Zadaa, Tehniki engleski I-S, 24.10. - 28.-10.

Make questions so that the underlined part of the sentence is the answer
to them.
1. What is FMT providing in South Yorkshire?
2. What are mechanical engineers involved in?
3. Why do many mechanichal engineers concetrate on research and
development?
4. What kind of skill and aptitude must they have?
5. Who has created most of modern technology?
6. What did we make a thourough analysis of ?
7. Where did GM introduce the impact electric vehicle?
8. What does the word gauge denote?
9. What is pure metal composed of ?
I. Match the words to their definitions.
1. Solution - a liquid mixed with a solid or gas, usually without a chemic
change
2. Copper - a reddish-brown metal used for making wires
3. Maintenance - looking after something in order to keep it in good
conditions
4. Cost-effective - bringing the best possible profits or advantages for the
lowest possible costs
5. Fuel - a substance that can be burnt to produce heat or energy
6. Extract- carefully remove a substance from another substance which
contains it, using a machine, chemical process, etc.
7. Convert - make something change from one form to another
8. Conduct - carry out, perform
9. Claim - state that something is true
10. Agent - a chemical or a substance that makes other substance change
III. A din gets power into a spin
Ambient noise could be converted into power via a spinning-top like device, says a Danish
university inventor. Yaroslav Zolotaryuk of the Technical University of Denmark used two
rectangular metal plates to turn the unpredictable vibrations from sound into motion.
Connected by a rod and springs, the upper plate picks up vibrations and transfers them to
lower one, which lies flat. Due to the layout of the springs, friction between the lower plate
and the surface below is such that it moves more smoothly in one direction rather than the
other. So it turns continuously in a circle rather than jumping randomly from the effects of the
vibrations. It is hoped that the device could eventually be used to collect useful energy from
sound.
IV. Air of optimism over fossil fuel

US Goverment researchers are attempting to develop a simple, cost-effective way to extract

carbon dioxide from the air. If the process is a success, scientists at the Los Alamos National
Library say it would reduce the build-up of greenhouse gases, allowing fossil fuel use to
continue. The air is passed over an extraction agent such as a solution of quicklime, allowing
the carbon dioxide to react with the substance and become calcium carbonate. This is heated
to convert it back to quicklime, and carbon dioxide gas, which can be captured and put to
another use. If conducted on a large enough scale, researchers claim atmospheric carbon
dioxide could be cut to pre-industrial Age levels.
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Researchers are using a new

copper skin of the statue, also known
Liberty. The device built by Texas
precise shape of the Statue of
laser-mapping tool to record
pulses of laser light off the undulating
different locations around its base.
Tech University, bounces millions of
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By measuring the time it takes

a millionth of a second, it can
make a scan of Hearst Castle in
Anasazi civilisation in New Mexico.
for the light to be reflected, less than
within a quarter of an inch. The
California and the ruins of the ancient
information will be used for
The researchers also plan to
maintenance purposes.
calculate the statue's dimensions to