8. Прочитайте тексты еще раз, сформулируйте, как сделать автомобиль современным и эффективным транспортным средством.

9. Прочитайте текст «Pollution». Укажите отрицательные стороны транспорта. Pollution

The British, like many other Europeans, are becoming more and more worried (беспокоиться) about their environment. Here are some of the environmental problems that they face.

As the population of large cities like London, Birmingham and Manchester continues to grow, pollution problems become worse.

The air in many towns and cities is being polluted by traffic (транспорт, движение) and industry. The number of cars and lorries is growing all the time. On the one hand, they bring mobility to millions of people, but on the other hand, they need bigger, better and more expensive roads, which often ruin the countryside (сельская местность). Traffic in cities is getting worse. Water pollution has become a serious problem in many British rivers. People living near airports suffer from the noise of increasingly larger and more powerful jet airliners taking off and landing.

10. Прочитайте следующий текст. Передайте по-английски основное содержание. Talking Instrument Panels

For a few years now some of the most advanced new automobiles have been equipped with instrument panels that can “speak” providing instrument readings or safety warnings from special electronic circuits.

In a polite female voice, the device will report on engine oil pressure, parking-brake and headlight operation, seat belt connection, totaling 14 different functions. The driver can even program the Voice Warning System to announce the time or to give a low-fuel warning for any preset gas tank level.

The heart of the Voice Warning System is a microprocessor-based electronic speech module made by National Semiconductor Corporation (US). The device requires the connection of 18 wires, but it is simple enough to install in a car.

Road-building machinery

1. Прочитайте следующие слова и словосочетания. Найдите их перевод в словаре.

a)
road building	[rud bldŋ]
highway construction	[hawe knstrk()n]
construction projects	[knstrk()n prekts]
labour-consuming process	[leb-knsju:mŋ pruses]
technology-completed	[teknl kmpl:td]
machines	[m:nz]
highly-efficient machines	[hal f()nt m:nz]
earth-moving machines	[:-mu:vŋ m:nz]
versatile machines	[v:stal]
machinery	[mnr]
road building machinery	[rudbldŋ mnr]
excavating machinery	[ekskvetŋ mnr]
crawler / wheel type tractor	[kr:l / w:l tap trækt]
b)
bulldozer	[bulduz]
grader	[red]
scraper	[skrep]
crane	[kren]
shovel	[vl]
skimmer	[skm]
trencher	[tren]
attachment	[tæment]
blade	[bled]
c)
to belong	[blŋ]
to become	[bkm]
to carry out	[kær aut]
to dig	[d]
to divide (into) – to be divided	[dvad / b dvadd]
to handle	[hændl]
to haul	[h:l]
to maintain	[men’ten]
to mount	[maunt]
to produce	[prdju:s]
to serve	[s:v]
to use	[ju:z]
d)
in order to	[ndt]
by means of	[bam:nzv]
with the aid of	[wðedv]