The national parks of Wales

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There are three National parks in Wales, which cover one-fifth of the whole country. 1)_______

parks are protected by law because of their natural beauty, but ordinary people still live and work here.

The 2) (famous) of the parks is Snowdonia in the north-west.

It 3)______ (cover),840 square miles (2, 176 sq. km). It's Wales' most picturesque countryside. The 4)_______(high) mountain range in Wales is in this area, with several peaks over 3,000 5)____( foot) (910 m).

Snowdon is more than 1,085 m. You can reach the top of it on foot or by the Snowdon mountain rail­way, which is 7 kilometers long.

Many men, women and 6)_____(child) travel to the arks for special holidays. These include a large number of outdoor 7)_________(activity)

such as walking, climbing and riding, or water-sports such as canoeing and fishing. People camp and live without all the usual comforts of home.

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2.2. Let our children be healthy!

There are many problems that 1)_____( Britain)

schools are facing today. One of them is making sure that schoolchildren eat healthy food.

In Britain, children can either choose to bring their own lunch or buy their lunch at school. Children from poorer'2)______ (family) can have free school dinners but many of them don't take their dinners for 3)____ (differ) reasons.

Here is what they say: "I hate my school dinners. The food is so disgusting!" "I never have school dinner because it's the same food every day". "Our school dinners are always cold!" "My school 4)____ (most) sells chips and pizza. Of course it sells some healthy things but they look extremely 5)__________’’(bore).

But it's not all bad. Some Brit­ish schools are making a real ef­fort to help their pupils to make the right food choices. Some run competitions for the "6)___________” (healthy) class of the week, some produce information leaflets (брошюры) about the right kind of food. And 7)___________ (much) important of all, they try to make their school dinners both tasty and healthy.

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2.3. They had a narrow escape

(Они чудом избежали гибели)

Everybody 1)_______ (enjoy) summer holidays. People usually have a fantastic time and a lot of fun. But it happens so, if they behave in a proper way, have a sense of responsibility and obey simple rules.

Last summer a group of tour­ ists 2)______ (near) became shark food when they visited an aquarium(ак­вариум) in New Orleans, the USA. The tourists 3)________ (tell) to wait for their turn and

come to a spe­cial platform by the ten people. Trying to get a 4)________(good) look at the deadly animals twenty or more tourists got on that plat­form. It collapsed (обвалиться) and they 5)_______(fall) into the water.

Some of the sharks (акулы) in the aquarium6)_____(be) as big as the people — but luckily they had already had 7)_______(they) breakfast.

As they weren't hungry the sharks stayed away from the tourists, giving the stuff (персо­нал) time to rush to the people's rescue (броситься на помощь).

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