- •Contents
- •Unit 1. The freeway concept
- •1.1 The Functions of the Traffic Engineer
- •Functions of the traffic engineer
- •IV. Complete the following sentences:
- •V. Form sentences using the following words:
- •Vι. Answer the following questions:
- •Vιι. Put questions to the following sentences:
- •VIII. Write down the main idea of the text and key words.
- •IX. Make up a summary of the text.
- •1.2 The Freeway Concept
- •The freeway concept
- •V. Put questions to the following sentences:
- •VI. Complete the following sentences:
- •VII. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •IX. Write down the main idea of the text and key words.
- •X. Prepare a short report on the text.
- •1.3 Patrol and Emergency Services on a Freeway
- •Patrol and emergency services on a freeway
- •V. Decide whether the statements are true or not. Correct the wrong ones:
- •VI. Put questions to the second part of the text and ask them to your fellow-students.
- •Vιι. Answer the following questions:
- •Vιιi. Translate into English:
- •X. Make up a plan of the text; prepare a short report on the text. Unit 2. Safety provision
- •2.1 Accidents and Safety Provision
- •Accidents and safety provision
- •V. Complete the following sentences:
- •VI. Decide whether the statements are true or not. Correct the wrong ones:
- •VII. Answer the following question:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •X. Make up a plan of the text; prepare a short report on the text.
- •2.2 Road Signs
- •Road signs
- •V. Complete the following sentences:
- •VI. Decide whether the statements are true or not. Correct the wrong ones:
- •VII. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Translate into English:
- •X. Make up a plan of the text; prepare a short report on the text. Unit 3. Visual attention
- •3.1 Visual Attention
- •Visual attention
- •Vι. Complete the following sentences:
- •Vιι. Answer the following questions:
- •IX. Speak about:
- •X. Make up a plan of the text; prepare a short report on the text.
- •3.2 Sight Distance
- •Sight distance
- •V. Choose the most appropriate answer to complete the sentence:
- •Vι. Answer the following questions:
- •3.3 Eye and Object Heights
- •Eye and object heights
- •V. Choose the most appropriate answer to complete the sentence:
- •3.4 Circular Curves
- •Circular curves
- •V. Find an appropriate word for each blank space:
- •VI. Decide whether the statements are true or not. Correct the wrong ones:
- •VII. Answer the following questions:
- •VIII. Divide the text into some logical parts.
- •IX. Write out all the key words from the text.
- •X. Make up a plan of the text; prepare a short report on the text.
- •3.5 Transition Curves
- •Transition curves
- •V. Complete the following sentences:
- •VI. Decide whether the statements are true or not. Correct the wrong ones:
- •Unit 4. Supplementary texts everyday english and technical english
- •Science helps men to survive
- •Will the earth be lucky a third time?
- •The ethics and social resposibility of scientists and technologists
- •Postgraduate research work at english universities
- •Environment should be our common concern
- •84646, М. Горлівка, вул. Кірова, 51
Environment should be our common concern
It has been repeatedly said that a society which turns its back on nature is doomed. Many people today believe that the dominant forces of global society are, in fact, ignoring Nature's needs.
Everywhere the natural environment is being over-exploited, weakened and soiled. Man uses atmosphere as both a resource and a place for depositing wastes. He takes from atmosphere oxygen as a necessary ingredient for his industrial activities and for his own biological processes. He returns to it a mixture of gases and solids, the by-products of combustion, respiration and other energy-transmitting activities.
The historical development of urbanization and industrialization has produced geographical regions where the natural balance is disturbed. Evidence abounds that the dangers of uncontrolled industrialization are leading to the pollution of lakes and rivers and human tragedies like those which occurred at Bhopal (India), where thousands of people died as a result of a deadly gas leak from a chemical plant in 1984 or at Chernobyl atomic power plant (Ukraine) in 1986. Just as obvious are the large-scale loss of tree cover, soils and biological diversity as a result of uncontrolled economic development, and the horrors of chemical warfare and nuclear power testing. We have all experienced the result: air pollution, a shortage of drinking water, the ruin of forests, soil degradation, etc. As a result people are affected directly or indirectly.
Some effects are direct and evoke physiological response (eye irradiation, respiratory diseases, etc.); other effects are indirect, but nonetheless disturbing. Women, for instance, have learned that their breast milk is contaminated with dioxin, that pesticides and herbicides are present in ground water. They are told that the life-giving sun is becoming dangerous due to a weakened ozone layer, that children everywhere are vulnerable to genetic disorders caused by contaminated environments.
As the planet's natural resources diminish, and a growing world population increases demands on those resources, competition for access to them will escalate. This struggle for limited resources will result in new resource wars.
The major environmental threat to life on Earth is the weakening of the ozone layer. The Earth's ozone shield – the vital layer of the atmosphere – protects all living creatures from the damaging effects of the Sun's rays.
Recent scientific research proved data that the protective layer of ozone around our planet is under severe attack. The major cause of weakening of the ozone layer is believed to be the increasing amount of harmful chemicals that are being released into the atmosphere by mankind. Many scientists warn that the chemicals in spray cans also add to the destroying of the Earth ozone shield. Scientists stress that a further one per cent drop in the overall ozone layer can cause an increase of skin cancer.
ЕЛЕКТРОННЕ НАВЧАЛЬНО-МЕТОДИЧНЕ ВИДАННЯ
Чехлань Надія Олександрівна
Мудра Тетяна Володимирівна
МЕТОДИЧНІ ВКАЗІВКИ
ДО ВИКОНАННЯ ПРАКТИЧНИХ РОБІТ З ДИСЦИПЛІНИ
«АНГЛІЙСЬКА МОВА ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО СПРЯМУВАННЯ»
(ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТІВ 3-4 КУРСІВ НАПРЯМУ ПІДГОТОВКИ 6.070101 «ТРАНСПОРТНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ (АВТОМОБІЛЬНИЙ ТРАНСПОРТ)»
ДЕННОЇ ТА ЗАОЧНОЇ ФОРМ НАВЧАННЯ)
Підписано до випуску 2012 р. Гарнітура Times New Roman.
Умов. друк. арк. . Зам. № .
Державний вищий навчальний заклад
«Донецький національний технічний університет»
Автомобільно-дорожній інститут