Automobile Basics Exercises

     1. Please answer the following two questions.

    1) Identify and locate the most important parts of a vehicle.

    2) Describe the purposes of the fundamental automotive systems.

    2. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

    1) By definition an automobile or car is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own motorand transports passengers. The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single dayby a single inventor. The history of the automobile reflects an evolution that took placeworldwide.

    2) It is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile. You canpoint to the many firsts that occurred along the way to producing the modern car; and withthat goal in mind，highlighted below are articles，biographies，timelines，and photogalleries related to the history of the automobile and its many inventors.

    3) A multi-part feature of the history of automobiles starts with the first steam，electrical，and gasoline-engine cars. Learn the controversy behind what was the first car inhistory and the importance of the internal-combustion engine. The lives of many famousautomotive makers are explored in detail with special pages on the assembly line, the

origins of the name automobiles, the patent disputes, and more.

    4) The term motorcar has also been used in the context of electrified rail systems todenote a car which functions as a small locomotive but also provides space for passengersand baggage.  These locomotive cars were often used on suburban routes by bothinterurban and intercity railroad systems.

    5) There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car pereleven people)．Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks onthe road in 2007；the engines of these burn over a billion cubic meters（260 billion USgallons) of petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly,especially in China and India.