Comprehension

Exercise 4. Tell what sentences are true and what are false.

1. Flyover is not a bridge that takes one road over another road. 2. Under-pass is a road or pass that goes under another road or a railway. 3. There is tendency for drivers to keep to the well-lit shopping streets.3. A great intensity of traffic makes it necessary to lover the average speed of vehicles. 4. The problem of avoiding traffic congestion is one of the most important. 5. Narrow streets and junctions are incapable of taking pear-hour traffic.

Exercise 5. Find the second half of the sentence.

1. Sign-post is a sign at the side of a road showing …

2. Grade separation is very effective in…

3. In large cities automated devices are ready for air purity…

4. The extraordinary growth of motor traffic has created…

5. Segregation of different types of traffic is an ideal…

Exercise 6. Translate these questions and answer them

1. What types of traffic control do you know? 2. What does the success of a traffic control? 3. How can the problem of safety be solved? 4. What problems are connected with the problems of reducing danger on the road? 5. What main problems of society does modern transport reflect? 6. What role does public transport play in people’s relations? 7. What role does passenger transport play in a country’s life? 8. What can make transport really controllable? 9. What does the author mean writing “…in modern society transport reflects some of the main problems of society’’

Exercise 7. Try to tell the gist of the text.

Word study

Exercise 8. Translate the following word-combinations.

Local traffic, pedestrian subway, directional control, motor traffic, peak hours, carrying capacity, one-way traffic, two-way traffic, flyover roads, urban traffic, different levels, the carrying capacity of the highways, narrow streets, at street intersections, opposing traffic, the problem of congestion, the sings and symbols, at the a great distance, air purity control, city streets, traffic lights, the importance of signs.

Exercise 9. Translate these sentences into Ukrainian paying attention to the active vocabulary of the text.

1. A great intensity of traffic makes it necessary to lower the average speed of vehicles. 2. The problem of avoiding traffic congestion is one of the most important. 3. The extraordinary growth of motor traffic has created traffic difficulties demanding new design and planning. 4. Of great help in combating pollution are special mobile labs which regularly check on the purity of the air at enterprises and in city streets. 5. In large cities automated devices are ready to be installed for air purity control. 6. Great attention is being paid to the problem of road safety in all countries. 7. IN Great Britain traffic keeps to the left: cars, motor-vans, buses and cyclists must all keep to the left side of the road. 8. The drivers must obey traffic rules. 9. So if you are a driver or going to become one, do not forget about that your own and the life of others may be in danger. 10. A man who drives after drinking beer or wine is usually a dangerous driver.

Exercise 10. Fill in the blanks with the suitable words and words -combinations.

City transport, rules, engine efficiency, the driver, traffic lights, air purity control, urban areas, new type of engine, at pear hours

1…………………for vehicles usually contain three lamps: red, orange (officially amber) and green. 2. The drivers must obey traffic …………….3 . In large cities automated devices are ready to be installed for …………….. 4. Driving at slower speeds reduces ……………….. and causes more pollutants. 5. Much of the congestion in ……………..is due to traffic which has no business in area but is only passing through. 6. ……………………. had not started until the green light appeared. 7. The plant is producing a …………………….for sport cars. 8. Coming to a street crossing, one must wait for a green light to cross the street. 9. New forms of ………………may involve buses on specially constructed reserved tracks. 10. Within a large city center streets are often congested at ………….

Exercise 11. Match each word in section A with its definition in section B.

A. Canal, bridge, harbors, fly-over, underpass, junction, intersection, cross.

B. long passage dug into the ground and filled with water; an area of water next to the land where the water is calm, so that ships are safe when they are inside; a structure built over a river, road etc. that allows people or vehicles to cross from one side to the other; to go or stretch from one side of something such as a road, river; a place where one road, track etc. joins another; a bridge that takes one road over another road; a road or path that goes under another road or a railway; a place where roads, lines etc. cross each other, especially where two roads meet;