1. Read the text and translate it into Russian.
2. Answer the questions.
3. Find the English equivalents in the text.
4. Make the sentences out of the two parts.
5. Make up the sentences out of the given words.
Electricity.
It is impossible to imagine our civilization without electricity: economic and social progress will be turned to the past and our daily lives completely transformed.
Electrical power has become universal. Thousands of applica¬tions of electricity such as lighting, electrochemistry and electro¬metallurgy are longstanding and unquestionable.
With the appearance of the electrical motor, power cables re¬placed transmission shafts, gear wheels, belts and pulleys in the 19-th century workshops. And in the home a whole range of various time and labour saving appliances have become a part of our ev¬eryday lives.
Other devices are based on specific properties of electricity: electrostatics in the case of photocopying machine and electromagnetism in the case of radar and television. These applications have made electricity most widely used.
The first industrial application was in the silver workshops in Paris. The generator — a new compact source of electricity — was also developed there. The generator replaced the batteries and other devices that had been used before.
Электричество.
Невозможно представить нашу цивилизацию без электричества: экономический и социальный прогресс обратится в прошлое, а наша повседневная жизнь полностью изменится.
Электроэнергия стала универсальной. Тысячи вариантов применения электричества, таких, как освещение, электрохимия и электрометаллургия, являются давними и неоспоримыми.
С появлением электродвигателя силовые кабели заменили трансмиссионные валы, зубчатые колеса, ремни и блоки в мастерских 19-го века. А дома целый ряд разнообразных электроприборов, экономящих время и труд, стал частью нашей повседневной жизни.
Другие устройства основаны на специфических свойствах электричества: электростатика в случае фотокопировальной машины и электромагнетизм в случае радара и телевидения. Эти приложения сделали электричество наиболее широко используемым.
Первое промышленное применение произошло в серебряных мастерских в Париже. Генератор - новый компактный источник электричества - также был разработан там. Генератор заменил батареи и другие устройства, которые использовались ранее.
2. Answer the questions.
1. What home applications of electricity do you know? I know such home applications of electricity such as lighting, electrochemistry and electrometallurgy.
2. Where was the generator developed? The generator was developed in Paris.
3. Who invented the electric lamp? Thomas Edison invented the electric lamp.
3. Find the English equivalents in the text.
трансмиссионные валы transmission shafts,
зубчатые колеса gear wheels,
ремни и блоки belts and pulleys,
электроприборы, экономящие время и труд time and labour saving appliances
4. Make the sentences out of the two parts.
1. Electricity b) has completely transformed our everyday life.
2. The applications of electricity in the home and industry a) have already become universal.
3. Electricity was used for the first time f) for industrial purposes in the silver workshops in Paris.
5. Make up the sentences out of the given words.
1)Different electrical appliances have made our life easier.
2)The consumption of electricity is the sign of economic health.
3)Electricity offers reduced cost, improved service.
