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Scientific and Technological Progress

It's difficult to overestimate the role of science and technology in our life. They accelerate the development of civilization and help us in our co-operation with nature.

Scientists investigate the laws of the universe, discover the secrets of nature, and apply their knowledge in practice improving the life of people. Let's compare our life nowadays with the life of people at the beginning of the 20th century. It has changed beyond recognition. Our ancestors hadn't the slightest idea of the trivial things created by the scientific progress that we use in our everyday life. I mean refrigerators, TV sets, computers, microwave ovens, radio telephones, what not.

They would seem miracles to them that made our life easy, comfortable and pleasant. On the other hand, the great inventions of the beginning of the 20th century, I mean radio, airplanes, combustion and jet engines have become usual things and we can't imagine our life without them. A century is a long period for scientific and technological progress, as it's rather rapid. Millions of investigations the endless number of outstanding discoveries has been made. Our century has had several names that were connected with a certain era in science and technology. At first it was called the atomic age due to the discovery of the splitting of the atom. Then it became the age of the conquest of space when for the first time in the history of mankind a man overcame the gravity and entered the Universe. And now we live in the information era when the computer network embraces the globe and connects not only the countries and space stations but a lot of people all over the world. All these things prove the power and the greatest progressive role of science in our life.

But every medal has its reverse. And the rapid scientific progress has aroused a number of problems that are a matter of our great concern. These are ecological problems, the safety of nuclear power stations, the nuclear war threat, and the responsibility of a scientist. But still we are grateful to the outstanding men of the past and the present who have courage and patience to disclose the secrets of the Universe.

1. Post- listening activity.

Think and say using the phrases below:

What are your personal reactions to the article?

What interested me most was…

What worried me most was…

2. Read and tick the statement T (True) or F (False).

1. It's difficult to overestimate the role of science and technology in our life.

2. Our ancestors hadn't the slightest idea of the trivial things created by the scientific progress that we seldom use in our every day life.

3. Our century has had four names that were connected with a certain era in science and technology.

4. But every medal has its reverse.

5. The rapid scientific progress hasn’t aroused a number of problems that are a matter of our great concern.

3. Put the phrases into the correct order to create the dialogue.

A River and a Man

1. Only swim and go fishing! And what about rubbish you throw into my waters, or industrial wastes your factories pour into me?

2. Oh, don’t even ask about it? LOOK AT ME! Look at all the rubbish on my banks. And my water! It is green and muddy. My poor fish is dying.

3. Hello, dear River. How are you today?

4. Why? What has happened?

5. Who did it?

6. It can’t be so. I don’t believe you. We only swim in your water in summer and go fishing.

7. I’m awful.

8. You, people.

9. Oh, dear! Forgive us. How can we help you?

10. It’s easy. Put filters, use my water economically and please, use bins for rubbish. And I’ll be glad to meet you on my banks again.