Вопрос № 223963 - Английский язык

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Glass has been made into practical or decorative objects since ancient times. Glass blowing was probably developed in the first century BC in Syria. With this technique the possibilities for shaping glass into different forms became endless.
The Roman Empire used glass more than any other ancient civilisation. Romans adopted the technique from the Syrians and glass soon became fashionable. There were people, however, who regarded it as inferior to materials such as gold and silver. Gallenius, a Roman emperor, used to drink from a glass vessel because he believed that there was nothing less common than glass.
The Venetians developed the art of glassmaking in the middle Ages. There was so much demand for Venetian glass in Europe that glassworkers of the island of Murano were forbidden to visit Venice or teach their secrets to outsiders.
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Romans adopted the technique from …

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If silica is melted and allowed to cool slowly, the result is 1_______. Glass is more difficult to make than pottery, and the first all-glass containers did not appear until 1500 BC. Glass was made then by melting raw silica held by a glass thread on a sand core to form a bottle or shaping it in a mould. It was not until 2_______ that the technique of blowing glass was developed. A wine glass was made by blowing melted glass in a mould, adding a stem, shaping the foot and trimming. Press moulding is an even more 3_______ technique.
Glass-working tools include a blowpipe, rod, tongs, shears and rolling plate. Glass was originally melted in a furnaces were 4_______.

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The age of space exploration began in 1957, when Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union. The first successful manned flight took place in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin was shot into space. This triggered the ‘space race’ between the USA and the USSR, culminating in the moon landing in 1969. After this, there was something of an anticlimax and the number of manned missions dropped off, largely due to the end of the space race. Nevertheless, space probes like Pioneer and Voyager continued to be sent out in order to explore the neighboring planets such as Mars and Venus. The American shuttle and the Russian Mir Space Station were also ground-breaking, as they developed the practicalities of the space travel.

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1. cast iron
2. a plastic box
3. a steel pipe
4. an iron bolt

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1. a copper wire
2. an aluminium tin
3. a glass vase
4. a rubber tyre

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1. current
2. to perform
3. to repair
4. speed