Пояснения к тексту

1. mechanical engineering - машиностроение

2. power engineering — энергетика

3. the Unified Power Grid of the USSR - Единая энергосистема СССР

SOVIET INDUSTRIAL GROWTH

1. Heavy industry forms the basis, of the USSR's industrial complex. Its development is characterized by a high technological level of production, by the emergence of new branches, including mechanical engineering¹ for nuclear power production.

2. The Soviet Union has built powerful atomic electric, stations and has designed new types of reactors which open up fine prospects in atomic power industry. The biggest proton accelerator in the USSR has been launched in Serpukhov. Extensive-work is now being carried out on designing nuclear engines to be used for transport. Much attention is being given to the application of isotopes, radiation and other results of nuclear research in medicine, industry and agriculture.

3. Soviet power engineering² comprises high-capacity electric power station forming part of the Unified Power Grid of theUSSR.³ New electric power stations such as the Bratsk Station and the Sayan-Shushenskoye Station have been built in the country. Siberia's power system has been included in the USSR Power Grid which will be able to serve a large part of the territory of the Soviet Union.

4. Today oil, gas and coal are being produced not only in well-developed areas but also in Siberia and Kazakhstan, on Sakhalin Island and other regions where these minerals have been recently discovered.

5. The light industry is developing at a fast rate as well. Soviet fabrics, TV sets, watches and clocks and many other household goods have acquired good reputation abroad.

6. The Soviet Union holds one of the leading places in the scale of construction work. Thousands of families move into new flats every year.

VII. Прочитайте 6-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:

In what branch of industry does the Soviet Union hold one of the leading places?

1.... in the light industry.

2.... in the chemical industry.

3.... in construction.

Вариант 5

I. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в каждом из них видо-временную форму и залог глагола-сказуемого (см. образец). Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Many 16-storey houses with alt modern conveniences are being built in this part of Moscow.

2. The sputniks are used for the research of magnetic field sand cosmic rays.

3. The properties of materials are affected by solar radiation.

4. Scientific and engineering progress opens up wide prospects before man.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it, that, one.

1. It is necessary to obtain accurate data on the possibility of living and working in space.

2. The peoples know that their joint efforts can secure peace in the whole world.

3. We had to find new methods of investigation because the old one's were unsatisfactory.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.

1A programme for the construction of new types of space ships is to be carried out this year.

2. Soviet people do not pay for medical treatment.

3. We had to change the design of this machine.

4. The speed of electrons is almost the same as that of light.

IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.

1. We know radio and radar systems play a very important role at any airport.

2. The information science gets about other galaxies comes through radiotelescopes.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива в предложении.

1. The Soviet science was the first to make great contribution to die development of space technology.

2. In order to make interplanetary flights in the future it is necessary to know factors affecting the human organism.

3. The main purpose of the computers is to solve complex problems quickly.

VI. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 5-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2,3 и 4-й абзацы.