Engineering MOSAIC. Мантатова С.С - 23 стр.

UNIT XVII                                                               improved its designs, and now again most US police departments use
Harley Davidson                                                         Harley-Davidsons.
Before you start                                                              3. One reason that the police needed the best, fastest motorbikes
1. What associations do you have when you hear the name Harley          they could find was to catch that other famous group of bike-riders,
Davidson?                                                               the Hell's Angels. Our image of motorbikes as the sign of a rebel
                                                                        goes back to the 1950s. It was then that the first motorbike gangs,
Vocabulary                                                              including the Hell's Angels, grew up, as young people looked for
2. Choose the correct meaning (a, b or c) of the words in italics:      excitement. The huge open spaces and long highways of America
1. recover            a) resume     b) restore     c) revive            seemed made for these gangs, who cruised in formation from town to
2. space              a) room       b) distance    c) area              town, causing terror wherever they went. Their bad reputation was
3. excitement         a) trouble    b) agitation c) adventure           not always justified but it quite often was. In 1969 the film Easy
4. rebel              a) inventor   b) criminal c) mutineer             Rider celebrated the biker lifestyle, and after that everyone wanted a
                                                                        'chopper' - motorbikes altered to make them look different from those
Reading                                                                 of ordinary people. In 1990 a subdivision was formed in Berlin. We'll
3. Read the text and answer the question: Why is Harley Davidson        be hearing a lot more of the heavy, rumbling engines of Harley
motorbike considered to be a sign of a rebel?                           Davidson from now on.

                                                                        Speaking
      1. Motorbikes are not just a means of getting from A to B. If     4. Answer the following questions:
you ride a motorbike, it says something about you: you're               1. What qualities do you pretend to have if you ride a motorbike
independent, wild, a rebel; and no one is more of a rebel than          Harley Davidson?
someone who rides a Harley Davidson. Perhaps that explains why          2. Why do the US police departments still prefer to use Harley
stars like Patrick Swayze and Micky Rourke would never be seen on       Davidson bikes?
anything else, and why pop star Billy Idol crashed one.                 3. How did Harley Davidson motorbikes influence the young people?
      2. In 1903, when Bill Harley and Arthur and Walter Davidson
made their first motorcycle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, the new       5. Discuss with your partner:
machines were more or less what their name suggested bicycles with      1. Would you like to own a motorbike?
engines. But by the 1930s, they were beginning to look like the solid   2. Why do you think some people prefer driving motorbikes rather
machines we know now. By this time the look of a motorbike was          than cars? Can you give any reasons for that?
important to designers and customers, and Harley Davidson paid
special attention to the finished appearance of their bikes. But they
were fast and efficient too. Before the 1970s, nearly all US police
bikes were Harley-Davidsons. Then the departments switched to
Kawasaki, as Japanese companies - with their better-built and
cheaper machines - took over. But the American company recovered,