Mid-Term 01 ELEMENTARY GROUP

MARKING SCHEME

WRITING SECTION
PART A.
2. Although this offer was important for his career (d)
3. After he returned from the war (c)
4. Then (,) he developed a way of grouping galaxies (f)
5. so he worked for the army to find the problems in weapons (b)
6. but people today mostly know him for the Hubble Telescope (e)
PART B.
Model Paragraph
This is the story of Edwin Hubble, who was one of the greatest astronomers of the 20th century. Edwin
Hubble was born in Missouri, (in) the US in 1889. After/When he finished high school, he worked in
different part-time jobs as/since/because he needed money for his university education. In 1910, he
graduated from the University of Chicago, and got a diploma in (both) mathematics and astronomy.
Then, he went to Oxford University to study law, but he was not happy about studying in this field, so
he decided to return to his true interest: astronomy. In 1918, he began working at Yerkes Observatory
in Wisconsin, and made some of the greatest discoveries in the field of astronomy there. In the last few
years of his life, he tried to make astronomy part of the Nobel Prize for physics, but he couldn’t make
this dream come true as/since/because he died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 64.

LANGUAGE SECTION

PART A. PART B.
1. think 1. You could use the Internet…
2. wasn’t 2. …the conditions (at Çatalhöyük) were too bad/difficult …
3. didn’t have 3. …Michael Palin/He would rather travel …
4. have been doing 4. … has never made a documentary…
5. has already written 5. … he doesn’t have to work…
6. has been
7. hasn’t visited
8. have ever seen
9. wants
10. is trying

PART C.

1. the largest 5. comfortable

2. the busiest 6. bigger than
3. the least expensive 7. higher than
4. crowded

READING AND VOCABULARY SECTION

VOCABULARY SECTION

1. tiny 3. contains 5. close 7. heat 9. explanations

2. gravity 4. orbit 6. explosion 8. creation 10. traditional

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READING SECTION
TEXT I
A.
1. accepted

2. not clear
3. (the) most expensive
4. find out

B.
1. (The idea of) using a telescope in space (beyond the Earth's atmosphere, moving around the
Earth in orbit)

2. After they placed it/the telescope in orbit

During its first operation

After/When the telescope began to operate
3. By placing five new mirrors on it
They placed five new mirrors on it

After the astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour placed five new mirrors on the telescope
4.
(Because) it is too expensive to maintain
It requires a lot of money to keep the telescope in good condition
The risk of sending astronauts to service it is too great

5. (Using/Sending) a robotic craft (to perform the services for the telescope)

TEXT II
A.
1. Native Americans
2. (most of the time) other animals eat the remains (soon after death)
3. humans / people

B.
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T

C.

1. Asia 2. food

D.
1. (Because) researchers haven’t discovered any dead Bigfoot bodies so far

2. They say/believe/think (that) the (video and) photographs of Bigfoot /the photos/they are really
pictures of people with ape costumes
(That) they are really pictures of people with ape costumes