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Lexical Exercises. Exercise 1. Find the English equivalents for the words and word- combinations
Exercise 1. Find the English equivalents for the words and word- combinations given below. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Exercise 2. Match the English words and word-combinations given below with their Russian equivalents.
Exercise 3. Answer the following questions.
1. What is modern civilization based on? 2. What were the materials that helped man most to develop? Why? 3. Was iron the first metal to oust stone? 4. When did man start using metals? 5. Where was evidence of early metal-work found? 6. Why is gold widely used for ornaments? 7. What was the 4th metal discovered and what are its properties?
Exercise 4. Complete the following statements by choosing the answer which you think fits best. Are the other answers unsuitable? Why?
1. Modern civilization is based on metals because: a) three quarters of all known chemical elements are metals. b) they can be used to produce a wide variety of things. c) they are very cheap. 2. Gold has been used for ornaments for thousands of years because: a) it has beautiful luster. b) it is not very strong. c) it is scarce. 3. Heat treatment is used because: a) it makes iron harder. b) it protects iron against corrosion. c) it improves the properties of iron. 4. Copper began to oust stone because: a) it could be readily worked to any shape. b) there was more copper than stone on the surface of the Earth. c) it had a beautiful luster.
Exercise 5. Give a written Russian translation of the following definitions.
Copper - a ductile, malleable, reddish-brown metallic element that is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. It is widely used either pure or in alloys such as brass or bronze. Gold - a soft yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable ductile metal, occuring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining, or by panning sluicing. It is a good thermal and electrical conductor, generally alloyed to increase its strength, and used as an international monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components. Silver - a lustrous white, ductile malleable metallic element, occuring both uncombined and in ores such as argentite, having the lightest thermal and electrical conductivity of the metals. It is highly valued for jewelry, tableware and other ornamental use, and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental and soldering alloys, electrical contacts and printed circuits. Lead - soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena.
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