- •А.А. Атрошкина, к.Ф. Варламова, и.А. Ислентьева
- •Новокузнецк
- •Contents предисловие 4
- •Предисловие
- •Lesson 1. Energy
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I . Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 1 a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns below. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 1 a. Try to understand its content. Text 1 a. Energy
- •Post-Text Exercises
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning, according to the idea of text 1 a.
- •V. Connections: match a line in a with a line in b.
- •VI. Read and translate word combinations consisting of two or more components. See model. Read and translate the sentences from the text containing these word combinations.
- •VII. Answer the following questions.
- •VIII. Are the sentences True or False? Correct the false sentences.
- •Grammar Exercises (The Tenses: Active and Passive Voice. See appendix, gr. Ref., p. 97-99)
- •X. Find the correct sentences. Underline the predicates. Trans-late the sentences into Russian.
- •XI. Choose the correct tense form. Translate sentences into Russian, pay attention to the meaning of the word “time”.
- •XII. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense and voice.
- •XIII. Find active and passive forms of the verb in text 1 a. Write them out into two columns.
- •XIV. Read text 1 b. Find the answers in text 1 b to the following questions:
- •Text 1 b. Generators
- •XV. Make the plan of the given text.
- •XVI. Discuss the main points of your plan with a partner.
- •XVII. Skim over text 1c (See appendix, lang. Learn. Focus, p. 117). Give a better title for this text and prove your point of view. Text 1 c. Batteries
- •Lesson 2. Atomic energy
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I . Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 2 a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns below. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 2 a. Try to understand its content. Text 2 a. Atomic Energy
- •Post- Text Exercises
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning, according to the idea of text 2 a.
- •V. Connections: match a line in a with a line in b.
- •Grammar Exercises (Modal Verbs and Their Equivalents. See appendix, gr. Ref., p. 100-102)
- •XI. Read the following sentences. Find the sentences in which the modal verb ‘must’ expresses supposition. Translate them into Russian.
- •XII. Find the sentences with modal verbs in text 2 a (passages 2 and 3). Change these modal verbs to their equivalents. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •XIII. Fill in blanks with the appropriate modal verb or its equivalent. Mind the tense.
- •XIV. A. Read the conversation. Choose the correct modal verb.
- •XV. Read text 2 b. Find the answers in text 2 b to the following questions:
- •Text 2 b. The Law of Energy Conservation
- •XVI. Read text 2 b using some more information about well known more physicists mentioned in the text.
- •1895 World War II 1913 1896 1931 1896-1912 1898 1946 1922 text 2 c. History of Radiography: X-rays, Gamma Rays
- •Gamma rays
- •Lesson 3. Electricity
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I. Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 3a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 3a. Try to understand its content. Text 3 a. Electricity
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning, according to the idea of text 3 a.
- •Post-Text Exercises
- •V. Connections: match a line in a with a line in b.
- •VI. Match paragraphs with the appropriate summary.
- •VII. Answer the following questions.
- •VIII. Translate the parts of the sentences. Complete these sentences.
- •IX. Give a short report on the topic “The discovery of electricity and its usage today”. (Use text 3a).
- •X. Find the correct sentences. Underline the participles. Translate these sentences into Russian.
- •XII. Find the participles (passage 3) in text 3 a. Define the functions of the participles.
- •XIII. Translate the following sentences into Russian, pay attention to the Absolute Participle Construction. Underline “the doer” in the construction.
- •XIV. Form one sentence of each pair of sentences using the Absolute Participle Construction.
- •XV. Read text 3 b. Find the answers in text 3 b to the following questions:
- •Text 3 b. Transformers
- •XVI. Complete the sentences using the correct variant.
- •XVII. Make a short summary of the text (See appendix, lang. Learn. Focus, p.117-118).
- •XVIII. Read text 3 c. Describe the process of electric current flow in a vacuum in your own words. Text 3 c. Electric Current In a Vacuum
- •Lesson 4. Power transmission
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I. Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 4 a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 4 a. Try to understand its content. Text 4 a. Power Transmission
- •Post-Text Exercises
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning according to the idea of text 4 a.
- •V. Connections: match a line in a with a line in b.
- •VI. Match each paragraph with the appropriate summary:
- •VII. Answer the following questions.
- •VIII. Translate the parts of the sentences. Complete these senten-ces.
- •X. Underline the gerund and define the forms of it in the examples given below. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •XI. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms of the gerund. Define the functions of the gerund. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •XII. Find the gerund (paragraph 3) in text 4 a. Define the functions of the gerund.
- •XIII. Translate the following sentences into Russian, pay attention to the Gerundial Complex.
- •XIV. Use Participle I, Participle II or the Gerund of the verbs in brackets and translate the sentences.
- •XV. Translate the following sentences and define the non-finite forms of the verb.
