2021 yil Тошкент – 2020 Nazarov Zufar self-study 15 Task 1

Task 2.Reading
Read the given text carefully and write a summary of it.


Why study history
Happiness in life could bе defined as successfully acting as the chief character in а story one has written oneself. While individuals create а meaningful personal story through action, experience, behaviour and memory, so too the history of а nation (or other group) is а story that gives meaning to the members of that nation living today.
Historians try to combine an understanding of social, economic, political and cultural activity into а general story, explaining how these have affected each other to shape the general course of human events.
Historians use rational scientific methods like the study of statistics and data, but their goa! is to tel1 stories that make sense and have а plot. Many facts


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аге,оr seem, certain. But the meaning of those facts, оr even the full story of what happened, is less obvious than one might think. То understand and explain the past, the historian must develop а theory and test it against the evidence he or she has collected. ln а nutshell, the more evidence it сапsatisfactorily account for, the better the theory.
Much of the evidence that historians use was not available to people of the time, and much material that existed then has been lost. Relatively little new evidence comes to light, so historians largely rely on developing new methods of analysis, asking new questions, оr following new story lines that show the relevance of evidence that was previously ignored.
No historical theory can bе proved beyond all doubt, because there is room for interpretation in any human activity. Every time one tries to understand the past, one gains insight into the uncertainty of any knowledge: history is sometimes more like а detective story than an experiment in а laboratory.


Complete each sentence with the correct ending A-G from the bохbelow . Write the correct letter A-G next to each sentence.

1. 
   Nations use history tounderstand various influences оп our lives
   
2. 
   Historians show the interactionbetween scientific and non-scientific approaches
   
3. 
   Historianstrytoexplain as much as possible of what is known
   
4. 
   Historians oftenneedtoworkout new sources of evidence
   
5. 
   Weсапneverbеcertainabout alternative ways of interpreting existing material