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III. After you have read

3.1. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:

1. Karl Friedrich Benz was born in 1844 in Baden Muehlburg, Germany.

2. He was the son of an engineer.

3. Benz attended the Karlsruhe grammar school and later the Karlsruhe Polytechnic University.

4. In 1881 he founded his first company with partner Emil Jellinek.

5. Karl Benz concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable gas four-stroke engine.

6. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using white power sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.

7. The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a electric car.

8. The early-1888 version of the Motorwagen had no wheels and could not move unaided.

9. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899.

10. The name of that DMG model had been selected after the daughter of Karl Benz.

11. A new logo was created, consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: engines for land, air, and water) surrounded by traditional laurels from the Benz logo.

3.2. Fill in the blanks with words from the text:

1. In 1885 ... , Karl Benz … and … the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an … engine.

2. In 1871 he … his … company with partner August Ritter, the … a supplier of building materials.

3. The difficulty ... overcome when Benz's ..., Bertha Ringer, ... out Ritter's share in the company using her ... .

4. Despite such ..., Karl Benz ... in the development of new engines in the early factory he and ... owned.

5. Benz ... his ... on December 31, 1878, New Year's Eve, and ... a pa-tent for it in 1879.

6. The name of that DMG model ... after ten-year-old Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek who ... the specifications for the new model.

7. A new logo ..., consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: engines for land, air, and water) ... by traditional laurels from the Benz logo, and the brand of all of its automobiles ... Mercedes Benz.

8. The Benz home now ... as historic and is used as a scientific meeting facility for a ... foundation.

3.3. Substitute the modal verbs for the possible equivalents:

1. The special commission of engineers must test a new device.

2. My friend can play tennis very well.

3. The students may attend the scientific conference.

4. We can’t prepare this report in time.

5. You make take my laptop till tomorrow.

6. She must go to Nizhniy Novgorod for several days.

3.4. Insert the modal verbs may or can:

1. The mechanic ... repair the brakes tomorrow if no one bothers him any more.

2. ... we come and see the head engineer next Monday at four o'clock in the afternoon?

3. What time is it? — It ... be about five o'clock, but I am not sure.

4. Only a person who knows the language very well ... answer such a question.

5. Let me look at your diploma project. I ... be able to help you.

6. The computer class is quite free, and anyone who likes ... work there.

7. ... I take your text book on Higher Mathematics till tomorrow?

8. Take your umbrella with you: it ... rain today.

9. Do you think you ... draw these diagram?

10. My grandfather … very well when he was 10 years younger.

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