Вопрос № 857115 - Английский язык

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Most of Britain is the farming land divided into many fields.
Today the main tendency in agricultural development of this country is that small traditional farms are gradually disappearing. 1_______.
The westerly winds from the Atlantic carry the warmth and moisture of lower latitudes into Britain. 2_______. Winds from different parts of the world ranging from polar to tropical regions often visit Britain.
3_______. The temperature seldom exceeds 32°C or falls below zero. 4_______.

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Stephen Hawking is a world-famous scientist. 1_______. He has told us more about time than anyone in the world. He has always been interested in time questions like ‘How did the world start?’ and ‘Can we go back in time?’ He wrote his famous book about time in 1988 and it has already sold more than eight million copies. 2_______. This means that information that tells his arms and legs to move does not go up his spinal cord to his brain. 3_______. In 1985 he went to hospital because he couldn’t breathe. Doctors helped him to breathe but they had to take out his voice. 4_______.

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The planet Mars has interested scientists for hundreds of years. 1_______. This sounds surprising, but astronomers say that there could have been lakes, rivers and seas on the surface of the planet. 2_______. In 1877, the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli was looking through his telescope at the planet, when he noticed that there seemed to be a network of canals on the planet. 3_______. When the Americans sent Mariner 4 into space, it sent back 21 photographs, which show that Mars is a cold, lifeless world. Therefore, we can conclude that people could not be living there now, although they might have done so in the past. In 1976, the photographs taken by Viking 1 were examined, and one of them showed a strange pyramid-shaped rock which could be taken for a human face. Was this a trick of the light or evidence that a great civilisation used to exist on the planet? 4_______.

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Although a genius of science, Newton owed much to his predecessors. 1_______. Galileo had founded the science of mechanics, and his application of the astronomical telescope had been of the greatest helping the study of the heavens. 2_______. While studying light, Newton invented the reflecting telescope. It was only an inch in diameter, and six inches long, but it magnified forty times and gave a good view of the Jupiter’s moons. 3_______. You can see it in the library of the Royal Society in London. 4_______.

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The invention of gunpowder is thought to have originated in the 5th or 6th century in central Asia, but there isn’t any proof that gunpowder was used for warfare until the 12th century, when a kind of rocket was made. The Chinese actually used gunpowder to make firecrackers, which they used on religious festival days.
In the 19th century, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, made his famous discovery that would change the way that wars were fought. Dynamite was first used in the war in South Africa, and he eventually became a multi-millionaire. Alfred was a pessimist who never experienced real happiness since he felt that he had some responsibility for the loss of so many lives. As a result of these guilty feelings, he established a fund of nine million dollars for the formation of the internationally famous Nobel Prizes, the most important of which is the Peace Prize.
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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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