13. Тип 13 № 1023 The Exhibition The exciting event of this week is the Engineering Exhibition. It started on Friday and has already welcomed a record number of visitors. The administration of the exhibition ground haven't seen such long lines of people queuing for entrance tickets for a long time. Visitors of all ages are amazed to see robots and machines which they thought could exist only in science fiction films and books. In fact, some exhibits are more unbelievable than the machines described by the writers! Among the most prominent exhibits the visitors can see a bathyscaph created by a group of young engineers. Their bathyscaph is a diving chamber that can descend to 18 km. The constructors insist that their machine is able to go deeper than any submarine in current use due to the uniquely reinforced material its made of. They also claim that the bathyscaph cannot be damaged if it doesn't go deeper than 20 km. However, they admit that the machine hasn't yet been tested in waters as deep as that. The most amazing feature of the bathyscaph is not its reliability. The main wonder is the special equipment that allows people ashore to experience the sea exploration process as if they were inside the bathyscaph! Due to the internet and 3D technologies anyone can join the online deep-ocean expedition and explore the underwater world in real time. Thus the crew of the bathyscaph may consist of millions of people. The only admission requirement is a good internet connection. "It's amazing to find out what it's like to be a deep-sea explorer!" Oliver Johnson, a fifteen-year-old visitor says. "I've learnt a lot about the sea and modern research technologies. The bathyscaph is very impressive! I think such an exhibition should function on a permanent basis - it's a great motivating factor for children and young people to get interested in engineering and science. For example, I'm considering a career in engineering and robotics at the moment. I wouldn't if I hadn't seen this exhibition. It was an inspiration to me." Due to the undisputable success of the exhibition, its administration, in conjunction with the local Education Committee, is looking at the possibilities of integrating the exhibition ground into the education environment of the region. It's already been agreed that some of the-exhibits will not be reihoved when the exhibition officially closes. They will be available to students and schoolchildren all-year-round. College professors, university teachers, engineers and researchers will be lecturing there. New technologies require new educational methods and the bathyscaph classroom is probably one of them. The Engineering Exhibition has proven to be more popular than the previous exhibitions. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated