И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

6. Скажите, какие утверждения соответствуют содер­жанию текста (часть II).

1. The telephone is more significant for today's railways than the radio. 2. It is for the purpose of control that the telephone system is made use of by railroads. 3. The radio is especially useful in the switching yard providing direct communication between their workers. 4. Thanks to the radio the operator of a big switching yard can now inspect the cars without leaving his office. 5. The walkie-talkie is used to inform the passengers on the changes in the time­table. 6. The walkie-talkie economizes time for the car inspectors.

7. Having transmitters and receivers on the loco­motive the driver is able to decrease or avoid the danger of train collisions.
7. Переведите данные производные слова из текста.
transmitter, receiver (абз. 8); unthinkable (абз. 9);
loud speaker, incoming, outgoing (абз. 11); railwaymen (абз. 13).
8. Выберите правильный вариант перевода английских слов.
a) exception исключать, за исключением, исключение
arrival прибывать, прибытие, прибывающий
simplify простой, просто, упрощать
dangerous опасный, опасность, опасаться
uncommon обычный, обычно, необычный
increasingly увеличивать, увеличивающийся, все больше
б) devise прибор, изобретать, делить
many times много времени, много раз
a number of количество, номер, ряд
goods хороший, хорошо, груз

9. 
   Дайте английские эквиваленты к выделенным словам.
   

to invent a new engine; to control the movements of trains; a number of railroads; to come to a station; a long journey of a train; twice a year; to apply technical aids; long distance communication; to include various problems; to play an important part; a freight train; to be more and more widely used; to inform the driver of a danger in time.
10. С данным определениям дайте термины из текста.
1. a railway section operated like a small railway; 2. aprinted schedule of regular trains; 3. a list of times at which the regular trains arrive at or leave a station; 4. a train which is not scheduled in the time-table; 5. a scheduled train; 6. a slow train which stops at each station; 7. the technical aids which provide the safe and efficient operation of trains; 8. a train used to carry freight; 9. a radio device to give information on the arrival and the departure of trains; 10. an individual radio device used by car inspectors.