ЭОР Капсула времени (текст для чтения с заданиями)

SPACEARK: A TIME CAPSULE FOR THE FUTURE

(from The Open Doors, Norman Whitney, Oxford University Press, 2001)

1. British teenagers are amongst thousands of young people who have responded to an unusual request from scientists. They were asked to “send a message to the future”. The message, which will include letters, pictures and music, will be placed in a time capsule called SpaceArc. The four kilogram capsule will be on a satellite which is being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

2. The response to the scientists’ request has been incredible. “We’ve had thousands of letters from all over the world,” said one of the organizers. “We’ve selected some of the messages already and we’re going to choose the rest next month.”

3. SpaceArc will contain all sorts of information about life on earth today. Messages are going t include information about school, family life and religion as well as drugs and crime. Peter Fox, one of the organizers, said “It is important that the messages reflect the twentieth century accurately. We don’t want people of the future to misunderstand what life was like this century”.

4. The satellite will circle the earth for twelve years. After that time, SpaceArc, which was paid for by an American museum, will separate from the main satellite and be sent into orbit a few hundred miles above the earth. It will remain in orbit for millions of years.

5. One of the organizers explained more about the project. “We created SpaceArc in order to communicate with the people of the future. It is impossible to predict exactly what will happen to it. The human race may have disappeared by the time SpaceArc is opened again.”

6. One of the messages is from an 11-year-old schoolboy. Joseph Williamson, who is very worried about the environment, wants to ask this question: “In the 1990s we are trying to clean the earth. Did we succeed?”

Задание 1. Прочтите TEXT. Обратите особое внимание на слова, выделенные жирным шрифтом

Задание 2: Переведите письменно третью и четвертую части текста.

3. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What unusual request did scientists make?

2. How many people responded to the request?

3. What will SpaceArc contain?

4. Why is it important to select these items carefully?

5. What will happen in twelve years’ time?

6. Why was the capsule created?

7. What question does one boy want to send to the future?

Задание 4. Используя in-, im-, un-, mis-, dis- составьте новые слова.

Пример: fair – unfair

Agree; understand; like; appear; possible; kind; happy; accurate.