Read the text below.
Use the word given in capitals
to form a word (a noun, adjective or
adverb) that fits in the gap in the same line.
Then check the correct
answers.
HOW TO EVALUATE: 1
(one) mark for each completely correct answer.
Maximum scoring: 10 marks
The 20th century had a
change between science and society.
FATE
In World War I scientists died in the trenches.
In World War II they were
exempted as national treasures and committed to
secrecy.
The explanation is not hard to find: governments
came to believe that
research can produce practical improvements. The belief
THEORY
was reinforced by developments such as the
of nuclear
APPLY
physics to the production of atomic weapons.
Science became so identified with practical
benefits that the
of technology on science is commonly assumed to be a
DEPEND
relationship and a single enterprise. Science and technology
TIME
are assumed to be almost
twins.
SEPARATE
The belief in the
of science and technology is now petrified
COUPLE
in the definition of technology as applied
science, and most
reports are, in fact, often accounts of engineering rather than
JOURNAL
scientific achievements. The belief, however, is
an aircraft of today's
cultural attitudes without warrant on the
record. Although the
HISTORY
record shows that in the earliest civilizations
under the
PATRON
of pharaohs and kings, whenever centralized
states arose, knowledge
