Skólaskýrsla 2004 - Verzlunarskóli Íslands

can acquire greater job ___________ and create a better working partnership with your
boss. Leadership qualities include enthusiasm, ________, humility and ________.
Circle the word or phrase that best fits the meaning of the sentence.
33 Finding a way to make a plane fly on less fuel has proved to be a(n) acid test / burning
question / knotty problem for manufacturers, but they think they have the solution now.
34 I’m afraid that science is really a blind alley / closed book / necessary evil to me. I know
nothing about it.
35 They may find a cure for the disease but the research is still in its childhood/ infancy.
36 Although the job you have been offered pays well, the hours are long so you’d better
look before you leap / look it up and down/ look to your laurels.
Word Formation.
Replace the blanks by a word derived from the word in brackets (do not add other
words).
37 The Comet was the most __________ (spectacle) sight I have ever seen.
38 ________________________ (elastic) is a key feature of many plastics.
39 At last we got an _________________ (affirmation) answer from them.
40 The meeting was _____________ (disruption) by a group of protesters.
Read the following text carefully and tick the box with the best answer to the
questions below. No subtraction for wrong answers.
Ancient Origins
Preceding the use of astronomy and of mathematics for navigation and calendar reckoning
there must have been centuries during which men, filled with instinctive wonder and an awe
of nature, overcame the handicaps of lack of instruments and woefully inadequate
mathematics to distil from their observations the patterns, which are described by the
heavenly bodies.
The early farmer learned to watch the face of the sky. He hunted, fished, sowed, reaped,
danced and performed religious ceremonies at the times the heavens dictated. Soon
particular constellations received the names of the activities their appearance sanctioned.
Sagittarius, the hunter, and Pisces, the fish, are still in the sky.
The heavens decided the time of events. But such imperious masters would tolerate no delay
in compliance with their orders. The farmer in many hotter countries, who made his living
by tilling the soil, which the river covered with rich silt during its annual overflow of the
fields, had to be well prepared for the flood. His home equipment, and cattle had to be
temporarily removed from the area, and arrangements made for sowing immediately
afterwards. Hence the coming of the flood had to be predicted. Not only in hotter countries,
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