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35. Choose a scientific article in English concerning your own field of science from any valid information source (10 000 printed characters) and prepare its oral translation into Russian.
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35. Choose a scientific article in English concerning your own field of science from any valid information source (10 000 printed characters) and prepare its oral translation into Russian.
36. Search the Internet and go to the libraries to find scientific and technical articles on the topics of Module 3. Analyze the gathered material, then prepare a 10-minute report on the chosen topic. Give a Power Point presentation in the group (see Appendix 1).
MODULE TEST 3
Variant 1
1. Complete the sentences choosing the correct passive form of the verbs in brackets.
She ________ (give) her next assignment right now. 2. We ________ (show) around the studio after our interviews are over. 3. News of the accident ________ (send) to all the news agencies by now. 4. Kathy wants ________ (offer) the chance to work in the New York office. 5. While the last articles ________ (check), the owner arrived. 6. Journalists enjoy ________ (tell) that their columns are very popular. 7. The articles ________ (hand in) to the editor before 6 pm yesterday. 8. By the time they noticed the mistake, the magazine ________ (print). 9. She has promised that all the journalists who lose their jobs ________ (propose) the new ones. 10. By this time tomorrow the story ________ (read) by millions of people.
2. Choose the correct option.
1. Were you able to / Could you repair your DVD player when it broke down last week? 2. Would / May you explain how this program works, please? 3. You may / might come into work late tomorrow if you have a doctor’s appointment early in the morning. 4. Sue’s looking for the battery charger, but she couldn’t / hasn’t been able to find it yet. 5. They couldn’t / wouldn’t understand why the experiment had failed. 6. You can’t / aren’t be able to use that laptop; it’s not yours! 7. Are you able to / Could you get me some ink for my printer, please? 8. Could / Would you mind lending me your mobile for a moment? 9. George was happy because he had been able to / could get a discount on his new television. 10. Might / May I have a look at your video camera, Paul?
3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the list.
perspectives, exposure, energetic, consultant, symbolic, welfare, liberalizing, modified, awareness, rejected.
1. A white dove is ________ of peace and goodwill between nations. 2. He worked in a bank for about 35 years, and then became a financial ________ after he retired. 3. Maurice Strong recently remarked that we cannot trade the ________ of our future generations for profits now. 4. Different cultures have very different ________ on death. For some it is the end; for others, it is a new beginning. 5. ________ to a foreign language at an early age can help in the acquisition of that language later on in life. 6. Children are amazingly ________; they can play for hours without getting tired. 7. The landscape of our planet is greatly ________ by the tremendous volume of water circulating on its surface. 8. Abraham Maslow observed that what is necessary to change a person is to change his ________ of himself. 9. Gautama Buddha was an Indian prince who ________ his wealthy lifestyle to lead a simpler existence. 10. Malta is currently privatizing state-controlled companies and ________ markets in order to prepare for membership in the European Union.
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4. Read the text and answer the questions below it.
Solving New York City’s Hurricane Problem with Representations
Sketches or drawings can help people communicate to others ideas about how to solve problems, big or small. Drawings make ideas visual, so they are easier to understand than a spoken or written explanation, and using them allows for many different drafts to be presented before deciding on a final product. When a hurricane hit New York City in 2012, the city realized it was not prepared to handle such a disaster. The hurricane damaged the city badly and left many people without homes. Sea levels were going to continue to rise, which meant potential for more hurricanes and flooding, and the government realized it had to change some things about the city to make it better able to handle future disasters.
Rather than simply begin building bigger, stronger structures, like a giant wall around the city or a gate to keep water out, people started sketching out their ideas about how to make New York a place that could better withstand hurricanes. These people were experts chosen to take on the task of re-imagining the city. By using drawings, people were able to debate these ideas, decide which ones were best and change them as they saw fit. Drawings also allowed experts in certain areas to show and explain things to people who didn’t know as much as them about those subjects. Some people focused on how to change the city’s natural environment, like the grassy areas next to the ocean, to make them more hurricane-friendly. They drew and presented sketches that showed how these areas could be used to absorb seawater. They also drew in things that could be planted to grow better in the changing environment, like plants that can withstand seawater. Others focused on important city buildings like hospitals. Hospitals in New York City were hit hard by the hurricane, and many people struggled to get the emergency care and basic medical help they needed during the disaster. The experts’ drawings focused on ways to make hospital buildings stronger so that they could meet people’s needs even in a crisis.
Others looked at how to improve public transportation, which is very important to keeping the city running. After the hurricane, many people in the city were stranded with no way to get around because the train system was badly affected by the storm. Transportation experts drew up ways to pump water out of train tunnels more quickly and get trains up and running sooner. People brought their drawings together and looked at all the ways to improve the city. Some ideas had to be rejected and replaced by more useful ones. The experts presented their ideas to the public at meetings because these changes would affect everyone living in the city and they wanted the citizens to be engaged in the process. Finally, the city was able to decide on a plan it would use to start making the city stronger, and it used these sketches and representations to figure out other things, like how much it would cost the city, how many workers would be needed and how long the construction projects might take. Using the teamwork of many experts and sketch artists, the city was able to begin planning New York City’s future and work toward preventing potential dangers.
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