THE USA
1. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-го по 3-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2-й и 3-й абзацы.
THE USA
1. The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world (after Russia, Canada and China). It occupies the southern part of North America and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. It also includes Alaska in the north and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The total area of the country is about nine and a half million square kilometers. The USA borders on Canada in the north and on Mexico in the south. It also has a sea-boarder with Russia. The USA is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia, a special federal area where the capital of the country, Washington, is situated. The population of the country is about 250 million.
2. If we look at the map of the USA, we can see lowlands and mountains. The highest mountains are the Rocky Mountains, the Cordillera and the Sierra Nevada. The highest peak is Mount McKinley which is located in Alaska. America's largest rivers are the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Rio Grande and the Columbia. The Great Lakes on the border with Canada are the largest and deepest in the USA. The climate of the country varies greatly. The coldest regions are in the north. The climate of Alaska is arctic. The climate of the central part iscontinental. The south has e subtropical climate. Hot winds blowing from the Gulf of Mexico often bring typhoons. The climate along the Pacific coast is much warmer than of the Atlantic coast.
3. The USA is a highly developed industrial country. It is the world's leading producer of copper and oil and the world's second producer of iron ore and coal. Among the most important manufacturing industries are aircraft, cars, textiles, radio and television sets, armaments, furniture and paper. Though mainly European and African in origin, Americans are made from nearly all races and nations, including Chinese and native Americans. The largest cities are: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, San-Francisco, Washington and others.
4. The United States is a federal union of 50 states, each of which has its own government. The seat of the central (federal) government is Washington, DC. According to the US Constitution the powers of the government are divided into 3 branches, the executive, headed by the President, the legislative, exercised by the Congress, and the judicial. The Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives. There are two main political parties in the USA: the Republican and the Democratic.
2. Прочтите 4-8 абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:
What is the executive authority in the USA?
1. the President
2. the Congress.
3. the Court.
3. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в каждом из них видо-временную форму и залог глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. When much had been done in the study of ecology by our institute it became an important scientific centre.
2. A curriculum of the new type of secondary school is offered by the Ministry of Education.
3. The research of planets will be developed with the help of cosmic apparatus.
4. The climate of the west southern part of the USA is influenced by hot winds from the Gulf of Mexico.
4. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it that, one.
1. It is necessary to find new sources of cheap energy.
2. It was Einstein who came to the conclusion that the electromagnetic field is influenced by the gravitation field.
3. This metro station was opened last year, and that one will be put into operation in two years.
5. Перепишите предложения и переведите их па русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.
1. The USA also has a sea-boarder with Russia.
2. Man had to learn to obtain electric power directly from the sun.
3. We do not know when men began to give names to the places where they lived.
4 The engineers are to study the problem of using cosmic rays.
6. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.
1. The methods we have just described are very effective.
2. Columbus was certain that the lands he discovered were part of India.
7. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива.
1. The teacher told her students to learn the poem by heart.
2. The Soviet Union was the first country to send man into space.
3. To translate a sentence is to discover its meaning.
4. "The Greens" are uniting to fight against the environment pollution.
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