Свое состояние перед экзаменом

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Talking Instrument Panels

For a few years now some of the most advanced new automobiles

have been equipped with instrument panels that can «speak»

providing instrument readings or safety warnings from special electronic

circuits.

In a polite female voice, the device will report on engine oil

pressure, parking-brake and headlight operation, seat belt connection,

totalling 14 different functions. The driver can even program

the Voice Warning System to announce the time or to give a

low-fuel warning for any preset gas tank level. The heart of the

Voice Warning System is a microprocessor-based electronic speech

module made by National Semiconductor Соф. (US). The device

requires the connection of 18 wires, but it is simple enough to install

in a car.

Text 7D

Testing Times

Exam stress doesn't occur most strongly during the actual exams

but in the few weeks just before them. The climax is usually the

night before when last minute preparations confirm your worst

fears (страх). There are, however, some simple ways of dealing

with the problem.

First, one must know that the night before is too late to do anything.

Much better to go to a dance, for a walk, to the pictures or to

play a game rather than increase stress by frantic efforts to plug in

gaps (затыкать пробелы) in your knowledge.

The brain is a complex bio-electrical machine which, like a

computer, can be overloaded. It does not work continuously. When

you study, your brain reaches its maximum eflTiciency about five

minutes you start work, stays at it for about ten minutes and then it

is down. Indeed, after thirty minutes your attention wonders (отвлекаться),

your memory shuts off, and boredom (скука) sets in.

For this reason, the best way to study is in half-hour sessions

with gaps in between of about the same length. It even helps to

change subjects and not keep at the same one since it reduces the

boredom factor.

Study stress was experienced by Isaac Newton, the greatest

mathematical genius, and by Einstein. Newton had a depression after

his efforts on gravity.

Einstein had no such difficulty: he would break off and go sailing

or play violin — not very well, he said, but it was very comforting.

The lesson here is clear. To avoid exam stress, you have to tell

that what you are doing is fun (забава) and the best way to do this

is to treat revision as a game. If you stimulate your brain with short,

snappy (энергичный) sessions, you will be surprised how quick

and sharp you are. A laugh with friends or a walk through the country

is really giving your mind the recreation it needs.

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7А и постарайтесь понять значения выделенных слов.

1. for long journeys in cars

2. arriving at the motorway

3. the fuel left in the tank

4. the radar aerial

5. the radar only observes objects ahead of

6. stationary objects

7. the red light and buzzer warn

8. satellite will indicate the route

B. Подберите к выделенному в А слову или словосочетанию соответствующее

ему по значению.

a. container for liquid or gas

b. electrical device that produces a sound signal

с way taken or planned from one place to another

d. see, watch carefully objects in front of

e. not moving or changing

f. reach a wide road for continuously moving fast vehicles

g. travel to a distant place

h. antenna

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