Classroom activities (2)

7. Paraphrase and add a sentence logically connected.

1. I prefer to see animals in the places where they normally live, rather than in zoos. 2. As a result of colonization, the native people of America were driven away from their lands. 3. The exhibition of oriental ceramics and sculpture attracted thousands of visitors. 4. The polar bear is indigenous to the icy wastes of the Arctic. 5. Washing a woolen sweater in hot water will make it smaller in size. 6. New regulations are aimed at reducing toxic waste produced by motor vehicles ['vi:Iklz]. 7. The legendary wealth of King Croesus ['kri:sRs] has become proverbial. 8. In ancient times, Britain was known to be a faraway land covered in mist and mystery. 9. I recognized the man as soon as I saw him. 10. The old block of flats was eventually demolished because it had become awfully uneconomical to maintain it. 11. Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is generally regarded to be an eternal symbol of beauty. 12. The number of employees has dramatically reduced from 130 to 75.

Translate into Russian.

1. Melting ice could open three Polar passages historically clogged by ice, allowing shipping companies to greatly reduce the time it takes to cross the globe and deliver goods. 2. If the melting continues, the mass of floating ice that has crowned the planet for millions of years may largely disappear for entire summers this century. 3. No one knows what share of the recent thawing can be attributed to natural cycles and how much to heat trapping pollution. 4. Interest in ice-breaking ships must have picked up so much that a giant shipbuilder based in Helsinki created a subsidiary (дочерняя компания) to develop ice-hardened ships.5. There are likely to be a number of foreign policy issues that must be addressed by the Arctic countries. 6. Some countries that one might think of as being half a world apart appear as startlingly close neighbours. 7. An Arctic Bridge could drastically cut the distance to Canada, a revived Northern Sea Route could shorten the journey for goods and raw materials from Northeast Asia to Europe by forty percent.

9. a) Read the article and say in one sentence what it deals with.