«Английский контрольная СиБАДИ»

Экзаменационный билет № 1 (автомобили и автомобильное хозяйство- специальность) Вопрос №1 Прочитайте и переведите текст по специальности. THE EARLY DAYS OF THE AUTOMOBILE Like most other great human achievements, the motorcar is not the product of any single inventor. One of the earliest attempts to propel a vehicle by mechanical power was suggested by Isaac Newton. But the first self-propelled vehicle was constructed by the French military engineer Cugnot in 1763. He built a steam-driven engine carriage which had three wheels, carried two passengers and ran at maximum speed of four miles per hour. In 1784 the Russian inventor Kulibin built a three-wheeled carriage. In his vehicle he used for the first time such new elements as brakes, rollers and a gearbox. In 1825 a steam engine was built in Great Britain. The vehicle carried 18 passengers and covered 8 miles in 45 minutes. However, the progress of motorcars met with great opposition in Great Britain. Further development of motorcar lagged because of the restrictions resulting from legislative acts. The most famous of these acts was the Red Flag Act of 1865, according to which the speed of the steam-driven vehicles was limited to 4 miles per hour and a man with a red flag had to walk in front of it. In Russia there were cities where motorcars were outlawed altogether. When the editor of the local newspaper in the city of Uralsk bought a car, the governor issued these instructions to the police: "When the vehicle appears in the streets, it is to be stopped and escorted to the police station, where its driver is to be prosecuted." Вопрос №2 Найдите статью на английском языке по Вашему профилю объемом 1500-2000 знаков. Подготовьте реферирование данной статьи в соответствии с планом, изложенным в методических рекомендациях по аннотированию и реферированию.