Завдання до тексту 4

І. Знайдіть у тексті англійські еквіваленти наступних слів та словосполучень:

Площа в акрах; середній урожай; однолітня культура; озимі і ярові сорти; гіллясте стебло.

ІІ. Закінчіть речення відповідним варіантом, вибраним із правої колонки:

1. Barley plants are …

2. Winter varieties form …

3. Spring varieties do not …

4. Winter barley is less …

5. The barley crop is used …

1. … for malting.

2. … hardy than winter wheat.

3. … require exposure to cold.

4. … branch stems or tillers.

5. … annual grasses.

ІІІ. Виберіть правильний варіант відповіді:

1. The origin of barley is ….

a) Europe

b) America

c) Africa

d) unknown

2. Around a fourth part of the barley grown in the USA is of ….

b) winter varieties

a) spring varieties

c) import varieties

d) old varieties

3. Barley plants are … grasses.

a) annual

b) biennial

c) wild

d) perennial

Текст 5

NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

Agriculture has been an essential human activity almost from the beginning, and it has often driven the development of technology and machines.

The basic technology of agricultural machines has changed little in the last century. Modern harvesters and planters may do a better job than their predecessors. The US$250,000 combine of today still cuts, threshes, and separates grain in essentially the same way it has always been done.

However, technology is changing the way that humans operate the machines, as computer monitoring systems, GPS (Global Positioning System) locators, and self-steer programs allow the most advanced tractors and implements to be more precise and less wasteful in the use of fuel, seed, or fertilizer. In the foreseeable future, some agricultural machines will be capable of driving themselves, using GPS maps and electronic sensors. Even more esoteric are the new areas of nanotechnology and genetic engineering, where submicroscopic devices and biological processes, respectively, are being used as machines to perform agricultural tasks in unusual new ways.

Agriculture may be one of the oldest professions, but the development and use of machinery has made the job title of farmer a rarity. Instead of every person having to work to provide food for themselves, less than 2% of the U.S. population today works in agriculture, yet that 2% provides considerably more food than the other 98% can eat. With continuing advances in agricultural machinery, the role of the farmer will become increasingly specialized and rare.

Vocabulary

predecessor - попередник

self-steer – само управляючий

advanced – передовий, сучасний

esoteric – зрозумілий тільки фахівцям

nanotechnology – високі технології на атомному рівні

to perform - виконувати

rare – рідкий, раритетний

Завдання до тексту 5

І. Знайдіть у тексті англійські еквіваленти наступних слів та словосполучень:

Розвиток технології; косити; молотити; найсучасніші трактори; використання палива, насіння, добрива.

ІІ. Закінчіть речення відповідним варіантом, вибраним із правої колонки:

1. Agriculture has often driven …

2. Agriculture is one …

3. New technologies …

4. Self-steer programs allow …

5. 2% of the US population …

1. … works in agriculture today.

2. … machines to be more precise..

3. … the development of technology.

4. … are used in agriculture.

5. … of the oldest professions.

ІІІ. Виберіть правильний варіант відповіді:

1. Advanced agricultural …may change the work in agriculture.

a) technology

b) lands

c) operations

d) jobs

2. Less than 2% of the U.S. population today works in ….

a) industry

b) service sector

c) commerce

d) agriculture

3. Some agricultural machines will be capable of driving themselves, … GPS maps and electronic sensors.

a) adapting

b) using

c) feeding

d) providing