Вопрос № 800526 - Английский язык

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами 1_______ metals are based on iron. They are usually 2_______ with carbon because it increases the strength of 3_______ and makes it much more useful to the engineer. Slight variations in carbon content can make very great differences in the properties of the metal. Wrought iron is a ferrous metal with carbon content of less than 0,05 %. Chains and 4_______ can be produced from this alloy.

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами 1_______ metals are based on iron. They are usually 2_______ with carbon because it increases the strength of iron and makes it much more useful to the engineer. Slight variations in carbon content can make very great differences in the properties of the 3_______. Wrought iron is a ferrous metal with carbon content of less than 0,05 %. Chains and 4_______ can be produced from this alloy.

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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 window  she saw a tree getting shorter and 4_______.
‘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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There is no place in London, or, for the matter, in all of Britain with a worse reputation for savagery than the 1_______ of London. In its 900 years of history, it has been awash in the blood of kings and queens, criminals and innocents, alike. 2_______ shortly after the Norman Conquest the fortress consisted, in those days, of the central White Tower and surrounding 3_______, which incorporated part of the city wall originally built by the Romans.
The Tower, as we see today, didn’t take 4_______ shape until the reign of Edward I, who added more walls and towers to the original construction.

Timber is wood, suitable for building and structural 1 ______.
There are over 4000 2 ______ in common use throughout the world. The best and most commonly used softwoods popular for structural work in many 3 ______ are redwood, whitewood, pine, red cedar, sequoia, beech and some others. As to the hardwoods, the best known ones include beech, 4 ______, blackwood, chestnut, elm, mahogany,  maple, myrtle, oak, rosewood, walnut and some others.

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The Empire State Building was built in 1931 in the United States of America. Its construction took about two years. The exterior of the sky-scraper is supported by a framework produced of steel. It should be noted that 60,000 tons of steel were used for its production. The Empire State Building is considered to be one of the tallest and spacious constructions of the world. It can be attended by 80,000 people simultaneously.
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How much time did the construction of the Empire State Building take?