Прочитайте текст и письменно ответьте на вопросы. Use of Emergency Numbers In most areas, the emergency number is intended to be used only in an emergency. Routine and non-urgent calls as well as hoax or prank calls to emergency services numbers waste the time of both dispatchers and emergency responders and can endanger lives. False reports of emergencies are often prosecuted as crimes. For routine and non-urgent enquiries emergency services generally provide traditional telephone numbers for contact. These are normally listed in the local telephone directory. In England and Wales, for example, where serious emergencies have a three- digit number 999, the number 08454647 can be dialed for NHS Direct, a non-emergency medical service. NHS Direct is the name of a 24 hour, confidential telephone, online and interactive digital TV health advice and information service provided by the National Health Service in England and Wales. NHS Direct was rolled out across England and Wales between 1998 and 2000. A similar service was introduced in Scotland in 2004. NHS Direct does not replace the British emergency service phone numbers 999 and 112. In many areas in the North American Numbering Plan, 311 has been assigned as an urgent telephone number that may be used to contact the police and other services to report minor incidents and historic crime that does not endanger life, to avoid overloading 911. The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is an integrated telephone numbering plan of 24 countries and territories: the United States and its territories, Canada, Bermuda, and 16 Caribbean nations. It is a system of three-digit area codes and seven-digit telephone numbers that directs telephone calls to particular regions on a public switched telephone network (PSTN), where they are further routed by the local network. Other cities in North America use 311 as a general contact number for municipal government or for reporting situations such as power outages. The telephone number 112 is the international emergency telephone number for GSM mobile phone networks. It does not necessarily work on mobile phone networks based on other technologies. In all European Union countries it is also the emergency telephone number for both mobile and fixed-line telephones. To avoid overloading the European normal 112 number, Sweden has an automatic routing of the incoming phone calls. If the local emergency center is overloaded the call will be routed to another emergency center that’s not overloaded, thus avoiding queueing of emergency calls. 1. What is the emergency number intended for? 2. Why do you think hoax or prank calls waste the time of dispatchers? 3. How are false reports of emergences prosecuted? 4. What do emergency services provide for routine and nonurgent enquiries? 5. Where are emergency telephone numbers listed? 6. What does NHS Direct stand for? 7. What has been done to avoid overloading of 911 in the USA? 8. What does the acronym PSTN mean? 9. What does NANP stand for? 10. What number is used for reporting power outages in North America? 11. What is the international emergency telephone number for GSM mobile phone networks? 12. What has been done in Sweden to avoid overloading the European normal 112 number?
1. It is intended to be used only in an emergency.
2. Because they can endanger lives. False information isn't a good thing.
3. They are often prosecuted as crimes.
4. They provide traditional telephone numbers for contact for them.
5. In the local telephone directory.
6. It is the name of digital TV health service. It stands for National Health Service
7. Number 311 has been assigned as an urgent telephone number to the police, so it can avoid overloading of 911.
8. It is a telephone network that directs telephone calls to particular regions
9. The North American Numbering Plan
10. 311
11. 112
12. Sweden made an automatic routing of incoming phone calls. The call will be routed to another emergency centre, if it overloads.
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блин так сложно было :P