The exercises to be done before reading the text. Упражнение 1. Прочтите слова запомните их русские эквиваленты

Упражнение 1. Прочтите слова запомните их русские эквиваленты.

technician — техник

deal with manufacturing cars - иметь дело с производством автомо­билей

work out the technology of manufacturing processes — разрабатывать технологию производственных процессов

put into mass production — запустить в массовое производство

subject to tests — подвергать испы­таниям

dependable brakes - надежные тор­моза

и словосочетания и

driving safety — безопасность упра­вления автомобилем

long service life - долгий срок службы

rapid acceleration — приемистость

ease of maintenance — простота техоб­служивания meet up-to-date demands (require­ments) — отвечать современным требованиям

be stable on the road — быть устойчи­вым на дороге ignition system — система зажигания

fuel consumption — расход топлива

car — легковой автомобиль truck - грузовой автомобиль

Упражнение 2. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на термины.

1. After graduating from the college I shall become a technician.

2. I shall deal with manufacturing cars.

3. The production of the automobile comprises five phases, such as: designing, working out the technology of manufacturing processes, laboratory tests, road tests, mass production.

4. The automobile of today must have high efficiency, long serv­ice life, driving safety, ease of maintenance and be stable on the road.

5.The automobile must meet up-to-date demands, that is, it must have rapid acceleration, smooth-acting clutch, silent gearbox, dependable braking and steering systems, dependable ignition system.

6.Before the car is put into mass-production it must be subjected to laboratory and road tests.

7.Technicians should know the technology of manufacturing processes.

Упражнение 3. Прочтите и переведите интернациональные слова.

Specialist, automobile, industry, production, phase, technology, process, test, mass, fact, service, comfortable, ecological, method, type, corrosion, material, optimal, problem, mechanism, control, system.

Упражнение 4*. Переведите слова, обращая внимание на значение суффиксов.

Industry — industrial; to produce — production — producer; to de­sign — designer; technology — technological — technologically; to re­quire — requirement; efficient — efficiency — efficiently; safe — safely — safety; to maintain — maintenance; comfort — comfortable; ecology — ecological; to resist — resistance — resistant; to operate — operation — operational; to accelerate — acceleration; to construct — construction.