Summative Assessment for the unit "Transport"
Reading
Task. Read the text and answer the questions below.
The Wheel
Getting about in cars, trains, or planes is a very modernmethod of transport. It
has taken us a very long time toinvent these forms of convenient transport.
Other than using our legs or riding animals such aselephants, camels, donkeys or
horses, hundreds of years ago that was the only way to getfrom one place to
another until the wheel was invented.
Wheels today are on all sorts of velitcles from planes to cars, from bikes to
skateboards. We believe that the first wheels invented were to help move objects
that were very heavy.Humans discovered that something heavy was more easily
moved by something round andby rolling it. Eventually wheels were developed
for carts and wagons.
The wheel is probably the most mechanical invention of all time. Wheels with
spokes arethought to have first appeared in Egypt on chariots around 2000 BC.
Just try and imagine the world today without the wheel, not only in
transportation but alsoin technology. Important applications include the water
wheel, the cogwheel, and thespinning wheel. More modern applications include
the jet engine, the propeller, and theturbine.
1. Who?
2. What?
3. Where?
4. When?
5. How?​