WHERE DOES AFEL PRACTISE SKIING EVERY NIGHT

5. Where does Afel practise skiing every night?

A. on the hill sides B. on the mountain sides

C. in the middle of the desert D. on the dyke sides near his house

II. Listen twice and fill in each gap with one missing word or number to

complete the passage below.

The building occupied by the museum of the history of science was built as the Ashmolean

museum (1)__________1683.

It was erected by the university to house the famous Tradescant and Ashmolean collections, as

well as to accommodate a chemical laboratory in the basement, and space for (2)__________ the

new experimental natural philosophy, what we today might (3)__________‘Science’. This space,

originally called the School of Natural History, is now the entrance gallery.

This was the first museum building in the (4)__________in the sense of a building specifically

designed to be a museum. But it also housed activities that we do not often associate with early

museums, such as experiment and teaching.

When you leave the entrance gallery, look back at the title painted over the (5)__________,

“Schola Naturalis Historiae”, the School of Natural History. The showcases on either side of the exit

contain the kind of things that we used in this room in the (6)__________century.

The museum of the History of Science (7)__________in this building in (8)__________. It’s

particularly famous for its very early scientific instruments, and central area of the entrance gallery

illustrates the breadth of the collection. From Western Europe through the Islamic lands

(9)__________ the Far East, and from science to what we today would think of as magic. Then, in

the four (10)__________of the entrance gallery are four of the museum’s important individual

collections.

PART B. PHONETICS

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently

from the others in each group.