| 1. | Postgraduate | A | The planning, building, and repair of roads, bridges, large buildings etc |
| 2. | Target | B | To officially arrange to join a school, university, or course, or to arrange for someone else to do this |
| 3. | To graduate from university | C | Thin metal in the form of a thread, or a piece of this |
| 4. | Transmission | D | A machine that has been sent into space and goes around the Earth, moon etc, used for radio, television, and other electronic communication |
| 5. | Milky Way | E | Someone who is studying at a university to get a master's degree or a PhD |
| 6. | Slide show | F | The study of the design and production of machines and tools |
| 7. | Civil engineering | G | Someone who is paid to work for someone else |
| 8. | Staff | H | Something that you are trying to achieve, such as a total, an amount, or a time |
| 9. | To enroll | I | A person, company, or organization that employs people |
| 10. | Software | J | A small piece of film in a frame that you shine a light through to show a picture on a screen or wall |
| 11. | Mechanical engineering | K | To complete your education |
| 12. | Employer | L | The people who work for an organization |
| 13. | Wire | M | The process of sending out electronic signals, messages etc, using radio, television, or other similar equipment |
| 14. | Satellite | N | The pale white band of stars that can be seen across the sky at night |
| 15. | Employee | O | The sets of programs that tell a computer how to do a particular job |
II. Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
16. ; 17. ; 18. ; 19. ; 20. ; 21. ; 22. ; 23. ; 24. ; 25. ; 26. ( ); 27. ; 28. ; 29. ; 30.
III. Translate the following words and phrases from English into Russian
31. Bachelor of science; 32.Upper atmosphere; 33. Scholarship; 34. Construction engineering; 35. Steam engine; 36. Manual attitude control; 37. Applied science; 38. Digital revolution; 39. Floppy disk; 40. llies; 41. Retirement; 42. Theoretical study; 43. Fringe benefits; 44. Applicant; 45. Scientific adviser
IV. Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the box
| Distance education; temporary; breakthrough; trade union; novel idea; hard disk; postgraduate; redundancies; enrolment; steam engine; satellite; sophomore; |
46. Effective depends on good communications and support for the learners.
47. At the time of .. you will also be given a timetable of lectures and practicals, and details of Faculty and campus induction programmes, which you are expected to attend.
48. She hasn't finished her university course yet: she's still a / an .
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49. This was the invention of , originally devised for draining water from the tin mines, but then adapted by James Watt for driving factory machinery.
50. Negotiators have made a .. on the most difficult issue of employment security.
51. In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a .. system.
52. In the 1960s British Rail came up with for a faster train.
53. For example, some viruses display a text string or delete all files on the .. on a particular date.
54. On the one hand, shows are getting better, as some of the third-year shows did before them.
55. The farm worker has himself contributed, though as often as not by leaving the industry rather than by joining a .
56. These are necessary for the company to be able to survive.
57. However, they particularly affect women with their discontinuous employment patterns and jobs.
V. Answer the questions
1. What does the term Space race mean?
2. What are the predictions about future of engineering in Russia?
3. Speak about modern system of higher education.
Appendix 14. Key to tasks for self-checking
Unit 1
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 3) 1. B; 2. A; 3. A; 4. B; 5. B; 6. B; 7. A
Unit 2
Listening. Exercise 2) 1. F; 2. T; 3. T; 4. F; 5. T; 6. T; 7. F; 8. T; 9. F
Unit 3
Listening. Exercise 4) 1. F; 2. T; 3. F; 4. F; 5. F; 6. F; 7. T
Unit 4
Listening. Exercise 5) 1. F; 2. A; 3. D; 4. G; 5. C; 6. B; 7. E; 8. H
Unit 5
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 4) 1. Empirical; 2. Tyres; 3. Coolant; 4. Consensus; 5. Risks; 6. Benefits; 7. Engage; 8. Peers
Unit 6
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 2) 1. In; 2. On; 3. Out; 4. ; 5. To; 6. To; 7. To; 8. On
Unit 7
Listening. Exercise 3) 1. T; 2. T; 3. F; 4. F; 5. T; 6. T
Unit 8
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 1) 1. F; 2. C; 3. E; 4. A; 5. H; 6. D; 7. A; 8. G
Unit 9
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 2) 1. Of; 2. For; 3. To; 4. Through; 5. Through; 6. On; 7. From; 8.
Unit 10
Listening. Exercise 3) 1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. T; 5. F; 6. F
Unit 11
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 1) ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; , .
Unit 12
Building-up vocabulary. Exercise 3) 1. Oath; 2. Prolong life; 3. Ethics; 4. Ethical standards; 5. Aim; 6. Research field; 7. Carry out
Appendix 15. Additional grants projects
1. Read the instructions given below and compose proposal for Grant for Rapid Response Research
