Reading comprehension.
I. Arrange synonyms in pairs and memorize them:
Fully, to do, to perform, to apply, velocity, rapidly, up-to-date, to permit, field, ordinarily, amount, swiftly, entirely, to employ, to convert, rate, completely, to allow, device, to let, instrument, to provide, value, to assist, to help, to aid, to transform, to wish, branch, quickly, commonly, generally, to want, to furnish, fast, to change, quantity, magnitude, modern, to desire, to supply, apparatus, to use, sphere, usually, speed.
II. Put the words in order:
1. In, television, was, first, 1938, in, colour, demonstrated. 2. TV, to, colour, belongs, future, the. 3. The, to be used, widely, both, television, in, in, industry, life, everyday. 4. The, tests, engineer, new, the devices.5. Radio, important, television, play, and, an, in, society, our, today, role. 6. The, the, the, electric, pressure, of, causes, current, through, lightning, pass, to, air. 7.Tubes, the, vacuum, or, power, voltage, amplify. 8.Television, can, be, by, means, of, transmission, signals, transmitted, lines.9. The, the, camera, image, projected, object, is, onto, of, an, tube.10. The, receiver, the, sound, frequency, and, vision, aerial, up, picks, radio, signals.
III. Fill in the blanks with the following words:
Was developed, is more complicated, is separated, is transmitted, can perceive, picks up, are usually termed.
1. The television receiver …signals. 2. In television broadcasting, the sound signal …simultaneously with the video signal.3. These signals …the picture signals.4. The iconoscope camera tube …as far back as the early thirties. 5. The human eye, on the other hand, …many different objects at one and the same time.6. After amplification, the sound signal ….from the composite signal. 7. The transmission of video signals …than the transmission of audio signals by means of radio-waves.
IV. Which of the following statements are true or false? If the statement is wrong, correct it:
1. Television provides a means of viewing the images of objects that are in our sight.2. The transmission of video signals is very simple, than the transmission of audio signals by means of radio-waves.3. The human eye can not perceive many different objects at one and the same time.4. The iconoscope camera tube was developed in 1970. 5. There is no difference between the perception of audio signals and video signals by the human being.
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Reading comprehension.
I. Arrange synonyms in pairs and memorize them:
Fully, to do, to perform, to apply, velocity, rapidly, up-to-date, to permit, field, ordinarily, amount, swiftly, entirely, to employ, to convert, rate, completely, to allow, device, to let, instrument, to provide, value, to assist, to help, to aid, to transform, to wish, branch, quickly, commonly, generally, to want, to furnish, fast, to change, quantity, magnitude, modern, to desire, to supply, apparatus, to use, sphere, usually, speed.
II. Put the words in order:
1. In, television, was, first, 1938, in, colour, demonstrated. 2. TV, to, colour, belongs, future, the. 3. The, to be used, widely, both, television, in, in, industry, life, everyday. 4. The, tests, engineer, new, the devices.5. Radio, important, television, play, and, an, in, society, our, today, role. 6. The, the, the, electric, pressure, of, causes, current, through, lightning, pass, to, air. 7.Tubes, the, vacuum, or, power, voltage, amplify. 8.Television, can, be, by, means, of, transmission, signals, transmitted, lines.9. The, the, camera, image, projected, object, is, onto, of, an, tube.10. The, receiver, the, sound, frequency, and, vision, aerial, up, picks, radio, signals.