Cars: Passion or Problem

For some people, the car is a convenient form of transportation. But for others, the car is an exciting hobby. Some people spend their lives collecting valuable cars. Others drive them in races. For many people cars are more than transportation: they are a source of passion and pleasure. Yet cars can also be a source of many problems.

In 1903, Henry Ford began selling Model T car for $825. His company, Ford Motors, was the first to produce cars in large numbers. This made the car available to large numbers of people and helped them to travel long distances quickly and easily. The car has brought people much closer to places of work, study, and entertainment. Many people also work in car-related industries: fixing cars, washing cars, advertising cars, and selling car products such as stereos and cellular phones. Most Americans buy a new car every five or six years. This means that one American may own a dozen cars in a lifetime. In fact, there are more cars than people in the United States. In New York City, 2.5 million cars move in and out of the city each day. In this traffic, the average speed is sometimes 8.1 miles per hour. This speed could easily be reached by riding a horse instead of driving a car. But New Yorkers continue to drive, just as people do in California, where freeways are often crowded. Many people are unhappy with car traffic and pollution, as well as with the use of beautiful land for building new roads. Cars are important to nearly everyone, including engineers, businesspeople, environmentalists, and even poets. Poet Curt Brown believes that cars are part of our passion for new places and new experiences. According to Brown, this “very,

very comfortable flying chair” will continue to bring us travel and adventure, no matter how it changes the future.

Fixing cars - ремонт автомобилей

A cellular phone - сотовый телефон

A freeway - автострада

Crowded - перегружены

An environmentalist - эколог

Задание № 11. Закончите предложение, выбрав соответствующий вариант

окончания.

For many people, cars are more than transportation: …

many people also work in car industries

they are a source of passion and pleasure

many people are unhappy with car traffic and pollution

Задание № 12. Перепишите вопросы к тексту и письменно ответьте на них.

Is the car a convenient form of transportation?

Can cars also be a source of many problems?

What company was the first to produce cars in large numbers?

What are many people unhappy with?

Who are cars important to?

Вариант № 7

Задание № 1. Выберите соответствующее местоимение. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык.

(Somebody, anything, something) took place there.

We've got a problem. I hope you can help (me, us, them).

She climbed out of the swimming pool and dried (itself, herself, myself) with a

towel.

You can give him advice but he won't listen. He's got (their, his, my) own ideas. 57

Задание № 2. Выберите нужный предлог in, with, on, to, about. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык.

What are you doing... Saturday?

It was a lovely day. There wasn't a cloud... the sky.

I was delighted... the present you gave me.

I’m sorry... the noise last night.

Your writing is similar... mine.

Задание № 3. Закончите разделительные вопросы и перепишите их.

The research was carried out under great difficulty,...?

We are only at the beginning of the application of atomic energy,...?

New York makes a great impression on all visitors,...?

Smog can be harmful, even deadly,...?

Architects have done some very good work in designing new schools,...?

Задание № 4. Поставьте предложения с модальными глаголами в прошедшем или будущем времени, используя слова, данные в скобках. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык.

The developer must familiarize himself with the development plan of the area

(tomorrow).

Land may be sold for construction projects (in a few weeks).

Developers can build production plants on land (a year ago).

Задание № 5. Выберите действительную или страдательную форму глагола и переведите предложения на русский язык.

The master plan also (is defined, defines) places for active and passive

recreation.

This house is quite old. It (built, was built) over 100 years ago.

They (are being built, are building) a new road round the city.

A decision (won't be made, won’t make) until the next meeting.

Задание № 6. Переделайте предложения из действительного залога в страдательный, сохраняя видовременную форму сказуемого. Переведите полученные предложения на русский язык.

Most town planners accept the traditional town pattern.

They have built a new hospital near the airport.

Somebody was recording our conversation.

We gave the information to the police.

People don't use this road very often. 58

Задание № 7. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык. Выпишите из каждого глагол – сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Напишите форму инфинитива глагола.

A new bridge was built across the river.

Drivers are asked to use an alternative route if possible.

Have you ever been on a ferry?

I’ve been translating songs since my youth.

I can recommend you a good book.

Some people became famous due to their hobbies.

Задание № 8. Выберите нужную форму глагола. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык. Выберите требуемую по смыслу форму глагола и переведите предложения на русский язык.

If you (turn) off lights when not in use, you (save) energy.

If he (repair) taps, he (save) water.

I wish he (arrive) next week.

If Marie (have) a ticket, she (go) to the opera. She didn't buy the ticket.

Задание № 9. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык. Выпишите причастный (Absolute Participle Construction) или инфинитивный (Complex Object, Complex Subject) оборот и определите его тип.

All preparations being made, we went on an excursion.

I expect you to be on time.

He is said to learn foreign languages quickly.

Задание № 10. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

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