Борьба с пожарами (110,00 руб.)

Слободкина Утверждено редакционно-издательским советом университета в качестве учебно-практического пособия Борьба с пожарами : сборник текстов и упражнений по ангБ 841 лийскому языку [Электронный ресурс]. <...> Для самостоятельной работы студентов специальности «Пожарная безопасность». <...> ISBN 978-5-98276-445-4 © Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Волгоградский государственный архитектурностроительный университет», 2011 2 Unit 1 Fire Задание 1. <...> Fire, reaction involving fuel and oxygen, which produces heat and light. <...> Early humans used fire to warm themselves, cook food, and frighten away predators. <...> Sitting around a fire may have helped unite and strengthen family groups and speed the evolution of early society. <...> But fire also posed great risks and challenges to early people, including the threat of burns, the challenge of controlling fire, the greater challenge of starting a fire, and the threat of wildfires. <...> As early civilizations developed, people discovered more uses for fire. <...> Early religions often included fire as a part of their rituals, reflecting its importance to society. <...> One such myth related the story of Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth. <...> To honor Vesta, the high priest of the Roman religion periodically chose six priestesses, called Vestal Virgins, to keep a fire going in a community hearth. <...> Keeping a controlled fire burning played a central part in communal life. <...> Today people naturally focus not on starting fires but on using fire productively and on preventing or extinguishing unwanted fires. <...> We use fire to cook food and to heat our homes. <...> Careless disposal of cigarettes and matches or carelessness with campfires leads to many wildfires. <...> Fires in the home and workplace damage property and cause injury and death. <...> The earliest use of fire by humans may have occurred as early as 1.4 million years ago. <...> Evidence for this was found in Kenya — a mound of burned clay near animal bones and crude stone tools, suggesting a possible human campsite. <...> However, this fire could have resulted from natural causes. <...> Homo erectus, a species of human who lived from about 1.8 million to about 30,000 years ago, was the first to use fire on a regular basis <...>