Контрольное задание № 1 (стр. 14 )

5.        Fabrics made of asbestos have good strength. Today the main applications are those in which non-inflammability is essential such as conveyor belting for hot materials, industrial packings, fireproof clothing, etc. Asbestos is sometimes used with glass fibre in making decorative fabrics for curtains for hospitals, theatres and other buildings where the public assembles. Some grades of asbestos are used for electrical windings and insulation.

II. Выпишите из 2-го абзаца предложение, содержащее определительное бессоюзное придаточное предложение и переведите его письменно.

III. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных ниже ответов укажите правильный вариант ответа на поставленный вопрос.

Why are asbestos fabrics used for theatre curtains?

1. ... because they are resistant to fire.

2.  because they are decorative.

3. ... because people often assemble there.

ВАРИАНТ 2

(для студентов торгово-экономических вузов)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

Пояснения к тексту

СМЕА countries — страны Совета Экономической Взаимопомощи (СЭВ)

SOVIET UNION'S ECONOMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CONTACTS

The Soviet Union is doing everything it can to strengthen the position of socialism in the world arena. It is expanding ties with socialist, developing and capitalist countries in the sphere of economy, culture and science. The USSR has trade and economic relations with 115 countries, including socialist, developing and industrially developed capitalist countries. A steady growth of trade is sure to be one of the results of closer socialist economic integration. The CMEA countries put the emphasis both on mutual deliveries of commodities and on further specialization and cooperation in research and production. Deliveries of goods on the basis of agreements is a reliable form of planned supply of socialist countries with the machinery, raw and other materials, consumer goods and other commodities they need. We expand cooperation with the developing countries on democratic and just principles and help them to strengthen their economic independence. In recent years a definite progress is known to have been made in developing mutually advantageous cooperation with capitalist countries. Many agreements have been signed with different countries on the basis of long-term agreements on economic, technological and industrial cooperation. For example, Soviet machine-tools, watches, tractors, lorries, passenger-planes and instruments are sold to 70 countries. Scientific and cultural ties of the Soviet Union are becoming more and more extensive. Science is known to affect the production sphere. Soviet science has achieved major successes in the study of the processes of social development. About 50 international coordination centres have been established in leading branches of science, such as mathematics, nuclear energy, quantum electronics, space research and many other fields of knowledge.

II Выпишите из 4-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее субъектный инфинитивный оборот, и переведите его письменно на русский язык.

III. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных ответов укажите правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.

What problems do international coordination centres deal with?

... the problems of social development. ... the problems of cultural ties. ... the scientific problems.

ВАРИАНТ 3

(для студентов политехнических вузов по специальности — химия)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста, перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

Пояснения к тексту

technology — техника

sulfuric acid — серная кислота

NATURAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY

The history of man is largely the. history of man's straggle for natural resources. The rapid increase in the world's population, with its enormous demands for food, energy and manufactured products, makes the chemical industry a very important factor in our civilization. At present a high standard of living makes great demands on our mineral resources. The natural sources of many materials being quickly exhausted, new chemical products have to be developed. The increasing demands for food, energy and manufactured goods can be met by using chemistry in different branches of our national economy.

3.        The chemical industry is directed to the conversion of natural raw materials of the earth, sea and air into products which are of vital importance for the life of the people of the whole world. The chemical industry is known to deal with every kind of raw material. In combining, rearranging the molecules chemists could create substances with definite characteristics. Now great efforts are being made to increase the assortment and quality of chemical products and to create new substances.

The chemical industry ranges so widely that it is difficult to define its scope. Chemistry is known to be concerned with all forms of matter from metals to paper. It reaches into almost every sphere of science and technology. A simple chemical product, sulfuric acid, for example, is absolutely essential for the production of concrete, steel, some metals, textiles, paper, many medicines. In its turn these above-mentioned substances are essential for the construction of airplanes, railroads, automobiles, telephones, etc.

II. Выпишите из 4-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее субъектный инфинитивный оборот.

III. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и письменно ответьте на следующий вопрос:

Why is sulfuric acid used so widely?

ВАРИАНТ 4

(для студентов машиностроительных вузов)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

Пояснения к тексту

part —деталь

work — изделие

WHAT IS A MACHINE-TOOL?

1.        A machine-tool is a power-driven machine used to shape metal by cutting, drilling, pressure, electrical techniques, or a combination of these processes.

Thus, it is clear that machine-tools can be built in a wide variety of types. Basically, however, there are two main categories, the first being the cutting-type machine-tool, which shapes metal to certain size and contour.

2.        For the various operations that are to be performed in the metalworking shop, there are many different kinds of machines. Each machine-tool is being designed to do work of a specific nature.

There are special machine-tools that are built to perform successive operations. The operator only watches the succession of machining steps from the beginning to the end of the ch equipment is considered to be automatic machinery.

3.        Precision of operation is the most important characteristic of today's machine - tools. The precision makes it possible to produce hundreds of identical parts, all so much alike that they may be freely interchanged or substituted in assembly or repair, without hand-fitting.

The function of a machine-tool is to hold both the work and a cutting-tool and move them relative to each other to obtain the proper cutting action.

Machine-tools are known to serve four main purposes: 1) they hold the work or part to be cut; 2) they hold the cutting tool (or tools); 3) they impart to the cutting tool or work the motion required for cutting or forming the part; 4) they regulate the cutting speed and the movement between the tool and work. The most common machine-tools are lathes, which perform cutting operations mostly, milling machines, drilling machines and grinders.

