7. A) average B) contrary C) fly D) move
8. A) directed B) referred C) concerned D) related
 Piracy

Piracy was not (1) ... ? by men like Blackbeard and ‘Black Bart’ Roberts. It has been around

since man first took to the sea, a maritime (2) ... ? that appeared in historical records since

before the building of the Egyptian pyramids. The Mediterranean, (3) ... ? known as the

‘(4) ... ? of civilization’, was also a pirate hot-spot, which we know because the Ancient

Egyptians (5) ... ? the time to describe the attacks and their perpetrators.

As in any period , piracy in the ancient world flourished when there was a lack of central

control, and in areas beyond the (6) ... ? of major powers such as the Egyptians, the

Assyrians or the Mycenaean Greeks. The first known pirate group was the Lukkans, a group of

sea raiders based on the south-eastern coast of Asia Minor. They first appeared in the 14th

century BC, when Egyptian (7) ... ? recorded that they raided Cyprus, (8) ... ? there are

suggestions that their piratical activities started earlier.

1. A) disclosed B) invented C) discovered D) devised

2. A) scouter B) scout C) scooper D) scourge
3. A) besides B) likewise C) moreover D) otherwise
4. A) cradle B) cot C) crib D) hamper
5. A) passed B) made C) took D) set
6. A) limits B) reach C) horizon D) frontier
7. A) scribes B) scripters C) reporters D) playwrights
8. A) or B) because C) although D) despite