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Read the words and say what words they are formed from.
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investigation, provisional, promising, mountainous, surveyor, requirement, fixing, securing, excavating, builder, designer, selective, replacement, fastening, settlement, discharging, cleaning, measuring, running, drainage.
Choose the verbs.
saddle, peg, plot, error, experienced, involve, feature, chose, depend, village, local, regular, season, safe, height, capital, volume, solution, lay, subgrade, secure, length, examine, stereotype, trace, curve, mainly.
Choose the key words to speak about surveying and organizing railroad construction.
сonfluence, flood, noise, excavate, wagon, level, bridge, machine, soil-science, intensity, impose, latest, terrain, feasibility, deep, drift, speed, fix, desert, winter, fire, quarry, repair, weld, preliminary, possible, broken.
5. Find in the text word combinations with the word “survey”.
Give as many Russian equivalents to the following phrases as you can.
a) having done the preliminary work
b) snow drifts challenge designers
c) to keep the railroad in good operation
d) railway authorities
e) selective relaying of rails
f) the level of track settlement.
Test 5
I. Match English and Russian word combinations.
| 1. running repair | a. предварительные работы |
| 2. track settlement | b. путеизмерительная машина |
| 3. track measuring car | c. прокладка пути |
| 4. broken country | d. равнинная местность |
| 5. flat country | e. пересеченная местность |
| 6. preliminary works | f. текущий ремонт |
| 7. high water | g. полоса отвода |
| 8. provisional railroad operation | h. прошивка пути |
| 9. track broaching | i. временная эксплуатация железной дороги |
| 10. right-of-way | j. половодье |
II. Choose the correct word in B and put it into the gap in A.
| A | B |
| 1. Survey engineer chooses promising passes in mountain ridges to assess the feasibility of the various possible _____ to be investigated. | a. subgrade |
| 2. Survey in _____ is more stereotyped and depends upon local requirements, towns, villages, buildings, rivers and other country features. | b. routs |
| 3. Having done the preliminary works, the builders are engaged with _____ and culverts construction. | c. gauge |
| 4. _____ involves the entire relaying of rails and ties. | d. easy country |
| 5. A track measuring car examines the width of the _____. | e. capital repair |
III. Choose the only correct answer to the question.
1. What investigation does the surveying involve?
d) geological b) social.
2. What are the rivers behaviour paid much attention to?
d) the problem of high-flood b) the problem of construction.
3. What problems are very important involved in the survey of a new railway line?
d) the problems of straights b) the problems of gradients.