Have a look at this video and read the article. Then do the exercises
For one night only, London's Natural History Museum is opening the doors to its laboratories to give visitors a look at the science that goes on behind the exhibits.
Science Uncovered will bring researchers out to meet visitors, and let visitors in to meet the researchers.
Labs performing DNA analysis, the workshop where fossils are prepared for display, and rooms containing unusual scientific specimens will be among the new places where the public can go.
Three of the museum's researchers - molecular scientist Alex Aitken, senior curator Richard Sabin and polychaete worm specialist Adrian Glover - explain what they are doing, and why they are excited about the project.
A) Are these sentences TRUE or FALSE
1. The number of right whales has been on the increase of recent years.
2. The entire whale skeleton was sent to the museum from Greenwich.
3. It would be impossible to display all of the specimens as there are so many.
4. The worms under the microscope did not have a name.
5. The polychaete in the jar was an earthworm.
6. The worms lived near an undersea volcano.
7. To extract DNA from insects, you need a complete specimen.
8. The buffer broke down the cells and released the DNA.
9. It is not possible to identify an insect species from its DNA.
10. Richard Sabin hopes that children will be inspired to work at the museum.
B) Which word or phrase means the same as the one in italics?
1. partial
a) the same as incomplete
b) the same as separated
c) the same as inclined
2. describe
a) the same as inscribe
b) the same as characterise
c) the same as delineate
3. features
a) the same as demonstrates
b) the same as specialities
c) the same as attributes
4. valid
a) the same as genuine
b) the same as authoritative
c) the same as exact
C) What is the missing word?
15. They were doing a watching brief on some_________________.
16. They are___________________being used by researchers.
17. I’m just going to_______________in a little bit here.
18. We’re here in the______________labs, and I’m just dissecting some insects.
KEY
A)FALSE/FALSE/TRUE/TRUE/FALSE/TRUE/FALSE/TRUE/FALSE/TRUE
B)A/B/C/A
C)CONSTRUCTION/ACTIVELY/ZOOM/MOLECULAR
