Tài liệu Test no 3 doc

Test no 3

I/ Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Circle A, B, C or D

1. …..is used for window panes because it is transparent.

A. Glass B. Wood C. clay D. zine

2. The long axis of the buliding is orientated east-west to minimize the area of

wall…to the sun.

A.expose B. exposed C. exposing D. to expose

3. The ceramic tiles can’t be scratched easily by people walking on them because

they are…

A. soft B. hard C.rigid D. flexible

4. Rod materials are typically used for… construction buildings.

A. planar B. mass C. frame D. primitive

5. ….north, the living room is on the right of the house.

A. look B. to look C. looking D. looked

II/ Read the text and answer the questions

“Steel construction is classified into three categories: wall-bearing, skeleton, and long￾span framing. Wall-bearing – the oldest and commonest type of framing – occurs … they

are long-span framing”

6. How many kinds of steel construction are there?

=>There are three kinds of steel construction. They are wall-bearing, skeleton and

long-span framing.

7. What are the qualities that bearing walls must have?

=> Bearing walls must have enough strength and thickness.

8. Why is wall-bearing framing limited to low structures?

 Because load-bearing walls become massive in tall structures.

9. What carries all the structural loads in skeleton framing?

 The steel framework carries all the structural loads.

10. Why is steel preferably used for skyscrapper?

 because steel is capable of carrying greater load in a given space.

III/ Build a complete sentences.

11. The church is shaped like a triangular prism.

12. the beam joins to the stanchion by the bolts.

13. Timber can be made for rods and used as columns.

14. the building site has pedestrian access and open space to the south.

15. Longitudinal section of the square prism is rectangular in shape.

IV/ Rewrite sentences with the same meaning.

16. An impervious material is able to keep out water. => An impervious material has

ability to keep out water.

17. The steel erectors work simultaneously with the bricklayers. => The steel erectors

work at the same time as the bricklayers