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Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1: Test Yourself
- vent
- Modern F1 cars are usually monocoque designs.
- My Lamborghini has a manual gearbox.
- aerodynamics
- Some Citroen cars have special hydraulics.
- torque
- Ferrari has developed a new chassis.
- Aerodynamics plays an important role in F1 racing.
- The vehicle's cornering ability was highly improved.
- belt line
- hood
- The handling of my new Honda is excellent.
- red line
- I would like to by a drop-top Porsche.
- power-train
- valve
- traction
- A power-train is a set of components that generates power.
- What is the traction of this vehicle?
- fuel injection
- Louis Hamilton starts from the pole position.
- down-force
- drop-top
- Let's have a look what's under the hood.
- What's the durability of your new Honda?
- Warm-up lap
- hydraulics
- monocoque
- The compound of the tyres is secret.
- My new Honda has a silver belt line.
- chassis
- The ground effect gets stronger with higher speed.
- Diesel engines have great torque.
- compound
- She was driving at the red line of her engine.
- gearbox
- Look at my new 16 valve Honda.
- handling
- pole position
- Wet tyres have a special groove pattern.
- durability
- Sorry, the vent is broken.
- ground effect
- My new Honda has fuel injection.
- cornering
- The down-force grows with the speed.
- groove
- During the warm-up lap speed is usually low.
Grammar Practice
Exercise 3: Substitution
- Watching Charlie Chaplin is as funny as watching Laurel and Hardy.
- Shepherd's pie is not as tasty as sushi.
- London is not as big as Istanbul.
- I was not as lucky as my brother who won 1000 pounds in lottery.
- The weather today is not as hot as the weather yesterday.
- She doesn't work as hard as she used to.