3. Прочитайте следующие высказывания. Исправьте неверные высказывания в соответствие с содержанием текста:

1. Photographs from space are often flashed to the earth.

2. The sights of the earth are more spectacular than of the other planets.

3. The space race is just for getting knowledge.

4. They are interested only in research.

5. Man has never played the power game.

6. Space research has greatly improved our life.

7. Space research has solved the problem of starvation.

8. It raised the standard of living.

9. Soon a man will be able to travel to the far away stars.

10. Life will get better if powerful nations spend less money for space race.

11. Thanks to space research we can now see pictures transmitted live half way across the globe.

12. Man has no technological resources to stop human suffering.

4. Заполните пропуски следующими словами:

Research power sights to combat to relieve budgets

devote wealthiest in order expenditure represents extension

1. The picture …… a planet seen from several thousand miles away.

2. We can find numerous …… on earth that are infinitely more exciting.

3. Space race is just the …… of the race for power on earth.

4. Only the …… nations can afford space research.

5. In fact they are interested in …… and prestige.

6. What has the space race done …… the suffering of the starving millions?

7. Space …… hasn’t improved our standard of living.

8. The practical results of all this ……. are negligible.

9. The world will be better place if wealthy nations ……. more money to these problems.

10. We have the overwhelming technological resources …… human suffering.

11. People with limited …… usually get their priorities right.

12. Let us put our house …… first.

5. Прокомментируйте следующие высказывания:

1. Error is discipline through which we advance.

2. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of vigorous mind.

3. Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

4. Little things affect little minds.

5. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

6. All wish to possess knowledge, but few comparatively speaking are willing to pay the price.

6. Выскажите своё мнение об исследовании космоса.

7. Письменно составьте 5-7 вопросов к тексту и задайте их своим сокурсникам.

8. Сформулируйте главную мысль каждого абзаца.

9. Напишите аннотацию текста, используя фразы:

Exciting developments, visible proof, hardly value, the race for power, negligible, devote money to, limited budget, priorities.

Раздел 1.3.

1. Прочитайте текст и определите его основную идею:

When I was a child I seemed to spend half of my life in front of a television. Every day coming home from school, all day long at weekends when we were at home and for much of the summer holidays, we set in front of the box. Before the age of 10 I most enjoyed watching children’s programmes. After this I had a period in which I enjoyed watching films and dramas, also soap operas, I shamefully admit.

However, as my views of the world changed, I found other interests, my attitude towards TV changed greatly. In the last few years I have very rarely switched on a TV, but often switched one off. In fact, for a couple of years I think I didn’t see a TV at all. I don’t really think that it’s good that all the people watching a television channel receive, learn and believe the same information, and are confronted with a very small selection of perspectives on things. I think it subconsciously influences people greatly, especially in their attitudes, and people become programmed in the way they think by what they absorb from the television. I don’t know, you could say that if it wasn’t for TV, they would receive a smaller amount of information about the world, about what’s going on, but I feel that in these circumstances people would receive more information from their immediate environment and live more real, practical lives based more on first-hand experience and less on second-hand information. I also see that television has a strong influence on people’s political ideas and very rarely offers any kind of religious or spiritual perspective on life, and I think that that’s not healthy for the society. I think that a lot of time people spend sitting in front of televisions could be spent developing themselves in more direct ways – learning skills, exercising, reading, creating things or any of the number of more useful activities.

2. Озаглавьте текст. Дайте не менее трёх вариантов заголовка.

3. Письменно переведите текст со словарём.

4. Напишите небольшую заметку (10-12 предложений) на тему: «Advantages And Disadvantages Of Television».