III. Reading comprehension

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between science and technology?

2. What do many historians of science argue about?

3. Do you agree that innovations now appear at a rate that increases geometrically.

4. The 20-th century gave us some household objects that made our lives easier and more comfortable, did not it?

5. Which of the following do you own: a DVD, a microwave oven, a computer, a cell phone, an electronic dictionary?

6. Which of them do you use most often?

7. Has technology always been a major means for creating new physical and human environments?

8. Do you think technology will destroy the global civilization?

IV. Vocabulary and Grammar exercises

1. Give the Ukrainian equivalents for:

Without respect to; household objects; the 1980 machine; ordinary people; shifted computers of the desktop; the global network was designed; revolutionized the storage of computer data; arriving of the disposable society; to predict secondary effect; for creating new physical and human environments; a creative and a destructive process.

2. Give English equivalents to the following words:

Невід’ємна умова; зробила можливим; вчені в Сполучених Штатах; знадобилося п’ять років, щоб; значно вплинули на; вісімдесяті поклали кінець; відразу після ІІ Світової війни; під назвою; всесвітньо відома фірма; заснував свою власну компанію; на практиці; світова цивілізація.

3. Fill in the gaps with the words given below:

Innovations; to predict secondary effect; technology; a creative and a destructive process; plenty of things; systematized knowledge; the rate of technological change.

1. Science is a term to denote _________________ in any field.

2. _____________ means the study, or science, of crafting.

3. _____________ has developed its own momentum in recent centuries.

4. _____________ now seem to appear at a rate that increases geometrically.

5. The 20-th century gave us_______________ that improved our lives.

6. But it has been very difficult in practice_______________of new technologies.

7. So we must always remember that technology can be conceived as both _______.

4. These people gave their names to common things we use today. Can you identify them? Fill in the gaps with the names given below: Comma, Geiger, Ketchup, Parquet, Pasteur, Pocket, Sandwich.

1. Henry _____________ (1589 - 1645); his invention keeps your hands in winter and is useful place to keep your keys.

2. Domenico _________________ (1264 - 1326); an Italian monk who invented the punctuation mark we use to separate words in a sentence.

3. Hans Wilhelm ____________ (died in 1945); a German nuclear physicist who designed a counter for detecting radioactivity.

4. Martha ______________ (died in. 1680); whose excellent tomato sauce became very popular. Hamburgers wouldn`t be the same without it!

5. Louis ___________________ (1822 - 1895); a Frenchman who was both a chemist and a biologist. Pasteurization is a method of sterilizing milk by heating it.

6. Jean-Phillipe _____________ (1638 - 1680); a French carpenter who invented a way of laying wood on a floor in intricate patterns.

7. The Earl of ____________ (1718 - 1792); a compulsive gambler who discovered that eating meat between two slices of bread meant that he didn`t have to leave his card game.