Multycard

Forecasting the future is a risk (1) business. But that does not mean we can't say anything about the next decade. In fact one trend is almost completely predict (2): payment card system develop (3). According to the develop (4) of this innovative card system, action (5) will be primarily plastic-based but people won’t carry as many cards as they do now. So the wallet full of plastics is likely to be place (6) by a single multi-function card that will act as a cheque book, a credit card, a cash dispense (7) and a debit card. Some countries have already started to introduction (8) this system. This future version will be a ‘smart card’ with a built-in memory. It will carry as much information about you as your personal organize (9) – details of your bank count (10), salary, credit ratings, sure (11) – and will be able to provide that information to anyone you choose to do business with.

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Refrigerators and environment

T he principle of convert (1) of ammonia gas into liquid by its compress (2) and heat remove (3) in order to produce cold when the press (4) is lifted was worked out by Michel Faraday, in 1820. It was a Swiss engineer Carl Linde, however, who in 1877 made a machine using this principle, which actually worked as a refrigerate (5).

Before CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) were used as refrigerate (6), highly toxin (7) compounds such as ammonia or sulphur dioxide were used in domestic refrigerators. Leak (8) of ammonia or sulphur dioxide caused a number of deaths in the 1920s. As a result, some parts of the USA took a drastic measure of ban (9) these early domestic refrigerators.

Nowadays CFCs are regular (10) blamed for causing damage to our environment. Although they absorb more infrared radiate (11) per molecule than carbon dioxide, their contribute (12) to the greenhouse effect is very low due to their low abundant (13) in the atmosphere. More importantly, CFCs are responsible for the thinning of the protective ozone lay (14). CFCs are still used in air condition (15) and were formerly used as refrigerants in refrigerators and as aerosol propel (16) because they are easy to liquid (17) when compressed. They are also unreactive, flame (18) and non-toxic.

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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.

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