Вариант №6
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Tomorrow’s transport
What will cities of the future look like? Town planners are thinking of new methods of construction and transportation.
The moving pavement is one possibility. It consists of several strips moving along at different speeds. These escalators are moving in both directions along all streets. On reaching his destination the passengers step over the slower strip and there to firma. (неподвижная земля)
For convenience these moving pavements may be supplied with chairs, benches, vending machines selling soft drinks, ice-cream, candy and so on.
The first lines of such moving pavements should appear in the streets, which have the heaviest traffic and are the most dangerous for pedestrians. In the beginning they will replace the older forms of city traffic only in certain streets, but then they will appear in a single system serving the centre of the city. Buses, trolley-buses and motor-cars will be forced out as the trams are forced out of the centre of many cities now.
What will the car of the future be like? It probably won’t be red. Our response to colours isn’t always the same. If you want people to stop when they see a car in front of them, yellow is probably the best. When you go for a drive in the car of tomorrow you will certainly know more about the road in front of you. Your car radio will tell you about the next corner before you can see it. It will pick this up from a wire under the road. When you stop quickly, the light that tells the man behind you to be careful will spread across the car. At the same time a bag in front of you will fill up with air to stop you hitting your head on the window. What will the car of the future run on? Not petrol, which is dirty and noisy. In future we’ll probably have electric cars. As a rule the electric car can only make a short journey before going back to the garage. Or steam cars. That too would be quiet and clean. But in England there is a farmer who has invented a car that runs on manure (навоз) and he drives to London in it every week.
Trains of the future. What about long-distance travel? Consider the “tube-train” suspended and propelled by compressed air. It many carry passengers on trips at 350 miles an hour. This idea is materialised in a 12-foot long model of a strange new aluminium torpedo train. The full-size train will run through an 18 foot-diameter metal tube, while big propellers pump the air from the front to the rear. A tube system has many advantages: a tube train makes little noise; the tube can be suspended, buried (зд. подземный) or even run through buildings; maintenance cost of this train will be low and passengers will be protected from bad weather.
Упражнение 1. Поставьте глагол в правильную форму в страдательном залоге.
1. When/ Australia/ discover?
2. Don’t go in there now a new programme/record.
3. When you go through customs, your luggage may/check/by a customs officer
4. This book/write/before the author became famous.
5. This article/ be/ often /refer to.
6. There’s somebody behind us. I think/we/follow.
7. In the United States, elections for President/hold/every four years.
8. We were driving along quite fast but we/overtake/by lost of other cars.
9. This house is quite old. It /build/in 1930.
10. There’s no need to leave a tip. Service /include/in the bill.
Упражнение 2.Выберите сказуемое в предложении, определите его время и залог.
1. The researchers are conducting the tests of new devices in the laboratory now.
2. The tests of new devices are being conducted by the researches now.
3. The students have made experiments successfully.
4. We have been learning English for 2 years already.
5. The tools are made of steel.
Упражнение 3.Найдите и назовите в первом ряду глаголы, относящиеся к группе Continuous, во втором – к группе Perfect, в третьем – к группе Perfect Continuous, и в четвертом ряду – к группе Simple.
I
was resulted in
will result in
are being resulted in
has been resulted in
resulted in
am resulting in
had resulted in
were resulting in
II
shall do
had done
shall have been done
was being done
will have done
do
has been doing
is doing
III
have been carried out,
will have carried out,
are carrying out,
carries out,
has carried out,
will have been carrying out,
were carrying out,
had been carrying out
IV
was making
have made
makes
was being made
is made
had been made
has been making
shall be made
Упражнение 4.Подобрать предложения из раздела A, корреспондируемые с предложениями из раздела B.
А.
1. The international exchange programmes will be developed still further in future.
2. These calculations are very complex.
3. Programming languages offer various ways for a programmer to state precisely the order of instructions.
4. This quantity is derived from the above equation.
5. I hope we shall soon solve this task
6. He looked through the morning newspapers at breakfast.
7. The lectures on mathematics were attended by all the students.
8. If I fm not mistaken, this book is often reffered to.
9. The development of digital technology for communication purposes is being studied with great interest.
10. Scientists have developed new generations of computers.
B.
a. Sunlight is converted into electrical power by special solar panels.
b. Are you being waited for at present?
c. They bought the new computer last week.
d. The structure of this device is very complex.
e. He was listened to with great attention.
f. The young workers are trained to use the new equipment.
g We shall soon begin the new experiments.
h. Electronics has made a rapid progress.
i. All the work will be done by automatic machinery.
k. The laboratory assistant always fixes the devices himself.