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Homework for Wednesday, 13.02.19: read and translate the text about Eugene Paton; change the following sentences form Active Voice into Passive:

1. The firefighters rescued the teenagers from the burning building.

2. The youngest student in the class has written the best composition.

3. The children send me messages every day.

4. The villagers gave the travellers food and water.

5. A very talented young girl wrote the story.

6. They are going to finish the new road in a few days.

Eugene Paton

One can name many outstanding scientists in Ukraine, but I'd like to tell about the man, whose name is known all over the world. This is Eugene Paton. He was born in the family of Russian Consul in Nice, France in 1870. He was a graduate of Dresden Polytechnic Institute, Germany. But when he came back to St Petersburg as a famous engineer (architect), he suddenly changed his mind as to his occupation. He became a student of St Petersburg University being a famous engineer and having the project of the Dresden railway station to his credit.

In a year, he passed all the exams and got a degree of a railway engineer. Paton was the first to found the Soviet school of bridge-building. He was awarded the title of the Honourable member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He decided to change his profession when he was 60. "The wish to serve the people made me to take up the new job – the electric welding," he said.

He became the founder of the first institute of the electric welding in the world. When he was 80, he headed the design and construction of the first boltless bridge in Kyiv. The bridge is 1150 metres long and is called after Paton. The Research Institute of Electric Welding is called after Paton, too.