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IV. Suggest a few headlines to text B. Choose the best one among the headlines
suggested by your fellow students.
Text C. FROM THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
The history of architecture aims at displaying clearly the characteristic features of
the architecture of each country by comparing the buildings of each period and by
studying influences — geographical, geological, climatic, religious, social and his-
torical — which have contributed to the formation of a particular style. The best way
to learn about architecture is to study actual buildings and museums which provide
excellent opportunities for examining details of style. The analysis of the characteris-
tic features which resulted from solving certain structural problems enables to visu-
alize clearly the main factors which brought about changes in each style.
Architecture is the art with which we all are in daily contact for it shelters us,
gives us "home". Finally, architecture is the mother of the arts of sculpture, painting,
and the allied decorative crafts.
Architecture, with all its varying phases and complex developments, must have
had a simple origin in the primitive efforts of mankind to provide protection against
inclement weather, wild beasts and human enemies in rock, caves, huts and tents.
Here then, in caves, huts, and tents we find the three primitive types of human dwell-
ings, the three germs of later architectural developments.
The history of architecture is a record of continuous evolution. A glance along the
past ages reveals architecture as a history of social condition progress and religion
and events which are landmarks in the history of mankind; for as architecture is in all
periods connected with national life, the genius of a nation, is unmistakably stamped
on its architectural monuments.
I. Read the text ‘From the history of architecture’. Find the answers to the fol-
lowing questions:
1. What is the best way to learn about architecture?
2. What is architecture?
3. What origin does architecture have?
4. Why is architecture considered a history of social condition progress?
II. Find the key words in the text and write them out.
III. Make up the plan of the text. Retell the text according to your plan using the
keywords.
Text D. CONCRETE FACTS
Researchers at the University of Illinois have compiled some modern facts about
the centuries-old material, concrete. In one study, portland-cement samples, exposed
to carbon dioxide at pressures up to 250 atmospheres, produced two surprising re-

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