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Unit 4 - Reading - Cpe 3 - Test 2

The document is a test paper focused on the use of English, specifically requiring the completion of sentences related to the life and achievements of Louis Pasteur. It includes a passage with numbered blanks where participants must fill in the correct words. The test aims to assess vocabulary and comprehension skills in the context of a historical figure.

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Unit 4 - Reading - Cpe 3 - Test 2

The document is a test paper focused on the use of English, specifically requiring the completion of sentences related to the life and achievements of Louis Pasteur. It includes a passage with numbered blanks where participants must fill in the correct words. The test aims to assess vocabulary and comprehension skills in the context of a historical figure.

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Test 2

PAPER 3 USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 30 minutes)

Part 1

For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only
one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Of the legions .................twentieth century scientists, only a handful won worldwide recognition.
Even (1)..............have won the greatest prize of all, the Nobel Prize, and rarer still are those who
have won two. So (2).............., only three people have succeeded in achieving this, but there is
one
scientist whose achievements would have merited four at the (3)............least. (4)...............he died
a few years (5)................soon to receive the first Nobel Prize, Louis Pasteur is arguably the most
celebrated of any scientist, (6)............name appearing (7)...............countless products in homes,
shops and supermarkets (8)...............this day.

Pioneer scientist, conqueror of disease and saviour of industries, Pasteur combined soaring
intellectual powers (9).............down-to-earth pragmatism, a combination which allowed him, to
(10)..............intents and purposes, to dispose of centuries of pseudo-science. In the year 1822
when he was born, the life sciences were based on (11)..................more than medieval fairy tales.
The underlying causes of many diseases were quite unknown. What explanations (12)...................
exist were utterly bizarre. For instance, malaria was said to have (13)..............origins in ‘miasmas’
emanating from swamps, whereas influenza was linked to the ‘influence’ of celestial events, (14)
....................as the passage of comets. Pasteur exploded (15)...............and many other myths.

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