ответьте на вопросы к тексту: "Assembling the train. Movement of passenger traffic."
Passenger trains are assembled in a car yard with a number of specified cars as baggage, mail and express coaches, dining, parlour and sleeping cars. Every car in the train has received careful inspection inside and outside to make certain of its mechanical condition. Each car has been washed: not only have inside woodwork and floors been scrubbed, but carpets and seats have been gone over with vacuum cleaners. Preparations for dining service constitute a considerable operation. Food supplies have been requisitioned from the store rooms, and stored in the car refrigerators, cupboards and small but complete pantry. Clean linen has been stocked. After preparing the cars and cleaning and stocking them with supplies, they are coupled, inspected, and tested to ascertain whether mechanical appliances such as air brakes and signal and steam lines are functioning properly. The train is now ready to receive its passengers, baggage and mail.
When ready, a switching engine moves the trains to the assigned departure track at the station. The road locomotive has been inspected. The crew takes over the locomotive at the terminal, moves in to the departure track and couples it to the train. Here the train receives tests of air brakes and signal lines again. The train crew has been mobilized, they are called for duty according to schedule. A modern train stands in the terminal ready to receive its passengers. It departs at the moment called for by its schedule. The program of departure seems so simple that few passengers realize that it has required the services of a small army of railroad employees to make the movement possible.
Вопросы к тексту:
1) Where are passenger trains assembled?
2) What tests does the train receive at the terminal?
3) How is each car inspected?
4) What is each train supplied with?
5) Is the road locomotive inspected too?
6) What does the crew do with the locomotive?
7) How does the train crew work?
8) When is the train ready to receive its passengers?
9) When does the train depart?
The Trans-Siberian Railway
The total length of the Trans-Siberian line is nearly 9,600 km. That is the world's longest railway.
The construction of the Trans-Siberian line began in 1891 and it was put into operation in 1905. However, the railway was poorly built and accidents often took place.
The reconstruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began after 1917. Now most of the line is electrified. All freight and passenger trains are operated by powerful diesel and electric locomotives.
The Trans-Siberian Railway plays a very important part in the economic development of our country because it carries a large volume of traffic. Besides, it runs international container service between Europe and Japan.
Greater changes will take place on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the future. Faster locomotives will be put into service. Automation and efficient electronic computers will provide a safer transportation of freight and passengers.
Объяснение:
1.If I had put the roast chicken into a refrigerator, it would not have spoiled.
2.If he buys beer, he will buy prawns too.
3.If she goes to the supermarket, she will buy some meat.
4.If he were a meat and potatoes person (someone who prefers plain things to fancy ones), he would not do it.
5.If the weather had been fine yesterday, we would have gone fishing.
6.If I had stidied better, I would have had more opportunities.
7.If a computer accounting system had been introduced in this small shop, the costs of operating the system would have been greater than its benefits.
8.Our company will make more profit if sales increases.
9.If I had known you were at the office I would have called in.
10.If I were a vegetarian, I would not eat meat and fish.