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distinction – разница
endure – длиться
utility – полезность
usability – пригодность
safety – безопасность
to exploit – разрабатывать
electrical conductor – проводник электрического тока
in this sense – в этом смысле
to reap – пожинать
explicitly – ясно, подробно
treatise – [tri:tiz] – трактат
Exercise 17. Answer the following question:
1. Can we define the distinction between science, engineering and technology?
2. What is engineering?
3. Are technologies exclusively products of science?
4. What does the development of technology depend on?
Exercise 18. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
последствие, полупроводник
прикладная наука
отвергать
спорный
удовлетворять требованиям
собирать технологические результаты вовремя
Exercise 19. Find the words with similar meanings:
tool aim
investigation advanced
to involve to create
purpose to decline
to innovate machinery
to resist implement
modern research
equipment to include
contemporary
Exercise 20. Insert the necessary word. Consult the text.
1. Technology is often … of science and engineering.
2. The … knowledge may be used by engineers to create … and machines.
3. Science is the reasoned … or study of phenomena, aimed at discovering enduring principles among elements of the phenomenal world by employing scientific ….
4. In immediate wake of World War II in the United States it was widely considered that technology was simply "… science" and that to fund basic science was to … technological results in due time.
5. The development of … may draw upon many fields of knowledge, including scientific, engineering, mathematical, linguistic, and historical knowledge, to … some practical result.
6. Technologies are not usually exclusively products of science, because they have to satisfy … such as utility, … and safety.
(achieve, technology, to reep, usability, method, consequence, applied,
new-found, requirement, tools, investigation).
