Answer the following questions. 1. What is the function of road surface marking?

1. What is the function of road surface marking?

2. Why is uniformity of markings important?

3. What types of markings are distinguished?

4. What type of mechanical devices is used on major routes in the British Isles?

5. Why are Bott’s dots called so?

6. Why aren’t Bott’s dots used in cold climates?

7. Where is a rumble strip applied?

8. What is function of reflective markers?

9. What is function of raised markers in the UK?

10. What non-mechanical markers do you know?

11. What machine carries out paint marking?

12. What are the advantages of thermoplastic?

13. What is plastic used for?

14. What kind of marker is a pylon?

15. What type of road surface markings do you think the most common in your country?

Say if the sentences concerning Text 4A are true or false.

1. All countries have uniform markings.

2. Road surface markings provide official information.

3. There are only non-reflective mechanical markers.

4. Cat’s eyes consist of six lenses mounted in durable white paint.

5. Elbert Botts invented a rumble strip.

6. Bott’s dots are used together with reflective markers.

7. Non-reflective markers are also referred to as raised pavement markers.

8. In cold climates reflective markers are installed below ground.

9. A striper is a machine which marks the road surface.

10. Most thermoplastic is produced in red and white colours.

11. Paint is used to mark traffic lanes, spaces in parking lots or special spaces for disabled parking.

12. Reflective markers are more visible at night than standard road marking lines.

Circle the odd word.