Tashkent state technical university

III. Independent work on topic Mining industry in Uzbekistan Head of the department ----------------------------- M. B. Ganikhanova Protocol №

TASHKENT STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Department of “Foreign Languages” Faculty: Geology and Prospecting; Mining and Metallurgy; Group № -------- Student’s name & surname ---------------------------------------------------- Intermediate control work on English. Variant № 2 I Translate and make short summary of the text. The science to be closely connected with chemistry is metallurgy. It is one of the oldest of arts but one of the youngest of science. Metals are still used to make machines, structures and many instruments despite the great progress of chemistry and production of polymers. Metallurgists work a great deal to develop new metals and alloys to be used in space research, automatic power engineering, radio-electronics and other branches they increased the strength of steel and alloys by 8 – 10 times during the last sixty years. Industry needs materials which can retain their strength at high temperatures as well as near absolute zero. To lengthen the life of electro vacuum instruments and to make new highly sensitive and reliable instruments mono-crystals such as zirconium, vanadium and others applied. And still there are a lot of problems to solve in metallurgy. II. Find the sentences in the Continuous Tense, translate them. 1. The plates are continually moving and changing the shape. 2. Geology - the study of the earth’s physical structure and history - is a relatively new science. 3. The Nazca Plate and the South American Plate are moving towards each other. 4. Geology deals with very ancient history - that of the earth itself. 5. The African Plate and the South American Plate are moving apart. 6. The work is being done now and soon it will be finished. 7. The work was being done all the day yesterday. 8. The history of geology, scientists now think, goes back about 4.6 billion years.