Radiophysics. Халюшева Г.Р. - 7 стр.

        suddenly – внезапно
        together – вместе
        undergraduate – студент (или аспирант) последнего курса
        (to) wish – (v) желать, (n) желание
        to shake hands – здороваться (прощаться) за руку
        to be responsible for smth – отвечать за что–либо
        to get ready – готовиться
        Ph.D. – доктор философии (ученая степень)

         1.4 Exercises
        1.4.1 Give Russian equivalents to the following words without using a dictionary:

        assistant moment
        candidate regular
        course start up
        classical statistical
        discuss

        1.4.2 Read and translate the text

        1.4.3 Answer the following questions


      1. Who entered Professor Fox’s office? 2. How old was the young man? 3. What
did Fox do when he saw Erik? 4. What recommendations did Gorin come with? 5. What
was Erik offered to teach? 6. What did Fox say about Erik’s future work? 7. Which of
Fox’s questions didn’t Erik understand? 8. Why did the Foxes hold an open house? 9.
What did Maxwell tell Erik on the way to the Foxes? 10. What did Erik think of when
he heard about Haviland’s plans? 11. Did Haviland promise Erik to take him into his
lab? 12. What courses did Haviland advise him to take? 13. Did Haviland remember his
promise when he returned from Europe? 14. Did Haviland allow Erik to work in his
empty laboratory? 15. Did it occur to Erik at that moment that he would hate his
profession in some years? 16. Why did Erik begin to hate his profession?


       1.4.4    Translate the following sentences and explain the use of tenses
          1. Maxwell said that the professors picked up their research assistants from Ph.D. candidates. 2. Erik said that he
had not heard anything about the latest achievements in nuclear physics. 3. It was said that soon Erik would be allowed to
teach freshman physics lab. 4. Erik expected that Haviland would remember about his promise. 5. Haviland heard that Erik
had come with excellent recommendations. 6. Fox asked Erik why he wanted to become a physicist. 7. During that year
Erik didn’t know whether Haviland remembered his promise. 8. Erik told Maxwell he was willing to do research. 9. Erik
believed that he would have plenty of time to get proper experience in lab techniques. 10. Erik realized that he was offered a
wonderful opportunity to take a regular schedule of courses in thermodynamics, classical physics, and quantum and
statistical mechanics. 11. Haviland was asked when he intended to permit Erik to start research. 12. Maxwell asked
Haviland whether he was certain he would finish his work in nuclear physics in time.

        1.4.5   Give the appropriate forms of the verbs instead of the infinitives


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