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to perform experiments – проводить эксперименты; to collect information – собирать данные; accelerator of charged particles – ускоритель заряженных частиц; provision – обеспечение; to test a hypothesis – проверить гипотезу.
At the Laboratory
A modern research laboratory is an important part of any scientific centre for performing experiments and collecting information at higher school, research institute, industrial enterprise, etc. In our times science requires different experimental installations such as large telescopes, atomic reactors, or accelerators of charged particles. Laboratories need provision of all up-to-date experimental facilities for accumulation of necessary scientific data. As a rule, the scientist plans experiments to test his hypothesis. His laboratory is found wherever he must go in order to do his investigations. To an astronomer the starry skies become a laboratory. The biologist may do experimental work in a field or an ocean. The physicist and chemist are often surrounded by a mass of compounds and apparatuses housed in buildings designed specially for their purposes.
Grammar Exercises
I. Поставьте глаголы в нужном времени.
1. You (to read) today's newspaper? 2. How many pages you (to read)? – I already (to read) about seventy pages. 3. You ever (to translate) this article? – No, I not (to translate) yet. I not (to master) the English language well enough. 4. You (to wash) your hands? Are you ready for breakfast? 5. Your sister (to be) here half an hour ago. 6. Your sister (to finish) school? – Yes, she (to do). – When she (to finish) school? – She (to finish) it two years ago. 7. I just (to see) my friends and he (to tell) me some interesting news. 8. You (to be) in Moscow last year. – No, I (to be) not. I (to live) in Kiev at that time. 9. He (to take) an examination when I came to the lab. 10. I (to look) through my magazine at the moment you received yours. 11. The sun (to rise) when they (to cross) the bridge.
II. Поставьте предложение во временах Active, Passive.
He (to solve) a difficult problem.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
In 1542 James V, the King of Scotland died. His daughter, Mary, who was only one week old, became Queen. While she was still only a child, Mary Stuart married Francis, the son of the French King. In 1559 Francis became the King of France. So at the age of 17, Mary, who was a beautiful woman with lovely red hair, was Queen of two countries. But only after one year as King, Francis died. Her mother-in-law, Mary of Guise, did not want Mary in France and so she returned to Scotland.
She married again. This time she married her cousin, Lord Darnley. Mary and Darnley did not like each other. Darnley became very jealous of an Italian, called Riccio, who was Mary's secretary. One night, Darnley and a group of his friends murdered Riccio in front of Mary.
Two years later, Darnley, too, died. That’s how it happened. Mary had gone to a dance, but her husband was ill and stayed at home. In the middle of the night the house where Darnley was asleep exploded and caught fire. But Darnley's body was not found in the house. It was found in the garden. He had been strangled.
Who was the murderer? People suspected the Earl of Bothwell but it could not be proved. Then Mary shocked the people of Scotland. She married Bothwell. This was too much for the Scots. There was a rebellion and the Scottish people made Mary's son, James, King. Both well, who escaped to Norway, went mad and died in prison. Mary escaped to England.
The English Queen, Elizabeth, who was Mary's cousin, welcomed Mary, but the English lords did not trust the beautiful Scottish Queen. She was put in prison and then, finally in 1587, she was beheaded for treason. When the executioner lifted up her head, he picked up only the hair. It was a wig. Mary's own beautiful red hair had turned thin and grey.
In the end, Mary had lost everything. She had lost the crowns of France and Scotland, three husbands, her son, her life – even her famous beauty.
Lesson 13
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