Ex. 9. a) Cheek up if you remember the following:
Прилагательные Полож!ггсльная
степень
Сравнительная
степень
Превосходная
степень
Односложные
прилагательные
long
longer
the
longer/
Многосложные
прилагательные
difficult
more
difficult
the most
difficult
Особые случаи
good
bad
little
much/many
far
better
worse
less
more
farther/
further
the best
the worst
the least
the most
the farthest/
the furthest
b) Translate the following adjectives into English and give their
comparative and superlative forms:
новый, хороший, большой, плохой, нктерссный, теоретический,
много, легкий, высокий,
маленький
c) Translate the scntcnccs into Russian, paying attention to the adjectives.
1. The Russian language is more difficult than the English language.
2. This work is less important than that work. 3. Lesson 2 is more interesting
than Lesson 1.4. What is the largest city in Russia? 5. Is the Volga longer
than the Lena?
6
. Which is the oldest building in St. Pctcrsbuig University?
7. Which was the most difficult subjcct for you when you were at school?
8
. Who is the oldest in your group? 9. Most oxygen produced for industrial
purposes is purer than 99 per ccnt.
10
. Some applications of oxy-acctylcnc
process arc better known than others.
11
. One o f the most spectacular
applications of oxygen in industry is for cutting iron and steel.
12
. Perhaps
you will describe the most reccnt applications of the oxy-acetylcnc proccss.
13. Oxygen is men’s best friend.
Ex. 10. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1.
He told me that the Iccturc would begin at 3 p. m. 2. They knew
student N was working at the laboratory. 3. As I hadn’t read this article
before, I went to the reading-room. 4
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thought she would bccomc a
good student. S. When I camc to the laboratory, he had already gone
home.
6
. Wc were told that even Lavoisier had been interested in oxygen.
7. The teacher explained how the substancc had been obtained in his
laboratory.
8
. The hypothesis was very interesting but wc wanted to know
how it had been developed. 9. Soddy showed that some radioactive
elements had similar behaviour. 10. Mendeleyev predicted that more
elements would be discovered and even described their properties.
1 1
. Early chemists thought that water was an element. 12. Their
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experiment showed that not all isotopes were stable. 13. When wc came
in, she had finished her experiment and was analysing the results.
14. Everybody knew that professor N was making experiments on the
properties of substanccs.
Ex. 11. Translate the sentences into English.
1
. Кислород уже давно применяется в промышленности. 2. Кис
лород обычно получают из воздуха путем его сжижения и фракцион
ной перегонки. 3. В техническом отношении этот процесс сложен.
4. Жидкий воздух — это
очень холодная смесь жидкого кислорода и
жидкого азота. 5. Когда карбид
кальция обрабатывают водой, полу
чается ацетилен.
6
. В настоящее время кислородно-ацетиленовая свар
ка и резка металлов применяется почти во всех отраслях промыш
ленности. 7. Огромное количество кислорода используется ежегодно
для промышленных целей.
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. Кислород— лучший друг человека. Он
послужил спасению жизни многих людей.
Ex. 12. Make up questions to the italicized parts of the sentences.
1. There has been
interest in oxygen
fo r several hundred years (2).
2.
Today there is practically no industry which
does not use the oxy-
acetylene process (3). 3.
Applications of
the oxy-acetylene proccss arc
divided into
two fields — repair and production (3).
Ex. 13. Answer the following questions:
1
. Who gave the name to oxygen? When? 2. What can you say about
the industrial application of oxygen in the nineteenth century? 3. What
industrial application o f oxygen is known best of all? 4.
In what fields o f
industry is the oxy-acctylcnc proccss used? 5. Why is oxygen callcd
men’s best friend?
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