Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

2. Answer the following questions on the text.
1) Where is the Large Hadron Collider located?
2) How large is it?
3) What is the purpose of the LHC?
4) What does the LHC project include, besides the collider itself?
5) What results do scientists hope to get from collisions of particles inside the collider?


3. Using a dictionary find the English definitions and the translations of the following words from the text. Make up 5 sentences of your own with any of these words.
To span, to challenge, to seek, to emerge, to process, head-on, to be labelled, minuscule, vastness, a beam, a lead ion, a lap, a collision.
4. Complete each sentence with the correct ending A-E from the box below.
1) The Large Hadron Collider is used ….
2) The conditions just after the Big Bang will…
3) The LHC is built…
4) The LHC project also includes…
5) Scientists hope that,…

A. a global network of computers and software to process the obtained data.

B. to study the smallest particles known by the science.

C. with the help of the LHC, they will be able to understand the laws of the Universe.

D. be recreated through colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy.

E.100 metres under the surface of the Earth.

5. Complete the text by putting one word from the box in each space. Check the meaning of any new words in your dictionary.

dwarfing	are conducted	prevent
concede	experts	established
outweighs	destructive	outcome
destroy	border	alter

“Citizens Against The Large Hadron Collider” is a non-profit organization (1)_____________ for the purpose of using legal action to (2)____________the operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) until further safety tests (3)________________.

The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland (4)____________; it has been dubbed the largest, most expensive, most powerful experiment ever attempted, certainly (5)______________all particle colliders ever built before, both in terms of size and power.
Some (6)______________fear that the risk of operating the LHC disproportionately (7)_______________ anything science might gain from this experiment. It is not possible to know what the (8)______________ of the experiment will be, but even CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists (9)____________ that there is a real possibility of creating (10)_______________ theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes. These events have the potential to fundamentally (11)___________ matter and (12)_______________ our planet.