1. Give Russian equivalents of the words distinghisted in the text.
2. Read the text and state the main ideas.
3. Write a logical plan of the text.
4. Suggest a suitable title of the text.
5. Express the main idea of the text in Russian (in English).
TEXT 3
In the closing years of the 19th century a professor of physics in Cambridge discovered the electron. That was J. J. Thompson. First he was a student and then a lecturer in mathematics at one of the Cambridge colleges. Thompson was a remarkable man. He saw further than his collegues but even he couldn't imagine the profound effect of his discoveryon the lives of the people in the 20th century. Thompson's discovery paved the way for many exciting new discoveries, for example, the discovery of the neutron, and the invention of the particle acceleratorby Rutherford's pupils.
These discoveries inspiredthe great physicists who were then formulating their revolutionary theories-Planck's quantum theory, Einstein's theory of relativity, Bohr's model of the atom and others.
Scientists are moving forward a better understanding of its laws. Electrons do wonderful things in calculating machines, which besides working hundreds of times faster than and human calculator, can hear, see, feel, touch. More and moreoften we hear of acientist's using these machines in new fields. With the help of electronic calculating machines Soviet scientists succeeded in reading the language of ancient people of Mexico.