Task 1. Complete the sentences with can / could.
1. Can you read this for me? Isee without my glasses.
2. After two years in China, Ispeak quite fluently now.
3. Yesterday I lost my keys and I looked for them everywhere, but Ifind them.

Объяснение:1 There is a widely held belief that newborn babies have the immediate ability to recognise their mother's face. 2 The truth is that newborns know who their mother is primarily thanks to voice recognition. 3 Paediatricians maintain that there is little evidence of visual recognition before the age of three weeks. 4 An infant's vision is initially very blurry but sharpening each month until perfect vision is achieved by the child's second birthday.

1)

1. Design and construction of roads, bridges, buildings - civil engineering

2. Science of very low temperatures - cryogenics

3. Science of communication and control in machines and brain - cybernetics

4. Study of work environments and conditions - ergonomics

5. Scientific study of the chemical nature and natural forces influencing stars - astrophysics

6. Study of the influence of a country’s position on its politics - geopolitics

7. Scientific study of space travel - astronautics

8. Scientific study of human races and their characteristics - ethnology

2)

1. machine

2. appliances

3. machinery

4. device

5. gadgets

6. motor