ACTIVE VOCABULARY

Read and learn the following words:

mind ум

point точка

consciousосознающий, находящийся в сознании

attempt пытаться

cure лечить

ailmentнедомогание, нездоровье, болезнь

allay избавиться

restore восстанавливать

gather собирать

inspiration вдохновение

revealпроявляться

unitединица

cellклетка

surroundокружать

fashion образ действия; мода

 

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TEXT

SCIENCE

Biology is the study of living organisms and as soon as man`s mind developed to the point where it was conscious of itself as an object from the unmoving and unfeeling ground upon which he was standing, a form of biology began. For uncounted centuries biology was not in the form we would recognize as a science. Men were attempting to cure themselves and others of ailments, were trying to ally pain and restore health.

Again, man was observing the living machinery of the animal organism. He was gathering information for years. The best minds, however, devoted themselves not to the study of the visible world, but to the attempts to reach, through inspiration, understanding of the endless universe and controlling the world beyond.

But individual man must concentrate on the study of the world as it is revealed through the senses, on the study of the fundamental units of every living thing (animal or plant) such as the cell, for example. So the aim of biology was to present the surrounding world in a logical fashion and to give fundamental understanding of its ever standing, ever changing units and man himself.

NOTES

1. as soon as – как только

2. to be conscious of oneself – осознавать себя

3. to cure themselves and others of – лучить себя и других от…

4. to devote oneself – посвятить себя

5. through inspiration – интуитивно

6. in a logical fashion - логическим образом