Ф 03-03 Kasymova Zh. Zh

5.3. Understanding the text. Multiple choice. For the item below, circle the best answer.
1. The author’s purpose in writing the article was to ___.
a. convince people to use more petrol and gas.
b. discourage people from working discourage people from working for midstream sector.
c. share valuable information about midstream sector.
2. Which statement is true?
a. the business of oil and gas industry is considered low risk capital.
b. low capital risk is not inherent in the midstream segment.
c. moving oil and gas has low capital risk.
3. In line 30, the words depends on mean ___.
a. become independent.
b. be based on. c. start up.
4. You can infer from paragraph 8 that natural gas ___.
a. natural gas isn't stored close to the well.
b. enters a small diameter transmission pipeline.
c. is stored at the central well.
5. You can infer from paragraph 12 that Liquefied Natural Gas ___.
a. flows at a much lower pressure than crude oil.
b. trucks are used to transport natural gas.
c. is converted to a liquid for more uncomplicated transport and storage.
6. You can infer from paragraph 13 that rail ___.
a. transports less than 75% of oil.
b. isn't safe method to transport crude oil.
c. has more essential for transporting crude oil.


5.4. Building vocabulary. You can change the meaning of many adjectives by adding a prefix that means not: un-, im-, in-, ir-. For example, the word unimportant means not important and the word inactive means not active. Add the correct prefix (un-, im-, in-, ir-) to each adjective below to make the meaning negative.
Answer the questions.
1. Is it possible to transport gas by pipelines?
2. Are there any regulated components in the midstream segment of oil and gas industry?
3. Do you think it’s wise to use several methods to transport crude oil and gas?
4. Do you think using poor quality materials for building an international pipeline would be responsible?
5. Would like to work for dependent Oil and Gas Company?
6. Natural gas is a replaceable energy resource?