2015-10-22
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1. Stability of society depends on the level of education and (очень многих) other factors. 2. (Очень мало) countries in the world have very high living standards. 3. It is necessary to evaluate (много) factors in order to predict what will happen in future. 4. There are (меньше) buyers today than yesterday. 5. The bank has introduced (мало) new services recently. 6. It is necessary to learn (много) to have (так много) knowledge. 7. When the University had some financial difficulties, it got (мало) support from the company.
XII. Перефразируйте следующие словосочетания и предложения, употребляя притяжательный падеж.
1. The handbags of these women. 2. The flat of my sister is large. 3. The children of my brother are at home. 4. The room of the boys is large. 5. The name of this girl is Jane. 6. The work of these students is interesting.
XIII. Поставьте апостроф, где необходимо, переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. These are Pushkins poems. 2. Kate is Peters friend. 3. A lot of ladies an gentlemens shoes are on sale. 4. My younger brothers wife a singer. 5. It is todays literature that we are studying. 6. What kind of girl was Toms wife? 7. I went to the chemists with the doctors prescription.
IV. ТЕКСТЫ ДЛЯ ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНОГО ЧТЕНИЯ
Прочитайте, переведите кратко перескажите следующие тексты.
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Agriculture
47 per cent of the land area of the United States is farmland, of which 152 million hectares are harvested cropland and 560 million hectares are permanent pasture land. And yet, only 6.2 million people live on the Nation's farms and today farmers make up a little more than 2 per cent of the American population.
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The Midwest is the most important agricultural region in the United States (though California is the number one state in terms of the value of its agricultural products) and alone produces almost twice as much as the American people can consume. Corn and wheat are the main crops here, and livestock and dairy farming are also carried out on a large scale.
Although the South is still important for traditional crops, such as tobacco, corn and cotton, there is now far greater variety, while Texas is the nation's leading producer of cattle, sheep, cotton and rice.
The West is important for cattle and wheat farming in the Great Plains area, and for fruit in the fertile valleys of the States that border the Pacific.
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Food for Thought
The American farmer's success is one of the less publicized wonders of the 20th century. By the mid-1970s a single farmercould grow enough food to feed himself, 45 other Americans, and 8 foreigners. Agriculture is one of the biggest and most basic productive enterprises. It feeds the Nation and supplies raw materials to most industries. In a single year farmers in the United States grow crops valued at some $25 billion.
The ever intensifying production has exacted1 its price. In an attempt to stabilize farm income, the US Government has paid farmers billions of dollars in the past decade. Spokesmen2 for the consumers have charged farmers and the food-processing industry with sacrificing nutrition and taste in their efforts to mass-produce meat, poultry, fruit, vegetables, and grain products.
Much of the machinery on US farms is automated, computers determine what cows eat. Such technology costs money. In 1940 American farmers invested about $52 billion in land, livestock buildings, and equipment. By the 1990s the amount had сlimbed to more than $400 billion, even though farms had dropped in number from 6 million to fewer than 3 million. Many people had to sell their small family farms because they could not find the necessary capital to run them. Nevertheless, about 95 percent of US farms are still family owned, although nowadays they tend to be large and are often incorporated. Meanwhile, true corporation farms, supervised by boards of directors and professional managers, are increasing in number.
Intensive farming methods are being implemented everywhere, farmers are experimenting with new crops. This is necessary if the US population, expected to grow in the next century, is to be fed. It is anticipated that the number of American farms will be cut in half, to about 1.5 million, while the amount of cultivated land will remain about the same. Farm output, however, will probably double.
Some agriculturists envision a future where weather will be made to order, robots will operate the farm machinery, millions of identical cattle will be produced as clones from a single superior "parent", and crops will grow lush and green under a pollution-free sky. It is a fairy tale, but the truth is that the amazing productivity of American farmers has ensured that much of the world will have enough to eat for the next 20 or 30 years.
Примечания
1to exact взыскивать, требовать
2spokesman представитель
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