COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

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Exercise 1: Answer the following questions by referring to the reading passage.

1. What does the term ‘science' denote in its broadest meaning?

2. What is applied science known as?

3. In what way does pure math differ from other sciences?

4. What sciences are pure natural sciences generally classified into?

5. Are sciences independent of one another?

Exercise 2: Complete each of the following statements with words/ phrases from the reading passage

1. The pursuit of …………… in this context is known as pure science.

2. The Pythagorean scholars …………… only four sciences.

3. Chemistry remained ……………the mainstream of science.

4. …………… that time the study of heat, magnetism, and electricity had become part of physics.

5. During the 19th century scientists finally recognized that…………… mathematics

differs from the other sciences.

6. The pure natural …………… are generally divided into two classes.

7. The ……………branches among the former are physics, astronomy, chemistry.

8. The……………sciences can be subdivided to identify such fields as mechanics,

cosmology.

9. Genetics, and ecology are subdivisions …………… the biological sciences.

10. All classifications of the pure sciences, ……………, are arbitrary.

Exercise 3:Decide whether each of the following statements is true (T), false (F) or has no information to clarify (N).

1. ………….The term Scienceis generally used to denote systematized knowledge in

any field.

2. ………….Pure science is different from applied one.

3. ………….The Pythagorean scholars were not as good as the later ones.

4. …………. It was not until the 17th century that chemistry was realized as a science.

5. ………….In the 18th century, physics dealt with the study of heat, magnetism, and

electricity.

6. ………….Mathematics is different from other sciences because it is the most

difficult one.

7. ………….Mathematics plays an important role in the development of scientific

theories.

8. ………….Both physical and biological sciences can be further divided into other

sciences.

9. ………….All classifications of the pure sciences are unchanged.

10. …………. Many sciences are closely related to one another.