I. In Search of the Ideal Car

1. plans 2. change 3. combine 4. maintenance 5. reduce

II. The Japanese new car

1. display 2. advanced 3. concept 4. promising 5. electric 6. need

7. navigation 8. considerably

III. Germany's dream machine

1. charismatic 2. drawing 3. futuristic 4. tribute 5. individuality

6. Emphasis 7. friendliness 8. automatically 9. production 10. motorists

 

9. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных четырех вариантов.

TWO –WHEELERS

The (1) ___ form of transport in the twentieth century was (2) ___ the motor car. But as the century drew to a close, a large number of road users were (3) ___ these petrol-driven, four-wheeled boxes for a much cleaner, more (4) ___ machine: the bicycle.

It is not a new invention, of course. In 1817, Barton von Drais invented what became known as the ‘ running machine ’. This was a two-wheeled vehicle which looked very (5) ___ to a bicycle, (6) ___ that it had no chain or pedals. The rider simply sat in the saddle and ran. It is surprising that these machines were so popular when you (7) ___ how uncomfortable they must have been, but they were very (8) ___ among the upper classes.

It was not until 1885 that something truly (9) ___ a modern bicycle came onto the market. The ‘ safety cycle ’ (10) ___ the beginning of the age of the two-wheeler. This was not just an expensive toy for the (11) ___ of the upper classes. It was a cheap and (12) ___ machine, and it was not long before everyone had one.

With the (13) ___ in car use in the 1950s and 60s, the bicycle went into decline. The car was, after all, faster and more comfortable. Until there were so many of them, that is! Nowadays more and more people (14) ___ that for city journeys a bicycle can be up to five times faster than a car – and it is much easier to find a parking (15) ___!

	Adominant	Bdominate	Cpredominate	Ddomination
	Acertainty	Bunsurely	Cundoubtedly	Dunbelievably
	Aparting	Bdeparting	Cceasing	Dabandoning
	Asufficient	Befficient	Cdeficient	Dsuffocating
	Alike	Bsame	Cequal	Dsimilar
	Aaccess	Baccent	Cexcept	Dexpect
	Aconceive	Bconcept	Cconclude	Dconsider
	Afashionable	Bstylish	Cmodern	Dfascinating
	Alooking	Bresembling	Cappearing	Dseeming
	Apointed	Bmarked	Cshowed	Dstarted
	Aamazement	Battraction	Castonishment	Damusement
	Aspace	Bpractical	Cprecise	Dpremium
	Arise	Braise	Carouse	Darise
	Arecall	Brelieve	Crealize	Drecollect
	Aspace	Bspot	Csight	Dsign

TWO -WHEELERS

1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. B 11. D 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. A

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CRIME

13. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.

TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME

Modern technology (1) advances have led to great changes in police work. Whilst computer net (2) are important in allowing the police to store efficiently the information they need, computer technology has also helped crime (3), particularly those making forge (4) of banknotes and other documents.

The police can no longer rely on finger (5) and other more traditional methods of detect (6). They have to keep up to date with develop (7) in many fields. For example, the invention of the cord (8) electric drill left them power (9) against robbers of telephone boxes.

The police now devote more time to the prevent (10) of crime, by giving advice to motor (11) and householders about how to protect their possess (12). The police regard a car as the most invite (13) target for opportunist skill (14) car thieves who are mostly young people under twenty. Undoubtedly, both the police and car owners should take prevent (15) measures to courage (16) criminals from go trying.

TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME

1. technological 2. networks 3. criminals 4. forgery 5. fingerprints

6. detection 7. development 8. cordless 9. powerless 10. prevention

11. motorists 12. possessions 13. inviting 14. unskilled 15. preventive

16. discourage

14. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.

CONTRIBUTION OF THIEVES

Stopping car thieves is the idea behind a new protection/security (1) system called Toad 10. When a thief/theft (2) tries to break into a car or start the engine without the key, a thick cloud of non-poisonoussmoke that is quite harmless in terms of health is released/relieved (3) in seconds. The smoke which quickly prevails/prevents (4) the thief from seeing is likely to attract the attention/attendance (5) to the car.

