Задание 12. Письменно переведите текст.

K.E. Tsiolkovsky

K.E.Tsiolkovsky , the founder of the modern theory of jet propulsion was born in 1857 in the little town of Izhevskoye in the Ryasan region. At the age of nine he fell seriously ill and became almost deaf. He could not go to school and continued to study at home, and books became his only teachers. At the age of 16 Tsiolkovsky was sent by his father to Moscow to study. He studied hard and three years later he came back home and earned his living by teaching mathematics at school.

K.E.Tsiolkovsky made a great contribution to the theory of rocket flight. In his paper “The Aeroplane or Bird-like Flying Machine”,Tsiolkovsky suggested a design which is like the modern aeroplane. He foresaw that internal combustion engine would become the chief form of propulsive power for aircraft. It was Tsiolkovsky who proposed the idea of creating artificial satellites of the Earth, the principle of multistaged rocket.

Контрольная работа 2

I. Чтение.

Задание 1. Прочтите текст и поймите его содержание. Заполните пропуски словами из рамочки:

pioneer, researcher, science, designed, founder, devote, development, aircraft, aviation, investigated.

Since the early nineties Zhukovsky turned to ...1…. a new branch of engineering, which held out new horizons for the ...2…. . The Moscow University Laboratory of Applied Mechanics headed by Zhukovsky, began to ...3…. increasing attention to the subject. Models of ...4…. and aerodynamic instruments were ...5…. , built and tested, and various aerohydromechanical problems ...6…. .

In 1898, the X Congress of Naturalists and Physicians was held in Kiev. In a report to the Congress entitled “On Aeronautics” Zhukovsky outlined the future ...7…. of heavier-than-air craft.

The reports “On the Soaring of Birds” and “On Aeronautics” marked the begining of Zhukovsky’s work as a ...8…. of aviation in Russia and a ...9…. of aeronautical ...10…. . From then on his interest in aviation clearly predominated over his other scientific interests.

Задание 2. Выберите номера предложений, которые соответствуют содержанию текста:

1.At the end of the 19th century the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics was headed by K.E.Tsiolkovsky.

2.Since the early nineties Zhukovsky devoted himself to aviation.

3.He designed, built and tested models of aircraft and aerodynamic instruments.

4.The report “On Aeronautics” was made by Zhukovsky at the X congress of Naturalists and Physicians in Kiev.

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