27 Вариантов Test paper

I. Give the equivalents of the following expressions:

войти в порт; навигационные приборы; спасательные средства; ремонтная мастерская; внешний рейд; дежурный курсант.

II. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Какое ожидаемое время прибытия вашего судна?

2. Наше судно должно поднять якорь завтра утром.

3. Гирокомпас используется для проверки курса судна.

4. Мы работаем в трюме с 5 часов утра.

5. В порту многие члены экипажа сошли на берег.

6. Судно швартовалось к причалу, когда ветер усилился

7. Помощники капитана будут обучать курсантов судовождению.

8. Посмотрите на это современное судно! Его иллюминаторы большие.

III. Read the text and translate it in writing:

Our ship is aground. There is a big hole in the ship's hull. The hole is above the water line. There is no danger of leakage. We are refloating the ship by our own means.

We are in the port now. We are going to repair the damage before the ship's departure . Our sister ship is also lying in the port now . She is going to help us with the repairs.

We are going to leave the port in two days. I am very busy . I am sitting in my cabin. I am typing the crew list. There are forty crew members in the list. The chief officer is on deck. The ship is loading extra-weights. We have some difficulties with the floating – crane. It is out of order. The master is speaking with the repair shop by VHF. He is arranging for quick repairs of the damage. The repairmen are going to repair the floating – crane in two hours.

IV. Answer the following questions in details:

1. Why is there no danger of leakage?

2. What damage are they going to repair?

3. What cargo is the ship loading?

V. Make up a dialogue on the following situation, get ready to reproduce it.

You pick up an urgent message from another ship. They require medical assistance. A crewmember sustained injury. They suspect fractured ribs. You have a doctor and x-ray on board. You can render assistance. You request to launch a boat and bring the sick man to your ship.

VI Compose a story about a watch on the bridge. Use the following words and expressions:

The chart-room; to mark the position of the ship ; the helmsman ; to turn the helm; the watch officer; to stand in front of the radar, compass, binoculars, a look-out.

VII. Home-reading. Read and translate the story orally and do all tasks in written form:

Papanin's Expedition of 1937eclipsed all other expeditions up to that time by the results of its discoveries. The aim of the expedition was to obtain more information about the Polar Basin , in particular about the ice-drift. The four explorers, I.D. Papanin , Pyotr Shirshov ( hydrologist, who had been on the Cheliuskin voyage), Eugene Feodorov ( magnetologist ), End Ernst Krenkel (wireless operator ) , leaving their forty-five scientific companions headed by Professor O.Y. Schmidt at the Pole, settled on a drifting ice-floe which was carried by a Polar current in the direction of Greenland. Four times daily they sent radio reports of their weather and water investigations to Moscow .

I.D. Papanin and his companions floated southwest on an average of four-and-a half miles a day, though on the last part of their course this was sometimes increased to ten or twelve miles. The explorers found that even in calm weather the ice drifts south, i.e. it is independent of local wind . Till then very little had been known about the direction of the drift of floes in the Upper Polar Basin.

As they drifted, Papanin's team took soundings through the ice with a weight attached to a steel hawser; these hydrological tests often took three-and-a-half hours, as the weight had to be raised slowly . Such soundings enabled the explorers to trace the contour of the ocean-bed from the Pole to the south-east coast of Greenland.

The depth of the ocean at the Pole was measured for the first time. The greatest depth recorded by Nansen in his drifting Fram had been 3,850 metres. But Papanin's team found it to be 14,075 feet (about 4,270 metres) and by this discovery they also made it known that there could be no land in the neighbourhood of the North Pole.

It was found that at a depth of 1,500 feet the temperature of the water was 0.48' Centigrade ; thus it was established that in the centre of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole there was a vast layer of warm water. Papanin's team of scientists had found that the Gulf Stream warmed the Arctic Basin from Florida right to the North Pole.

Through the expedition , knowledge has been obtained of the central Polar Basin over which the movement of masses of cold air influences directly the climate of Europe and Asia , and new weather charts have been made. On the basis of Papanin's reports , long-term weather forecasts for shipping have been made possible. Discoveries about magnetism near and at the pole have enabled corrections to be made on magnetic maps.

By his discoveries in the exploration of the Arctic I. D. Papanin an outstanding explorer and scientist , has won the gratitude of pilots of the seas and of the skies.

Ex.1. Answer the following questions:

1. What was the aim of the expedition?

2. What did the explorers find?

3. What did the team do as they drifted?

4. What discovery did the team make?

5. What does cold air over the central Polar Basin influence?

6. What did Papanin's reports enable to do?

7. Why were the discoveries about magnetism at the Pole so important?

Ex.2. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Экспедиция Папанина превзошла все остальные экспедиции по результатам открытий.

2. Исследователи обнаружили, что даже в спокойную погоду лёд дрейфует на юг.

3. Промеры глубин помогли исследователям определить контур (рельеф) дна океана от полюса до Юго- Восточного побережья Гренландии.

4. Было установлено, что у Северного полюса обширный слой тёплой воды.

5. Движение массы холодного воздуха непосредственно влияет на климат Европы и Азии.

6. Стало известно, что в районе Северного Полюса не может быть земли.

7. Долгосрочные прогнозы погоды для судоходства стали возможными.