Exercise 17. Give your opinion on the following problems

Exercise 16. Complete the sentences using the words from the box.

Exercise 15. Complete the box where possible.

Exercise 14. Answer the following questions.

Exercise 13. Find in the text English equivalents for the following words and word combinations.

Повсякденне життя; розміри коливаються від … до …; деякі величиною з сарай; зрозуміти їх дійсні розміри; так звана астрономічна одиниця; одна поділка масштабної лінійки; інші розміром із головку шпильки; десятковий логарифмічний масштаб; із різним ступенем неповноцінності і переваги; на невеликій відстані

1. What problem is the passage concerned with?

2. What is the main idea of the text?

3. Does the title of the passage adequately express the main idea?

4. Why do you think so?

5. In what paragraph is the main idea expressed?

6. What tow worlds are all the objects of the Universe classified into?

7. What does the word “cosm” mean in Greek?

8. What is the main standard unit of measuring the size of an object?

9. Why does the author prefer centimeter as a measuring unit in this case?

10. What is the diameter of the sun/hydrogen atom?

11. How do scientists express very large or very small numbers?

12. What special units are used for expressing sizes and distances an macro- and microcosm?

13. What is the main standard unit for measuring time intervals?

14. Can we measure human history in seconds?

15. What time periods do scientists usually use when speaking of geology/ history of the Universe/ oscillation of particles?

16. Why does the author say that “we are located pretty well in the middle between the macro- and microcosm”? What “middle” does he mean?

17. Why can we look up at the stars and down at the atoms with an equal degree of infer- and superiority?

18. What does the author mean by infer- and superiority?

to direct	direction	directional
	oscillation
to divide
	variation
to compare
	constitution
to describe
		rotational

1. Objects that are much larger than mountains … what is known as the macrocosm. 2. Decimal logarithmic scale is the scale in which each factor of ten is represented by one … of the yardstick. 3. Similar vast … will be found in the time intervals. 4. An … may be defined ad a series of rapid changes in the state of something during which it moves from its original state to a new state and back again. 5. A … of various durations encountered in the macrocosm, microcosm and in our everyday life is given in Fig.1.

· Macrocosm objects and their special units of measurements.

· Microcosm objects and their special units of measurements.

· Time intervals of macro- and microcosm.

· The human race in the Universe.

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