Практический курс английского языка 2 курс. Ключи - [31]

d) 1. She stayed alone in her room refusing to come downstairs. 2. Theirs was a lonely house isolated by the mountains. 3. He felt miserable and lonely. 4. Alone in the house wasMissSarie Villier. 5. Elliot in his well-cut dinner jacket looked elegant as he alone eould look. 6. "Do you know that meeting you for the first time is to me like a lonely traveller coming across some bright flowerlet

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in the desert!" said Sir Francis. 7. He was alone when I was ushered in. 8. Frau Becker seemed to look for opportunities of being alone with Larry. 9. The British farmhouse is often sonv distance from a public road. The life there is hard and lonely. 10. Young Jolyon alone among the Forsytes was ignorant of Bosinneys nickname.

Ex. XVIII, p. 247

1. The better the soil is cultivated, the bigger the crop is 2. A vast plain stretches from the Urals/the Ural Mountain Range: to the river Yenissei. 3. The Volga-Don Canal is one of our mai waterways, it is navigable all along. 4. In Vladivostok there is splendid harbour and many Russian and foreign steamers cas anchor in it. 5. The Strait of Dover separates Britain from th continent/the mainland and the North Channel separate Scotland from Ireland. 6. This crop is valuable as fodder. 7. Yo have hardly happened/chanced to enjoy more picturesqu scenery. 8. Most of the ploughland in this area is under wheat 9. Just a mile from the shore we could see distinct/clear outlines shapes of ships riding at anchor in the harbour. 10. Thecoastlin of the Caspian Sea is comparatively/relatively regular in outlin (relatively even), only near the mouth of the Volga the coast i deeply indented and there are a lot of small islands and creeks.

Ex. VI, p. 256

1. When we went camping, we put up our tents on th boundary of the lake. 2. The border/frontier incident wa reported by the newspapers in detail. 3. A border dispute is quarrel about where a border is or ought to be. 4. The rive formed a boundary between these rural districts. 5. The half ruined tower used to be a frontier fortress. 6. The region alon the boundary between England and Scotland is called th Border. 7. A hedge is a fence or a row of bushes or low trees which are planted to form a boundary round a garden or field. 8. Great Britains borders, northern, eastern and southern are formed by seas and oceans.

Ex. VIII, p. 256

1. The western half of our country consists mainly/mostly primarily of low plains, while/whereas the greater part of the eastern half of Russia is covered with mountain chains. 2. I

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Siberia the biggest rivers are the Ob, the Yenissei and the Lena. They flow north through a vast area parallel to one another. 3. The climate contrasts are quite striking in Russia. You can find the northerners braving the frosts that reach 70 degrees below zero Centigrade and at one and the same time the southerners basking in the sun on southern seashores lined with green palms. 4. The Leningrad region lies to the north-west of Moscow. 5. Asouthemer/ aneasterneris a person who lives in thesouth/east and anortherner/ westerner is one who lives in the north/west. 6. Devon and Cornwall are situated on the south-western peninsula of England.

Ex. IX, p. 257

There is no other country in the world whose nature is more varied than that of Russia. The western half of the country consists mainly of low plains. The country is divided into two parts by the Ural mountains. The greater part of the eastern half is covered with vast plateaus and mountain chains. Here, on the Kamchatka Peninsula the biggest active volcanoes of the Old World are located.

In the south the plains of the western half of the country are bounded by huge mountain ranges. Here are the countrys highest peaks.

Many of the rivers of Russia are among the worlds greatest. The most important rivers of the western plain are the Volga, the Western Dvina, the Don and the Northern Dvina.

In the Far East the Amur flows into the Pacific.

In lakes, too, our country is extremely rich. Among them are the worlds greatest lake, the Caspian Sea, and the deepest — Lake Baikal.

Ex. XI, p. 257

Our motherland is immense. Its by far the largest and richest country both in Asia and Europe. Its frontier line is the longest in the world.

Natural conditions in Russia vary greatly. If you cross Russia, from the extreme North to the South, you will get a good idea of the climate contrasts, to say nothing of the difference in scenery and vegetation, characteristic of various geographical zones. Siberia is unlike the Urals, the face of Tatary differs from that of the Caucasus. One region is rich in one thing, another is rich in another.

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Perhaps no countrys geographic location has played such an important part in its history as Russias. Half Europe and half Asia, its history has revolved round/around/about this basic fact.

Ex. XV c), p. 259

The British Character

The national character dies hard wherever you go. And to no; other nation does that apply to a greater degree/extent than to the, English whose nature seems to have a sort of patent for constancy. Its stability and permanence is their most obvious/noticeable feature. They are less liable to bow to newfangled trends and transient fashions than other nations. However, one must emphasize /However, it is noteworthy that for all its stability the English national character is made up/composed of contradictory and even paradoxical traits, some of which strike the eye/leap to the eye whereas others are hardly discernible. So any generali­zations concerning the English can be disputed.