Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "SOLAR TOWERS"

I. Выберите соответствующую форму Gerund or Participle I / II:

1. __________ market reforms is a lengthy process.

a) being implemented b) implemented c) implementing 

2. Material __________ in this laboratory has important properties.

a) having tested b) tested  c) testing

3. The batteries in this gadget need __________.

a) replacing  b) have been replaced c) being replaced

4. Unless otherwise __________, the time of reaction is always the same.

a) specified b) being specified  c) specifying

5. It is worthwhile having all the data together before __________ them.

a) being discussed b) discussing  c) discussed

6. __________ the reasons we can proceed with our regular work in this matter.

a) Being established b) having established  c) establishing

7. The model __________ to us now has been made by one of the best specialist of our planet.

a) being shown b) showing c) having been shown 

8. The lecturer told us about computer’s __________ in different branches of the science and technology.

a) using b) having been used c) being used 

9. When __________ a direct question he told everything he knew about the accident.

a) asked b) asking  c) having asked

10. We heard of your institute`s laboratory __________ with up-to-date devices.

a) supplied  b) supplying c) having been supplied
 

II. Переведите предложения, содержащие косвенные вопросы, пассивные конструкции, инфинитивные формы:

1) The question arises whether rocks are all natural combinations of mineral matter. 

2) It is still uncertain whether the variation in energy of the electrons can be wholly accounted for by energy losses during their passage through the material, or whether their initial energies differ. The former would seem more probable on theoretical grounds. 

3) Magnetism is referred to in the oldest writings of man. 

4) Many materials now commonly used were not even thought of thirty years ago.

5) The rise in bacterial numbers was followed by a sudden drop after the nutrients added to the water had been exhausted.

6) The positive particle in the nucleus of the atom was given the name of «proton». -

7) The question now arises as to how the behaviour of metals is affected by the changes in temperature. 

8) The process to be treated subsequently in more detail is known as ionization. 

9) No material is considered to be perfectly elastic even at very low stress. 

10) The earliest devices for comparing temperatures are known to make use of the change in volume of a confined fluid as it is being warmed. 

11) Design features of the device allowed the specimen to be heated in vacuum. 

12) We know the velocity of a particle to be continuously changing if this particle has a non-uniform motion: in each successive time interval, the particle acquires some increment of velocity. 

13) The foreign matters such as sulphur and iron, which are found in coals to a varying degree, may have been; due to the presence of minerals containing these elements in their neighborhood.

 

III. Заполните смысловые пропуски в тексте следующими словами:

huge, pressure, horsepower, expansion, chimney, technology, renewable, generating, altitude, flow.

SOLAR TOWERS

The need to develop (1) ..... energy is widely seen as a futuristic technological challenge. In reality, some of the most effective ways of harnessing (2) ... from nature are based on concepts that have existed for donkey’s years. The wind turbine is an obvious example. Another – less well known, but conceived almost a century ago – is the solar tower or solar (3) .... Moreover, if the Australian company EnviroMission completes an ambitious solar tower project in the New South Wales desert, the (4) ... could capture not just the sun’s rays but the public’s imagination worldwide. The firm, is planning to construct a tower a colossal one kilometre high. If built, it will be the world’s tallest structure by a (5) ....margin......

 

IV. Трансформируйте диалог, согласно образцу на с. 8:

DIALOGUE [L. = Lisa; C. = caller]

 

V. Подберите текст профессиональной направленности по содержанию, объёмом 5000 печатных знаков (примерно 2 печатные страницы формата А4):

1) составьте на его основе терминологический словарь по принципу англо-русские соответствия;

2) передайте на английском языке краткое содержание текста (summary) в 3–5 предложениях (в прил. А).