Примечание к тексту

1. large-scale production – производство большого масштаба

Запомните следующие слова и словосочетания:

achieve, achievement, artificial, benzene, between, close, compound, create, creation, diamond, elaborate, enable, engineering, establish, extremely, field, hold, important, industry, industrial, link, manufacturing, nature, natural, a number of, physicist, propylene, recent, recognition, scale, set up, simultaneously, space (зд. космос), success, synthetic, synthesize, together, volume, win

Упражнения

I. Найдите в тексте сложносочиненные предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на союзы.

II. Дайте анализ следующего предложения:

Aluminium is a metal which is found in clay and it is the most abundant metallic element which is found in nature only in the form of a compound.

III. Определите значения one и переведите следующие предложения:

1. One of the greatest problems of our era is that of outer space. 2. One must be careful with explosive substances. 3. Artificial diamonds are 40 per cent harder than natural ones. 4. Our new atomic stations are more powerful than the old ones. 5. One can see a great number of new houses in our city. 6. One has to take into account that sulphuric acid is a strong acid. 7. One should take into account that sulphides of many metals are used in paint industry.

IV. Образуйте существительные от следующих глаголов:

develop, produce, create, combine, discover, achieve

V. Образуйте прилагательные, соответствующие следующим существительным:

theory, chemistry, industry, nature, success

6. Дайте недостающие основные формы следующих глаголов:

hold, know, make, set up, win

7. Переведите следующие предложения на английский язык:

1. Достижения русских ученых получили мировое признание. 2. Классические работы русских ученых-химиков легли в основу многих отраслей химической промышленности. 3. Именно в России было освоено широкое производство синтетической резины.

8. Заполните пропуски следующими словами:

established, enables, holds, served, large-scale, development, recognition, close, overall, basis, progress

1. Russian chemical industry … the second place in the world in … volume of production. 2. The achievements of our scientists have won a world-wide … . 3. The classical works of Russian scientists … as a theoretical … for the … of the chemical industry. 4. The … links between science and industry … the chemical industry to make great … . 5. The … production of synthetic rubber was … in Russia.

9. Выберите соответствующий английский эквивалент:

уже не занимать место целый ряд получить признание достижения отрасль создание чрезвычайно одновременно вместе объем исследование

volume together simultaneously field extremely research creation achievements win recognition a number hold a place no longer

X. Прочитайте текст 3 B, не пользуясь словарем:

Text 3 B

Age of Chemistry

Chemistry and physics play a very important part in the 21^st century. Physicists solve¹ many vital problems, but the present great progress in the production of man-made materials is due to chemistry².

Objects made of natural materials do not possess all the properties required. Man had to use things given by nature. We know three long periods in the history of human progress, named after the basic material used – the stone, the bronze and the iron ages. Now we live in the age of chemistry, which produces synthetic materials.

Due to the great discoveries of the past few decades we are able to go over to a new age³ – the age of synthetic polymers. Chemistry is to remake⁴ existing materials and create new ones. It is now able to make such wonderful products that very often natural materials have to give way⁵ to the man-made ones. Synthetic materials will play a still more important part in future.