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Read the following passage carefully.1. Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers.2. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering. 3. The ideas and concepts behind nanoscience and nanotechnology started with a talk entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) on December 29, 1959, long before the term nanotechnology was used. In his talk, Feynman described a process in which scientists would be able to manipulate and control individual atoms and molecules. Over a decade later, in his explorations of ultraprecision machining, Professor Norio Taniguchi coined the term nanotechnology. It wasn’t until 1981, with the development of the scanning tunneling microscope that could ‘see’ individual atoms, that modern nanotechnology began.4. It’s hard to imagine just how small nanotechnology is. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or 1/109 of a meter. Here are a few illustrative examples: There are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch: A sheet of newspaper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. On a comparative scale, if a marble were a nanometer, then one meter would be the size of the Earth.5. Nanoscience and nanotechnology involve the ability to see and to control individual atoms and molecules. Everything on Earth is made up of atoms—the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the buildings and houses we live in, and our own bodies.6. But something as small as an atom is impossible to see with the naked eye. In fact, it’s impossible to see with the microscopes typically used in a high school science classes. The microscopes needed to see things at the nanoscale were invented relatively recently—about 30 years ago.7. Once scientists had the right tools, such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the atomic force microscope (AFM), the age of nanotechnology was born.8. Although modern nanoscience and nanotechnology are quite new, nanoscale materials were used for centuries. Alternate-sized gold and silver particles created colors in the stained glass windows of medieval churches hundreds of years ago. The artists back then just didn’t know that the process they used to create these beautiful works of art actually led to changes in the composition of the materials they were working with.9. Today’s scientists and engineers are finding a wide variety of ways to deliberately make materials at the nanoscale to take advantage of their enhanced properties such as higher strength, lighter weight, increased control of light spectrum, and greater chemical reactivity than their larger-scale counterparts.I. On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the following questions by choosing the most appropriate option.(a) Materials at nanoscale are desirable as they:1. have higher strength. 2. have light weight. 3. increased control of light spectrum.4. all of the above.(b) Pick a statement that is not true: 1. food is made of atoms. 2. our bodies are made of atoms. 3. high school microscopes can reveal atoms. 4. atoms can be seen with the naked eye.(c) Nanotechnology can be used in: 1. chemistry. 2. making newspaper. 3. making artworks using colours. 4. both (1) and (2).II. Answer the following questions as briefly as possible.(a) What is nanotechnology? (b) How did the concept of nanoscience start?(c) Who coined the term ‘nanotechnology? (d) What restricted the use of nanotechnology? (e) Which inventions made modern nanotechnology possible? (f) What did the artists of earlier age not know? III. Find words from the passage which mean the same as:(a) influence (para 3)(b) instructive (para 4)(c) band (para 9) |
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Answer» I. (a) (4) all of the above (b) (4) atoms can be seen with the naked eye (c) (4) both (1) and (2) II. (a) Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. (b) The ideas and concepts behind nanoscience and nanotechnology started with a talk entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) on December 29, 1959. (c) Professor Norio Taniguchi coined the term nanotechnology. (d) Lack of microscopes that could make atom visible restricted the use of nanoscience. (e) The right tools, such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and the atomic force microscope (AFM) helped the growth of nanotechnology. (f) The artists of the earlier ages did not know that in using alternate sized gold and silver particles to create colors they were actually engaging in nanotechnology as this process changed the composition of the materials they worked with. III. (a)manipulate (b) illustrative (c) spectrum |
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