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I. Give the negative and question - form of the sentences:

1. W. Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845.

2. He was the only child of a merchant.

3. In 1862 Röntgen entered a technical school at Utrecht.

4. In 1869 he graduated PhD at the University of Zurich.

5. Röntgen's first work was published in 1870.

6. The new rays are produced by the impact of cathode rays on a material object.

7. He was a great mountaineer.

8. W. Röntgen often got into dangerous situations.

9. Röntgen's name is chiefly associated with his discovery of the X-rays.

10. Much of the apparatus was built by Röntgen.

II. Put the verb to publishinto the correct tense-form. Pay attention to the words given in the brackets:

This physicist to publish his works in the well-know scientific journal (every year, last week, lately, by the time he comes to the conference, next year, just).

III. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:

1. Röntgen was born in London as the only child of a doctor.

2. When he was three years old, his family moved to Norway.

3. He did not show any special aptitude, but showed a love of nature and was fond of roaming in the open country and forests.

4. In 1862 W. Röntgen entered an agrarian school at Utrecht.

5. He then entered the University of Utrecht in 1865 to study physics.

6. In 1869 he graduated PhD at the University of Dresden, was appointed assistant to Koch and went with him to Warsaw in the same year, and three years later to Berlin.

7. Röntgen's first work was published in 1870, dealing with the specific heats of gases, followed a few years later by a paper on the thermal conductivity of crystals.

8. Röntgen's name is chiefly associated with his discovery of the laser.

9. In 1895 he was studying the phenomena accompanying the passage of an electric current through a gas of extremely low pressure.

10. In spite of all this, Röntgen retained the characteristic of a strikingly modest and reticent man.

IV. Fill in the blanks with words from the text:

1. He did not show any special …, but … a love of nature and …. …roaming in the open … and forests.

2. Not having attained the credentials … for a regular student, and hearing that he could enter the … at Zurich by passing its examination, he … this and began studies there as a student of … engineering.

3. Among other problems he … were the electrical and other … of quartz; the …of pressure … the …. of various fluids; the modification of the planes of polarized light by … influences.

4. In … experiments Röntgen … that the new rays … by the impact of … on a material object.

5. … his life he … his love of … and outdoor occupations.

6. He was a great … and more than once … into dangerous situations.

7. … and … by nature, he … always … the views and … of others.

8. Much of the … he used … by himself with great ingenuity and experimental skill.

V. What information have you learnt from the text? What information was not new for you?



Begin with the phrases:

As for me I learnt that W. Röntgen …

If I am not mistaken …

It was not new for me that …

VI. Give the summary of the text


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