PRACTICA - BE COMO AUXILIAR

1- NUCLEAR POWER
Nuclear power is obtained from the energy which can be released from the nucleus
of an atom. Until the twentieth century man used water, wood and the fossil fuels
(coal, oil and gas) as sources of power. During the first quarter of the twentieth
century physicists investigated the structure of the atom. In 1919 Rutherford split
the atom artificially. Thirteen years later the neutron was discovered. In 1939 Hahn
and Strassman investigated the action of neutrons on uranium-235. They found
that it was split into two equal pieces. This process is known as fission. It releases
great amounts of energy. The neutrons that are released in fission produce fissions
in other atoms. This is known as a chain reaction. On 2nd December 1942 Enrico
Fermi and his colleagues produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
Since then atomic energy is being used in war and peace. In 1951 electricity was
first produced by using the heat from a nuclear reactor. Nowadays nuclear energy
is used to power submarines. Nuclear batteries are now being used in cardiac
pacemakers. More and more countries are building nuclear power stations to
produce electricity.
(Reading and Thinking in English)

A. Subraye las formas de BE como auxiliar en el texto anterio.

B. Las siguientes son preguntas sobre el texto. Complete con el verbo

en español la traducción de las preguntas a continuación:
1. When was nuclear power first used to produce electricity?

1. ¿Cuándo se usó energía nuclear por primera vez para producir electricidad?

2. What was done twenty-three years before the first controlled nuclear chain
reaction?
2. ¿Qué se hizo veintitrés años antes de la primera reacción nuclear en cadena
controlada?

3. How many years passed between the discovery of fission and the use of nuclear
energy to produce electricity?

3. ¿Cuántos años pasaron entre el descubrimiento de la fisión y el uso de la

energía nuclear para producir electricidad?

4. When was the neutron discovered?

4. ¿Cuándo se descubrió al neutrón?

5. How many years ago did Rutherford split the atom?

5. ¿Hace cuántos años Rutherford dividió al átomo?

C. Una los hechos (1-5) con el momento en el que ocurrieron (a-e).

1. use of atomic energy in war and peace

2. increasing use of nuclear energy to produce electricity

3. dependence on wood, water and fossil fuels

4. investigation of the structure of the atom

5. production of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

a. 1900- 1925

b. before the 20th century

c. present moment

d. after 1942

e. three years after the discovery of fission

1- d

2- c

3- b

4- a

5-e

2- Los siguientes enunciados se refieren a antiguas ideas sobre electricidad

y magnetismo.

A. Elija la traducción correcta de los enunciados:

In ancient times,…

1. It was noticed that friction between textiles produced electricity.

a. Era noticia que la fricción entre telas producía electricidad.

b. La fricción entre telas se notaba que producía electricidad.

c. Se observó que la fricción entre telas producía electricidad.

2. It was thought that positively-charged objects repelled each other.

a. Se pensaba que los cuerpos con carga positiva se repelían entre sí.

b. Estaba pensado que las cargas positivas en los cuerpos se repelían unas a
otras.

c. Se creían que los cuerpos con carga positiva repelen unos a otros.

3. Volta showed that electricity was produced when two different metals were
separated by salt water.

a. Volta demostró que se produjo electricidad cuando dos metales distintos eran
separados en agua salada.
b. Volta demostró que se producía electricidad cuando dos metales distintos
eran separados por agua salada.

c. Volta mostró la electricidad producida cuando se separaban dos metales

diferentes en agua salada.