1. Popov had no support from the government to continue his research. 2. Not long ago chemists developed new materials that could withstand high temperatures. 3. No system of measurement of the past is as simple as the metric system. 4. It is no longer possible to put off the solution of ecological problems. 5. Tsarist Russia gave no money for Tsiolkovsky’s research. 6. No one is allowed to smoke in our office. 7. There is no doubt that the development of electronics is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. 8. Half a century is not a long period in the history of civilization. 9. Before Newton no one could explain why the planets moved around the Sun. 10. People no longer think of radio and television as something fantastic. 1. Попов не получил поддержки со стороны правительства, чтобы продолжить свои исследования. 2. Недавно химики разработали новые материалы, которые могут выдерживать высокие температуры. 3. Ни одна из старых систем измерения столь же проста, как метрическая система. 4. Больше невозможно откладывать решение экологических проблем. 5. Царская Россия не давала денег Циолковскому на его исследования. 6. Никому не позволено курить в нашем офисе. 7. Нет сомнений в том, что развитие электроники является одним из величайших достижений человечества. 8. Полвека - это не большой период в истории цивилизации. 9. До Ньютона никто не мог объяснить, почему планеты двигаются вокруг Солнца. 10. Люди больше не думают о радио и телевидении как о чем-то фантастическом. 1. Today our lectures do not begin at 10 o’clock in the morning. 2. We were not school-children last year. 3. We didnot have four entrance exams in summer. 4. Yesterday the first-year students did not dee the institute laboratories. 5. We did not take all the necessary books from the library. 6. I did not get excellent marks for my entrance exams. 7. He does not know the meaning of the word “engineering”. 8. The students of our group will not meet in the laboratory. 9. The librarian did not give us all the necessary books.
Impressionism is a very natural stage of art’s (0)… . DEVELOPment Russian painters had started their (1) … of experiments with light and modified colour schemes before they visited France and got acquainted with French impressionism. unHEARD And yet, there is a difference between Russian and French impressionistic (2) … in terms of their subject matter, light and colour scheme. DEPICTions As far as French artists were concerned, they portrayed life differently in (3) … to Russian painters. COMPARison However, Russian impressionists never attempted to break away from (4) … REALism. Strictly speaking, Vasily Polenov can be regarded as a path (5) … in this field. BREAKer He was one of the first Russian painters who visited Paris in the 1870s and became (6) … fascinated by impressionism. ENORMOUSly He didn’t abandon his own distinct painting style, but he made every effort to (7) … his students in Russia with his French findings and encouraged their own artistic explorations. FAMILIARise Thanks to his (8) … support, his like-minded contemporary artist Konstantin Korovin felt confidence to work differently. ENTHUSIAStic The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and (9) … had never had landscape painting classes as this genre was seen as the one for amateurs. ARCHITECTure V. Polenov was the first to introduce such classes and he was (10) … besieged by students who wanted to paint nature. VIRTUALly
