2. Choose the answer (a, b, c or d) which you think fits best according to the text

1. If hit on the roof, the car …

   1. falls apart.

   2. sustains the blow well.

   3. barely stays whole.

   4. bears severe damages, but the passengers stay alive.

2. In the 2010 facelift, the CR-V received a new …

   1. rear bumper, taillights, headlights, grille.

   2. taillights, rear bumper, front fascia, grille.

   3. taillights, rear and front bumper, front fascia, wheels.

   4. rear and front bumper, grilles, wheels and lights.

3. In 2010 MPG …

   1. increased by 1.

   2. increased by 14.

   3. fell by 1.

   4. fell by 14.

4. CR-V prices …

   1. depend on trimming.

   2. vary with trim level.

   3. horsepower.

   4. are from $300 to $900 per a car.

5. Which is true?

   1. A panoramic glass moonroof is available only in upper specification models

   2. All models have a panoramic glass moonroof.

   3. All models have both panoramic glass moonroof and chrome exterior door handles.

   4. Lower specification models have improved chrome door handles, while upper spec models also feature panoramic glass moonroof to boot.

6. Automatically engaged four wheel drive …

   1. stops working when ABS braking systems comes into operation.

   2. has two pumps which transfer extra pressure to the rear wheel.

   3. directs 52% of the torque to the rear wheels or whichever wheel has the most traction.

   4. utilizes a dual hydraulic pump centre/rear differential and 4WD transfer case which is constantly in operation.

7. Which is false?

   1. The CR-V can drive off the pavement.

   2. The CR-V has high performance in all off road conditions.

   3. The CR-V can well drive through shallow dirt trails.

   4. The CR-V is able to cover some snowy roads if it is equipped with proper tires.

Text 4. ‘NoName’

1. Choose the best title of the text.

   1. Creation of Mercedes Benz

   2. Patenting the first gasoline engines

   3. Benz as the inventor of modern automobile

   4. The creators of modern automobile

2. Sentences are removed from the extract. choose from the sentences (A – H) the one that fits each gap (1-7). there is one extra sentence which you don’t need to use.

   1. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899 and, because of its size, Benz & Cie., became a joint-stock company.

   2. Benz, Maybach and the Daimler team seem to have been unaware of each others' early work.

   3. It was an integral design, without the adaptation of other existing components, and included several new technological elements to create a new concept.

   4. This motor proved highly successful and is used even now on many Mercedes Benz models.

   5. Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.

   6. They also were powered with four-stroke engines of his own design.

   7. It was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by another manufacturer that they retrofitted with an engine of their design.

   8. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle.

In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. 1. [___________]

An automobile powered by its own four-stroke cycle gasoline engine was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885, and granted a patent in January of the following year under the auspices of his major company, Benz&Cie., which was founded in 1883. 2. [___________]

He began to sell his production vehicles in 1888. In 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which had been designed in 1878. 3. [___________]

His first Motorwagen was built in 1885, and he was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application on January 29, 1886. Benz began promotion of the vehicle on July 3, 1886, and about 25 Benz vehicles were sold between 1888 and 1893, when his first four-wheeler was introduced along with a model intended for affordability. 4. [___________] Emile Roger of France, already producing Benz engines under license, now added the Benz automobile to his line of products. Because France was more open to the early automobiles, initially more were built and sold in France through Roger than Benz sold in Germany.

In August 1888 Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, undertook the first road trip by car, to prove the road-worthiness of her husband's invention. In 1896, Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion flat engine (горизонтальный двигатель), called boxermotor. 5. [___________]

Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890, and sold their first automobile in 1892 under the brand name, Daimler. 6. [_______] By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, either at the Daimler works or in the Hotel Hermann, where they set up shop after disputes with their backers. 7. [_________] They never worked together; by the time of the merger of the two companies, Daimler and Maybach were no longer part of DMG.

Source: http://www.emercedesbenz.com, http://www.mbusa.com

Georgano, G. N. Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930. (London: Grange-Universal, 1985)

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