Подберите из списков А и Б близкие по значению слова

very good; very much; very difficult; at the very beginning; at that very moment; at the very end; the very book; this very colliery; that very scientist; the very first; the very last; the very best

32. Прочитайте следующий текст. Озаглавьте его. Найдите предложения, в
Еоторых глаголы-сказуемые употреблены в страдательном залоге. Переведите
их:

V.I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) is known as the outstanding mineralo­gist and crystallographer, the founder of geochemistry, biochemistry and radiogeology. Many research centres were established by him. He was elected president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1919. He conducted research in the geochemistry of rare elements. Vernadsky advanced a revolutionary theory of the origin of minerals which was described in his works An Experiment in Descriptive Mineralogy and History of Minerals in the Earth's Crust. He prospected for the radioactive minerals. The role of such minerals as radium and uranium was forecast by him.

33. а) Прочитайте по-аиглнйскн числительные:

1) 20, 50, 68, 115, 1,379, 1,840, 6,040, 2,500, 9,000, 200,000,
3,000,000, 1,000, 1,200, 2,500,000, 184,000

2) даты: 1922, 1954, 1968, 1867, 1900, 1904, 1600, 2000, 1066

3) дроби: 1/3,1/4,3/8,8/7,2/6,7/9, 0.1, 0.2, 0.35, 10.02, 30.2,
0.875

4) проценты: 8%, 20%, 115%, 49%, 63%, 70%, 101%, 0.05%,
1,16%

б) Напишите цифрами числительные:

the seventeenth, two hundred and sixty-one, the forties, the eighth, the eleventh, the seven hundred and seventy-fifth, five thousand eight hundred and one, one thousand three hundred, four hundred and ten

в) Напишите цифрами дробные и смешанные величины:

one third, a hundredth, a half, a quarter, two thirds, nine tenths, nine point eight, point nought nought six, four point nought five

34. Прочитайте вслух текст, правильно произнося числительные. Переведите
текст.

On July 20, 1969 men from the Earth stood for the first time on the surface of the Moon. The successful landing of Apollo 11 on the

surface of the Moon signalled the beginning of the study of the Moon's rocks and minerals, the new science of lunar geology.

About 150 scientists from laboratories throughout the world con- ducted a wide range of geological, chemical, physical and biological tests on the rocks returned to Earth. These scientific studies have led to new discoveries about the Moon. Most dramatic of all was that the Moon was born at the same time as the Earth, about 4600 million years ago.

It should be noted that the early astronomers, starting with Galileo who in 1610 first used a telescope, observed lunar surface.

The first astronauts to land on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin collected 22 kg (481 Ib) of rocks. Since then, another 5 Apollo lunar missions have taken place. Apollo 17 landed on the Moon on December 11, 1972. The total rock collected amounts to 382 kg (845 Ib) plus 0.13 kg (4.6 oz) from the two unmanned Russian Luna missions. At the Lunar Receiving Laboratories in Houston, the USA, are catalogued 35,600 small pieces of the Moon.

Our satellite is about '/₄ of the Earth's size and'/, of its mass. Hence its gravity is only '/₆ of Earth's.

The temperature changes between lunar day and night. Temperature ranges from 110° С (230° F) at the height of the lunar day to -170° С (-275° F) in the lunar night.

35. Прочитайте следующие предложены. Найдете • каждом из них группу
«подлежащее—сказуемое». Составьте к каждому предложению по два вопроса.

1. Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been active in
developing geostatistics and computer techniques for mining and geology.

2. Much attention is paid to economic geology and mineral econom­
ics for evaluation of mineral deposits.

3. Research is carried out in all the main branches of geology and
mining.

4. New methods of prospecting and extracting useful minerals have
been worked out.

36. Найдите в тексте А предложения, в которых сказуемые выражены
глаголами в форме страдательного залога. Выпишите их и определите временные
формы.