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What electronic devices are used in modern cars?

• a new type of vehicle and its much more efficient use

• a computer, fuel adjusting devices, an electronic instrument panel for indicating the speed, time, distance covered and fuel left

• ceramics

• cryogenic fuels

What is the main function of a radar for a car?

• developing an economical engine

• fuel adjusting device

• control system ensuring diagonal and side movements

• detecting all possible dangers ahead of the vehicle on a road

What is one of the ways to make a hypersonic liner as economical as possible?

• a hypersonic passenger liner

• a ventilator propeller engine

• using new composite materials

• cryogenic fuels

What will be used for cooling a hypersonic craft?

• cryogenic fuels

• a ventilator propeller engine

• an economical engine

• heat insulating materials

What apparatuses are used for exploring the ocean depths at present?

• an advanced manned submersible

• a battery-operated electric motor

• non-military submersibles

• robotic manipulators

What countries are developing such submersibles?

• Russia, the USA, France and Japan

• Austria, Belgium and Canada

• Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Russia

• Germany and Sweden

What can be done by means of a laser?

• light amplification

• great technological difficulties and great cost

• light of pure single colour

• vaporizing the hardest materials

What field of science studies the phenomenon of superconductivity?

• chemistry

• physics

• mathematics

• biology

What scientists worked in the field of superconductivity research?

• Luis W. Alvarez, Carl David Anderson and Elda Emma Anderson

• Dutch physicist K. Onnes, Russian physicists L. Landau and V. Ginzburg, and a number of American scientists

• Louis Winslow Austin, Ian Barbour and John Bardeen

• Georg von Békésy, Willard Harrison Bennett and Jeremy Bernstein

What is the ISS?

• the most complex and expensive structure in space and research facility orbiting the Earth

• the loss of electrical resistivity by a material on being cooled to temperatures near absolute zero

• nuclear research, power generation, electronics

• five times the Mir station size