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companies began to plan for a future without gasoline. The
General Motors Company had plans to develop an electric car
by 1980; however, oil became available again, and this car was
never produced.
Today there is a new interest in the electric car, which is
partly related to a passion for speed and new technology. In
1977, engineer Paul MacCready, designed a human-powered
airplane that successfully completed a three-mile flight. A
similar airplane crossed the English Channel in 1977, followed
by a solar-powered airplane. In 1987, the Sunraycer, a solar-
powered car, won a 2,000-mile race in Australia. As a result of
this success, the General Motors Company began new work on
the development of the electric car. The Toyota Company
recently decided to spend $800 million a year on the
development of new car technology. Many engineers believe
that the electric car will lead to other forms of technology being
used for transportation.
Cars may change, but their importance will not. Cars are
important to nearly everyone, including engineers,
businesspeople, environmentalists, and even poets. Poet Curt
Brown believes that cars are part of our passion for new places
and new experiences. According to Brown, this "very, very
comfortable flying chair" will continue to bring us travel and
adventure, no matter how it changes in the future.
II. Reading for main ideas.
1. Number the following main ideas in the right order.
a. To some people cars are more the transportation
b. Cars will always be important
c. People in the US need cars to go to school, work, places of
entertainment.
d. Soon there will be no oil to fuel cars.
e. Cars can cause different various problems.
f. Some people think of how to live without cars.
2. Read the following statements and cross out the details that
are not included in the article.
a. There are more cars then people in the world today
b. Two and a half million cars pass through New York City each
day.
c. Travel is sometimes slow because of traffic.
d. Cars were first produced in large numbers by Ford Motors.
e. The first electric cars were faster then gasoline-powered cars.
f. The General Motors Company produced an electric car.
Text 4
THE MIND MACHINE?
I. Before reading.
1. Read the headline of the article and say what it will be about
using the choice below:
a. the work of the brain
b. the experiments on the brain
c. the problems with the brain
d. brain and computer
2. Read the article and say if your predictions were correct.
Although intelligence has been studied, and the brain has been
studied, there is little understanding of how the brain works to
produce intelligence. This has something to do with the fact that
the brain contains around 100 billion cells (about the number of
stars in the Milky Way).
One of the continuing myths about the relationship between
intelligence and the brain is that the brains of very clever people
are somehow physically different from those of ordinary people.
At the beginning of the century an American scientist called E.A.
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