Preliminary Exercises. Exercise 1. Look at these words and try to give their corresponding Russian equivalents:

 

Exercise 1. Look at these words and try to give their corresponding Russian equivalents:

atom, peak, product, fact, organize, process, problem, journal, microfilm, material, experiment, formation, coral, volcano, period.

 

Exercise 2.Transcribe and pronounce:

science, scientist, scientific, study, molecule, cell, galaxies, alive, double, climb, solution, eventually, conquer, success, successful, research, hypothesis, available.

 

Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian paying attention to tenses.

1. I translated articles every day.

2. I have many articles to translate.

3. I have translated this article today.

4. When you came I was translating an article.

5. I had translated the article before he arrived.

6. I shall be translating an article at 5 tomorrow.

7. The article will have been translated by next week.

Exercise 4. Translate the sentences paying attention to Sequence of Tenses.

A. Foreign tourists said that they wanted to visit Dubna.

B. They said that they heard much about Dubna and they hoped that they would be shown the city.

C. One of them asked whether many foreign scientists had already visited Dubna.

D. They asked if we could tell them about the advantage of atomic power stations.

E. The scientist said that he worked in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy.

F. He said that he had done a great amount of experiments to finish his work.

G. The professor was asked where isotopes were used.

H. He answered that isotopes were used in agriculture and many fields of science.

I. He said that they would find much more application in future.

 

Words to be remembered:

study (v) — изучать

study (n) — исследование

complete (v) — завершать

solve (v) — решать

solution (n) — решение

problem (n) — проблема, задача

compare (v) — сравнивать

represent (v) — представлять

eventually (adv) — в конечном итоге

conquer (v) — покорять

observation (n) — наблюдение

search (n) — поиск

statement (n) — здесь: постановка

successful (a) – успешный

relate (v) — связывать

obtain (v) — получать

record (n) — запись

store (v) — хранить

tape (n) — лента

space (n) — пространство

hypothesis (n) — гипотеза

propose (v) — предлагать

agree (v) — соглашаться

reject (v) — отвергать

printed (a) — отпечатанный

step-by-step — поэтапный

guess (v) — предполагать, догадываться

 

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