2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

забруднення, жертва, туман з димом, промислові відходи, стічні води, загроза, змінювати біосферу, законодавство, шум, загрозливий.

3. Make up sentences from the following sets of words. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. Pollution, is, dying, from, the Mediterranean, actually.

2. The river, stopped, legislation, industrial, of the flow, waste, into.

3. Pollution, traffic, and, noise, aircraft, serious, cause, can.

4. The most common, from, comes, smoke, form, cigarette, of air pollution.

5. The Earth, off, suggest, the best way, is, to travel, that, the bicycle, friends, of.

4. Insert the article a/the where it is necessary.

1. If you catch _____ fish in Seine near Paris, it may be without scales.

2. _____ friends of _____ Earth suggest that _____ bicycle is _____ best way to travel.

3. _____ traffic and aircraft can cause serious noise pollution.

4. _____ Mediterranean is actually dying from pollution.

5. _____ main river of _____ Great Britain is ____ Thames.

6. _____ London and many other cities have become smokeless zones.

5. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the most polluted places in Western Europe?

2. What did English legislation do to stop the flow of industrial waste into the river?

3. What do friends of the Earth suggest to be the best way to travel?

UNIT 5

Section 1

1. Read and translate the following text: automation today and tomorrow

“Within the 20-year period the comprehensive automation of production will be effected on a large scale, with more and more shops and plants being fully automated. The introduction of highly efficient automatic control systems will be accelerated. Computers, and control systems must be introduced on a large scale in industry, research, designing, planning, accounting, statistics and management.”

Specialists in cybernetics are working on the development of self-learning machines capable of solving problems set by man. These self-learning cybernetic systems can collect various data, analyse them and perform certain operations as a result of the analysis. What is more, they are able to produce qualitatively new information.

A good number of these machines are already working in our industry, such as a cybernetic system for the iron and steel industry, an electronic system for geological prospecting, a cybernetic designer which designs gas pipelines and.

Automation in our country has reached the stage of developing fully automated industries. Electronic computing techniques find wide application in and serve as a basis for the development of modern programme-controlled machine tools, the controlling of space ship flights, weather forecasts and planning work.

2. Find in the text English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:

покращена автоматизація, промисловість, великий обсяг, повністю автоматизований, кібернетика, вирішення проблем, збирати інформацію, обчислювальна техніка, сталеливарне виробництво, чорна металургія.