Complete the gaps in the stories about discoveries 1-8 with the words in the box. Which sentence do you think is false?

capsule – drug – electricity – headaches – life – microchip – radar – species

1

People invented the wheel more than 5,000 years ago. Recently, in a survey of the most important inventions of all time, people chose the wheel, the internet and _____.

2

Before Robert Watson- Watt designed a modern _____ system, people had more primitive methods for detecting an enemy.

3

John Pemberton was a pharmacist who hoped to cure _____ with a mixture of coca leaves and cola nuts. An assistant accidentally added water, creating a drink which later became Coca-Cola.

4

We have been exploring space since the 1960s. Nowadays, scientists are researching how we can adapt to _____ in space in the future.

5

In 1865, Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon. In this story, he imagined astronauts travelling from Florida to the moon in an aluminium _____. In 1969, that really happened.

6

People sometimes experiment with their own bodies. Professor Kevin Warwick implanted a _____ into his arm and into his wife’s arm. Now, when she feels something, he feels it too.

7

When researchers develop a new _____ they often use animals to test it, but they also pay people - ‘human guinea pigs’. These people stay in comfortable clinics and receive good care while they do this risky job.

8

Scientists identify approximately 18,000 new _____ every year. In 2015, they discovered this beautiful sea creature near Japan. They also found the fossil of a unicorn, which has become extinct.