Контрольная работа по УМК М.З. Биболетовой для 10 класса по теме "Технологии и прогресс" (3-я четверть)

Progress Check Unit 3 Grade 10

Variant I

I. Name in one word:

1. Facts that prove some opinion or theory is true or false (in science or Criminalistics)

2. The end of any sharp thing

3. Half of the Earth

II. Explain what  they mean: dwarf, glacial time, decade.

III. Change the given word to match to the sentence

1.      People dependent on … in all aspects of their life. (TECHNOLOGICAL)

2.      People are forgetting how to … in the real world. (SURVIVAL)

3.      Computers are more … than people. (RELY)

4.      He is pessimistic about the future of … . (HUMAN)

5.      The Kyoto Prizes are given to … and …  . (SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY)

6.      The future is not a gift – it is an … . (ACHIEVE)

IV. Translate into English using modal verbs and Mixed Conditional

1.      Маловероятно, что древние люди занимались сельским хозяйством.

2.      Вероятно, этот вид человека стал таким миниатюрным из-за недостатка пищи на острове.

3.      Если бы ученые не нашли орудия труда в Сибири и Северной Америке, то мы бы сейчас не знали о способе заселения Америки.

V. Read and match with one of the titles.

1.      Transportation  is a major contributor to air pollution in the United States and nearly half of all Americans are breathing unhealthy air. Air quality in dozens of metropolitan areas has become worse over the last decade. In addition, car collisions kill 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times as many.

2.      Man has dreamed of flying since pre-historic times. Many ancient stories involve the idea of flight, including the Greek legend of Icarus and Daedalus. Leonardo da Vinci drew an aircraft in the 15th century, but it was not until the mid-18^th century that flight in aircraft became a reality, with Sir Ryan Edward’s invention of a passenger-carrying glider.

3.      Amelia Earhart was a pioneer of air travel. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back. In 1937, Earhart attempted to fly around the world. Sadly, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean and was never seen again. 

A)TRANSPORT TROUBLES          B) FUTURE  TRANSPORT

C) HISTORY OF FLIGHT                 D) MISSING BRAVE PILOT

V. Think of a word that was missed:

1. Any living thing in the world was invented  by  God. So we are His ….

a) tools, b) creatures c) discoveries d) appliances

2. Doing the research our scientists  made some small but important … .

a) tools b) appliances c) inventions d) discoveries

3. His research is… deeper than  the  others. I think he is a genius.

 a) considerably b) a little) c) a bit d) much  more

4. His body was thin with long arms but short legs, tiny … under thick eyebrows, not so wide forehead and a huge nose made him very odd.

a)  chins b) mouths c) eyes  d) ears

Progress Check Unit 3 Grade 10

Variant I

I. Name in one word:

1. The name of the material of elephant’s tusks

2. An object that is used at work (for work)

3. A thing, an object or a process that  has  never existed  before  but was made up by anyone(for example scientists)

II. Explain what they mean: survival, deserted, research

III. Change the given word to match to the sentence

1)      Global … is what actually happening to our planet now. (WARM)

2)       Moscow  is densely … . (POPULATION)

3)      Evolution is he process of ...  from  the simple to the complex.(DEVELOP)

4)       It is … to know the history of your country. (IMPORTANCE)

5)       Why did the great Mayan … collapse? (CIVILIZE)

6)       As a child I loved ________ story books. (READ)

IV. Translate into English using modal verbs and Mixed Conditional

1. Вполне вероятно, что древний человек был ниже современного человека.

2. Если бы ученые не проводили раскопки в Сибири, то они не знали бы сейчас, какие орудия труда были у древнего человека.

3. Если бы мы больше интересовались древними  цивилизациями, то могли бы применять их опыт сейчас.

V. Read and match with one of the titles.

1.      Some people believe that Ferdinand Verbiest built the first steam-powered automobile in around 1672, but it was Swiss inventor Francois Isaac de Rivaz who designed the first internal combustion engine and used it to power a vehicle. In 1885, Karl Benz devel­oped an automobile powered by a gas engine, and he is generally thought to be the inventor of the modern automobile.

2.      Concorde was the more successful of only two supersonic passenger airliners ever to have operated commercially. The plane was first flown in 1969, and Concorde service began in 1976. On 10 April 2003, British Airways and Air France announced they quit using Concorde, but the plane is still an icon of aviation history.

3.      Hydrogen cars may eventually be produced that can be powered without exhausting energy resources. However, the cars may not be as efficient as today's vehicles. A simpler and more efficient solution may become developing of electric-powered vehicles on batteries. The electricity for these vehicles can be produced from solar, water or wind-gen­erated energy.

        A. THE FIRST RAIL SERVICE                B. THE END OF AN ERA

         C. HISTORY of ROAD TRANSPORT    D. FUTURE of TRANSPORT

V. Think of a word that was missed:

1. There were some other  … of humans on the Earth  in past  times.  

a) creatures b) challenges c) evidences d) species

2. Some animals are  huge, but some are…

 a) pale b)  miniature c) curly d) straight

3. To my mind modern people have too many … at home: they hardly use half of  them!         a) tools b) creatures c) inventions d) appliances

4. Any living thing in the world was invented  by  God. So we are His ….

a) tools, b) creatures c) discoveries d) appliances,