И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

6. Прочтите предложения и определите значения выде­ленных слов и словосочетаний, не пользуясь словарем.

1. The railway has a length of 50 km. 2. If many trains run on a railway, we say that the traffic on this line is very large. 3. The highest speeds reached by modern high-speed trains is now more than 200 kph. 4. The Lugansk locomo­tive building works produces powerful diesel locomotives.

5. The new railway will connect big industrial centres. 6. The GOELRO Plan was worked out in 1920. 7. The Dneproges hydro-electric power plant was built in the 1930's. 8. The railway lines around big cities are called suburban railways. 9. The engineers carry out the experi­ments with new building materials. 10. All modern labora­tories are equipped with electronic computers. 11. Rivers and mountains, cold winters and hot summers made the building of t he BAM Railway a very hard job. 12. The students of the Moscow Railway Transport Institute took an active part in the construction of the BAM Railway.
7. Прочтите текст (З мин. на каждую часть) и ука­жите, в каких абзацах говорится: (а) о советских желез­ных дорогах; (б) о русских железных дорогах до Октябрьской революции; (в) о факторах, делающих советские железные дороги важным средством сообщения; (г) о стро­ительстве и экономическом значении БАМа.