Задание 2. Перепишите следующие предложения

Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите их функции (определение, обстоятельство или часть глагола-сказуемого). Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph while trying to improve a telegraph repeater.

2. Exports are goods and services sold to other countries.

3. We shall hear a reporter talking about earthquakes.

4. The results received were of great importance for future work.

Задание 3

Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. You must dissolve some salt in water.

2. I can devote myself to scientific work.

3. Government regulations should be in the interests of society.

4. Prices are to regulate production and consumption in a market economy.

Задание 4

Прочитайте и письменно переведите текст на русский язык.

Igor Kurchatov

Among our famous atomic scientists the first place belongs by right to Academician Igor Kurchatov. He is known to be the founder of the atomic might of Russia.

In 1925 Kurchatov began working at the Physical-Engineering Institute. Great results having been achieved in the research of dielectrics, Kurchatov was interested in the carrying on the investigation of atom.

As far as the early thirties atomic research was being successfully conducted in the Russian nuclear physics was in need of powerful source of fast particles capable of including a nuclear reaction. Kurchatov with a group of research workers began investigating the physics of the nucleus of the atom. Their investigations led to a striking discovery of fission of uranium.

Kurchatov understood the neutron to be the key to splitting the atom, having put all his efforts into neutron researching. In 1940 Kurchatov came to the conclusion that slow neutron chain reaction was possible.

In 1949 the Russia Government announced that the secret of the atom bomb no longer existed. The scientists continued working in the field of atom peaceful application.

In 1954 the first atomic power plant in the world was put into operation near Moscow. Later Kurchatov was engrossed by an idea to master controlled thermonuclear reactions.

The scientist's knowledge has become immortalized in the world's first atomic power plant, in atom-driven ice-breakers, in Dubna Institute and
in the broad development of thermonuclear research in our country.