Grammar exercises control work n 1

Exercise N I.

Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на разные функции окончания “s”.

1. Aluminum is a corrosion-resistant material. It means that painting is not necessary at all.

2. The use of helicopters is an excellent means to place (установить) building units on inaccessible (недоступный) construction sites.

3. The builders should introduce more building machines into building practice by all possible means.

4. When an engineer designs a steelwork he must carefully consider all the loads.

5. Present-day designs for housing envisage all modern conveniences and sanitary fittings.

6. This technique aims to a higher output of better structures at a lower cost.

7. The strength of concrete increases with age.

8. Mass or plain (обычный) concrete dates from the early age.

9. The central core of the building houses the fast passenger and freight lift.

10. Plastics possess valuable and diverse properties.

II. Перевести предложения, обращая внимание на перевод определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. Steel manufacture requires special equipment and skilled labour.

2. This material has an extremely high rate of strength increase.

3. Builders use aluminum in structures where weight saving (экономия) is of great importance.

4. Archeologists found the concrete remains of the foundations of buildings built (построенный) several thousands years ago.

5. Another structural problem is to provide adequate foundation support for massive buildings.

6. This invention relates to the manufacture of thermoplastic materials by steam treatment process.

3. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий.

1. The most commonly building materials are steel, concrete, stone, wood and brick.

2. Cast iron is the cheapest of the ferrous metals.

3. In comparison with steel timber is lighter, cheaper and easier to work.

4. New composites are usually more costly than conventional materials.

5. Sand concrete is as strong as ordinary concrete and much cheaper as well.

6. The less water the builders use in mixing the concrete, the denser and stronger it is.

7. The difficulty here is that a dryish mix is not so easy to stir as wet mix.

8. Light-weight bricks have a lower volume and a lower thermal conductivity.

9. In 1884, when aluminum was as valuable as silver the architects chose it to finish Washington Monument.

10. The slower the drying of cement the less shrinkage (усадка) will be.

4. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на неопределенные местоимения.

1. Some building materials offer a good resistance to compressive loads.

2. The art of making any structure in stone is called stone masonry.

3. These houses are so simple that anyone with a knack for building can assemble one of them himself.

4. New York has a vast transport system and it carries some 7.5 mln people each business day.

5. Building in old times required no tools.

6. In some places stone was used for construction because of scarcity of timber.

5. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на времена группы “Simple”.

1. The building techniques (by techniques we mean building materials and method) depend upon the types of buildings.

2. As the bricklayer works he often looks at the plan. Then he will know where to build in the doors, windows and ventilators.

3. There are many instances (examples) where aluminum structures justify.

4. Romans used concrete for construction of aqueducts and bridges, for roads and underwater structures.

5. Steel does not undergo shrinkage, but concrete does.

6. The builders did not construct the houses of wood in old times in Egypt. They used sun-dried brick and stones for making walls of the building.