29 Вариант Test paper

I. Give the equivalents of the following expressions:

Передавать вахту; убирать каюту; руководство по эксплуатации; спускать на воду; дыхательный аппарат; показывать месторасположение.

II. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Когда мы пришли, команда готовила судно к погрузке.

2. Все курсанты будут усердно работать, чтобы овладеть своей будущей профессией.

3. Если мы придем в порт вовремя, докеры разгрузят судно быстро.

4. Корпус судна был покрашен в белый цвет.

5. Его послали в машинное отделение пять минут назад.

6. Сегодня старший помощник осмотрел трюмы, а второй помощник сделал это вчера.

7. Все было приведено в порядок до прихода в порт назначения.

8. Нам пришлось взять буксир.

III. Read the text and translate it in writing:

Canals are cut for two reasons. One is to make a voyage much shorter between two places, and the other is to make it possible for goods to be carried quickly and cheaply across a country. Now that railways have been built almost everywhere not many canals are cut for the second reason today.

The Suez Canal, which was cut across the narrow piece of land between Asia and Africa, allows ships to avoid the long voyage round the Cape of Good Hope when they are travelling from Europe or North America to the Far East or Australia. By means of the Panama Canal, between North and South America, ships going from the Pacific Ocean to Europe no longer have to sail round Cape Horn, where the weather is nearly always stormy and the sea is rough. And the Corinth Canal, cut through solid rock, shortens the voyage between Istanbul and the Adriatic.

IV. Answer the following questions in details:

1. What reasons are canals cut nowadays for?

2. Where was the Suez Canal cut?

3. Where is the Panama Canal situated?

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

You got acquainted with the well known Master. Greet each other, introduce yourself and ask about the voyages he made.

VI. Compose a story about your native city. Use the following words and expressions:

To be founded; a geographical position; to be situated; to be built; historical monuments and buildings; population; museums, cinemas and theatres; in the nearest future.

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

AN OLD SEAMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS

1913 is a long way back. 1 joined the "Ghent" as an apprentice in the early part of that year. There were many things that struck me as odd and gave me a shock as well.

My ship was lying at the buoys in the centre of the dock. Soon I arrived on board. The senior apprentice met me and led the way to the half-deck on the starboard side. "There you are," he said, "that's your bunk," and indicated one of the two lower ones of the four that were there. There was a bad smell in the half-deck.

After about ten days at the buoys we went under the tips and loaded coal. It was then that I discovered that there was no har­mony aboard. I was so unimportant that I had to obey every­one's orders. The cook told me to bring him a bucket of coal for the galley, but the boatswain came along and shouted, "Let him do it himself," and ordered me to do something else.

In a couple of days we were loaded down to our marks and ready to sail. The derricks were lowered, the hatches battened down. I learned that all the wedges that kept the tarpaulins in place had to be hammered into the cleats. Everything was ready for a rough passage. The captain and the first mate were housed aft, off the saloon.

The captain's wife was with him on this occasion. She was an unpleasant woman and often interfered with our work. We were soon away, bound for Alexandria to discharge the main part of our cargo from the lower holds. We were approaching the harbour, I was at the wheel then and saw the captain's wife on the bridge. She came up and stood with her big hat on near the starboard side. The Egyptian pilot came aboard and for a few minutes all went well but, as it seemed to me, the captain wanted to show off before his wife. He criticized the work of the pilot. They quarreled. The scene was rather unpleasant.

We were discharged a week later. I was sent down to the hold to brush and clear the bilges. The work was hard and I was pretty much exhausted. Four days later we entered the Dardanelles and passed through the Bosporus. I saw the little fort at Kavak on the starboard side, from where the sunset-gun was fired; this forbade all ships to pass after dark; they had to wait until daylight.

It blew quite hard in the Black Sea. For some hours we made no headway at all against a gale-force wind and a high sea. But it calmed down and we arrived at Theodosia in the Crimea. The jetty was at the bottom of the main street. We loaded grain.

The grain was in sacks. The sacks were carried mostly by old men with sacking round their feet. They dumped the grain down the holds. Young women in the holds worked with their wooden shovels to trim the grain out into the wings. Only manual handl­ing was known in those days. It was hard and slow.

Ex. 1. Answer the following questions:

1. When did he join the "Ghent"?

2. Who showed him his bunk?

3. What was his first impression of his cabin?

4. Where did the ship go to load coal?

5. Describe the preparations for the voyage.

6. Where were the captain and the first mate housed?

7. Who was with the captain on that occasion?

8. Whom did the captain quarrel with?

9. What did the apprentice do in the hold after discharging?

10. What did the fire of the sunset-gun at Kavak signify?

Ex. 2. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Она была неприятной женщиной и всегда вмешивалась в нашу работу.

2. Когда море успокоилось, мы вышли из порта.

3. Его направили в трюм для уборки.

4. Я был у руля, когда судно приближалось к гавани.

5. Капитан раскритиковал работу лоцмана.