Английский язык. Барабанова Н.Е - 11 стр.

     4. The chemists may use the reactor to analyse various substances for
their exact composition.                                                              V. Прочтите 4-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных
                                                                                  вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего
   IV. Прочитайте и устно переведите с 1-го по 3-й абзацы текста.                 правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:
Перепишите и письменно переведите 2-й и 3-й абзацы.                                    What can you say about the greatness of Mendelyeev's discovery?
                                                                                      1. The greatness of Mendelyeev's achievement lies in the fact that his
                            Пояснения к тексту.                                   Periodic Table pointed the way to further progress in chemistry.
    1. honorary board -доска славы, почета                                            2. Mendelyeev had discovered several new dements
    2. in compiling this - собирая все материалы и факты                              3. Mendelyeev created the system of classifying chemical
    3. some sixty in all - всего около шестидесяти
    4. verbaly – устно                                                                                          ВАРИАНТ 3

                      D.I. MENDELYEEV (1834-1907)                                      I. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из
     1. A Russian name appeared in 1964 on the honorary board of science          них глагол - сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и
at Bridgeport University, USA: Mendelyeev was added to the list of the            залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе (б)
greatest geniuses - Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Galilei, Newton and           обратите внимание на перевод пассивных конструкций.
Lavoisier. D.I. Mendelyeev, the explorer of nature, is the greatest chemist of         а) l. The reactor is last becoming        a major source of heat and
the world. The Mendelyeev system has served for almost 100 years as a key         electricity.
to discovering new elements and it has retained its key capacity until now.            2. Scientists have found ways of measuring the sizes and positions of
     2. D.I. Mendelyeev was the fourteenth, and last child of the director of     bodies in the Universe.
the Gymnasium          at Tobolsk. At 16 he was taken by his mother to                 б) 1. Elements are transformed into other elements both by man and by
St.Petersburg to seek higher education. He entered the Pedagogical Institute      nature.
where his father had also studied. In 1856 lie took a degree in chemistry and          2. The launching of Sputnik I was followed by many achievements in
in 1859 he was sent abroad for two years for further training. He returned to     science and engineering.
St.Petersburg in 1861 as Professor of Chemistry.
     3. In 1868 Mendelyeev began to write a great textbook of chemistry,              П. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните Participle I
known in its English translation as the "Principles of chemistry".           In   и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите,
compiling this2, he tried to find some system of classifying the elements -       является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола -
some sixty in all3 then known • whose properties he was describing. This led      сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
him to formulate the Periodic Law, which earned him lasting international               1. These reactions convert hydrogen into helium, giving off a great
fame. He presented it verbally to the Russian Chemical Society in October         amount of light and heat.
1868 and published it in February 1869.                                                 2. The concrete used in construction meets many requirements.
     4. In this paper he set out clearly his discovery that if the elements are         3.     Soils containing too much sand or clay are of less value in
arranged in order of their atomic weights, chemically related elements            agriculture.
appear at regular intervals. The greatness of Mendelyeev's achievement lies             4. Plastics articles are often difficult to repair if broken.
in the fact that he had discovered a generalization that not only unified an
enormous amount of existing information but pointed the way to further
progress.