Методические рекомендации для подготовки к экзамену по английскому языку (для студентов химического факультета). Жилина Л.В. - 5 стр.

       4. The hardness of metals has become proverbial. If a man is al-
ways composed and cool-headed, we say he has «iron nerves». But in the                                    QUESTION III
world of metal the situation is different. Here iron is hardly a model of
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hardness. The hardness champion is chromium which is just slightly infe-
rior to diamond. By the way, paradoxical though it sounds, the hardest
                                                                                                                                               TOPIC 1
chemical elements are not metals at all. At the top of the conventional
hardness scale stands diamond (a from of carbon)and crystalline boron.       I. Read and translate the text.
Iron should rather be classed as a soft metal; it is only half as hard as
chromium. And as to the light-weights, the alkali metals, they are as soft                         STUDENTS STUDIES
as wax.                                                                                       AT THE FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY
                                                                                     I am a student of the Chemical department of Omsk State Univer-
II. Look through passage 2, 3, 4 and answer:
                                                                             sity which was founded in 1974. The department of chemistry is one of
     1. How can we classify metals according to their weight?
                                                                             its natural departments.
     2. What metals are lighter than water?
                                                                                     Apart from the main task of training skilled chemists it conducts
     3. Are metals the hardest chemical elements?
                                                                             research in important problems of modern chemistry. Its work in new
     4. What is the density of water?
                                                                             method of synthesis, in highly sensitive methods of analysis, its research
                                                                             in the basic properties of substances is of great theoretical and practical
III. Give the information about:
                                                                             significance. Investigations and studies are carried on in up-to-date
      1. The color of metals the observant eye can discern;
                                                                             chemical laboratories equipped with all the necessary devices and appa-
      2. The «performance» of osmium’s closest neighbors.
                                                                             ratus.
                                                                                     There are three chairs of the chemical department of the Univer-
                                                                             sity: Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Chair of
                                                                             Analytical Chemistry and Petrochemistry.
                                                                                     The teaching staff of our faculty is highly qualified. Doctors of sci-
                                                                             ences and many candidates of sciences work there.
                                                                                     The academic year is divided into two terms. At the end of each
                                                                             term students have their credit tests and take their terminal exams. State
                                                                             scholarship is paid to the advanced students. At the end of the course of
                                                                             studies students are to submit a graduation paper and pass their final state
                                                                             examinations.
                                                                                     The full university course lasts 5 years. During this period of time
                                                                             the students take 3 years of general course followed 2 years of special-
                                                                             ized training in some special fields of chemistry. The main aim of the
                                                                             first stage of the chemical program is to provide aboard and solid founda-
                                                                             tion for professional knowledge. The curriculum is rather wide and ver-
                                                                             satile.


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