VI. Comprehension check

Activity 1. Do the false/true activity

1 Transportation means to carry people from place to place.

2 Modern transport starts with the development of the wheel.

3 Dogs are still used to drag sledges in the Arctic.

4 The by-products of transportation don`t harm the nature seriously.

5 Otto, the Germany engineer, introduced the gas engine in 1876.

6 Henry Ford a French manufacture introduced the famous cheap motor car.

7 Buses were started in Paris in 1820.

8 Ancient Romans used pine line for gas supply to the troops.

9 There are about 3.000 Americans who like is collect antique cars.

10 The period from 1900 to 1945 was a period of the application of gasoline engines in Europe.

 

Activity 2. Look through text 2A carefully. Then complete the following to make suitable sentences according to the contex of the text.

 

1. Wanderers, ancient the most were, people

2. Use, goods, for, animals, step, carrying, pact, next, the, was, of

3. Transporting one, the, day, was, animal, the, of, first, things

4. Transportation, word, for, the, same, is, transport.

5. Stage, began, engine, steam, the, second, the, steam, with, development

6. Were, carriages, distances, hired, short, for

7. Of, to, were, there, be, solved, into, problems, transportation

8. And, method, of, roads, this, paying, in, new, bridges, the, for, used, still, USA

9. Taxi, is, short, word, this, for, cab

10. Of, wheel, the, inventions, greatest, of the inventions, mankind, is, one