Vocabulary

1. to deal with – иметь дело, рассматривать, касаться
2. to take place – иметь место, происходить
3. to be concerned with – иметь дело с
4. to devote to – посвящать
5. to make a contribution to – делать вклад
6. to accompany – сопровождать
7. relationship – связь, отношение
8. property – свойство
9. to announce – объявлять, заявлять
10. rapid – быстрый
11. species – вид
12. to convert – преобразовывать
13. alloy – сплав
14. to contain – содержать, вмещать
15. substance – вещество
16. to undergo – подвергаться
17. composition – состав
18. compound – содержание
19. matter – вещество
20. to create – издавать

 

II. Выполните упражнение

1. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту

1. What do you know about chemistry? 2. What does chemistry study? 3. What does chemistry deal with? 4. Why is chemistry one of the fundamental sciences? 5. When did sufficient facts about chemistry appear? 6. When did modern chemistry begin? 7. Who was the first to study quantitatively the relationship between the volume of a gas and the external pressure upon it? 8. What did Lavoisier introduce? 9. Who discovered regularities in the properties of the elements? 10. What can you tell about the future of chemistry?

2. Найдите пары антонимов:

internal, to appear, natural, old, to disappear, artificial, new, external;

Найдите пары синонимов:

to deal with, to change, to start, field, to be concerned with, to alter, branch, to begin.

Переведите слова в скобках на английский язык

1. Chemistry is a science which (рассматривает) with materials and their properties. 2. We think that the exhibition of our achievements (состоится) at the end of September. 3. This scientist (внес большой вклад) both in chemistry and physics. 4. All his life he worked in the field of chemistry, and we can say that he (посвятил) his life to science. 5. All the changes which (сопровождали) this reaction play a very important role. 6. Later Lavoisier (ввел) the concept of the chemical elements. 7. Though these two teams work under (одинаковые) conditions the result of their work are different. 8. This article (касается) the development of our industry.

Определите видо-временную форму глагола и залог сказуемого и переведите предложения на русский язык

1) The properties of this substance change water heating.

2) The change from one state into another was accompanied by the evolution of the heat.

3) The concentration of mineral matter in sea water slowly increased.

4) Chemists discovered many laws and important phenomena in life.

5) The broad field of chemistry is divided in many ways.

6) Compounds of carbon occur in plants of animals.

7) The experiment were made under room temperature.