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(B) Прочитайте предложения и переведите их. Укажите степень сравнения прилагательных.
1. Cars made of steel are much safer and more reliable than wooden ones.
2. Semaphore used to be the most common device of signaling.
3. The city of Creweis one of the busiest junctions in England; many railway lines pass through it.
4. Petrol engines are lighter and smaller than diesel engines; they are cheaper, less noisy and go faster.
5. Signaling systems on high-speed railways are more complex than signal devices on usual lines.
6. The heaviest trains in the world carry such bulk freight as iron ore and coal.
7. The steam loco invention changed bridge building because stronger spans were needed.
8. For many centuries before the invention of the steam engine, transportation by water was much easier and cheaper than that by land.
9. The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge connecting two islands in Japan is the longest, tallest, and most expensive suspension bridge ever constructed.
10. The efficiency of electric locomotives is much higher than that of steam locomotives.
(С) Прочитайте предложения, употребив прилагательные в скобках в сравнительной или превосходной степени, и переведите их
1. The Kuibyshev Railway is 23 years (young) than the Moscow -St. Petersburg railroad.
2. The Moscow-St. Petersburg railway is (old) railroad in this country.
3. The maintenance cost of a diesel loco is three times (great) than that of an electric loco.
4. The use of modern equipment makes loading/unloading of freight (easy) and (fast). One of (interesting) loading/unloading devices used in freight years is the magnetic crane.
1. The old engine was replaced by a new and (powerful) one.
2. The engine designed by Rudolf Diesel is one of (great) inventions of the 20th century.
3. The rail becomes (long) when it’s hot and becomes (short) when it’s cold.
4. The engine trouble was (serious) than we expected.
5. It is (cheap) and (convenient) to carry these goods by rail than by lorry.
6. Among (important) inventions of the 19th century were the air brake and the automatic coupler.
7. Modern locomotives can haul the trains of 6.000 tons and (heavy).
8. (Early) ebcid:com.britannica.oec2.identifier.IndexEntryContentIdentifier?idxStructId=345886&library=EBlocomotives used in North America were of British design.
Упр. 6. Задайте общие и специальные вопросы.
1. A lot of students work as car attendants in summertime. (Whom?)
2. The distance between rails is called the gauge. (What?)
3. The London Underground carries a billion passengers a year. (How many?)
4. Electrical equipment will be produced in France. (Where?)
5. After World War II, diesel power replaced steam because of its higher efficiency and lower cost. (When?)
6. The internal combustion engine was designed by Rudolf Diesel. (Whom?)
7. The trip by train from Moscow to Vladivostok takes seven days. (How many?)
8. Four million passengers a year travel the Helsinki-Tallinn route. (What?)
9. The word ‘railroad’ was originally written as two words ‘rail road’ to distinguish it from other kinds of roads. (Why?)
10. The first U.S. railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, began operation in 1827. (When?)
11. The Repin train departs from St. Petersburg’s Finlandsky terminal. (What?)
12. Diesel locomotives are usually used for shunting because it isn’t economic to electrify a marshalling yard. (Why?)
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