3.B Поставь вопросы к следующим предложениям:

1. There are some servomecha­nisms. 2. There is no feedback principle. 3. There were many units of power. 4. There are many researches in electricity and thermodynamics. 5. There will be a conference next week. 6. There are some investigations of the heat emitted in an electrical circuit. 7. There was no conservation of energy. 8. There are law states that the amount of heat produced each second in a conductor. 9. There is the resistance of the conductor. 10. There are many independent methods. 11. There are many operations of modern refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. 12. There was much work last week.

3.C Напиши следующие предложе­ния в прошедшем и будущем временах:

1. There is one of the first curves.

2. There are some deformations that are connected with the chemical composition and physical structure of engineering materials.

3. There is no straight beams in many structures.

4. There are many famous inventors and mechanical engi­neers.

5. There is little amount of heat.

6. There is the center piece of this large complex like a five-storey brick house with internally cast-iron columns and brick vaulting.

7. There is the new development which modifies an existing environment.

3.D Переведи на английский язык, употребляя неопределенные (или отрицательные) ме­стоимения и их производные:

1. Есть кто-нибудь здесь?

2. В лаборатории никого нет.

3. В на­шем офисе есть кто-нибудь?

4. В исследовательском центре кто-то есть.

5. В высотном здании есть кто-нибудь? — Там никого нет.

6. На крыше есть что-нибудь? — Нет, там ничего нет.

7. В башне что-то есть.

8. В этой книге есть что-нибудь о сетчатой оболочке?

9. В исследовании есть какие-нибудь ошибки? — Да, там есть несколько.

10. В офисе есть кто-ни­будь? - Нет, там никого нет.

11. В нашей библиотеке есть какие-то книги на английском языке.

12. В ва­шей библиотеке есть какие-нибудь книги на английс­ком языке по опорам и фермам?

13. Здесь нет никакого шарового свода.

14. Возьмите что-нибудь почитать для меня о новаторских разработках в строительстве.

3.E Вставь нужную форму глагола to be:

1. George Stephenson _ a British inventor and engineer.

2. He _ famous for building the first practical railway locomotive.

3. Stephenson _ born in 1781 in England.

4. The success of the Rocket _ the beginning of the construction of locomotives and the laying of railway lines.

5. _ Robert Stephenson a British civil engineer?

6. He _ educated in Newcastle and at the University of Edinburgh.

7. Four years later _ he appointed construction engineer of the Birmingham and London Railway?

8. _ James Watt a famous mathematical-instrument maker?

9. The steam engine _ used at that time to pump out water from mines.

10. Where ... the steam admitted alternately into both ends of the cylinder? It... admitted in the double-action engine.

11. What... the basic concept of automation?

12. Watt _ known for his improvements of the steam engine.

13. The WATT, the unit of power, _ named in Watt’s honour.

14. James Prescott Joule, famous British physicist, _ born in 1818, in England.

15. Joule _ one of the most outstanding physicists of his time.

16. _ electric current proportional to the resistance of the conductor and to the square of the current?

17. The unit of energy, called the JOULE, _ named after him.

18. _ the JOULE equal to 1 watt-second.?

19. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov _ a famous Russian writer, chemist and astronomer.

20. He _ an innovator in many fields.

21. _ most of his achievements unknown outside Russia?

22. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev _ a famous Russian chemist.

23. He _ best known for his development of the periodic table of the properties of the chemical elements.

24. This table displays that elements’ properties _ changed periodically.

MODULE 4

THE BUILDINGS

4.1 Прочитай и письменно переведи текст BUILDINGS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Hampton Court Palace — дворец с парком на берегу реки Темзы близ Лондона, королевская резиденция до 1760 г.

What makes the look of British towns and cities distinctive? The most striking feature is the lack of blocks of flats. People prefer to live in individual houses — units with their own front doors and sometimes gardens. Perhaps this says something about the national character; a love of privacy and a lack of interest in the wider community. There is a proverb: “An Englishman’s home is his castle”. Whatever the deeper reasons for it, the result is that British towns and cities are full of two or three-storey houses. Only in the 1950s and -60s councils started building tall blocks of flats in the American style; but these have been very unpopular, and the cheaper ones are now being demolished.

Another distinctive feature of British buildings is the use of brick. Some of the oldest monuments, like Hampton Court Palace or Queens’ College, Cambridge, are made of brick. It remains the favourite material for new houses today. While the rest of the world prefers concrete, for some reason the British taste is for brick, at least in smaller buildings.

4.2 Ответь на вопросы:

1. What is the most striking feature of British towns and cities?

2. What does a British individual house look like?

3. How do you understand the English proverb: “An Englishman’s home is his castle”?

4. When did councils start building blocks of flats?

5. Are blocks of flats popular in Britain?

6. What is the favourite building material in Britain today?