Упражнения

I. Переведите на русский язык следующие английские предло­жения., обращая внимание на эмфатическую конструкцию it is ... that и её варианты.

А

1. It is television that seemed the most fantastic idea of all the secret human desires.

2. It is with the help of satellites that it is possible televising programmes directly to huge territories.

3. It is with the intervision and European international systems that our television was later linked up.

4. It was only in 1953 that the research workers of the Radio Corporation of America were able to demonstrate a system for recording colour and black-v/hite television programmes.

5. It is the work on the improvement of space television that is of great interest now.

6. It was B. Rosing of St. Petersburg Technological Institute who was the first to think of using Braun's tube for the reception of images.

7. It is with the help of television that we watch a sports telecast from different countries or even a telecast from outer space.

8. It is a cathode-ray tube which is the heart of the TV receiver.

9. It is photoelectric properties of transistors that are widely used in TV sets.

10. It is in TV receivers that the magnetic deflection scheme finds the

main application.

В

1. It was not until .1970 that the construction of the world's biggest television centre, the Moscow centre, housed in the 533-meter high Ostankino television tower was completed.

2. It was not until 1907 that B. Rosing suggested a system of remote electrical vision.

3. It was not about 1961 that the video-telephone was put into operation tor the first time between Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev and immediately became popular.

4. Although it was known for a long time that light is a form of energy, it was not until Maxwell discovered its electromagnetic character that most of its behaviour was satisfactorily explained.

5. It was not until after the 20th century that this great invention was used in a large scale.

6. It was not until Roentgen discovered X-rays that scientists began to take interest in this subject.

7. It was not until Faraday did his experiments that the close relationship between electricity and magnetism was demonstrated.

8. It was not until 1962 that space television was developed.

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Model: It was Becquerel who discovered the phenomenon of

radioactivity.

Quite so, Becquerel was the first to discover the phenomenon of

radioactivity.