English Vocabulary Exercises - Basic Science & Academia - Exercise 2-5

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Everyone at my office hates each other, which makes the _______________ really uncomfortable.
2. Columbus had three ships on his first American _______________.
3. The first standardized system of _______________ was developed in Mesopotamia around 4,700 years ago.
4. All of a sudden, Henry _______________ from the room, and then we heard him vomiting in the bathroom.
5. The Beatles did most of their final recording _______________ in the studios of Abbey Road.
6. Because the sun is so far away, its _______________ arrive at Earth travelling almost parallel.
7. There have been a number of _______________ births in my family history. My mom is a twin herself.
8. We don't have enough memory on the computer to install any more _______________ on it.
9. In geological terms, Mars represents an intermediate phase in _______________ development which is transitional between a body like the moon and our own Earth.
10. The historic notebooks in which Marie and Pierre Curie recorded their _______________ on radium nearly a century ago are still radioactive.
11. All of the nation of Mali can be _______________ as hot and dry.
12. Namibia produces large _______________ of diamonds, lead, zinc, tin, silver, and tungsten.
13. The game completely _______________ all my energy, so I was too tired to do much afterwards.