2. Переведите на русский язык следующие английские словосочетания:

1) unprecedented range; 6) the top of every car

enthusiast's wish list;

2) plenty of new cars; 7) tiny numbers;

3)not-too-distant future; 8) an exceptionally spacious interior;

4) lightweight materials; 9) average fuel consumption;

5) more power; 10) a rival for machines.

3. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

1) трехцилиндровый двигатель; 6)умные городские

Машины;

2)пространство для дополнительных мест; 7)привлека-

тельные цены

3)самый большой сектор рынка 8)внутреннее

пространство

4) завоевать приз; 9)успешная история;

5) дизели новой технологии; 10)надежды и мечты.

4. Найдите в тексте слова, имеющие общий корень с данными словами. Определите, к какой части речи они относятся, и переведите их на русский язык:

Рroduct, body, great, different, father, manage, rely, high, board, power.

5. Задайте к выделенному в тексте предложению все типы вопросов (общий, альтернативный, разделительный, специальный: а) к подлежащему; б) к второстепенному члену предложения).

6. Выполните анализ данных предложений, обратив внимание на следующие грамматические явления: причастие I и II (Participle I & II), независимый причастный оборот, герундий, конверсия:

1. The Fabia is the first in the VW group to be based on a new platform that will be used by the next Polo.

2. The war ending, Henry Ford's reign sanctioned the controls.

3. On the other hand, was just as adept at firing anyone with overt power-lust.

4. Founded in 1903, the Ford Motor Company became a national hero in less than 12 years.

5. With distinctive supermini styling and what are bound to be attractive prices, the Fabia at Frankfurt scored highly for its looks, interior space and high quality finish far removed from Skodas of old.

7. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту:

1. Whom was Mercedes-Benz, the SLR, built by in Britain, almost a year ago?

2. When does the coupe go on sale?

3 Why is Audi's smallest car also one of its technologically most important?

4 What cars are called smart city cars?

5 When was Ford founded?

6 When did Henry Ford's reign at the controls end?

7 Whom did Henry Ford's power pass to?

8. Составьте аннотацию на текст (2-3 предложения).

9. Составьте реферат на текст (10-15 предложений).

10. Составьте план текста и перескажите текст.

ВАРИАНТ 9

I.Прочитайте и переведите текст:

Mercury

Mercury, the wing-sandaled messenger, was the name given (on November 4, 1938) to a Ford with a different body. The Mercury really wasn't all that different from a regular Ford. This exercise by Ford was an early example of "badge engineering", the widespread practice of selling ostensibly identical cars with different marque names.

In this case, the idea was largely that of Edsel Ford, who identified a gap in the market for something slightly smarter than a regular Ford but not as luxurious or expensive as a Lincoln. Measured alongside GM's ranges, the Mercury would be in the same bracket as the eight-cylinder Pontiac but some way below the Oldsmobile.

Hence, Mercury was born out of market necessity and averaged about 80,000 cars a year in the early 1940s, a performance that placed it usually 12th or 13th in the industry sales league. Mercury brought Ford new business that would have been hard to win from within its normal model structure.

Fifty-six years on, Mercury is still with us - an important "alternative expression" of the Ford model range. Over that period there have been sticky moments and great cars, as well as some memorable flops. In the early 1990s, though, Mercury is once again living up to its name.

Pontiac

Edward M. Murphy founded the Pontiac Buggy Company in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1893. The town had taken its name from a mighty Native American chief who, 150 years before, had forged a powerful confederation of the Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawattomis and Miamis. However, when Murphy decided to go into the automobile business in 1907, he called his company Oakland. It wasn't until the middle of the 1920s that the name "Pontiac" was used on a car. This was the Pontiac Six of 1926. By then, Pontiac was part of General Motors. It remains the only company acquired by GM after its founding to have survived past 1940. It might have been otherwise. The Great Crash hit Pontiac especially hard, sales diving from 200,000 in 1929 to a little over 45,000 in 1932.

