Task 5
Directions: The following is a preface to a book. After reading it, you are required to answer the questions that follow (No. 56 through No. 60). You should write your answers briefly on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
This practice book is intended for foreign engineers or students of engineering who have already mastered the elements of English, and who now want to use their knowledge of the language to read books on their own subjects. Readers should understand, however, that the purpose of the book is to teach language, not to teach engineering.
The language in which scientific and technical facts are expressed is certainly not a different language from that of everyday life, but all the same it presents the foreign students with a number of special problems. The most obvious and the most widely recognized of these problems is the vocabulary. Much more difficult are the semi-scientific or semi-technical words, which have a whole
Task 5
Directions: The following is a preface to a book. After reading it, you are required to answer the questions that follow (No. 56 through No. 60). You should write your answers briefly on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.
This practice book is intended for foreign engineers or students of engineering who have already mastered the elements of English, and who now want to use their knowledge of the language to read books on their own subjects. Readers should understand, however, that the purpose of the book is to teach language, not to teach engineering.
The language in which scientific and technical facts are expressed is certainly not a different language from that of everyday life, but all the same it presents the foreign students with a number of special problems. The most obvious and the most widely recognized of these problems is the vocabulary. Much more difficult are the semi-scientific or semi-technical words, which have a whole
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car engine idle a minute or two following cold stars. Today, with modern
technology, the opposite is true. An engine operating under road conditions will
warm up faster and run more efficiently than one that is idling. Idling just
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