II. Выпишите из 4-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее субъектный инфинитивный оборот, и переведите его письменно на русский язык.

III. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и письменно ответьте на следующий вопрос:

What machine-tool is used for cutting?

ВАРИАНТ 5

(для студентов энергетических специальностей)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

Studying electric circuits requires an accurate quantitative measurement of potential or voltage, and current strength or amperage. As the electricity is forced to move along a conductor, it produces various effects such as: it sets up a magnetic field around its conductors; it produces heat; and it causes chemical changes. The magnitude of any of these effects is known to be used as a quantitative measure of the amount of current. When the current to be detected and measured is very small, one should use a galvanometer. Nowadays there are some very sensitive galvanometers which are reported to detect a current as small as 10 of an ampere per 1 mm of the scale. The basic measuring instrument which indicates any value of current strength is the ammeter. In an ammeter an armature coil rotates between the poles of a permanent magnet; the coil restrained by a spring is able to turn but through a small angle. The greater the Current in the coil, the greater the force and, therefore, the greater the angle of rotation of the armature. The deflection is measured by means of a pointer attached to the armature, the scale under the pointer reading directly in amperes.

4. A voltmeter is designed in order to measure the potential difference between two points in a current. Its action is similar to that of an ammeter, both of them having armatures that move when an electric current is sent through their coils.

5. However, in spite of some similarity between a voltmeter and ammeter there are also important differences. A voltmeter must have very high resistance, an ammeter, on the other hand, must have a low resistance. In actual use the ammeter is placed in series with the rest of the circuit, while the voltmeter is placed in parallel with that part of the circuit where the voltage is to be measured.

II.        Выпишите из 4-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее независимый причастный оборот, и переведите его письменно на русский язык.

III.        Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и письменно ответьте на следующие вопросы:

Which of the meters (a voltmeter or an ammeter)

must have a low resistance? must be placed in series with the rest of the circuit?

ВАРИАНТ 6

(для студентов радиотехнических вузов)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

Пояснения к тексту

cryogenics — криогеника, физика низких температур

tantalum — тантал

in. = inch - дюйм

K = Kelvin - по шкале Кельвина

ma = milliampere — миллиампер

printed circuits — печатные схемы

thimble — наперсток

CRYOGENICS AND THE CRYOTRON

The invention of electronic devices whose activity is based upon the flow of free electrons in a vacuum has considerably enlarged the application of electrical energy for various industrial purposes. Use is made of radio electronics at every step. Without radio electronics we would not have cybernetics, cosmonautics and nuclear physics. We know the cryotron to be developed in 1953. In this devise the superconductor is a piece of tantalum wire 1 in long and 0.009 in. in diameter. It is kept at a temperature of 4.2°K, which is the boiling point of liquid helium at atmospheric pressure. Around this wire is a coil. This coil functions as a control winding. A change in the flow of current through the winding changes the strength of magnetic field. This controls the resistance of the tantalum wire, causing the wire to shift back and forth between its superconducting and normally conducting states.

Thus, the current through the coil exceeding 100 ma, the magnetic field changes the resistance of the tantalum wire from zero ohms to 0.008 ohms. This behaviour enables the cryotron to function either as an amplifier or as a switch. Newer types of cryotron are known to employ printed circuits in place of wires.

The cryotron is so small that a hundred of them will fit into an ordinary thimble. It is planned at present to employ this device in computer circuits in place of transistors and tubes. Among the advantages associated with the use of the cryotron are simplicity, reliability, economy of electrical power, and compactness. Cryogenics is the science of producing low temperatures. The operation of the cryotron is based upon the phenomenon of superconductivity. At extremely low temperatures the resistance of certain metals decreases practically to zero.

II. Выпишите из 4-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее Participle II в функции определения, и переведите' его письменно на русский язык.

III. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.

What phenomenon is the operation of the cryotron based upon?

... upon conductivity. ... upon non-conductivity. ... upon superconductivity.

ВАРИАНТ 7

(для студентов сельскохозяйственных вузов)

I. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 3-й абзацы.

TECHNICAL RE-EQUIPMENT OF AGRICULTURE

1. Agriculture is known to be the industry supplying people with food, raw materials for shelter and clothing.

To achieve the quick and steady growth of agricultural production it is important to develop and modernize the material and technical basis of agriculture. Mechanization and electrification are the most significant factors for the intensification of agriculture. We know mechanization in agriculture to be developing with every coming year. Many agricultural processes are being mechanized now. Modern farm machines are used to make the farmers work easier and more productive. The application of new machines in agricultural production has been one of the greatest developments in agriculture during the past few years. The results car? Be seen in many spheres of life. Further simplification and standardization of the agricultural equipment was of great importance, labour saving and comfort for the farmers being increased considerably. Due to comprehensive mechanization and consistent intensification of agriculture our country is able to satisfy the growing needs of the people in farm production. Today our agriculture has achieved high efficiency of crop farming and stock-breeding.

5. All this made it possible to accomplish two basic, closely related tasks: to build up an abundance of high quality food products for the population and of raw materials for industry and to eliminate the distinction between town and country.

II.        Выпишите из 3-го абзаца текста предложение, содержащее пассивный инфинитив после модального глагола.

III.        Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и письменно ответьте на следующий вопрос:

What tasks were accomplished due to comprehensive mechanization of agriculture?