Certain collapse was averted by the canny policies of GM president Alfred P. Sloan, who combined Pontiac and Chevrolet manufacturing early in 1933 and saved money by sharing tooling, bodies, chassis, and other major components. What's more, he did it without seriously compromising the characters of either division.

Character has always been an important element of Pontiac - from the almost majesterial presence and elegance of the 1950s Chieftans and Streamliners to the swagger of the finned Bonneville, and from the underplayed potency of the Tempest GTO to the blatant exhibitionism of the Firebird. Pontiac has had its dull moments, but it enters the mid-'90s with a renewed sense of style and direction.

Chevrolet

Chevrolet packs more history into the first five years of its existence than most car makers manage in a lifetime. The story starts with two men: William Crapo Durant and Louis Chevrolet. Boston-born Durant was a Michigan-based industrialist who founded General Motors. Chevrolet was a Swiss-born mechanic and racing driver who was hired for the Buick team by Durant in 1908 as he assembled the elements for GM. In 1910, Durant's aggressive plans for rapid expansion lost him control of both Buick and the emergent GM, but he hadn't lost his burning ambition (now fueled by a determination to regain control of the corporate phenomenon he'd started) or the services of the talented Louis Chevrolet.

In October of the same year, having acquired a small garage on Detroit's Grand River Avenue, Durant set Chevrolet a challenge: to design and build a new car that would bear the Chevrolet name. Helping him in this endeavor was engineer Etienne Planche. Together they worked on designs for both four and six-cylinder engines. Durant liked the look of the six-cylinder design and gave the project the green light.

A press release dated May 30, 1911, disclosed the following: "W.C. Durant of the General Motors company and racer Louis Chevrolet, one of the speed wonders of the day and a co-worker with Mr. Durant in the manufacture and exploitation of fast cars, will establish a factory in Detroit for the manufacture of a new high-priced car... the Durant-Chevrolet."

Chrysler

Walter Percy Chrysler was an instinctive engineer. Born in 1875 in Ellis, Kansas, a farmer's son, his first job was as an engine cleaner in a locomotive workshop run by the Union Pacific Railroad. Soon, however, he became a master mechanic to several Midwest railroads.

But automobiles were his destiny. At the 1905 Chicago Show, he ordered a $5000 Locomobile, having borrowed some money from a banker friend, and never looked back.

He learned a lot from tinkering with the Locomobile and used his growing knowledge to secure the position of plant manager under Charles W. Nash, who he eventually supplanted as Buick president. But Chrysler often didn't see eye to eye with General Motors boss Billy Durant. So he quit to form his own car company.

By 1924, Chrysler had snapped up the weakened Maxwell and Chalmers concern and launched a new car under his own name. Although few would have guessed it at the time, the third of America's "Big Three" auto manufacturers had arrived.

With the help of three talented engineers - Carl Breer, Fred M. Zeder, and Owen R. Skelton - the new car would take full advantage of wartime developments in high-compression engine design. Zeder had already roughed-out a plan for a six-cylinder unit with a high-compression cylinder head based closely on the ideas of British engineer Harry Ricardo. This 70 bhp unit was developed to power the Chrysler Six, and although marked under the Maxwell banner it was the car that would set Chrysler on the road to success.

Dodge

John Francis and Horace Elsin - the Dodge brothers - left their birth-place of Niles, Michigan, in the early 1880s with the express intention of becoming engineers. They survived by working in the machine shops of Detroit and Windsor (in Canada), where they gained valuable experience.

In 1899, the brothers helped form the Evans and Dodge Bicycle Company in Windsor. Their first product was a four-point bearing bicycle of their own design. Small but significant success led to a take-over from a Canadian group, and the brothers moved back to Detroit where they established some of the best machine shops in town. They were soon churning out components for the fledgling automobile industry.

Today, Dodge is one of Chrysler's most successful divisions, and one of America's most exciting marques, but it still adheres to the principles of its founders: honest engineering, and high value for money. And with cars like the Viper RT/10 bearing its name, the future looks rosy indeed.