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The Twentieth Century (9)

The 20th century began slowly, to the ticking of grandfather clocks and the stately rhythms of progress. Thanks to science, industry and moral philosophy, mankind's steps had at last been guided up the right path. The century of steam was about to give way to the century of oil and electricity. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, determined by natural law. And everybody thought that the development would continue in the small steps that had marked the progress of the 19th century. Inventions like the railroad or the telegraph or the typewriter had enabled people to get on with their ordinary lives a little more conveniently. No one could have guessed then that, in the century just beginning, new ideas would burst upon the world with a force and frequency that would turn this stately march of progress into a long-distance, free-for-all sprint. Thrust into this race, the children of the 20th century would witness more change in their daily existence and environment than anyone else who had ever walked the planet. This high-velocity attack of new ideas and technologies seemed to ratify older dreams of a perfectible life on earth, of an existence in which the shocks of nature had been tamed. But the unleashing of unparalleled progress was also accompanied by something quite different: a massive regression toward savagery. If technology endowed humans with Promethean aspirations and powers, it also gave them the means to exterminate one another. Assassinations in Sarajevo in 1914 lit a spark that set off an unprecedented explosion of destruction and death. The Great War did more than devastate a generation of Europeans. It set the tone - the political, moral and intellectual temper - for much that followed. Before long the Great War received a new name - World War I. The roaring 1920s and the Depression years of the 1930s proved to be merely a prelude to World War П. Largely hidden during that war was an awful truth that called into question progress and the notion of human nature itself. But civilization was not crushed by the two great wars, and the ruins provided the stimulus to build a way of life again. To a degree previously unheard of and perhaps unimaginable, the citizens of the 20th century felt free to reinvent themselves. In that task they were assisted by two profound developments - psychoanalysis and the Bomb.

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№ 1.

Составьте и напишите предложения, обращая внимание на порядок слов.

1. Is, best, she, friend, my.

2. Learn, different, students, our, subjects.

3. The, is, Russia, of, the, in, country, the, largest, world.

4. In, the, we, city, live, a, flat, in, of, center, the.

5. Reading, is, my, of, best, son's, fond, friend.

№ 2.

Заполните пропуски нужной формой глагола to be и переведите.

1. Не... born in 1985. 2. We... students now. 3. We... good friends at the college. 4. It... an interesting book. 5. Who... absent today? 6. He... a student. 7. What... he? 8.... hea doctor? 9. These... my pencils. 10. Where... this book? It... on the table. 11. What... their names? 12. Mary... a girl. 13. Who... he? 14. What... you? 15. This man... in the room. 16. How... she? 17. How...you? I... fine. 18. How... your friend? 19... he your son? 20. Tomorrow we... at home. 21 …. you a sportsman? 22. There... no book on the table. 23. It... my parents' car. 24.. There... 15 students in our group now.

№ 3.

Напишите цифрами:

1) Fifteen twenty one; 2) the eleventh of March; 3) two fifths; 4) seventeen point four two; 5) eighteen hundred five; 6) a (one) sixth; 7) one tenth; 8) the first of Janu­ary; 9) sixteen thirty three; 10) naught point two four.

№ 4.

Вставьте артикли a, an,the гденеоб­ходимо:

1. What... fine day it is today! 2.... History and... Computer Science were... my favorite subjects at... school. 3. I don't know... way to... station. 4. He is... engineer by... profession. 5. Usually I get up at... 7 o'clock in... morning. 6.... Rostov is on... right bank of... Don. 7. Will you have... cup of... tea? 8.... Warsaw is... capital of Poland. 9. We shall go to...cinema together with... our friends. 10. This is... book,... book is very interesting. 11. Do you see... sun in... sky today? 12. He is... engineer by... profession. 13.I went to... Smirnovs, but they were not at... home.

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