The inventors/investors (6) of Toad believe it will be effective partly because it was developed with the help of formal/former (7) car thieves. The designers/projectors (8) put an advert into the papers inviting/investing (9) the former car-thieves to come and put the devise/device (10) at test. These retarded/retired (11) thieves came up with some good ideas to make the

Toad 10 virtually foolproof/waterproof (12). Not only a security camera records the thief’s face, but there is also a preventive/protective (13) screen for windows, making it difficult to smash/mash (14) them. Thieves who are accustomed/customized (15) to traditional car security systems will have no idea how to deal with this one. This should make them think twice before attempting/tempting (16) a theft.

CONTRIBUTION OF THIEVES

1. security 2. thief 3. released 4. prevents 5. attention 6. inventors

7. former 8. designers 9. inviting 10. device 11. retired 12. foolproof

13. protective 14. smash 15. accustomed 16. Attempting

9. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.

COMPUTER CRIME

As computers insert/insinuate (1) themselves into virtually every realm/region (2) of human activity – there is a computer for every three persons in the industrialized world these days – they bring with them a rising incidence/incident (3) of computer crime. Best known are the computer viruses – hidden programs that are stored in convenient/conventional (4) computer files, spreading/spraying (5) around the world as the files move through communication networks. These range from the relatively benign/beneficial (6) “Yankee Doodle” virus, which instructs computers to play the anthem/rhyme (7) of the American Revolution every afternoon at five, to the malignant/malfunctioning (8) “Dark Avenger”, a Bulgarian virus that smashed/crippled (9) computers in Britain, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Mongolia.

What most worries electronic securityexperts are not overt acts of mischiefsuch as sabbath/sabotage (10), extortion and fax graffiti attacks, but shy/sly (11) computer crimes so cleverly programmed that they are never discovered. In one prospecting/pioneering (12) effort, a hacker instructed a computer involved in calculating credit card interest/percentage (13) to round off all fractures/fractions (14) of a penny downward, and credit them to the count/account (15) set up in the perpetrator’s name. Since nobody was robbed of more than a penny at a time, nobody noticed/notified (16), and the crime almost escaped detection/recognition (17). One wonders how many other computer crimes, lightly/slightly (18) more clever still, have never come to light.

COMPUTER CRIME

1. insinuate 2. realm 3. incidence 4. conventional 5. spreading 6. benign 7. anthem 8. malignant 9. crippled 10. sabotage 11. sly 12. pioneering

13. interest 14. fractions 15. account 16. noticed 17. detection 18. slightly

14. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.

COUNTERFEITS

The art of counterfeiting is an old one. Nowadays it is a million dollar business, special (1) in develop (2) countries. Seventy per cent of products copied throughout the world are brands originally fabrication (3) in France. The problem has become so serious that a French organize (4), which was established in 1872 to protect therights of manufacture (5), has opened a museum to draw attend (6) to this law (7) industry. It is hoped that the museum will also show potential buyers what harm they can cause by purchasing imitate (8) goods.

Counterfeiting is not confined to forgery (9) money and watches. The museum has more than 300 exhibition (10) ranging from fashion (11) items to toys, foods, computers, electrical apply (12), cutlery and even flowers.

While bargain hunt (13) may enjoy the thrill of snapping up a luxury (14) Gucci handbag at the market, imitations are not limited to such extravagant products. For example, an impress (15) Cartier watch may be considered a luxury while expense (16) Nike basketball shoes are not. Nevertheless, counterfeit replicas of both are on sell (17).

Counterfeiting causes more problems than just the lose (18) of revenues and jobs. Some products such as medicines, food and toys can be harm (19), and all are illegal. So the next time you are tempted to buy a fable (20) fashion item at a surprise (21) low price while shopping in Paris, remember that under French law anyone know (22) purchasing a counterfeit product is committing a crime and is liability (23) to being at least fined. In the West European countries, such behave (24) is considered to be a sort of criminal offend (25), while in the Third World countries these law violate (26) are normally ignored.

 

COUNTERFEITS

1. especially 2. developing 3. fabricated 4. organization 5. manufacturers 6. attention 7. illegal 8. imitation 9. forged 10. exhibits 11. fashionable

12. appliances 13. hunters 14. luxurious 15. impressive 16. expensive

17. sale 18. loss 19. harmful 20. fabulous 21. surprisingly 22. knowingly 23. liable 24. behaviour 25. offence 26. violations

 

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ARTS and MEDIA

3. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.

