ТНЕ FERMI paradox
I. Перепишите следующие предложение, определите каждом из них видо-временную форму и залог глагола сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский зык.
1. Many people died before it was known that the radiation is dangerous.
Многие люди умерли до того как стало известно, что радиация опасна.
2. Right now in our country three new nuclear power stations are being built.
3. A new method of uranium enrichment will be introduced tomorrow.
4. The properties of metals are often strongly influenced bу even small admixtures of other metals or non-metals.
2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значении слов it, that, one.
1. Your point of view strongly differs from that of ours.
2. Ray Bradbury is the writer that wrote ‘Martian Chronicles’.
3. It is very probable that surveying had its origin in ancient Egypt.
4. It is only the restriction to movement in the crystal lattice that prevents solid salts from being good electrical conductors.
5. One cannot know what will happen next.
6. Folded structures can occur in any type of rock but are best displayed in such as sedimentary ones.
III. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.
1. If you are to lead this project, you’ll have to work hard to make me follow you.
2. We have already designed this plan.
3. The experiment was a failure again.
4. Freddy does chemistry at the university.
IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.
1. I dated that girl I met the other day.
2. The new technique our mining engineers used resulted in increasing output.
V. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива.
1. You are to come at five sharp.
2. To look for the truth is the true meaning of science.
3. People marry to make families.
4. One way of doing this is to attach this to that.
VII. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующий текст.
ТНЕ FERMI paradox
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.
The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that if the Earth is typical, extraterrestrial life should be common. Discussing this proposition with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked: "Where are they?" (alternatively, "Where is everybody?”) Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as spacecraft or probes are not seen. A more detailed examination of the implications of the topic began with a paper by Michael Hart in 1975, and it is sometimes referred to as the Fermi-Hart paradox. Another closely related question is the Great Silence - even if travel is hard, if life is common, why don't we detect their radio transmissions?
There have been attempts to resolve the Fermi Paradox by locating evidence of extralerrestrial civilizations, along with proposals that such life could exist without human knowledge. Counterarguments suggest that intelligent extraterrestrial life does not exist or occurs so rarely that humans will never make contact with it.
Starting with Hart, great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories and possible models of extraterrestrial life and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work, the problem has spawned numerous scholarly works addressing it directly, while various questions that relate to it have been addressed in fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, ecology and philosophy. The emerging field of astrobiology has brought an interdisciplinary approach to the Fermi paradox and the question of extraterrestrial life.
Контрольная по английскому языку предназначена тем, кто изучает английский в технических вузах.
