Вопрос № 223808 - Английский язык

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Electric power is generated at power plants and it must be transmitted to other parts of the country. How is 1_______ transmitted to those parts? Thick 2_______ carry electric power over long distances. The wires are not always made of copper, often they are made of other 3_______.
A number of wires put together form one thick 4_______. A cable consists of a number of wires put together and a pair consists of two insulated conductors forming a metallic circuit. Thus the basic transmission element of communications is a long transmission line, and a cable is the main part of this long transmission line.

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Most people describe water as a 1_______ liquid. They know that in very cold conditions it becomes a solid called 2_______, and heated on a fire becomes a vapour called steam. But water, they say, is a liquid. Now we know that water consists of molecules composed of two 3_______ of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, which we describe by the formula H2O. This is equally true of the solid called the ice and the gas called steam. Chemically there is no difference between the gas, the liquid, and the solid, all made up of 4_______ with the formula H2O.

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Large office buildings are often as big as small towns. They have their own trains, buses and shops. Such buildings can be found in most cities of the world. When it was finished, however, in 1943, the Pentagon was the world’s largest office building. It is still – many years later – among the largest.
Built in the shape of a pentagon – a 1_______ shape – the building consists of five pentagons, divided into ten sections. Each side of the 2_______ pentagon is about 300 metres long. In the centre, there is a large space open to the sky.
Six storeys high, the Pentagon has a 3_______ floor space of about two million square metres. Around it, there are about 45 kilometres of roads that are part of the building and inside the building itself there are over 25 kilometres of passages. In spite of its great 4_______, however, no office is more than a six minute walk from any other office in the building.

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They recently built a new swimming pool in the small town of Winter Park, Florida. It is one 1_______ deep at one end and 55 metres deep at the other. That was not the original 2_______: half the pool has been eaten by an enormous hole.
The hole has also eaten two businesses, 3_______, five cars, several trees, and a large piece of road. It was still growing yesterday.
Mrs Mae Rose Owens was the first person to see it, last Friday. As she looked out of her 4_______ she saw a tree getting shorter and shorter.
‘Suddenly the earth just opened up and down this tree went. I couldn’t believe it.’
The hole seems to be a result of the drought. Underground streams have dried out, making the subsoil contract.

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If silica is melted and allowed to cool slowly, the result is 1_______. Glass is more difficult to make than pottery, and the first all-glass containers did not appear until 1500 BC. Glass was made then by 2_______ raw silica held by a glass thread on a sand core to form a bottle or shaping it in a mould. It was not until 1350 BC that the technique of blowing glass was developed. A wine glass was made by blowing melted glass in a mould, adding a stem, shaping the foot and trimming. Press moulding is an even more 3_______ technique.
Glass-working tools include a blowpipe, rod, tongs, shears and rolling plate. Glass was originally melted in a furnaces were 4_______.

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The palace of the Bishops of Winchester for over 500 years, Winchester House was set in 70 1_______ of riverside parkland. The original 2_______ was built for William Giffard in 1109 and the last occupant was Bishop Lancelot Andrews (1555 – 1626). For a time in the seventeenth century, Winchester House acted as a prison but was sold off for tenement 3_______ and gradually deteriorated. The 14th century building that now stands on the site was 4_______ by fire in 1814.