Учебное пособие. А. Н. Туполева (каи) кафедра восточных и европейских языков (вея) engineering английский язык для студентов технических специальностей учебное пособие
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The greatest bridge (8) __________ of antiquity were the ancient Romans. The Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier designs. Some stand today. An example is the Alcántara Bridge, built over the river Tagus, in Spain. The Romans also used (9) __________ for construction. One type of cement, called pozzolana, consisted of water, lime, sand, and volcanic rock. The use of stronger bridges using plaited bamboo and iron chain was visible in India by about the 4th century. A number of bridges, both for military and (10) __________ purposes, were constructed by the Mughal administration in India. The oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, (11) __________ from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty. This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest stone segmental arch bridge. Rope bridges, a simple (12) __________ of suspension bridge, were used by the Inca civilization in the Andes mountains of South America, just prior to European colonization in the 1500s. During the 18th century there were many innovations in the design of timber bridges (= made of wood). The first book on bridge (13) __________ was written by Hubert Gautier in 1716. With the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, truss systems of wrought iron were developed for larger bridges. In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła (14) __________ the first welded road bridge in the world which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929. In 1995, the American Welding Society (15) __________ the Historic Welded Structure Award for the bridge to Poland. Read the text again. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F):
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