- •XVI. Read text 4 b. Find the answers in text 4 b to the following questions:
- •Text 4 b. Electric Power Consumers and Power Systems
- •XVII. Complete the sentences using correct variant.
- •XVIII. Describe a power system and its operation.
- •XIX. Read text 4 c. Find in it the answer to the question that follows it. Text 4 c. Electric Power Interruptions
- •Lesson 5. Electronics
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I. Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 5 a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns below. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 5 a. Try to understand its content. Text 5 a. Electronic Elements
- •Post-Text Exercises
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning according to the idea of text 5a.
- •V. Connections: match a line in a with a line in b.
- •VI. Find in the text the Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations:
- •VII. Read and translate word combinations consisting of two or more components. See model. Read and translate the sentences from the text containing these word combinations.
- •VIII. Answer the following questions:
- •IX. Read the definitions below and guess what word is defined in each case.
- •X. Use the verb in parentheses in the correct form with the appropriate preposition. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •XI. Fill in the gaps in the sentences using the correct form of the word in parentheses:
- •XII. Look through text 5 a again. Give main points of each passage. Use “is / are about …”. See Model. Make an annotation of the text (See appendix, lang. Learn. Focus, p.118)
- •X can be used for … It is made of …
- •Grammar Exercises (The Infinitive. The Functions of the Infinitive. The Infinitive Construction. The Complex Object. The complex Subject. See appendix, gr. Ref., p. 107-110)
- •XIV. Translate the following phrases from English into Russian.
- •XV. Underline the Infinitives in the sentences. Define their func-tions. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •XVI. What forms of the Infinitives are used in the Infinitive Complexes given below – Complex Subject or Complex Object?
- •XVII. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using the phrases from ex. 1.
- •XVIII. Read text 5 b and fill in the gaps with the words, in the box. Try to guess the meaning of the words from the context.
- •Text 5 b. Electronic Devices
- •Text 5 c. The Microelectronic Revolution
- •Lesson 6. Electronic devices: amplifiers, diodes, oscillators
- •Active Vocabulary
- •I. Practise reading the words written below. You’ll come across them in text 6 a.
- •II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns below. Translate them into Russian.
- •III. Read text 6 a. Try to understand its content. Text 6 a. Amplifiers
- •Post-Text Exercises
- •IV. Find the word with the similar meaning according to the idea of text 6a.
- •V. Complete the following. Use the words in the box to help you.
- •VI. Read and translate word combinations consisting of two or more components. See model. Read and translate the sentences from the text containing these word combinations.
- •VII. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Match the English words in column a to their Russian equivalents in column b:
- •IX. Below are some figures you know from your science classes. In groups, look at them carefully and match figures with their descriptions.
- •Grammar Exercises (Word Order in a Simple Sentence. Negative Simple Sentence. Word Order in Interrogative Sentences. See appendix, gr. Ref., p. 111-114)
- •XIV. Translate the following sentences into English paying atten-tion to the word order.
- •XV. Read text 6 b. Find the answers in the text to the following questions:
- •Text 6 b. Diodes
- •XVI. Fill in the correct word from the list below.
- •XVII. Discuss the main points of the text. Use this plan.
- •XVIII. Read text 6 c and complete these sentences using ideas from the text.
- •Text 6 c. Requirements For Oscillators
- •Additional reading the world of the atom
- •Natural radioactivity
- •How long does the radioactivity last?
- •Plants and the atom
- •Animals and the atom
- •Telemeters in the atomic laboratory
- •Atomic power for rockets
- •Atomic power for space travel
- •The first russian woman-scientist (1850 —1891)
- •James clerk maxwell (1831–1879)
- •The use of electromagnetic waves
- •A great invention of a russian scientist
- •Astronomy and radio
- •How can the efficiency of utilisation of solar energy be improved?
- •Solar energy
- •Electronics and technical progress
- •Mysterious devices or not
- •Lasers help science and industry
- •Atomic clock puzzles scientists
- •Development of robots
- •Electric fish
- •Machines aren’t free of errors
- •Automation and mechanization
- •Appendix
- •Grammar reference
- •Lesson 1
- •Система английских времен – The Tenses
- •Действительный залог – Active Voice
- •Страдательный залог – Passive Voice
- •Lesson 2 Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты – Model Verbs and Their Equivalents
- •Lesson 3
- •Формы причастия I
- •П ричастие I переводится на русский язык
- •Функции причастия I
- •Причастие II Образование и формы причастия II
- •П ричастие II переводится на русский язык
- •Функции причастия II
- •Независимый причастный оборот (нпо)
- •Lesson 4
- •Формы герундия
- •Функции герундия. Способы его перевода
- •Герундиальный оборот
- •Lesson 5
- •Инфинитив
- •Инфинитив как часть сложного дополнения
- •Инфинитив в конструкции сложное дополнение употребляется:
- •Инфинитив как часть сложного подлежащего
- •Lesson 6 Простое предложение
- •Порядок слов в простом повествовательном предложении. Утвердительная форма
- •Отрицание в простом повествовательном предложении
- •Порядок слов в вопросительном предложении
- •1. Альтернативные и общие вопросы
- •2. Специальные вопросы
- •Построение специальных вопросов с предлогами
- •I вариант
- •II вариант
- •Irregular verbs
- •Language learning focus skimming
- •Writing a summary
- •Make sure you understand all the main points. Go through the article and underline the relevant information in each paragraph.
- •Writing an annotation
- •Библиографический список
- •Energy and electronics
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II. Put the words from the box into the correct columns below. Translate them into Russian.
certainly, mixture,
stainless, significant, quantity, reliable, present, importance,
peaceful, academician, directly, founder, achievement, completely,
fission, moderator, thermal
Noun (what / who?) |
Adjective (what kind of) |
Adverb (in what manner?) |
measure damage … |
…………. |
afterward (s) …. …. |
III. Read text 2 a. Try to understand its content. Text 2 a. Atomic Energy
A man trying to see a single atom is like a man trying to see a single drop of water in the sea while life flying high above it. He will see the sea made up of a great many drops of water but he certainly will not be able to see a single drop. By the way, there are so many atoms in the drop of water that if one could count one atom a second, day and night, it would take one hundred milliard years. But that is certainly impossible.
Man has, however, learned the secret of the atom. He can split atoms in order to get great quantities of energy. At present, coal is the most important fuel and our basic source of energy. Coal and other fuel may be replaced by atomic energy. Atomic energy replacing the preset source of energy, the latter will be able to find various new applications. As for coal it is not only a fuel and it will therefore never lose its importance. We can’t do without it and it may find some other significant applications. For instance, coal will be used to get various products.
The nuclear reactor is to be one of the reliable “furnaces” producing atomic energy. Being used to produce energy, the reactor produces it in the form of heat. In other words, atoms splitting in the reactor, heat is developed. Gas, water, melted metals, and some other liquids circulating through the reactor must .carry that heat away. The heat may be carried to pipes of the steam generator containing water. The resulting steam drives a turbine, the turbine in. its turn driving an electric generator. So, we can see that a nuclear power station is likely any other power station but the familiar coal-burning furnace is replaced by a nuclear one.
The first industrial nuclear power station in the world was constructed in Obninsk not far from Moscow in 1954. One may mention here that the station in question was put into operation two years earlier than the British one and three and a half years earlier than the American nuclear power station.
Speaking of the peaceful uses of atomic energy in Russia, one can also mention Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant named after academician Кurchatov, one of the founders of the Russian atomic industry. There are two reactors and three turbines at Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant. The first reactor supplies energy to one turbine and the second one generates steam to drive two turbines of 100,000 kilowatts each. The energy generated by the above plants is supplied to the Urals industrial enterprises and transmitted to Central Russia. Russian scientists and engineers achieved a nuclear super-heating of steam directly in the reactor turbine which was achieved for the first time in the world. We might mention here another important achievement, that is, the first nuclear installation where the thermal energy generated in the reactor is transformed directly into electric energy.
And how do the reactors still operate? Let’s consider their design.
Nowadays there two types of nuclear rеасtors: thermal reactors and fast reactors. The thermal reactor is mainly used to generate electricity at the moment. There are several different designs of thermal reactor, but they are all fuelled by rods either of natural, uranium enriched with a higher than usual proportion of uranium 235. The rods are surrounded by a moderator, usually water or graphite. The moderator slows down the neutrons released by fisson until they reach the best speed for further reactions. Heat is given off during fission and this is carried away from the reactor core by a coolant. The heat contained in the coolant is applied to produce steam which powers a generator to make electricity. Rods of a material like boron, which absorbs neutrons, are lowered into the core of the reactor to control the speed of the reaction or to shut it off completely. The reactor core is surrounded by steel mid/or a thick shielding of concrete. Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) are the most widely used reactors in the world.
In fast reactors, the fuel is so rich that fission can be caused by fast neutrons, so no moderator is needed to slow them down. Thermal reactors only use a small part of their fuel and they are not very good at using the plutonium that is a by-product of fission. Fast reactors are able to burn the plutonium much more efficiently. Fast reactor fuel is a mixture of plutonium and uranium dioxides in stainless steel cans. Packed around the core of the reactor is a blanket of uranium 238. The uranium 238 atoms capture a spare neutron and are changed into plutonium. Fast reactor can create as much plutonium as it uses and it can provide fuel for another reactor. The reactor core is very small and a great amount of heat is produced, Molten sodium is employed to carry away the heat. As they both burn and create plutonium, fast reactors can extract about sixty times as much power from natural uranium as thermal reactors can.