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1. Difficult Sentences 1) Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world’s biggest manufacturing industry. How do you understand the word stand?(= Stand is used to show a particular level or amount. For example: Inflation currently stands at nine per cent. Your bank balance stands at $460.) 2) The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be sensors. Paraphrase the sentence and pay attention to the structure the key to sth. (=The crucial element of the future smart cars will be sensors.) 3) Should you make a serious driving mistake (e.g., change lanes when there is a car in your “blind spot”) the computer would sound an immediate warning. Analyze the structure of this sentence. (= “Should” is often used in subordinate clauses after if--it makes an event sound less probable. For example: If you should see Harry, give him my regards. (You might see him.) In British English, the structure “if + subject + should + verb” is often replaced by “Should + subject + verb”. For example: Should you see Harry, give him my regards.) 4) To eliminate this, a tiny camera hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a driver’s face and eyes. (= Here train means to focus on or aim at.) 5) Sensors in your car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic jams. Analyze this sentence. (= There are sensors in the car and they are tuned to radio signals which come from orbiting satellites. The sensors can locate the car and warn of traffic jams.) 6) Some of them locate a car’s position by correlating the rotations in the steering wheel to its position on a map. Explain how the navigational facilities help locate the car’s position. (= They locate the car’s position by establishing the relation between the rotations in the wheel and the car’s position on a map. ) 7) The commercial industry is poised to explode. 1. What does the commercial industry refer to? (= It refers