Vocabulary

to influence – влиять

surface – поверхность

to consist of – состоять из

to reveal – вскрывать, обнаружить

Question

What surface does the Moon have?

Вариант 5

I.Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Помните, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям (см. образец выполнения 1).

1. Now we know neutrino to have a rest mass (масса покоя) of about 30 electron-volts.

2. The properties of the new material are known to be determined next month.

3. Conduction is known to be a process by which heat is transmitted through a substance by molecular activity.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод зависимого и независимого причастных оборотов (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. Working with machines, sharp tools, motors one must be always careful.

2. The stream of electrons moving along the conductor is called electric current.

3. Powerful nuclear ice-breakers being built in our country, we began a new chapter in the history of Arctic exploration.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод условных предложений (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. If you have translated the article, you could have used valuable data in your work.

2. If the quality of the equipment were higher, the results of the experiment would be more accurate.

3. It would be impossible to explain chemical phenomena without using the laws of physics.

IV. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 7-ой абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2, 3 и 5-ый абзацы. Письменно ответьте на вопрос после текста.

Pyramids on Mars

1.An examination of some of the photos of Mars sent back to Earth by the space researchers Mariner-9 and Viking-1 provokes a question: was Mars once an inhabited planet? A group of soviet scientists from a number of organizations examined the photos and gave their conclusions.

2.There were discovered formations which have been interpreted as “a field of quadrangular pyramids”. Mariner-9 discovered formations which are geometrically correct structures. Viking-1 photographed something resembling the ruins of Egyptian pyramids. Nine kilometers east of the “city of pyramids” the photograph shows a stone structure shaped like a human head, and a strange dark circle.

3.The analyses and physical modeling of the Martian formations were performed. The Martian surface was compared with that of the Moon, and the shapes of the formations were compared with those of Egyptian and Mexican pyramids.

4.The small Martian “pyramids” were found to resemble the recently discovered giant pyramids, lying on the seabed of the Bermuda Island and the pyramids, 250 m high, found in the Brazilian jungle.

5.But they are nothing in comparison to the large Martian “pyramids” measuring up to 1.5 kilometers per side at the base and up to one kilometer in height.

6.The image of the “Martian sphinx”, 1.5 km long and 0.5 km wide, lies strictly along the meridian of the planet.

7.In the opinion of experts, the photographed formations are indeed pyramid-shaped and the “oval shaped formation” bears a formal resemblance to a head. But all these strange figures are of natural origin.