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IV. Choose the correct form of indefinite pronouns:

Bill has lost his keys

A: There is 1) nothing/something more annoying than losing 2) something/anything.

B: What have you lost?

A: My keys. They must be 3) anywhere/somewhere in the house, but I've got 4) no/any idea where. I can't find them 5) nowhere/anywhere.

B: Are you sure you haven't left them 6) somewhere/nowhere by mistake?

A: Of course not. They can't be 7) somewhere/anywhere else but here. 8) No one/Someone must have hidden them.

B: Why would 9) no one/anyone hide your keys? There is 10) any/no reason for 11) anyone/no one to do 12)nothing/something so silly.

A: Well, I need 13) some/any help to find them. I have to go 14) anywhere/somewhere important this afternoon.

B: Calm down. It's

15) some/no use getting angry about

16) anything/something like this. Look! There are 17)no/ some keys on that chair.

A: They're mine! Oh, I feel so silly!

VI. Match the words 1-10 to their definitions A- J.

1. Invention A) large room where people do scientific experiment or

research

2. To provide B) to attempt to find something

3. Bankrupt C) a lot of people know their name or have heard about them

4. Discovery D) giving people more of your time or money than is expected

5. Industry E) a feeling of wanting to know about something

6. Generous F) the process of learning something that was not known

before

7. To search G) to give someone something that they want or need

8. Interest H) the production of goods

9. Laboratory I) a machine, tool or system that someone has made

10. Famous J) a person or business that has officially admitted that they

have no money

VII. Complete the sentences with words or expressions from the box retell the summary of the text.

invention, provide, bankrupt, discoveries, industry, generous, searching, interest, laboratory, famous

Alfred Nobel

He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833 but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father made a strong position in engineering (1) __________. He made a lot of money for his (2) ________of landmine, but later went (3) __________. Alfred came to Sweden in 1863, and started his own study of explosives in his father’s (4) __________. He had never been to school or University but he studied privately and by the time, he was twenty he became a skilful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense.Nobel's main concern was never with making money or even making scientific (5)_________.He was always (6) ________ for a meaning to life, and from his youth he had taken a serious (7) ________ in literature and philosophy. Perhaps, because he could not find ordinary human love — he never married — he came to care deeply about the whole of mankind. He was always (8) ________to the poor. His greatest wish, however, was to see an end to wars and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896.

His (9) __________ will, in which he left money to (10) ________ prizes for outstanding works in physics, chemistry, psychology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals.