5. “Memory test”. Восстановите по памяти (на русском языке), в каком контексте упоминаются следующие английские словосочетания:

1. …. a branch of engineering embracing the heat generation methods, heat transformation….

2. …. is the heat engineering branch embracing transformation of heat into other forms of energy….

3. …. atomic fuel, the Earth underground heat, solar energy and so on.

4. …. the world must cut back use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, natural gas.

5. …. it will replace only a small portion of the fossil fuels.

6. Послушайте дикторскую запись указанных ниже неполных предложений. Постарайтесь понять, какие слова и словосочетания в них отсутствуют. Повторите полные предложения.

1. I am …. student of the Bratsk State Technical University.

2. My future speciality ….

3. Heat engineering is …. embracing the heat….methods

4. Heat power engineering is… branch, transforming … into other … .

5. Heat transforming … at thermal power stations.

6. The most visionary … to fossil fuels are …

7. To avert … the world … … … use of fossil fuels such as: …

7. Научитесь читать следующие вопросительные предложения, имитируя интонацию диктора. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. Are you an engineer?

2. Where do you study?

3. Your future speciality is heat engineering, isn’t it?

4. What is heat engineering?

5. What is heat power engineering?

6. Are thermal power plants ecologically pure?

7. What are the most visionary alternatives to fossil fuels?

8. Can nuclear energy replace the fossil fuels or not?

9. Is it necessary to equip thermal power plants with high-capacity heat-generating units?

10. What main problems ought you to solve in future as heat engineer?

8. Разделите текст «Heat Power Engineering» на логические части. Озаглавьте их.

9. Послушайте тексты. Ответьте на вопросы.

Where do we use heat?

What are the sources of heat?

9.1. My future speciality is heat-engineering. We use heat to do a lot of useful things, namely, to heat our houses, to transport us from one place to another and so on. Automobiles, trams, airplanes are moved by changing heat energy to other forms of energy.

Specialists and scientists of our country made great contribution to the development of this branch of energetic. For example, Lomonosov M.V. laid the foundation for the present-day molecular-kinetic theory of heat. The unit of heat is called a “therm” or a “calorie”: the latter term appears to come from the Latin word “calor” which means heat.

9.2. The present thermal power stations are not ecologically pure. So scientists try to replace the conventional fuel (gas, oil, coal) with adequate ones such as tidal energy, wind and solar energy which have no environmental pollution effect. The time is not far off when cheap thermal energy of subterranean water will be widely used in the national economy. It will make possible to employ such valuable raw materials as coal, oil, gas mainly in the chemical industry. Even now the hot subterranean water is being used for heating blocks of flats and hot-houses, and for medical purposes in Kamchatka.

9.3. In the future it is planned to build condensation thermal power plants with capacity of 4 or 6 million KW each. It is planned to reduce residential oil consumption as fuel, primarily at thermal power stations. It is envisaged to centralize heat supply on mostly high-capacity power-and-heating plants using organic and nuclear fuel, heating nuclear power stations and large boiler houses.