THE INFO–REVOLUTION

We have witnessed an enormous (1) increase in the role of the mass media in people’s lives. First of all, the width/growth (2) of the press, both serious and cheap newspapers, has been tremendous (3). Public opinion is influenced by empowered/powerful (4) editors who not only own/owe (5) their papers which have a circulation/circulating (6) of millions, but also awe/own (7) television and radio networks in many different countries. The huge quantity of information that people have to deal with has rocketed/racketed (9) with the advent/adventure (10) of satellite and cable television. At the same time, an increasing/enlarging (11) number of people have access/assess (12) to computers. Information available at home via Internet covers an amazing range/choice (13) of subjects and is practically infinite/infinitive (14).

THE INFO- REVOLUTION

1. enormous 2. growth 3. tremendous 4. powerful 5. own 6. circulation 7. own 8. huge 9. rocketed 10. advent 11. increasing 12. access 13. range 14. infinite

7. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из предложенного списка.

TELEVISION

accurate attention audience clearer current delayed discovery events flood important invented inventor simplified transmission unclear

If you ask someone who (1) ___ television, they will tell you it was John Baird. While Baird was, of course, extremely (2) ___ in the history of television; it would be more (3) ___ to see his role as part of a chain of (4) ___ which finally led to television as we know it today. The history of television really begins in 1817 with the

(5) ___ by Berzelius, a Swedish chemist of the chemical selenium. It was found that the amount of electric (6) ___ that selenium could carry depended on how much light struck it. The discovery directly led to G.R.Carey, an American

(7) ___ of the first real television system in 1875. His system used selenium to transmit a picture along wire to a row of light bulbs. This picture was (8) ___, however. Over the next years, a number of scientists and inventors (9) ___ and improved on Carey’s system. It was not until 1923 that Baird made his first practical (10) ___. Once again, the picture was transmitted through wires, but it was much (11) ___ than Carey’s had been almost fifty years ago. The Second World War (12) ___ the development of television. After the war, television sets began to (13) ___ the market, with the first mass TV (14) ___ watching the baseball World Series in the USA in 1947. Within a few years, television had captured the (15) ___ of the whole world.

TELEVISION

1. invented 2. important 3. accurate 4. events 5. discovery 6. current

7. inventor 8. unclear 9. simplified 10. transmission 11. clearer 12. delayed 13. flood 14. audience 15. attention

8. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.

SATELLITE TV

The advent/advance (1) of satellite TV has brought a whole new world of viewing into our rooms – if we can afford to pay for it. Major sporting events can now be seen alive/live (2). Besides this, a wider variety/variation (3) of sports is now available. The viewer can choose anything from dog-racing to sumo wrestling. Certain canals/channels (4) show 20 films a day. Again, the choice is enormous – from old classics to the latest Hollywood releases/issues (5). For those ones who like to keep informed, 24-hour news is available at the touch of a button. A special/especial (6) junior channel broadcasts cartoons/cartons (7) and children’s films. But do we really need all this choice/choose (8)? The greatest danger is that we will become a population/publicity (9) of passive couch-potatoes with square eyes and fingers glued to the remote/remove (10) control. Of course the choice is a good thing, but viewers/spectators (11) should use their ability to elect/select (12) the best and disregard the rest.

SATELLITE TV

1. advent 2. live 3. variety 4. channels 5. releases 6. special 7. cartoons 8. choice 9. population 10. remote 11. viewers 12. select

 

4. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.

INDESPENSABLE DEVICE?

I was reading an advertise (1) the other day, which described the cellular telephone as an ‘aid of convenient (2) ’. As a techno-phobewho does not possess a mobile phone, still less an on-line connect (3), I was intrigued by the astonish (4) presumptuousnessof this claim. An understand (5) reason why I do not have a mobile phone is that I don’t want to be at someone’s beck and call 24 hours a day. But apparent (6) there are plenty of sane adults who do. There are many people who bought their phones on absolute understanding that it was to be used for emerge (7) only. But the insidious thing grade (8) took over their lives to the point where it seems they can bare (9) live without it. Doubt (10), giving a mobile phone to children helps parents to control them, however, the children tend not to develop the able (11) to make their own decide (12).

INDESPENSABLE DEVICE?

1. advert/advertisement 2. convenience 3. connection 4. astonishing

5. understandable 6. apparently 7. emergencies 8. gradually 9. barely

10. undoubtedly 11. ability 12. Decisions

5. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.