Look up the meanings of these words in a dictionary, if necessary. How are they translated in the sentences below? Mind the word order

1. The fuel-and-energy balance is important for industry.

2. Conductivity increases with heating.

3. The machine should be re-fuelled.

4. The amount of power used in the world in a year amounts to 12,000 million tons of equivalent fuel.

5. Water barriers are crossed by submarine cables.

6. The instrument is foot-controlled by a pedal.

7. Force and motion go together; one is a cause, the other, a result.

8. An electromotive force causes the electrons to move.

9. Control of the apparatus is placed on the panel.
10. The volt is a measure of electromotive force.

80 eighty['eiti]

90 ninety['namti]

100 hundred[tiAndrad]

1000 thousand[Gauzand]

27 twenty-seven

51 fifty-one

118 one hundred and eighteen

365 three hundred and sixty-five

1,674 one thousand six hundred and seventy-four

5,803 five thousand eight hundred and three

75,000 seventy-five thousand

16. Read the following extracts aloud:

1. The initial world supply of minable coal amounted to 7.64 x10 metric tons, of which 65 percent occur in Asia, 27 percent in North Amer­ica, 5 percent in Western Europe, and only 2.4 percent in the three coun­tries of Africa, South America and Australia.

2. There has been a continuous trend toward higher transmission volt­ages ever since the first ac power plant was built in 1886. By 1900 trans­mission lines at 40,000 volts were carrying power for distances up to 75 miles (120 km). In 1916 a 132,000-volt line was built to carry power for a distance of 55 miles (90 km). In 1948 the record was held by a 220,000 volt line. In 1948 the Hoover Dam's hydroelectric plant was sending power over a 287,000-volt line to Los Angeles, about 275 miles (440 km) away. By 1959 maximum transmission voltages had increased to 345,000 volts.

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—1796

In that year, in the United States there were 320,000 miles (515,000 km) of transmission lines carrying power at voltages above 23,000 volts and more than 3 million miles (4.8 million km) of distribution lines at 22,000 volts or less. By 1970, 560 miles (900 km) of transmission lines carrying power at 765,000 volts had been constructed. A transmission line operating at such a high voltage has the capability to carry enough power to meet the needs of a city with a population of one million people.

By 1990 10,200 miles (16,400 km) of 765,000-volt transmission lines had been built in the US.