Формулировка ТЗ.Определите значение слова inventiveness в тексте и запишите его (им.п.).

В+ изобретательность

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Формулировка ТЗ. Выберите заголовок для текста.

The development of transport facilities was very important in the growth of the United States. The first travel routes were natural waterways. No surfaced roads had existed until the 1790s, when the first highways were built. Besides the overland roads, many canals were constructed between the late 18th century and 1850 to link navigable rivers and lakes in the eastern United States and in the Great Lakes region.

Steam railways began to appear in the East in the 1820s. The first transcontinental railway was constructed between 1862 and 1869 by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies, both of which received large subsidies from the federal government. Transcontinental railways were the chief means of transport used by European settlers who populated the West in the later part of the 19th century. The railways continued to expand until 1917, when their length reached a peak of about 407, 000 km. Since then motor transport became a serious competitor to the railway both for passengers and freight.

Air transport began to compete with other modes of transport after World War I. Passenger service began to gain importance in 1920s, but not until the beginning of commercial jet craft after World War II did air transport become a leading mode of travel.

During the early 1990s railways annually handled about 38 per cent of the total freight traffic; trucks carried 26 per cent of the freight, and oil pipelines conveyed 20 per cent.

As for passenger service, nowadays private cars carry about 81 per cent of passengers. Airlines are the second leading mover of people, carrying more than 17 per cent of passengers. Buses are responsible for 1.1 per cent, and railways carry 0.6 per cent of passengers.

В - Steam railways in the United States.

В- The first transcontinental railway.

В- Passenger service in the United States.

В+ Transport in the United States.

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Формулировка ТЗ. Определите, какое предложение соответствует содержанию текста.

В- The first routes for travelling were highways.

В- Airlines have the largest volume of passenger traffic today.

В+ Steam railways started in the USA in the 19^th century.

В- Oil pipelines transported half of freight in 1990s.

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Формулировка ТЗ. Заполните пропуск в предложении согласно тексту « In 1917 the…of the railways in the USA was about 407, 000 km » (впишите одно слово).

В+ length.

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Формулировка ТЗ. Найдите в тексте ответ на вопрос «How many per cent of freight did railways carry in the nineties?» и запишите его (числительное записать цифрами).
В+ 38

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Формулировка ТЗ. Используйте глагол в соответствующей форме действительного залога.

Railways in the USA ___________ (to carry) 1, 7 billion tons of freight this year.
B+ have carried

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Формулировка ТЗ. Используйте глагол в соответствующей форме страдательного залога.
Several new railways ____________ (to construct) indifferent states of the USA last year.
B+ were constructed

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