Text and vocabulary exercises

29. Find in the text equivalents to the following phrases:

приблизительно с шестого века; не говоря уже о инженерном искусстве; элементарное понимание; больше не довольные богами; начинать поиски основного принципа; видеть признаки; удовлетворительное объяснение; буквально переводить как; проблески научного метода; легко узнаваемая наука; часто вступать в конфликт с; оказаться в худшем положении; обнаружить запах ереси; поиск причин и принципов; научные сообщения о; происхождение и строение земли; настойчивое построение теорий; выходить победителем; трудное испытание и ошибки научного процесса; отказ от гипотез; видоизменение или отказ; происхождение человечества.

30. Match each word in a with the Russian equivalent in b:

1. intimidation	a. уничтожение, разрушение
2. divination	b. запугивание
3. assassination	c. гадание, ворожба
4. forecasting	d. общество
5. oneiromancy	e. толкование снов
6. prediction	f прогнозирование
7. society	g. внутренности
8. entrails	h. предсказание, прогноз

31. Are the following statements true or false? Correct the false ones:

1. The Babylonian and Sumerian civilizations had rather more than rudimentary grasp of education, chemistry and applied mathematics, not to mention engineering. 2. From around the fifth century we see signs in the ancient Greek world of what, perhaps, could be called scientific revolution. 3. The great Thales, of Miletus proposed that the prime substance was water. 4. Democritus proposed the first atomic theory – the word atom means ‘divisible’. 5. We see glimmerings of the scientific method in the acceptance of ‘truth by authority’ when we read the works of the pre-Socratic philosophers. 6. Science has often come into conflict with politicians. 7. At the end of the nineteenth century science emerged as a victor, as the key intellectual discipline for the twenty first century and beyond.

32. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box:

century recognizable prime substance engineering predictions recognizable air

1. The Babylonian and Sumerian civilizations had rather more than rudimentary grasp of medicine, astronomy and applied mathematics, not to mention _____. 2. The great Thales, of Miletus proposed that the ______ was water, Anaxagoras believed it to be _____. 3. Ernst Rutherford demonstrated the word atom in spectacular fashion in the twentieth _____. 4. What we read in the works of these pre-Socratic philosophers is not ____ science. 5. With advent of Euclid and Archimedes we find ourselves on the terra cognita of _____ science. 6. The scientific method produces results, from which _____ can be made.