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Exercises

1 Learn the following active words and expressions and use them in the sentences of your own.

Annual (a) ежегодный

apart from (adv) кроме, не считая

blow (v) дуть

designer (n) конструктор, проектировщик

disadvantage (n) недостаток

drive (v) приводить в движение

exact (a) точный

fuel (n) топливо

house (v) вмещать

installation (n) установка

main (a) главный

mostly (adv) главным образом

raise (v) поднимать

ways and means пути и способы

2. Translate the following sentences: (a) into Russian:

1. While flowing along a conductor, the current heats it.

  1. Heat developed in a transmission line is wasted energy.

  2. When were the windmills first utilized as a source of me­chanical energy? 4. When heated to the boiling point, water evaporates and forms steam. 5. As mentioned in lesson twenty, one of the basic laws of thermodynamics was first established as early as 1738. 6. Having been supplied with all the necessary data, the engineer could adjust the instrument. 7. The phenom­enon described in the article attracted everybody's attention. 8. Almost all metals are good conductors of electricity, copper being one of the best.

(b) into English:

1. Говоря о ветряной электростанции, студент назвал ее основные части. 2. Ответив на вопросы студентов, ученый показал им свое изобретение. 3. Являясь хорошим провод­ником электричества, медь находит широкое применение в промышленности.

3. (A) Find the non-finite forms of the verb in the text; (b) define their functions.

4. Translate the following words and define what parts of speech they are:

electrify, electricity, electrical, electrically; scientist, scientific, scientifically, science; vary, various, variable, va­riety; invent, inventor, inventiveness; appliance, application, apply, applicable

5. Write out the adjectives with the suffix -able from the text. Translate them.

6. Fill in the blanks with either should or would and translate the following sentences:

1. It ... be hard to say when windmills were first used as a source of mechanical energy. 2. In order to generate electric current the energy of some kind ... be utilized. 3. The solution of the problem ... require further studies on the part of scientists and engineers. 4. One ... mention here the three principal effects which an electric current produces. 5. If some current flowed along a thin wire and then that same amount of cur­rent were sent through a thicker one, a different quantity of heat... be developed. 6. It ... be quite wrong to think that electric energy is the only possible source of heat. 7. One ... be careful when operating this engine. 8. I... like to turn your attention to the use of new sources of power.

7. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the main sources of electric energy? 2. Why are the engineers looking for new sources of energy? 3. What fuels do you know? 4. What are the new sources of energy? 5. For what purpose can the energy of wind be used? 6. What is the principal disadvantage of wind power? 7. When did the wind­mills first come into use? 8. Have you ever seen a windmill In operation?

8. Work in pairs. Put questions to your fellow-student and let him answer them:

  1. what sources of energy he knows.

  2. if the chemical sources of energy have a limited appli­cation.

  3. if velocity influences the efficiency of a wind-power plant.

  4. if natural gas and wood are the new sources of energy.

  5. what amount of wind energy finds an efficient appli­cation under present conditions.

  1. if the windmills were first utilized as a source of electri-1 cal energy?

  2. where a large turbine powered by the wind was built in .the USSR.

  1. what factors reduce the efficiency of a wind-driven power plant.

  2. if a windmill can be used for power generation.