Comprehension check. 4.1 Answer the following questions:

4.1 Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between science and technology?

2. When did they start?

3. Who practised and developed science at an early stage of civilization?

4. Who was engaged in practical work at that time?

5. Why did technology attract the interest of educated men in the medieval period?

6. What were the most significant technological achievements in the 17^th century?

7. Who emphasized the practical role of science?

8. When and where was the first scientific society formed?

9. Name the scholars and experimental scientists who were the first to apply scientific principles to technological innovations?

10. When did the term “high technology” began to appear?

4.2 Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1. In ancient times science and technology developed together as two sides of one

activity.

2. None of technological innovations were recognized in the 17^th century.

3. In the 19^th century the scientists made the first attempts to apply scientific research to industrial innovation.

4. Thomas A.Edison was the only experimental scientist in the 19^th century.

5. Influence of science on technology was a one-way process.

6. The term “High Technologies” has always meant computer technologies.

Vocabulary

5.1 Give English equivalents of the following words and combinations:

расширять влияние; рост технологий; систематическое изучение; методы; приемы; попытка объяснить; точки пересечения/соприкосновения; технические новшества; ремесленники; защищать; привлекать чей-либо интерес; признавать; метод проб и ошибок; приводить к; применения; одностороннее влияние; поднимать на высокий уровень.

5.2 Fill in the sentences with the words or word combinations from the text.

1. Technology is the systematic study of … and their ….

2. Science depended on the comparatively sophisticated skills of … and ….

3. Over the centuries the technology remained … to … of many types.

4. F.Bacon … three …: the magnatic compass, the printing press and gunpowder.

5. Advances in systems engineering, math modeling, technological assessment in industrial processes brought technology to its modern ….

8.2 Complete the following sentences.

1. Technology studies techniques ….

2. Science attempts to ….

3. Technology is concerned with …

4. Science was practised by ….

5. Technology was developed by ….

6. According to F.Bacon experimental science was ….

7. Modern term “high technology” implies ….

Supplementary reading

6.1 Read the text to learn more about information science.

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