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Home exercise: a) compare the word-combinations and translate them. Model: the tram stop — the city tram
трамвайная остановка — городской трамвай 1. the laboratory work — the college laboratory; 2. the conference programme — the student conference; 3. the lecture hall — the morning lecture; 4. the City Soviet — the Soviet city; 5. the steel sheet —• the sheet steel; 6. the door glass — the glass door; 7. the metal export — the export metal; 8. the design system — the system design.
b) translate the word-combinations:
the operation principle, human labour, the computer programme,- the operation speed, the information processing, the production control, the power transmission, the temperature rise.
c) Point out the determinant word and translate the word-combi-nations:
1. a memory system — a system memory; 2. a research institute — institute research; 3. the control process — the process control; 4. an operation programme — the programme operation; 5. the calculation speed — the speed calculation; 6. the instrument shop — the shop instrument;
7. the test results — the results test; 8. the output information — the information output.
Now look through the text and read the sentences where similar word-combinations are used. Translate them.
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Read the words. Point out Nouns and Adjectives: a) admittance; b) amplifier; c) current; d) apply; e) capacity; f) involve; g) pass; h) like; i) rather; j) since; k) stationary; 1) tidal;
m) torque; n) essential; o) characteristic; p) dynamics; q) magnetic;
r) economical; s) ignition; t) simultaneous; u) negligible; v) sensitive; w) reliability; x) neutralize; y) mutual; z) technology.
Point out suffixes of Nouns and Adjectives and translate the words.
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Read the word-combinations, point out Noun groups and Nouns with Adjectives. Give their Russian equivalents:
a) electrical power plant: b) control equipment: c) economical manner;
d) fully automatic operation; e) load sharing; f) diesel alternator; g) excessive power; h) done manually; i) in the event of a fault; j) main busbar; kj programmed number; 1) other diesel; m) usual manner;
n) special unit; o) large load; p) sufficient power; q) available before the load; r) unmanned engine room; s) manual operation; t) start blocking; u) choice of a program; v) classification societies; w) functional conditions; x) control equipment; y) general alarm system; z) alarm conditions.
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Read the sentences and define in each of them the meaning of the word “man”.
1. Man to man, what happened here? 2. Rich as Croesus and as wicked as the black man below. 3. Every man Jack must take an active part in this operation. 4. I shall be the last man to think so. 5. He is considered the leading man in this branch of science. 6. Man alive! Why I can’t do it! 7. He knows no more about worldly affairs than the man in the moon. 8. He knows about this affair as much as the next man. 9. My grandfather was a selfmade man. 10. I was up early and down late, set may own hand to everything, took dangers as they came, and for once in my life played the man throughout.