Corrected exercises
1. Repérez l’erreur et corrigez-là si nécessaire.
1. Mururoa was an island in the Pacific used for nuclear testing.
2. For this teaching position, it is necessary to have a university degree.
3. The calculations took more than an hour to complete.
4. The top nine Chinese universities have formed a union, somewhat equivalent to the US Ivy League.
5. He teaches epistemology to a graduate class in an Ivy League college.
6. Would you like to study for an MBA in London or in Cambridge?
7. He does (ø) research on genetics in one of Johns Hopkins’ laboratories. He’s a research worker.
8. He has a PhD from Princeton and he was awarded a Fields medal in 2005.
9. Could you give me a dozen good reasons for not giving Dr. Troll tenure?
10. As a Chinese nuclear scientist, he was denied access to confidential information.
2. Complétez les phrases à l’aide de the, a, an ou ø.
1. An economist, it is said, is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday did not happen today.
2. She was awarded a PhD in EE and is now on ø track for ø tenure.
3. A medical student must know how to interpret an X-ray.
4. Do you think our department needs a new scanner or an MRI
5. “ø science without ø religion is lame; ø religion without ø science is blind.” (Einstein).
6. A quantum computer is a device for ø computation making direct use of ø quantum mechanical phenomena.
7. ø Antarctica’s penguins are not threatened with extinction. Most likely, if temperatures keep rising and sea ice and krill numbers keep falling, the penguin population will plummet, then stabilise.
8. Just about everyone who buys a PC these days wants to gain access to the Internet, so a browser should be standard equipment.
9. A common definition of species is that of a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing ø fertile offspring of both genders, and separated from other such groups with which ø interbreeding does not normally happen.
10. ø science may be defined as ø knowledge attained through study or practice or knowledge covering ø general truths of the operation of the general laws, especially as obtained and tested through scientific method and concerned with the physical world.