VI. Прочтите текст, выпишите предложения, содержащие сказуемое в страдательном залоге. Переведите их письменно на русский язык, используя вокабуляр (слова, данные после текста, и их перевод).

The industrial progress of mankind is based on power. Industrial plants, machines, heating and lighting systems, communications need power. In fact, power is required in all the spheres of life.

At present most of the power is obtained mainly from two sources. One is from the burning of coal, gas and oil. The second one is by means of generators that get their power from steam or water turbines. Electricity so produced is then run through transmission lines to houses, plants, etc.

It should be noted, however, that the generation of electricity by these conventional processes is highly uneconomic. Actually, only about 40 per cent of heat in the fuel is converted into electricity.

Vocabulary coal уголь communication связь

conventional традиционный

to convert преобразовывать

fuel топливо

heat тепло

to heat отапливать

to light освещать

to note замечать

to obtain получать

to require требовать

power энергия

to run направлять

source источник

TEST

Заполните пропуски правильной глагольной формой.

1. The special system of training engineers . . . to produce qualified experts.

1. designed

2. was designed

3. is designing

2. At our university . . . students scientific circles.

1. are

2. have

3. there are

3. Books on various subjects . . . from the library.

1. obtain

2. be obtained

3. are obtained

3. The teaching of physics . . . according to the syllabus.

1. arranged

2. is arranged

3. arranges

3. The students . . . general education subjects as well as special subjects.

1. are studied

2. study

3. have been studied

3. He . . . the university in 1999.

1. have entered

2. was entered

3. entered

3. When I . . . at the thermal-power station I attended the evening courses.

1. was worked

2. was working

3. have worked

3. Electricity . . . in every field of national economy.

1. used

2. is used

3. is using

3. New methods of investigation of environment . . . at the research laboratory.

1. have applied

2. was applied

3. were applied

10. He . . . to become an ecologist.

1. goes

2. went

3. is going

11. She said she . . . at our university.

1. will study

2. would study

3. studies

12. We can’t believe that he . . . nothing about our experiments.

1. knows

2. would know

3. have known

Key (Ключ)

1b, 2c, 3c, 4b, 5b, 6c, 7b, 8b, 9c, 10c, 11b, 12a.

UNIT 2

1. Learn the vocabulary.

Vocabulary to text 1

environment окружающая среда

cause вызывать, быть причиной

mankind человечество

take measures принимать меры

breathe дышать

dangerous опасный

provide обеспечивать

be affected by подвергаться чему либо

create создавать

belong to принадлежать, относится

weaken ослаблять

capacity способность

approach подход

fresh свежий, пресный

cousume потреблять, расходовать

exhaust gases отработанные газы

are known to be как известно, являются

harmful вредный

die умирать

bricks кирпичи

eat away разъедать, съедать

fumes копоть, испарения

are discharged выпускаются, выливаются

spread распространять (ся)

exchange обмен

unfit непригодный

waste отходы