IV. Choose the best answer to the questions (Tick-V):

1. What does biotechnology contribute to?

a) building and architecture

b) history of mankind

c) food production

d) medicine

e) physical processes in atoms

2. What do modern achievements include?

a) conversion in chemical substances

b) transferal of a specific gene from one organism to another

c) elimination of some plants and animals

d) growth of genetically uniform plant and animal cell cultures

e) production of beneficial medical products

3. What kind of product has biotechnology made in waste management?

a) antibodies

b) cell cultures, called clones

c) biodegradable plastic

d) factor 8

e) bacterium thiobacillus ferrooxidans

4. What is used in the mining?

a) bacteria

b) factor 8

c) clones

d) pathogenic microorganisms

e) chemical substance

5. What advance in the field of medicine came in 1986?

a) production of vaccines, penicillin and sulfa

b) production of factor 8

c) production of biodegradable plastics

d) production of monoclonal antibodies

e) production of cell cultures

6. What are critics concerned?

a) appearence of some species

b) elimination of existing species

c) modification of existing species

d) appearence of worldwide epidemics

e) production of transgenic organisms

7. Why did the National Institute of Health create a body of rules?

a) in response to fears of elimination of mineral stones

b) in response to fears of elimination of waste

c) in response to fears of disastrous consequences of unregulated genetic engineering procedures

d) in response to fears of appearence of worldwide epidemics

e) in response to fears of people diseases

V. According to the text it can be said that:

(Tick the right statement – V )

1. Biotechnology is the manipulation of non-living things.

2. Biotechnology contributes to such areas as food production, waste disposal, mining and medicine.

3. Modern achievements include the transferal of atoms from one mineral to another.

4. Clones are plant and animal cell cultures.

5. Biotechnology is used to create new biodegradable materials.

6. Wide spread production of plastic from any material is expected to become more economically valuable.

7. Biology has applications in the mining industry.

8. Microbiological mining process is used only with low-grade ores.

6. What is the main theme of the text “Biotechnology”?

1. The future of biotechnology

2. Biotechnology as a science of living organisms

3. Biotechnology is a manipulation of biological organisms

4. The advances of biotechnology

5. Problems of biotechnology

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

Pre-reading

Exercise 1. Read the following international words and give their meanings.

generate v, automatic a, utilization n, container n, resist v, packet n, infect v, activize v, accelerate v.

Exercise 2. Read and memorize the following words.

to surface – зпливти, з’являтися на поверхні

to search – шукати

buoy – буй, бакен

lattice – решітка

to clutter – захаращувати

to evolve – розвивати, розробляти

to hover – ширяти, буяти, бути, знаходитися поблизу

Exercise 3. Consult the dictionary to get the meaning of the words.

Clog, stench, convert, film, culture, community, feeding.

Exercise 4. Pick out Ukrainian equivalents to the following English.

1. biochemical energy sources 1) використання відходів

2. biochemical cells 2) система звукової лока­ціі

3. sonar system 3) використані ємкості

4. waste utilization 4) біохімічні електро-елементи

5. used containers 5) біохімічні джерела енергії

Exercise 5. Read and translate the text. Render it in English.