| a | The Hoover Dam | |
| b | The Arlberg Tunnel | |
| c | The Channel Tunnel | |
| d | The Golden Gate Bridge | |
| The … … … is between Britain and France. It’s more than 20 kilometres long. It was built by British and French engineers. They started on opposite sides and met in the middle under the sea. They used specially-designed tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to dig the tunnels through the rock under the seabed. TBMs are enormous machines for digging tunnels. The machines used to dig the main tunnels were about 8.5 metres in diameter and 250 metres long. Work started in 1987 and the teams met under the seabed in 1991. It is a rail tunnel. The first passenger train went through in 1994. |
* (the text is from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 15, pg.17, ex.2)
3. Read the text again and find the English equivalents to the following expressions:
- … áîëåå ÷åì…
- … áûë ïîñòðîåí…
- … ïðîòèâîïîëîæíûå ñòîðîíû…
- … ñïåöèàëüíî ñïðîåêòèðîâàííûå…
- … ñêâîçü ãîðíóþ ïîðîäó…
- … äíî ìîðÿ…
- … ìåòðîâ â äëèíó…
- … æåëåçíîäîðîæíûé òóííåëü…