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Science in Our Life
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Technology, antibiotics, the asphalt, all day long, alarm clock, light world, knowledge, affects, transformed, devices.
Science affects us all from the moment we wake up, (1)..., and through the night. Your digital (2)..., the weather report, (3)... you drive on, the bus you ride in, your decision to eat a baked potato instead of fries, your cell phone, the (4).... that treat your sore throat, the clean water that comes from your faucet, and the (5)... that you turn off at the end of the day have all been brought to you courtesy of science. The modern world would not be modern at all without the understandings and (6)... enabled by science.
Science (7)... us all, every day of the year. Science has (8)... the way we eat today. Scientific (9)... can improve the quality of life at many different levels. We have complex (10)... like cars, X-ray machines, computers, and phones thanks to science. Science builds knowledge about the....
*Exercise 4. Find out the meaning of the given words in a list. Complete the following dictionary article with the them:
tested - engineering - knowledge – truths- technology - phenomena - creation- practice – experimentation
According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is ___attained through study or____ or knowledge covering general____ of the operation of general laws, as obtained and ____through scientific method and concerned with the physical world. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and _____to describe and explain natural______ The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system. While____ is the branch of knowledge that deals with the____ and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, _____ applied science, and pure science.
Exercise 5. Fill in the following table with the correct word form:
| verb | noun |
| create discover ………… ………… innovate | …………. …………. invention experiment …………. |
*Exercise 6. Read and translate the following statements. Agree or disagree with them:
The Influence of Science and Technology
| Positive | Negative |
| Make life easier, quicker. | Influence your health (eyestrain, |
| lack of movement). | |
| Make life warmer, give you free | |
| time. | Separate you from nature. |
| Entertain you. | Lead you away from nature. |
| Substitute people, do work | Make you live in virtual world. |
| thoroughly. | |
| In some cases take all your time. | |
| Can solve the most difficult | |
| problems. | Make you busy. |
| You don't notice other people. |
*Exercise 7. Read and translate the text: