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Affect
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Facility
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Capacity
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Means
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Underway
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Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the text.
1) A network of river navigable routes of Belarus connects the country with bordering states.
2) Enterprises of the river fleet fully provide transportation of passengers by the water transport.
3) There are railway approach lines that can be used for handling of cargo in every river port.
4) The waterway enterprises in Gomel, Pinsk, Brest, Bobruysk have the bottom-deepening and excavation facilities, modern navigation sluices and hydraulic installations and navigation equipment.
5) Belsudoproekt carries out the design of vessels and floating means.
6) Belarus has its own sea trade fleet.
7) In 2004 the Inland Water Transport Code and the Commercial Navigation Code were adopted; intergovernmental agreements with Ukraine and Latvia were concluded on the development of see side navigation and transit shipping through ports.
Complete the following sentences according to the text.
1) Navigation routes go along the rivers...
2) Their main tasks of the Water Transport enterprises are
3) The port facilities are equipped with
4) The capacity of each shipbuilding and repair plant allows
5) The control over technical conditions of vessels, certification of items used in shipbuilding is performed by
6) Belarus has the following advantages in creating its national fleet
Answer the following questions.
1) What does the Water Transport enterprises provide and produce?
2) What does the river fleet of Belarus today include?
3) What are ten river ports of Belarus capable of?
4) How many shipbuilding and repair plants are there in Belarus? And where?
5) What does Belarusian River Navigation Inspection deal with?
6) What companies provide sea cargo transportation?
Fill in the correct prepositions, translate the phrases.
1) river navigable routes ___ the length ___ about 2,000 km; 2) transportation ___ the rivers; 3) wide range ___ products; 4) to carry___ the program ___ sea and inland transport development; 5) to be aimed ___ creation necessary conditions; 6) interaction ___different types of transport; 7) meet the needs ___ transportation ___ passengers; 8) to be equipped ___ high-performance floating and portal cranes; 9) to be designed ___ fast handling; 10) tugged rolls ___ the capacity ___ 2,000 tons; 11) ships ___ the dead weight ___ 3,000 tons; 12) ships ___ operation; 13) intergovernmental agreements ___ Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia; 14) to conclude ___ the development ___ inland navigation and transit shipping ___ ports; 15) to carry ___ sea activities ___ the government's Program of Inland and Sea Water Transport Development; 16) to carry ___ sea transportations ___ the Belarusian flag.
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19. What parts of the text can you define? Do they correspond to the paragraphs? Name each part.
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| 2. ________________ | 5. ________________ |
| 3. ________________ | ... ________________ |
20. Find key words and phrases which best express the general meaning of each part.
21. Make a short summary of Text A. Do it according to the following plan.
1. The title of the text is .
2. The text is devoted to .
3. It consists of (parts / passages).
4. The first passage deals with .
5. The second (third, forth, etc.) passage deals with .
6. The main idea of the text is .
VOCABULARY
22. Practice saying the following words.
| Asian ['eɪʃ(ə)n] | Beijing [ˌbeɪ'ʤɪŋ] |
| Chinese ['ʧaɪ'ni:z] | concert ['kɔnsət] |
| European [ˌjuərə'piːən] | figure ['fɪgə] |
| inevitably [ɪ'nevɪtəblɪ] | merchant ['mɜːʧ(ə)nt] |
| shipyard ['ʃɪpjɑːd] | surpass [sə'pɑ:s] |
| tonnage ['tʌnɪʤ] | underutilized [ʌ̱ndə(r) 'ju:tɪlaɪzd] |
| vexing ['veksɪŋ] | Washington ['wɔʃɪŋtən] |
Read and memorize the active vocabulary.
Noun and noun phrases
a major maritime power -
busiest port next to -
capacity expansion -
commitment - ,
concerted effort -
container ship traffic - ()
corruption -
dramatic improvements -
engineering skills -
export -
flag merchant fleet -
foreign knowledge -
full advantage -
hardware and software -
import -
joint ventures -
know-how -
lack of technical knowledge -
leadership -
naval architect -
obstacle -
opportunities offered -
political mandate -
prerequisite -
production methods -
productivity -
share -
shipbuilding industry -
state-owned enterprise -
trading nation -
upgrading - ,
warship -
world's largest trading nation -
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Verbs and verbal phrases
to aid -
to catch up - ,
to exist -
to expand - ()
to limit -
to merge - (), ()
to predict - ,
to represent -
to surpass - ,
to undermine - , ;
Adjectives
commercial -
concerted effort -
merchant -
naval -
particular - , ,
proficient - , ,
significant -
underutilized -
Adverbs
inevitably - ,
