1.5. Answer the following questions.
1. How can you translate the word “engineering”?
2. What is the general aim of engineers?
3. Name the main branches of engineering.
4. Is electricity generation the subfield of electrical engineering?
5. What is mechanical engineering concerned with?
6. Should mechanical engineer be trained in mechanics and hydraulics?
7. Transport engineering is the subfield of mechanical engineering, isn’t it?
8. What does a civil engineer deal with?

1. Moreover, every town has gyms and parks which are equipped with running trucks and other facilities. 2. Undoubtedly, all people long to be healthy. However, most of them admit that following a healthy way of life is quite difficult, while others claim that there is nothing problematic about it. 3. Thirdly, the beneficial effects of healthy way of life can be seen only after several months or even years of following it. Therefore, people are demotivated and give up. 4. Despite the above-mentioned arguments, I cannot agree with the opposite point of view. Healthy food is overpriced, especially if it is organic or GMO-free, and not everyone can afford it. Regarding different sports facilities, one should have enough time to exercise but most people are too busy. 5. In conclusion, I would like to say that following a healthy lifestyle requires too much time, money and energy, that is why it is rather arduous for most people. 6. In my view, it is rather hard to lead a healthy life style. Firstly, the pace of the modern life does not let people have a good eight-hour. sleep, so they sleep too little, and thus have no energy to exercise or count calories. 7. Nevertheless, other people believe that keeping feet is quite easy today because everyone can find plenty of. shops selling specially grown healthy food. 8. Secondly, there are too many temptations around, like fast food or various desserts. , and they. are hard to resist, because it requires a lot of effort and strong willpower, which not everyone has..

1) Russia occupies more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. 2)The total area of Russia is 17,075,400 square kilometers. 3) Russia has international borders with 16 sovereign states, including two with maritime boundaries (US, Japan), as well as with the occupied Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 4) Most of Russia consists of vast stretches of plains that are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily forested to the north, with tundra along the northern coast. Russia possesses 10% of the world's arable land. 5) The longest mountain chains are the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains. 6) the major rivers of Russia are the Volga river, the longest river in Europe, and the Siberian rivers Ob, Yenisey, Lena. 7) Lake Baikal is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake. 8) Occupying a large territory in Europe and Asia Russia is spread over all climatic zones except tropical. 9) The coldest inhabited place on Earth is located in Oymyakon, a tiny village in Yakutia, Russian Far East with population of slightly above 500. 10) Russia is ranked first in the world by gas reserves, the second in oil production, the third - in coal reserves. In terms of reserves of iron ores Russia takes the first place, in tin – the second, lead - the third. Russia also occupies a leading position in the world in wood provision. In 2005 Russia was the richest country in gold reserves. 11) Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates, and gold. The iron ore deposits of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, close to the Ukrainian border in the southwest, are believed to contain one-sixth of the world's total reserves. 12) The current population of the Russian Federation is 143,446,759.   13) The European part of the country is densely populated. 14) Russia is a multinational state with over 185 ethnic groups designated as nationalities, population of these groups varying enormously, from millions in the case of Russians and Tatars to under 10,000 in the case of Samis and Kets. 15) The head of the state is the president of Russian Federation. The current President of Russia is Putin Vladimir. 16) The head of the government is the Prime Minister of Russia. 17) The Russian flag was adopted on the 11th of December 1993.   18) The flag of Russia is a tricolor flag consisting of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. 19) The capital city of Russia is Moscow. 20) Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent.  By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 17th largest agglomeration, the 16th largest urban area, and the 10th largest by population within city limits worldwide. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive city in the world by Mercer and has one of the world's largest urban economies, being ranked as an alpha global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.