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| 1. | - Would you like some more soup? - No, thank you. It’s delicious but I’ve had enough. - Would you like some dessert? -Well, maybe. I’ll have just a small piece of pie. |
| 2. | - Are you ready to order? - Yes, I’ll have the fresh fruit cocktail. - And what would you like after that? - I’d like the roast chicken, please. |
| 3. | - There is not much on the menu here. Rice pudding sounds good, though. - Yes, it does, but I think I’m just going to have a sandwich today. Maybe even half of one. - Are you ready to order? - Yes, I think so. - Do you want that on separate checks? - Oh, no, one’ll be fine. It’s on me today. |
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A. The Biggest and the Oldest Living Things
The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived—bigger than an elephant, bigger than the biggest dinosaur. But even the blue whale is not the largest living thing on earth. Trees are. And the largest of all trees are the redwoods and giant sequoias that grow in California.
Most of the Californian redwoods are more than 30 feet (90 metres) high – about as tall as 30-storey building.
If trees had birthday parties, there is one tree in the United States that would need more than 4000 candles on its birthday cake.
Trees live much longer than people or animals do. A big oak tree, with a trunk so thick that you can’t get your arms around it, may be hundreds of years old. The big redwood trees in California are thousands of years old.
The oldest known tree in the United States lives in a forest in California. It is a pine tree that is more than 4600 years old. It is one of the oldest living things in the world.
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redwoods калифорнийские мамонтовые деревья
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