Glossary

1. quest - a search for an important goal

2. phoenix - a bird in mythology that died and was reborn from its own ashes

3. strife - conflict, fighting

4. flawed - containing an error or mistake

5. booster - the large rocket used to lift the shuttle into space

6. deprived - not allowed to have

7. erratically - without a consistent pattern

8. bothered - took the time or made the error

9. snuffing out - stopping, putting out, as in a fire

10. reveled - enjoyed, with a sense of pride

11. pirouetting - turning around like a classical dancer

12. stricken - seriously damaged

13. retrospect - looking back

14. touted - advertised, publicized

15. blindly - without thinking

16. succumb - give in, go along with

17. override-replace

18. bravado - a show of courage, which may be false

19. heritage - traditions passed down from our ancestors

3. Because of its high intensity, the reflected laser light can not be detected quickly.

4. This invention has a significant advantage for endoscopy.

5. Two-dimensional bar codes can carry a lot more information than the famili­ar one-dimensional codess.

6. A new type of digital camera can not produce crisp images if a bar code is moving at 70 cm a second.

Tasks to be done after reading the articles

1. Find some facts in the articles to justify its title.

2. Find the part of text 1 related to the description of the most popular approach of creating an AIDS vaccine.

3. Find the part of text 2 speaking how MRI works.

4. Find the part of text 3 describing the advantages of a new digital camera.

5. Divide text 1 into several logical parts, give a heading to each of them.

6. Compress text 3 to 6-8 sentences.

7. Mark off the passages of text 2 that seem important to you.

8. State the main problems discussed in the text 1.

9. Render one of the articles making use of the following scheme:

The plan for rendering the text	Some expressions to be used
1. The title of the text	The article is headlined.... The headline of the article I have
2. The author of the article, where and when the article was pub­lished	The author of the article is.... The article is written by The article is (was) published..
3. The main idea of the article	The main idea of the article is The article is about The article is devoted to The article deals with The article touches upon.... The purpose of the article is to give the readers some information on

	g) The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some material (data) on
4. The contents of the article. Some facts, names, figures	The author starts by telling the reader that The author writes (states, stresses, thinks, points out) that The article describes According to the text Further the author reports (says) The article goes on to say that The author comes to the conclu­sion that
5. Your opinion of the article	I found this article important (inter­esting, dull, of no value, too hard to understand )

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