Variant I

1. The purpose of my study is to write my scientific work.

2. He was busy with his scientific work.

3. Regular work in our National library helps me very much in writing this article for the conference,

4. For centuries people had been founding the ways to make their houses more comfortable.

5. Our structural engineers ensured their design satisfied building codes.

Variant II

1. Our science has reached a high stage of development and now does great wonders.

2. Pyramidal piles are a well-known design of piles used in building.

3. If you know theory well, you will have possibility to organize the practical work.

4. For years engineers have accumulated experience of improving structural elements in building industry.

5. By the first of December she will have been working as a chief
executive for ten years.

Word Study

Study your active vocabulary.

to design – проектировать

an employer – работодатель

sewerage – канализационная система

demolition – снос

to overlap – частично совпадать

calculus – исчисление

to worship – поклоняться

to shelter – приютить

to promote – содействовать

shelter – кров

a staircase – лестничный пролет

a cellar – подвальный этаж

to worship– поклоняться

a skyscraper– небоскреб

сivil engineering – гражданское строительство

to maintenance – обеспечивать техническое обслуживание

iron-poor glass – стекло с низким содержанием железа

sun-protection shields – солнцезащитные экраны

«thawing in air» – «растворение в воздухе»

tower lobby – вестибюль здания

silvery birches growing among a moss – серебристые березки среди мха

internal stairways – внутренние лестничные пролеты

Read these international words and try to guess their meaning.

Lecture, element, role, process, irrigation, discipline, structure,
geotechnical, materials, client, symbol, civilization.

3. Match the phrases:

1) to raise a) from one floor to another

2) to climb b) the project

3) to divide into c) staying

4) to supervise d) several parts

5) to feel like e) networks

6) complicated f) our children

7) to give g) problems

8) environmental h) security

4. Fill in the blanks:

1. We ______ mostly for shelter.

2. The biggest churches of all, cathedrals,____ even bigger than most castles.

3. By putting a window in a wall, with or without glass, we ______ light inside the building.

4. Big buildings ______ power.

5. To work in civil engineering _____ training.

6. Construction workers ________ at a center and 'on the job' (training while doing the job).

7. Civil engineering often _______ with architecture (let, requires, are, symbolize, will train, overlaps, build).

Reading Practice

Text 1