Вопрос № 223846 - Английский язык

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Marie, accountant
“I work in the finance department of a large company. There are a lot of benefits. For example, if the company makes a profit, all the employees get a bonus. We also get a pension and private health insurance. The company pays for its staff to go on training courses to develop their professional skills. And we get free membership of the local gym.”
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Why does the company pay for training courses?

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Caroline Delon
“I’ve worked for about twelve years now, since I left university. I went to university and studied languages – English and Spanish – and business administration. When I left I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew the jobs I didn’t want. I never wanted a boring job in an office. I wanted to meet people, travel, use my languages. I took lots of temporary jobs, just to earn some money. I was a waitress, I served behind a barand, I worked as a guide for a travel company. Then I got a job as a secretary with an advertising agency. One of the clients of the advertising agency was the film company, called Talking Pictures, and I started working for them. I stayed there for quite a long time – about 5 years – as the Personal Assistant to the Managing Director.”
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How many jobs did Caroline Delon have?

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Concrete is the name of artificial stone. The materials from which concrete is formed are sand, pieces of broken stone and cement mixed with water in suitable proportions. These materials are called ingredients of concrete. The sand and broken stone form the skeleton of concrete. Dry cement is an inert powder, but on the addition of water a chemical reaction takes place.
This causes the whole mix to set and harden forming a solid mix.
Water used in concrete mix is ordinary drinking water. It must be free from any impurities. The amount of water added influences the properties of concrete. Concrete products must be manufactured according with existing standards. Having chosen component materials builders must be well familiar with technology of concrete and use them in correct proportions.
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Which materials form the skeleton of concrete?

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One of the centres of the American automobile industry is Detroit. It is located in the southeast of Michigan, on the Detroit River, connecting Lakes Erie and St. Clair, right opposite Windsor, in Canada. It was founded in 1701 by a French trader Antoine de la Monte Cadillac, who built a fort on the river. Later, thanks to Henry Ford, Detroit became the leading centre of the automobile industry. Today about 34.000 cars are produced here every day.
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Whom was Detroit founded by?

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Charles Makintosh was a chemist by profession. He worked in textile industry and in 1823 he developed a rubber solution used for raincoat production. Raincoats with this rubber solution didn’t allow water to penetrate. These raincoats were called makintoshes and people use them in rainy weather.

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The power may come, for example, from an animal as in the case of a horse-drawn cart, from wind as for the sailing ship and windmill. Here the man is fully responsible for controlling the system but he requires devices such as switches, pedals and steering wheels to control the power system.