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Text:
Hybrid-Electric Cars
Grammar:
1 The use of words it, that, one.
2 Compound Conjunctions and Prepositions.
3
Construction there + predicate.
Vocabulary
|
propulsion |
– силовая
установка |
|
mileage |
– пробег |
|
to
squeeze |
– сжимать,
выжимать |
|
to
dissipate |
– рассеивать |
|
to
capture |
– собирать |
|
to
charge |
– заряжать |
|
drag |
– сопротивление |
|
disturbance |
– помеха |
|
to
eliminate |
– устранять,
удалять |
|
mode |
– режим
|
|
traction |
– сила
сцепления (машины с дорогой) |
|
cover |
– декоративный
колпак колеса |
|
stiff |
– устойчивый,
жесткий |
|
to
inflate |
– накачивать
|
|
carbon |
– углерод
|
|
fiber |
– волокно
|
|
conventional |
– обычный
|
|
to
release |
– выбрасывать,
выделять |
|
resistance |
– сопротивление |
|
to
shut
off |
– останавливать
|
|
to
recover |
– добывать,
восстанавливать. |
Read
and translate the text and then do the following exercise.
Text
Hybrid-Electric
Cars
At
the start of the 21st
century the trends of global trade and manufacturing flexibility
continue. Computerization continues to be a major part of auto
design and manufacture, as do the search for alternative fuels
and more efficient utomobile design.
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