Английский язык: Аннотирование и реферирование текста

192 III . Translate the following sentences ( in written form ) and give your comment . 1. What we see on television, how we communicate with each other, and how we pay for what we buy have all changed with the birth of satellites. 2. It’s hard to imagine these things happening without space. IV . Find English equivalents in the text . Спутники глобальной системы позиционирования , почувст - вовала это , позволили странам следить за своими врагами , мы ис - пытывали страхи , сообщают точный прогноз об угрозах со сторо - ны природы , это было совсем не так . V . Make up the abstract of the text . Текст 3. Strange New World Piercing the haze , Huygens gets a view of Titan’s surface By Mark Alpert ( Scientific American , April 2005 . P. 11-12 ) On January 14 a saucer-shaped spacecraft weighing 320 kilo- grams made the "splat" heard round the solar system. The successful landing of the Huygens probe on Titan, Saturn's large and mysterious satellite, delighted planetary scientists, who thrilled at the probe's im- ages of icy ridges and dark, riverlike channels. In the following weeks, though, the euphoria turned to head-scratching as researchers struggled to decipher the data collected by the probe. Although the four-hour- long mission provided the first close look at Titan's surface and atmos- phere, Huygens raised at least as many questions as it answered. Despite the moon's extreme cold – its surface temperature is – 180 degrees Celsius – Titan is similar to Earth in many ways. Like our planet, Titan has a thick atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen. An- other significant constituent is methane, which condenses at low tem- peratures and appears to play the same meteorological role on Titan as water does on Earth. Scientists had long speculated that Titan might