Use of English
Multiple Choice - Example 2

Part 1

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 (0).

Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Example:

0 A open B think C find D look

The importance of science

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 late 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.