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THE FIRST SEISMOGRAPH
In 1989 millions watched on television as a powerful earthquake
rocked San Francisco shortly before baseball's World Series. That quake's
tremors brought death and destruction around the Bay area.
Today we know that the shifting in the earth's crust causes earthquakes.
This movement sends "seismic waves" across the earth's surface, much as
dropping a pebble in a pond sends ripples across water.
People living in Han China believed that angry spirits caused
earthquakes to express their displeasure with society. Scholars studied
quakes closely, believing they were interpreting a divine message.
In A.D.
132 Zhang Heng invented the world's first seismograph, an
instrument for detecting and measuring earthquakes. Zhang's device
resembled a domed, cylindrical urn. Each of eight dragons around the top
held a ball in its jaws. At the base of the urn sat eight toads with upturned
heads and open mouths, each directly under a dragon.
When a tremor occurred, a mechanism caused one of the balls to fall
into a toad's mouth. This action showed that somewhere an earthquake was
taking place. The side of the seismograph where that toad was sitting
indicated the quake's direction. As the ball popped into the toad's mouth,
the loudness may have indicated the tremor's strength.
Zhang Heng's seismograph had one quality that today's instruments
lack: it was also a work of art.
1) Соотнесите русские и английские словосочетания:
1. to express displeasure a) поднятая вверх голова
2. to resemble an urn b) произведение искусства
3. to cause destruction c) напоминать сосуд
4. upturned head d) выражать недовольство
5. a work of art e) вызывать разрушения
2) Найдите в каждом ряду слово, противоположное по значению
первому слову ряда.
1. detect a) find b) discover c) loose d) determine
2. angry a) wicked b) mean c) powerful d) cheerful
3. occur a) happen b) take place c) disappear d) hold
4. tremor a) peace b) quake c) shake d) vibration
5. strength a) force b) weakness c) intensity d) rate

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