Choose the verbs.

capacity, recovery, develop, lift, reliability, change, allow, efficient, diverse, reduce, inside, intend, welding, keep, noise, incorporate, achieve, tamping, prepare, ride, overall, pass, screen, associate.

Choose the words to speak about modern permanent way technology.

tracklaying, business, section, ideal, friendly, crane, maintenance, narrow, renewal, locomotive, reduce, gauge, joint, screen, power, noise, platform, range, effective, strength, snowfall, innovation, soil, wagon, travel, easy, shovel, separate, wagon, considerable.

5. Find in the text word combinations with the word “machine”.

6. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to “ed” forms of the verbs.

a) Track construction techniques have chang ed enormously thanks to the use of the latest equipment and methods.

b) The lines for the world speed records were always prepar ed using track maintenance machines.

c) Nowadays high capacity machines are need ed for high capacity lines.

d) Well-design ed and develop ed pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical and electro-mechanical braking systems are used.

e) In operation the track-laying machine picks up a length of new track from a load ed wagon.

f) A wide range of rubber-bas ed products was designed to reduce all types of vibration and noise associated with railway track.

g) Systems have been develop ed to meet the most diverse technical requirements.

Test 3

I. Match English and Russian word combinations.

II. Choose the correct word in B and put it into the gap in A.