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Linus Pauling Worksheet For Stdts
Linus Pauling Worksheet For Stdts
Linus Pauling Worksheet For Stdts
Centro de Idiomas
CIDI 052 - 2016 LINUS PAULING
Prof. Oriana Saldivia
Prof. Margarita Villalón
A) Read the following text and fill in the gaps with an appropriate word from the box.
Who was Linus Pauling and what did he do?
Linus Pauling was the only person who has ever won two (UNSHARED) ________ Prizes. If
you are interested in ___________, you may know that he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954. Then again, you might recognize
his name because of his INVOLVEMENT with anti-nuclear movements in the 1950s and 1960s - and his Nobel Peace Prize In 1962 for
his campaign to stop open air nuclear testing. And a lot of people who are interested
in health and alternative ______________know him as "the vitamin C man" because he shocked the world of science in
the 1970s by suggesting that enormous amounts of vitamin C can keep us healthy.
The scientist
After finishing his _______________ course in chemical engineering, Pauling worked in physical _____________ in the 1920s and 1930s.
He was interested in the way that molecules are connected in crystals, and used physical techniques, such as X-rays, to study them. He
also applied the ideas of quantum _____________ (a radical new science at the time) to the study of chemistry. He used
these new theories to _________ problems that had never been explained before. His work at that time LED TO a lot of the
drugs, plastics and synthetic fibres that we know today.
Because of his interest in the way that _______________behave, Pauling slowly became more involved in ______________
chemistry, rather than physical chemistry. Through the 1930s and 1940s he began to work with organic substances, especially proteins.
He made _______________about the structure of proteins which were very important for medicine.
For example, they were able to DEVELOP an artificial substitute for blood plasma. They also made important discoveries about some
types of genetic disease, such as sickle cell anaemia. Many people believe that he was near to discovering the structure of DNA at
that time.
6. any of a group of natural substances which are necessary in small amounts for growth and good health
and which must be obtained from food or pills as they cannot usually be produced by the body.
7. any of a large group of chemicals which are necessary to and found in all living things.
8. deoxyribonucleic acid the chemical at the centre of the cells of living things which controls the
structure and purpose of each cell and carries genetic information during reproduction.
9. heat, light, or elementary particles - the simplest parts of matter produced by an object.
10. the act of reducing or giving up weapons.
11. the simplest unit of a chemical substance, usually a group of two or more atoms.
12. weapon which uses the power produced when the nucleus of an atom is divided or joined to another
nucleus.
E)Infer the meaning of the CAPITALIZED-BOLD words from the text. Complete the chart.
Then, match the words below the chart to their synonym word in context.
WORD IN PART OF SPEECH CLUES IN THE TEXT WHAT I INFER
CONTEXT (word (Spanish equivalent,
category) definition, explanation,
synonym)
UNSHARED
INVOLVEMEN
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LED TO
DEVELOP
DUTY
SUPPORT
SIGNED