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  1. Answer the questions.

  1. What does intermodal freight transport involve?

  2. What are advantages of this method of transportation?

  3. When did the history of intermodal transportation begin?

  4. What were the earliest containers in England used for?

  5. Why were the first covered containers adopted?

  6. Where were containers standardized for the first time?

  7. When did pallets appear?

  8. What is “piggyback” transport?

  9. What do the ISO standards ensure?

2 Match the English words in a with the Ukrainian equivalents in b.

A B

warehouse

транспортний засіб

to transship

контейнерна шахта

pallet

вантаж

piggyback

застаріти

vehicle

склад

handling

перевезення на залізничній платформі

container stack

транспортування

freight

перевантажувати

to obsolete

піддон

3 Find Ukrainian equivalents in b to English phrases in a.

A: multiple modes of transportation; handling of freight; to reduce cargo handling; to improve security; reduced costs; to transship passenger luggage; to reduce damages and loss; to decrease loading times; to ensure interchangeability between different modes of transportation.

B: зменшити час завантаження; різноманітні способи перевезення; зменшити пошкодження та збитки; завантажувально-розвантажувальні операції; знижена вартість; перевантажувати пасажирський багаж; покращити безпеку; зменшити час завантаження; забезпечувати взаємозамінність різних способів перевезення.

4 What do the following numbers in the text refer to?

18th; $740,000,000; 1955; 1830s; 1841; 1920s; 1928.

5 Study the following and find sentences with participles in the text.

Форма дієприкметника

Перехідні дієслова

Неперехідні дієслова

Active Voice

Passive Voice

Active Voice

Present Participle

asking

being asked

going

Past Participle

asked

gone

Perfect Participle

having asked

having been asked

having gone

6 Study the table in Exercise 5. Complete the sentences. Use the correct forms of participle.

  1. Containerization is a method of distributing merchandise (provide) a possible combination of rail, road and maritime transport.

  2. (build) of wood the bridge could not carry heavy loads.

  3. The vehicles (carry) the goods must be owned by the business (buy) by it on deferred terms.

  4. The traditional air cargo embraces the transportation of normal industrial and commercial shipments (move) in parcel, container or pallet form.

  5. (build) on the basis of existing routes new rail services are gradually being developed.

  6. A problem to the road operator is to obtain (balance) working.

  7. The tendency is to develop motorway networks between major industrial and commercial centres (involve) major ports.