Author: Dudoué
Company: Education Nationale

BTS Génie Mécanique - Session 2005
Epreuve d'anglais (groupeMENT 17 de 21 BTS)

Durée 2 heures - Coefficient 2

Assistant en création industrielle 
Conception de produits industriels 
Conception et réalisation de carrosseries 
Constructions navales 
Etude et réalisation d'outillages de mise en forme des matériaux 
Industries céramiques 
Industries des matériaux souples 
Industries papetières 
Maintenance et après vente automobile 
Maintenance et après-vente des engins de travaux publics et de manutention 
Maintenance industrielle 
Mécanique et automatismes industriels 
Mise en forme des alliages moulés 
Mise en forme des matériaux par forgeage 
Microtechniques 
Moteurs à combustion interne 
Plasturgie 
Productique bois et ameublement 
Productique mécanique 
Réalisation d'ouvrages chaudronnés 
Traitement des matériaux 

Dictionnaire bilingue autorisé. Tout autre matériel est interdit.
CRASHED CARS TO TEXT MESSAGE FOR HELP 
By James RANDERSON
There is no good place to have a car crash - but some places are worse than others. In a foreign country, for instance, trying to explain via cell-phone that you are upside down in a ditch when you cannot speak the local language can fatally delay the arrival of the emergency services.
But an answer may be at hand. Researchers funded the European Commission are beginning tests in January of a system called E-merge that automatically senses when a car has crashed and sends a text message telling emergency services in the local language that the accident has taken place.
The system was developed by a transport research organisation based in Brussels, Belgium. Cars are fitted with a cell-phone-sized device attached to the underside of the dashboard, which is activated by the same sensor that triggers the airbag in a crash. The device includes a cell-phone circuit, a GPS positioning unit, and a microphone and loudspeaker.
It registers the severity of the crash by reading the deceleration data from the airbag's sensor. Using GPS information, it works out which country the car is in, and from this it determines in which language to compose an alert message detailing the precise location of the accident. The device then automatically makes a call to the local emergency services operator.
E-merge also transmits the vehicle's make, model, colour and licence number, and its heading when it crashed, which in turn indicates on which side of a multi-lane highway it ended up. This helps the emergency services find the vehicle as soon as they arrive on the scene. "We can waste a large amount of time searching for an incident," says Jim Hammond, an expert in vehicle technology at the Association of Chief Police Officers in the UK.
A study by French carmaker Renault concluded that the system could save up to 6000 of the 40,000 lives lost each year on Europe's roads, and prevent a similar number of serious injuries. Fitting E-merge to every car in Europe would eventually save around €150 billion per year in terms of reduced costs to health services and insurance companies, and fewer lost working days.

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Adapted from New Scientist Online News - 14 January 2004

TRAVAIL A EFFECTUER PAR LE CANDIDAT 
I.	COMPREHENSION (10 points)
Rédigez un compte-rendu du texte ci-joint. Vous veillerez à restituer les éléments importants dans un français de qualité, et indiquerez le nombre de mots utilisés. 
(220 mots plus ou moins 10%) 
II.	EXPRESSION (10 points)
Répondez en anglais aux deux questions suivantes :
a) Using the information found in the text, explain, in your own words, how the Emerge system will save lives.
(5 points)					(about 100 words)
b) Do you think on-board intelligence (on-board computers, microprocessors, environment sensors, GPS and other electronic systems) assists drivers or reduces their sense of freedom?
(5 points)					(about 100 words)