VI. Make up the word combinations

1.original	fiction
2.military	disruption
3.robot	meaning
4.incredible	implication
5.science	arms
6.mundane	disruption
7.severe	technology

VII. Translate the following sentences paying attention to participle and gerund and state their forms.

1. Much of the work being done today is very important.

2. Nanotechnology means building things from the bottom up, with atomic precision.

3. Nanotechnology using techniques and tools being developed today.

4. K. Eric Drexler was talking about building machines on the scale of molecules.

5. Drexler spent the next 10 years describing and analyzing these incredible devices, and responding to accusations of science fiction.

6. The possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.

7. Miniature factories using nanomachines to build complex products.

8. Formulating a roadmap is now an objective of a broadly based technology roadmap project led by Battelle and the Foresight Nanotech Institute.

VIII. Put the words in the right order to make up sentences.

1. became / an / nanotechnology / accepted / concept.

2. tiny / I / billion / want / factories / to / a / build

3. factories / miniature / complex / products / build

4. Drexler / the / in / K.Eric/ popularized / word / the / ”nanotechnology” / 1980

5. is / in / Richard / physics / Feynman / Prize / winner / Nobel

IX. Use the passive form of the verb

1. At the end of the 20^th century the US National Nanotechnology Initiative … (create).

2. The theoretical capability … (envision) by the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959.

3. At present the envisioned molecular machinery ... (create).

4. Much of the work …(do) today.

5. Incredible devices … (describe) the next 10 years.

X. Answer the following questions.

1. What is Nanotechnology?

2. When K. Eric Drexler popularized the word 'nanotechnology?

3. What is mundane technology?

4. How does Richard Feynman explain the definition of nanotechnology?

5. What was Richard Feynman’s idea?

6. How do you see the role of principles of physics in nanotechnology?

7. Is it possible for the manufacturing revolution to happen?

18. UNIT 6

I. Match English words with their Russian equivalents.

1.seek out	a раковый
2.destroy	b скопление
3.cluster	c польза
4.cancerous	d разрушать
5.fabricator	e наблюдение
6.duel-use	f искать
7.surveillance	g двойное использование
8.benefit	h завод

II. Study the words and their definitions.

1.grave	very serious and important
2.countertop	a worktop, a work surface
3.facet	a particular part or aspect of smth.
4.untraceable	you can’t find out where smth. comes from
5.scramble	a situation in which people compete to get or do smth.
6.wondrous	strange
7.pattern	an excellent example to copy
8.abundance	a large quantity that is more than enough

III. Match antonyms and translate them into Russian.

1.destroy	a. dearth
2.benefit	b. find
3.seek out	c. horrible
4.abundance	d. create
5.wondrous	e. loss

IV. Give synonyms and translate them into Russian.

1.facet	a.
2.	b. high (risk)
3.cluster	c.
4.surveillance	d.
5.	e. work surface
6.fabricator	f.
7.	g. prototype

V. What do these abbreviations mean?

1. CAD a) Canadian dollar

b) cash against documents

c) computer-aided design.

2. PN a) P-network

b) personal nanofactory

c) Petri net

3. IR a) industrial revolution

b) international registration

c) industrial robot

VI. Fill in the gaps using the given words.

General-Purpose Technology

A) Seek out, advanced, smarter, referred, built, possess, in general

Nanotechnology is sometimes (____) to as a general-purpose technology. That's because in its (____) form it will have significant impact on almost all industries and all areas of society. It will offer better (____), longer lasting, cleaner, safer, and (____) products for the home, for communications, for medicine, for transportation, for agriculture, and for industry (____).

Imagine a medical device that travels through the human body to (____) and destroy small clusters of cancerous cells before they can spread. Or a box no larger than a sugar cube that contains the entire contents of the Library of Congress. Or materials much lighter than steel that (____) ten times as much strength.