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Positive impact
Negative impact
1. Technology has improved trans-
portation
1.
Increased population
2.
2.
3.
3.
… …
2. Write an essay on the topic “The history of technology”
(150-200 words).
In order to write essay more accurately use the tips from the “Supplemen-
tary Reading” (
see the page 78
).
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Unit
4
SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION
READING
1. Read the text and complete the sentences using the phrases given be-
low:
A)
to discover
practical applications
F)
to communicate their discoveries
B)
within
an existing framework
G)
lead to
C)
develop
H)
obvious
D)
to
define normal science
I)
applied
science
E)
patent law
J)
in contrast
1.
In “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (1962),
American phi-
losopher and historian Thomas Kuhn made a distinction between what he
called
normal science
and episodes of
scientific revolution. He
(1)
… … … … … as the process of solving puzzles within the paradigms
currently established for one’s particular science. For instance, in astrono-
my, it has been believed for centuries that the planets orbited around the
Earth (the geocentric model) and complex models and calculations were
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