1. All the paragraphs in the text have been mixed up. Put them in the correct order and fill in the gaps, using the active vocabulary.

Fire Departments

1The first fire brigades were organized many centuries before Christ. In 24 b.c. the Romans used slaves for fire fighters and police work. The Romans also defuse the first means of throwing a continuous stream of water Roman figheters used axes, blankets, buckets, ladders, and poles.

2Hundreds of years later, fire engines were equipped with pump operated by hand. These did not have much force and the streams of water could not be thrown very far. Many colonial villages in the United States set up bucket brigroks when a fire broke out. Every man ran into the street with his bucket and two lines were formed to the nearest water. Bucket full of water were passed along one line and thrown on the fire .The empty buckets were passed down the other line to be filled. There was a great down of fire in the colonial settle­ments. Houses were made of wood and had thatched roofs. They broke down quickly.

3In the middle 1800's steam fire engines were first used. The steam boiler and pump were on a wagon pulled by fire or horses. In 1910 motor-driven fire enginer came into use. By 1928 practically all horse-drawn enginer had disappeared.

4 The problem of fighting fire has led to the growth of fire departments In the United States there are about 23,500 fire departments. Some of these have paid money. In smaller cities and towns the members are volunteers who serve without pay. About one out of ten of the 1,000,000 fire fighters in the United States is a paid fireman working fire tools.

2. Translate the sentences into English.

On the15th of May cadets of the first course are going to camp meeting for training to the fire business.

This week the scientific and technical conference is passing in our educational institution.

Now firemen are evacuating children from the burning house.

The workers of test fire laboratory together with a fire-fighting crew investigate causes of the fire which has occurred on a threshold.

- Listen, what are you doing in the salutatory?

- I am smoking here.

- Here to smoke it is impossible. See, here it is written! "Remember, smoke in corridors, halls, on steps, it is impossible, for this purpose there are specially taken away places."

- Excuse, but I hardly have only entered.

It does not change business. Smoke only in specially taken away places. In general, it is better to smoke on a balcony or to leave on street.

It’s my fault. I apologize and I extinguish a cigarette.

3. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

Airplanes spray the fire with chemicals. Bulldozers and plows clear a strip of land around the fire.

The firefighter turns the nozzle and the spray concentrates down to a stream.

He hurries towards the fire exit.

4. Fill in the missing prepositions and adverbial particles.

During World War II, incendiary bombs dropped on some cities created "fire storms." These swept cities like violent windstorms, killing tens of thousands of people. in some cases, destruction off life and property by fire was greater than that caused by atomic bombs. Often other bombs were dropped in the same time to destroy water mains and cut of the water supply. This made the work of the fire fighters more difficult.