1.Przeczytaj tekst na dole strony. Przyporządkuj każdemu akapitowi 1-4 właściwy nagłówek A-E. Jeden nagłówek nie pasuje do żadnego fragmentu.
A - Unexpected in the sky.
B - Discovery of a new kind of bacteria.
C - Saving money leads to a discovery.
D - Even dirt can help science.
E - Looking for a magical substance.
1 - Searching for the Philosopger's Stone, which could convert all metals into gold, the alchemist Hennig Brand boiled urine with chemicals and got a substance that produced light! It didn't turn anything into gold, but it still made him rich. In fact, it was a new chemical element, phosphours.
2 - William Herschel, a musician and amateur astronomer, constructed a telescope and looked for comets. In 1781 he found one, observid it and decided it couldn't be a comet because of the circularity of its orbit. It was Uranus, an unknown planet. This discovery let him become a full-time astronomer.
3 - The Kellogg brothers worked in a sanatorium and treated patinets usung a special diet rich in vegetables and cereals. One day they left cooked wheat for a day. They didn't want to waste any food because it was expensive, so they tried to roll the mass - what they got were flakes. Now we can't imagine breakfast without cornflakes or wheat flakes!
4 - Alexander Fleming researched bacteria. He left a bacterial colony and went on holiday. When he returned, it was covered in mould which killed the bacteria. Soon he extracted penicillin, the first antibiotic, from the mould.
2.Dopasuj słowa pogrubione w tekście z zadnia 1. do ich polskich odpowiedników.
pleśń -
mocz -
zboża -
pszenica -
zamienić -
kolistość -
uzyskał -
leczyli -
1 - E
2 - A
3 - C
4 - D
pleśń - mould
mocz - urine
zboża - cereals
pszenica - wheat
zamienić - convert
kolistość - circularity
uzyskał - extracted
leczyli - treated
leczyli - treated
pleśń - mould
mocz - urine
zboża - cereals
zamienić - convert
pszenica - wheat
kolistość - circularity
uzyskał - extracted
1 - E
2 - A
3 - C
4 - D