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- •Read the text and say what the words in bold mean: Human Genome Project
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- •2.Fill in the words from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •3. Fill in the prepositions, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •4. Read the text again and take notes under these headings. Then, look at your notes and talk about hgp.
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- •3. Read the text and say what the words in bold mean: hgp History and Findings
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- •3. Read the text and say what the words in bold mean: hgp Benefits
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- •2. How did you learn about it?
- •3. Read the text and say what the words in bold mean: Large Hadron Collider
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- •2.Fill in the words from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •3. Fill in the prepositions, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
- •4. Read the text again and take notes under these headings. Then, look at your notes and talk about the Large Hadron Collider .
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- •3. Read the text and say what the words in bold mean:
- •International Space Station
Answer the questions:
What are the practical results of the HGP?
What are the benefits for biological scientists?
How does the genes research influence the study of evolution?
Where might the ethical, legal, and social issues arise from?
2.Fill in the words from the list, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
Deeper therapeutic hemostasis molecular deeper significant tangible
1. … benefits; 2. … biology; 3. … procedures; 4. … understanding; 5. … disorders; 6. … advances; 7. … knowledge.
3. Fill in the prepositions, then make sentences using the completed phrases.
From for of to to in in
1. to benefit … sth.; 2. … the long term.; 3. to lead … sth.; 4. predisposition … illnesses; 5. to be … the initial stages; 6 deeper understanding … sth.; 7. data … the project
4. Read the text again and take notes under these headings. Then, look at your notes and talk about HGP Benefits.
Avenues and Results
Benefits Foe Biology and Medicine
Evolution Studies
ELSI
Lead-in
Match the words and their definitions:
nucleus; b. particle; c. collision; d. to predict; e. fiction f. to halt
to foretell, to prophesy;
non-factual literature, esp. novels;
to stop (usu. temporary);
central core of an atom;
violent impact of a moving body with another or with a fixed object;
minute portion of matter.
Answer the questions:
1.What do you know of the Large Hadron Collider?
2. How did you learn about it?
3. How can the mass popularity of the highly scientific project be explained?
3. Read the text and say what the words in bold mean: Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) over a ten year period from 1998 to 2008, with the aim of allowing physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics, and particularly for the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. The LHC is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature. It contains six detectors each designed for specific kinds of exploration.
The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference, as deep as 175 metres beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. Its synchrotron is designed to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at up to 7 teraelectronvolts per nucleon, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time, but 9 days later operations were halted due to a magnet quench incident resulting from an electrical fault. The following helium gas explosion damaged over 50 superconducting magnets and their mountings, and contaminated the vacuum pipe. On 20 November 2009 they were successfully circulated again, with the first recorded proton–proton collisions occurring 3 days later. On 30 March 2010, the first collisions took place between two 3.5 TeV beams, setting the current world record for the highest-energy man-made particle collisions, and the LHC began its planned research program.
The LHC will continue to operate at 3.5 TeV per beam, half of its planned capability, until the end of 2012. It will then be shut down for a year for upgrades to allow full energy operation (7 TeV per beam), with reopening planned for 2014.
The Large Hadron Collider gained a considerable amount of attention from outside the scientific community and its progress is followed by most popular science media. The LHC has also sparked the imaginations of authors of works of fiction, such as novels, TV series, and video games, although descriptions of what it is, how it works, and projected outcomes of the experiments are often only vaguely accurate, occasionally causing concern among the general public.
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