3.4. Вопросы для самопроверки:

1. Каков примерный объем аннотации по отношению к первичному тексту?

2. Какими приемами вы пользовались при компрессии текста?

3. Какой у вас получилась аннотация по содержанию и целевому назначению (общая или специализированная, справочная или рекомендательная)?

4. Для чего составляется аннотированная библиография на иностранном языке?

Вариант 4

4.1. Прочитайте статью, ответьте на вопросы, затем составьте аннотацию к статье на английском языке:

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout

By HarperCollins

The story of Marie and Pierre Curie and their Nobel Prize – winning research on radiation has been oft told. But it finds new life in the hands of writer and artist Lauren Redniss, who weaves together deft narrative and vivid illustrations to create a thoroughly modern account of the scientific and romantic passions of the Curies, as well as the repercussions of their discoveries. Here Redniss describes how, following Marie’s observation of radioactivity in a mineral called pitchblende, the Curies isolated for the first time a compound containing radium, a radioactive element.

The Curies had demonstrated the existence of polonium and radium through their radioactivity, but fellow scientists remained skeptical. Chemists in particular wanted to see them, to touch them. Only concrete evidence would be persuasive.

And so, the Curies plunged into a Sisyphean task. Procuring seven tons of pitchblende – a mountain of black rubble strewn with pine needles – from the Bohemian mines, they began trying to extract measurable amounts of their new elements. They asked the Sorbonne for laboratory space to complete the work. The University gave the Curies a dilapidated wooden shed previously used for human dissection.

After four years of steady labor, four hundred tons of water, and forty tons of corrosive chemicals, on March 28, 1902, they managed to extract one tenth of a gram of radium chloride. It was exhausting work.

With the constant companionship that accompanied their research, the Curies’ love deepened. They cosigned their published findings. Their handwritings intermingle in their notebooks. On the cover of one black canvas laboratory log, the initials ‘M’ and ‘P’ before the surname – Curie are scripted directly one atop the other, as if to pull apart even just the letters of their names would be too brutal. Though the long, poisonous task of separating the elements would ultimately cleave the couple, for now the arduous work bound them together.

(«Scientific American», May, 2010)

Вопросы:

1. What did The Curies demonstrate?

2. How long did it take The Curies to extract one tenth of a gram of radium chloride?

3. What did The Curies do to their published findings?

4.2. Прочитайте статью, ответьте на вопросы, затем составьте реферат статьи на русском языке:

Squeezing More Oil Out of the Ground

By Leonardo Maugeri

On 20 dry, flat square miles of California’s Central Valley, more than 8,000 horseheads – as old-fashioned oilmen call them – slowly rise and fall as they suck oil from underground. Glittering pipelines crossing the whole area reveal that the place is not merely a relic of the past. But even to an expert’s eyes, Kern River Oil Field betrays no hint of the miracle that has enabled it to survive decades of dire predictions.

Kern River Oil Field was discovered in 1899, and initially it was thought that only 10 percent of its heavy, viscous crude could be recovered. In 1942, after more than four decades of modest production, the field was estimated to still hold 54 million barrels of recoverable oil. As pointed out in 1995 by Morris Adelman, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the few remaining energy gurus, "in the next forty-four years, it produced not 54 million barrels but 736 million barrels, and it had another 970 million barrels remaining". But even this estimate was wrong. In November 2007 U.S. oil giant Chevron announced that cumulative production had reached two billion barrels. Today, Kern River still puts out more than 80,000 barrels per day, and Chevron reckons that the remaining reserves are about 480 million barrels.

Chevron began to achieve its miracle in the 1960s by injecting steam into the ground, a novel technology at the time. Later, a new breed of exploration and drilling tools – along with steady steam injection – turned the field into a sort of oil cornucopia. Yet, Kern River is not an isolated case. Most of the world’s oilfields have revived over time. New exploration methods have revealed more of the Earth’s secrets. And leaps in extraction technology have led to tapping oil in once-inaccessible areas and in places where drilling was once uneconomic. In a way, technology is the real cornucopia.

(«Scientific American», April, 2009)

Вопросы:

1. Where is Kern River Oil Field located?

2. When was Kern River Oil Field discovered?

3. What technology did Chevron use in 1960s?