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round another
g. space enclosed by a curved line;
go round, move in a circle.
2. Read the text again to decide if the statements are true
or false? Correct the false ones with the facts from the text.
1. People everywhere tuned their television-sets to listen to the
first man-made artificial earth satellite.
2.The Soviet Union had beaten the United States into space.
3.The United States put its first satellite into orbit on Jan. 30,
1958.
4. The first Soviet cosmonaut graduated from the air Force school
at Orenburg.
3. Arrange the following sentences according to the logic
of the text:
1. The first Earth sputnik circled our planet every 96
minutes.
2. The artificial sputnik flew over the United States seven
times a day.
3. People everywhere tuned their radios to listen to a very
weak beeping of the first satellite-sputnik.
4. The Soviet Union was the first to send an astronaut into
space in 1961
5. The united States did put its first satellite into orbit
January 31, 1958.
6. The spaceship Vostok orbited the Earth in one hour and
29 minutes.
V. Discuss with your partner or groupmates.
1. What new information have you learned from the text?
2. In ancient times scientists wondered what the stars were and
what the Moon was alike. Can you think of any names?
3. Were you and are you curious about what is up in the sky?
4. Have you ever tried to look into space using telescopes?
Ask your group-mates.
5. Would you like to travel into space as a space-tourist?
Unit IV
Text I
First Electronic Computer
I.
First thoughts.
I. Can you imagine how the first computer looked like?
II. Study the words. Make sure you know them:
Calculator, typewriter, vacuum tube, operation, standard
III. Read the text and do the tasks following it:
The first fully automatic large-scale calculator was built
by Howard Aiken of Harvard University working with
engineers from International Business Machines
Corporation. It was called Harvard Mark I and was
completed in 1944. Data were entered on punched cards,
and output was on punched cards or processed on an electric
typewriter. It was a large machine - 15 meters long and 2.4
meters high.
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