Word building
4.2 Form the adjectives from the following nouns. Consult a dictionary if necessary:
Noun | Adjective |
accuracy | |
integrity | |
reliability | |
availability | |
precision | |
efficiency | |
application | |
sequencing | |
productivity |
4.3 Match up the words which are opposite in meaning:
Proper, precise, worldwide, occasional, allied, significant, transmit, incorporate, exclude, receive, constant, approximate, unimportant, rival, incorrect, local.
4.4 Match up the words which have similar meanings:
Assistance, azimuth, perform, inseparable, regulate, support, enhance, stellar, yearly, maintain, annual, inherent, adjust, augment, altitude, sidereal, aid, implement.
4.5 Match the following words with their Russian equivalents:
столкновение sequence
совместимый collision
последовательность alert
поддерживать compatible
предсказывать maintain
подчеркивать estimate
настраивать accelerate
ускорять adjust
оценивать underscore
предупреждать forecast
4.6 Guess the words by their definition:
1) Something useful.
2) Height above the sea-level.
3) One of several parts or sections into which an object is divided.
4) The curved path, usually elliptical, followed by a planet, satellite, comet, etc., in its motion around another celestial body under the influence of gravitation.
5) A single piece of information.
6) Any conveyance in or by which people or objects are transported.
7) The wide end of a cathode-ray tube, on which a visible image is formed.
8) The limits within which a thing can function effectively.
9) The unlimited three-dimensional expanse in which all material objects are located.
4.7 Read text A and match the headings (a-d) with the paragraphs(1-4).
b) GPS augmentations.
b) Roads & Highways.
c) What is GPS?
d) Timing.