ГДЗ Английский язык за 8 класс Афанасьева, Михеева, Баранова - Rainbow English - Учебник. Часть 2Unit 4 – Step 4 – 3a

🔊 Mikhail Lomonosov had wide interests.

🔊 His interests lay in chemistry, physics, optics, geography, history and art. His poetry helped to develop the modern Russian language.

🔊 He was largely a self-made man.

🔊 When Mikhail was ten, his father decided that the boy was old enough to help him.

🔊 His neighbour had taught him to read and he spent as much time as he could with books, among which there was a grammar book and a book of arithmetic.

🔊 He was a gifted student and a fast learner.

🔊 The knowledge he got at home was not enough for Lomonosov and in 1730, at nineteen he left the village and joined a caravan travelling to Moscow.

🔊 Here he entered Slavic Greek Latin Academy and lived on bread and water for quite a long time but made rapid progress as a student.

🔊 He completed a twelve-year study course in only five years, and graduated from the Academy with brilliant results.

🔊 A fantastic student, he was given an opportunity to go to Saint Petersburg University and later to the University of Marburg in Germany.

🔊 Lomonosov’s contribution to education is priceless.

🔊 At home he became a member of the Academy, and soon was made professor of chemistry. Wishing to improve education in Russia he and Count1 Ivan Shuvalov founded Moscow University.

🔊 He helped to develop both sciences and arts.

🔊 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) was a Russian scientist and writer who made important contributions to literature, education and science.

🔊 Lomonosov developed a number of important theories and made some brilliant discoveries, wrote poetry some of which is remembered till nowadays.