Text 1 The Renaissance

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Unit 2

Read and translate the following sentences paying attention to the tenses.

Tenses of the Active Voice

1. We usually take measurements with great accuracy.

2. The solar energy is converting the energy of the sun rays directly into electric energy.

3. He noticed that the machine was making a noise which sounded like human voices in conversation.

4. Industry has adapted electronic equipment to its own needs.

5. Diode consists of the filament that emits electrons and the plate that attractselectrons.

6. The invention of transistors led to an acceleration in the growth of electronics.

7. A brief review of transistor advantages will provide the answers to many questions.

8. Solid-state devicesrequire less power than vacuum tubes.

9. The importance of this research has grown especially in connection with space research.

10. These devices will give mankind invaluable assistance in different fields of life.

The intensified study of Greek and Roman literature and the renewal of rhetorical education that characterized intellectual life in 15^th-century Italy had an effect on historical study; it encouraged a secular and realistic approach to political history, both ancient and modern. Leonardo Bruni, a student of the newly recovered works of Tacitus, reconsidered the history of Republican and imperial Rome and of his native Florence in the light of Roman experience.

In the 16th century Niccoló Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini wrote works that again set political history in a world bounded by human laws and human ambitions. This separation of ecclesiastical from secular materials of history is evident wherever Renaissance learning had influence in Europe.