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Decide whether the following statements are true, false or vague.

1. Machine building in Belarus being highly intellectual creative activity is very limited.

2. The leading sectors in the machine-building are motor industry, instrument-making and electrical industries, radio electronics, tractor and agricultural machinery engineering.

3. The first tractors were large, six-wheeled machines driven by fuel.

4. Power is generated through a rotating shaft to a gearbox having eight to 16 speeds and through a differential gear to the rear wheels.

5. Contemporary tractors are provided with precision steering, electronic and microprocessor-based controls, reinforced cabs and frames for safety.

6. All-purpose tractors do planting, cultivating and harvesting.

7. Crawler tractors are used for heavy jobs, for land clearing, and for work on soft or rugged land.

8. Production Association Gomselmash produces truck tractors, side trucks and heavy-duty trucks.

9. The Belarusian machine-tool plants produce only consumer goods.

10. Various kinds of trucks and trains for interurban and international freight traffic, lumber carriers, trailers and semitrailers, city and international coaches are manufactured in Belarus.

 

Answer the following questions.

1. What does machine-building in Belarus include?

2. What are the leading sectors in the machine-building?

3. What is the difference between the first and modern tractors?

4. Why do many farmers prefer four-wheel drive?

5. What are the most interesting features of contemporary tractors?

6. Why do many farmers use all-purpose tractors?

7. What does a tractor consist of?

8. What role do farm machines play in agriculture?

9. What modifications of special vehicles were started up by the Minsk Wheeled Tractor Plant?

10. What tractors does the Minsk Tractor Works produce?

11. What do the Belarusian machine-tool plants produce? Where are they situated?

12. What kinds of trucks and trains are produced in Belarus?

 

Complete the grid. Look at these six clues and fill in the answers in the spaces provided below. You will find that you make a term-word in the vertical box. (You may hope for the key)

1. The hobby, sport or profession of driving motor-cars in races (6)

2. Provide (seats, etc) with padding, springs, covering material (10)

3. Apparatus for giving light (4)

4. Working, being in action (9)

5. That which makes things visible (5)

6. Set of toothed wheels, mechanism (4)

 

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Match the words with the synonyms.
1) contemporary 5) apply a) aim e) difficult
2) complex 6) produce b) comprise f) works
3) purpose 7) enterprise c) modern g) main
4) consist of 8) major d) manufacture h) use

 

Match the words with the antonyms.

1) leading 5) increase a) worsen e) exclude
2) include 6) export b) similar f) basic
3) improve 7) auxiliary c) approximation g) import
4) diverse 8) precision d) backward h) decrease

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