ТЕКСТ В. Прочитайте текст В без словаря

Прочитайте текст В без словаря. Кратко суммируйте его содержание.

Дополните разделительные вопросы по образцу.

Составьте З разделительных вопроса по каждому образцу.

Образец 1: These are your new group-mates, aren't they? Образец 2: You have got a lot of books on geology, haven't you? Образец 3: She hasn't got any sisters or brothers, has she? Образец 4: You understand me, don't you? Образец 5: You don't know this man, do you? Образец 6: She likes to play sports, doesn't she? Образец 7: You didn't go to the party yesterday, did you? Образец 8: She told you about a change in our plan, didn't she?

Образец:

Geology is both a theoretical and applied science, isn 't it? You don't take part in this research project, do you?

1 - You aren 't a student,________?

- No, I'm a teacher.

2. Many students at your institute play different sports,

3. All your students know the name of the outstanding Russian
geologist Obruchev, ,_____?

4. He isn't a full-time student,__________?

5. You passed all your exams last year,_________?

6. She graduated from the institute two years ago,______?

7. You don't speak English,_________?

8. This is your teacher of English,___________?

В

In pre-revolutionary Russia there were several higher mining schools which trained geologists and mining engineers. The oldest Russian school of mining was in St.Petersburg, where some well-known scientists taught: A.P. Karpinsky, B.I. Boky and others. Among the famous scientists who lectured at the Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk) Mining Institute was Professor I.K. Sobo-levsky, whose subject was mine surveying and geodesy.

The Technological Institute in Tomsk was opened in 1900. It was the oldest industrial and cultural centre of Siberia. The Tomsk Tech­nological Institute had three departments: engineering, chemical and mining. The Don Polytechnic Institute founded in Novocherkassk in 1907 also had a mining department. In 1916 a new Mining Institute in Yekaterinburg came into existence.

The total number of students did not exceed two thousand with only 60 to 70 mining engineers who graduated from mining institutes each year. That was far below the number needed. It was quite obvious that the small number of these institutions could not cope with the problem of training specialists in the field of mining and geology. Little

wonder that there was a shortage of mining engineers and geologists in the mining regions of pre-revolutionary Russia.

After the Revolution the Moscow Mining Academy was the first higher mining educational establishment. In the early thirties the Academy established close contacts with the coal, oil and ore mining industries. The Academy's scientists carried out research in the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, in the Donbas and in other indus­trial areas.

The need for geologists and mining engineers increased so much that the Academy could not cope with the problem of train­ing a large number of specialists for the country. Among the new colleges which grew out of the Academy were the Moscow Mining Institute, the Oil Institute, the Institute of Geological Prospecting and others.

In 1950 a new mining institute appeared in Kemerovo, the centre of the coal and chemical industries in West Siberia. The In-x stitute trained mining engineers for the coal and ore mining indus­tries of the Kuzbas. Later the Kemerovo Mining Institute was transformed into the Polytechnic Institute which is now one of the largest and most important engineering colleges in West Siberia.

УПРАЖНЕНИЯ

34. Найдите • каждом абзаце текста предложение, выражающее его ос­
новную мысль.

35. Прочитайте первые два абзаца текста и перечислите все горные
вузы, которые имелись в дореволюционной России.

36. Найдите в тексте предложения, в которых дается оценка дея­
тельности старейших горных вузов России.

37. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих русских слов
• сочетаний слов:

высшие учебные заведения; известные ученые; основы-вать; контингент студентов; справляться с (чём-л.); не удиви-тельно, что; недостаток горных инженеров и геологов; в на-чале 30-х годов; проводить исследования; к тому времени; большое количество? среди новых институтов; появляться; горнорудная промышленность; преобразовывать

Дата добавления: 2014-12-27