Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Civil engineering: history and the present days"

Контрольная работа 1. Вариант 2.

1. Составьте правильное по структуре и смыслу предложение из предложенных слов:

1. building, the Greeks, a premium, on, skills, ancient, high, put.

2. hammered out, 1800 B.C., tablets, their, messages, on, the Babylonians, stone, of.

3. five, from, graduate, the university, years, he, in, will.

4. lots of, construction, has, business, competition, also.

5. I, will, she, Europe, from, to, week, hope, trip, back, her, be, next.

2. Сделайте анализ предложений и поставьте специальные вопросы к следующим предложениям:

1. Some form of building has always been necessary for the people from the prehistoric times.
   (Вопрос к S, A)

2. Plastics, polymers and composite materials are at the forefront of modern civil engineering.
   (Вопрос к S, A)

3. They separated themselves from civil engineering.
(Вопрос к P, C)

 

3. Преобразуйте следующие утвердительные предложения в отрицательные:

1. New versatile devices and installations were designed at our University.

2. The Brooklyn Bridge was also remarkable for the introduction of steel wire.

3. They separated themselves from civil engineering.

4. The Brooklyn Bridge was remarkable for the use of the pneumatic caisson.

4. Переведите следующие предложения, поясняя применение глаголов to be и to have:

1. Mathematics is of great importance for civil engineers.

2. Every technical student is to study it for some years.

3. Due to the Sun people have immense supplies of energy.

4. Force, work, energy and power are studied in physics.

5. We have to build special solar stations to convert solar energy into electrical one.

6. The people had to protect themselves against the elements.

7. The students have already finished the experiment with electric current.

5. Переведите следующие предложения, поясняя применение выделенных слов:

1. The new power stations are much more powerful than the old ones.

2. One must remember that physics is one of the main sciences about nature.

3. Due to radioactive elements one can measure the thickness of various materials.

4. It is a well-known fact that a solid expands when we heat it.

5. The invisible architectural wonders lying in Asia may be still greater than those discovered.

6. Experiments have shown that it is not so.

6. Научитесь произносить данные активные термины и выучите их русские значения:

• Civil Engineering

• civil engineers

• branches of engineering

• military engineer

• constructions of fortifications

• electrical science

• atomic energy

• Industrial Revolution

• mechanical inventions

• mechanical engineering

• electrical engineering

• nuclear engineering

• thermodynamics

• design

• communications engineering

• power engineering

• metallurgical engineering

• mining engineering

7. Научитесь произносить данные активные слова и выражения, выучите их русские значения:

• Date back

• to protect against the elements

• to distinguish

• to differentiate

• a non-military purpose

• the former…the latter

• sub-division

to branch off

8. Подготовьте чтение данного текста вслух и переведите его на русский язык письменно. Придумайте заголовок к данному тексту:

 

Civil engineering: history and the present days

While the definition "civil engineering " dates back only two centuries, the profession of civil engineer is as old as civilized life. It started developing with the rise of ancient Rome. In order to understand clearly what civil engineering constitutes nowadays, let us consider briefly the development of different branches of engineering. Some form of building and utilization of the materials and forces of nature have always been necessary for the people from the prehistoric times. The people had to protect themselves against the elements and sustain thеmselves in the conflict with nature....
 

9 . Подумайте и ответьте на следующие вопросы письменно по-английски:

1. What is the civil engineering concerned with?

2. What do you know about environmental engineering?

3. What does structural engineering deal with?

4. What knowledge is applied by engineers?

5. What are materials used in civil engineering?

6. Why do you want to become а civil engineer?

7. What pluses and minuses does the profession of Civil Engineering have?