1. Read the text and give two reasons of Mr. Aristides’s last hobby.

2. What attributes are used for a scientist?

A POOL OF BRAINS

Thomas Betterton, an outstanding promissing British scientist, disappeared suddenly from the conference he was attending in Paris. He is not the first young brilliant scientist to disappear. During the previous years quite a number of young talented and eminent scientists from France, Belgium, England and the USA have left their countries and are nowhere found.

The British Intelligence Service is interested in Betterton’s disappearance as his research is connected with security matters. His wife is kept under observation. The BIS agents follow her to Africa where she goes two months later. Mrs Betterton dies in hospital after air crash. The BIS decides to substitute Hilary Graven for Mrs Betterton as the latter resembles her very much.

Hilary Graven is met by somebody’s agents and taken to the “Unit”, a research centre, owned by Aristides, a world-famous multi-millionaire.

A few days later Hilary is invited to Aristides’s study where she has a conversation with the owner of the “Unit”. From the conversation she learns what kind of institution the “Unit” is.

“ I’m a businessman,” said Mr Aristides simply. “I’m also a collector. I have collected many things in my life. Pictures – I have the finest art collection in Europe. My stamp collection is famous. When a collection is fully representative, one goes on to the next thing. I am an old man, Madame, and there was not very much more for me to collect. So I came at last to collecting brains.”

TASK 3

Answer the questions:

1. Why is science so important in the modern world?

2. How does science help to keep peace in the world?

3. How does science help to solve the energy program?

4. What proves that the study of science is important for understanding the natural world?

TASK 4

1. Read these words about science, then say how you would continue this description:

“ Science is discovery. Science is fun. Science is understanding what makes a clock tick and what makes a car purr, what makes the Sun rises and what makes the Moon look so large on the horizon sometimes during the year.”

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3. Read these lines and comment on them:

“ Science is organized knowledge.”

“ Scientific work must have no object except to find out the truth.”

“ Science is built up of facts as a house is built of stones; but accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

“ True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.”

Use the phrases of agreement and disagreement.

TASK 5

Read the definitions of different branches of science and match them with the names of the sciences.

1. astronomy

2. biology

3. linguistics

4. psychology

5. meteorology

1. It is the science of the stars. It deals with celestial bodies such as our earth, its moon, the sun, the other planets.

2. It is the study of the way in which language works.

3. It is the science of mental life which studies human and animal behaviour.

4. It is the science of life. It deals with great diversity of life forms.

5. It deals with the scientific observation and study of the phenomena of weather and climate.

TASK 6

Read and remember the words:

1.

Science - scientist

Chemistry - chemist

Physics -physicist

Biology - biologist

Linguistics - linguist

Psychology - psychologist

Mathematics - mathematician

History - historian

Politics - politician

2. Read, translate and remember the words:

to apply, to engage, to be engaged in, to do research, to involve, to be involved in, to investigate, to succeed, to support, phenomenon (phenomena), technology, technological, to invent, to create, to supply, to found, to conclude, to inspire, to predict, to exaggerate, to contradict, spectacular discoveries

2. Form nouns ( Verb + -s(tion)= Noun) :

To decide, to conclude, to contradict, to inspire, to exaggerate, to recognize, to determine, to apply, to investigate, to invent, to create, to predict.

TASK 7

Read the text:

SCIENCE

Science is important to most people living in the modern world for a number of reasons. In particular, science is important to world peace and understanding, to the understanding of technology, and to our understanding of the world.

Science is important to world peace in many ways. Firstly, scientists have helped to develop many of the modern tools of war. On the other hand, they have also helped to keep the peace through research which has improved life for people. Scientists have helped us to understand the problem of supplying the world with enough energy; they have begun to develop a number of solutions to the energy problem – for example, using energy from the sun and from the atom. Scientists have also analysed the world’s resources. We can begin to learn to share the resources with the knowledge provided to us by science. Science studies the Universe and how to use its possibilities for the benefit of men.

Science is also important to everyone who is affected by modern technology. Many of things that make our lives easier and better are the results of advances in technology and, if the present patterns continue, technology will affect us even more in the future than it does now. In some cases, such as technology for taking salt out of ocean water, technology may be essential for our lives on Earth.

The study of science also provides people with an understanding of natural world. Scientists are learning to predict earthquakes, are exploring many other natural events such as storms. Scientists are also studying various aspects of human biology and the origin and developments of the human race. The study of the natural world may help to improve life of many people all over the world.

Basic knowledge of science is essential for everyone. It helps people to find their way in the changing world.

1. Find the English equivalents in the text:

Предсказывать землетрясения, ориентироваться в окружающем мире, иметь большое значение для достижения мира и понимания, результат технических достижений, улучшить жизнь, разработать ряд решений энергетической проблемы, создать современное оружие, элементарное знание науки, использовать возможности на благо человека, иметь огромное значение для нашей жизни, происхождение и развитие человеческого рода, проблема обеспечения мира энергией, сохранять мир, анализировать мировые ресурсы, Вселенная, сообща пользоваться ресурсами, давать людям понимание, знания, предоставляемые кому-либо наукой, быть связанным с современной техникой.

2. Translate into English, pay attention to the proper tenses of the verbs:

1. Наука помогла разработать современное оружие.

2. Наука находит все новые решения энергетической проблемы.

3. Наука уже помогла людям научиться использовать энергию солнца и атома.

4. Наука поможет нам научиться совместному использованию ресурсов.

5. Ученые смогут предсказывать землетрясения.

6. В течение многих лет наука помогает улучшать жизнь людей.

7. Знания необходимы людям, чтобы ориентироваться в изменяющемся мире.