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The Atlantic Telegraph Company, which was organised in 1856 by Cyrus Field
and other businessmen, wanted to try to lay a cable on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
England and the United States contributed money for this experiment.
Many attempts were made by ships from both countries. The 4000-kilometer
cable broke three times. Each time, more money had to be raised, and a new cable had
to be made. Finally, on July 27, 1866, the first transatlantic message was sent from
Newfoundland to Ireland.
Later, cables were laid to Central and South America. After 1900, transpacific
cables were laid to Asia and Australia. At last, news and business information could
be sent instantly to almost every country in the world.
From "English for a Changing World"
I. Guess the meaning of the words given below:
distance, electricity, communication, telegraph, line, code, operator, experiment, press,
popular, idea, form, energy, system, alphabet, company, ocean, method, organize,
businessman, cable.
II. Translate the nouns with the suffix –er (-or) derived from the following verbs:
invent – изобретать inventor - ...
use – использовать user - ...
send – посылать sender - ...
write – писать writer - ...
receive – получать receiver - ...
develop – разрабатывать developer - ...
operate – работать operator - ...
work – работать worker - ...
paint – рисовать painter - ...
report – сообщать reporter - ...
III. Group the pairs of the words with the opposite meaning:
a) fast, useful, long, left, narrow, short, right, popular, slow, wavy, unknown,
wide, straight, useless;
b) to find, to send, to go down, to rise, to receive, to lose.
IV. Learn the following terms:
wire – провод, проводник
message – сообщение
needle – стрелка, игла
dot – точка
dash – тире
sound – звук
key – ключ, клавиша
cable – кабель

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