Engleski A - 2014./15. jesen - Task 5

Task 5
Questions 33-40
Read and complete the text below.
Fill each space (33-40) with one word. Write your answer only here in this exam booklet.
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CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, (0) as CERN, is an international organization (33) purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the border of France and Switzerland and was established in 1954. Twenty European countries (34) part in its work. The name CERN also refers (35) the laboratory, which employs 2,400 full-time employees and hosts 10,000 visiting scientists and engineers, representing 113 nationalities.
CERN provides the accelerators and other equipment needed for high-energy physics research. Numerous experiments have been conducted (36) CERN by scientists from all over the world. It is the birthplace of the World Wide Web. CERN has a large and powerful computer centre for analysing experimental data and it (37) this data immediately available to researchers around the world.
After analysing trillions of collisions between protons, CERN's researchers seem to (38) found the subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. This basic building block of the universe was imagined and named 50 years (39) by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. The discovery of this particle opens the way to detailed studies which might result (40) an explanation of the way the universe was ordered after the chaos of the Big Bang.
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