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1. Make up infinitive phrases using the texts:

  1. to distinguish

  2. to meet

  3. to assess

  4. to undergo

  5. to deal with

      1. the project's effect on air pollution

      2. the design and construction of objects

      3. military engineering

      4. new challenges

      5. a continual process of education

2. Choose the correct questions to the italicized words:

1. In the nineteenth century engineers generally were craftsmen or

project organizers.

  1. When were engineers craftsmen?

  2. Were engineers generally craftsmen?

  3. Who were generally craftsmen?

2. Engineers must accommodate their ideals to the financial realities of a project.

a. What must engineers accommodate to the realities of the project?

b. To what kind of realities must engineers accommodate their ideals?

c. What must engineers accommodate their ideals to?

3. A railroad locomotive engineer is a technician who operates a

train.

  1. Who operates a train?

  2. What engineer operates a train?

  3. What is a locomotive engineer?

  1. Now the public is more conscious of the hidden or delayed

hazards in civil engineering systems.

a. Who is more conscious of the hidden hazards in civil engineering systems?

b. What hazards is the public more conscious of?

c. Is public more conscious of the hidden hazards in civil engineering systems now?

5. The Aswan Dam is one of the engineering wonders of modern

times.

a. What is the engineering wonder of modern times?

b. What is Aswan Dam?

c. Is the Aswan Dam one of the engineering wonders?

Understanding main issues and details

1. Analyze main issues:

a. Compare the three subdivisions of engineering and fill in the table:

Subdivision of engineering

Deals with

Structures

Overlapping

b. Find correct answers to the questions:

1. How does a railroad locomotive engineer differ from a professional engineer?

2. What must an engineer consider in his/her work?

3. What consequences of engineering projects have people learnt in the last ten years?

4. What structures create an impressive engineered landscape on the earth?

5. Is air pollution by highway’s effect assessed?

6. What is needed to become a professional engineer?

7. Who should engineers cooperate with in their work?

8. Why does the Egyptian government now permit public criticism of the Aswan High Dam?

9. What are the undesirable effects of the dam?

10. What measures are needed before construction is undertaken?

c. Give the definition of the following :

  • civil engineering

  • chemistry

  • highways, airports

  • environmental engineering

  • stationary parts of transportation

systems

  • design & construction of stationary

objects

  • theoretical science

  • subdivision of civil engineering dealing

with water supply

d. Say whether the sentences given below are:

  • True:

  • False:

  • Not given:

    1. Engineer operates a train.

    2. Economic point of view is important in construction.

    3. Dams, bridges, highways are part of the natural environment.

5. The increased salinity is related to the construction of the bridge.

6. Engineering profession has nothing to do with theoretical

knowledge.

7. Highways, airports, port facilities and roadbeds for railroads are

temporary parts of transportation systems.

8. Military engineering was a subdivision of civil engineering.

9. Many structures of ancient times were built with much less

strength than modern standards require.

10. A modern civil engineer does not necessarily need to know

about new materials.

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