UN Peace-keeping Forces

Peace-keeping is one of the ways the UN help to maintain international peace and security. In the UN contest, peace-keeping has been defined as the use of multinational forces under United Nations command, to help control and resolve conflicts between hostile states and sometimes between hostile communities within a single state. It is a technique pioneered by the UN – the soldier is a catalyst for peace rather than an instrument of war. United Nations peace-keepers are either unarmed observers or lightly-armed forces. They can observe a situation and report to the Secretary-General or investigate violations or patrol buffer zones. Peace-keeping operations are only established within the countries involved. Some of the peace-keepers are regular soldiers, others are reservists. A normal tour of duty lasts six months to a year. The requirements of peace-keeping can be very different from those of normal soldiering – diplomacy and tact are needed more than combat skills.

Поставьте следующие существитель­ные во множественное число (обратите внимание на артикли: неопределенный артикль во множе­ственном числе опускается, определенный артикль сохраняется).

A star, a mountain, a tree, a shilling, a king, the waiter, the queen, a man, the man, a woman, the woman, an eye, a shelf, a box, the city, a boy, a goose, the watch, a mouse, a dress, a toy, the sheep, a tooth, a child, the ox, a deer, the life, a tomato.

Задание № 3

Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

1. I am......... engineer. 2. My …... son is ….... pupil. 3. He is …... good …... pupil. 4. This is ….... house. 5. This is my …..... pencil. 6. You have some ….... pen­cils, but I have no ….... pencil. Give me ….... pencil, please. 7. I like your …... beautiful ……. flower. Give me ….... flower, please. 8. My ….... mother is at... …home. She is reading....... interesting....... book. 9. My …... father is not at... home. He is at....... work. He is ……. doctor. He is …... good...... doctor. He works at ….... hospital. ….... hospital is large.

Задание № 1

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