- •Часть I
- •Contents
- •Prehistory
- •Stone age and neanderthals
- •Bronze age
- •Iron age
- •I. Hallstatt culture
- •II. La tène culture
- •Atlantis
- •Ancient egypt
- •Ancient greece
- •Ancient rome
- •The celts
- •The vikings
- •Easter island
- •The maya
- •Mini humans
- •History as a science
- •Methods of archeology
- •Stonehenge
- •Egyptian pyramids
- •Babylon
- •The hanging gardens of babylon
- •The acropolis
- •The temple of artemis in ephesus
- •Associated carved decorated deserved destroyed disappeared founded helped noted modeled reconstructed revived
- •The lighthouse of alexandria, egypt
- •The coliseum
- •Teotihuacán
- •The greatest architectural monuments
- •Pangaea
- •Aurora borelis
- •Isthmus and peninsula
- •Ethnic native physical considered separated joins country inhabitants isthmus landbridge projection region subcontinent
- •Perception of geography
- •Errors in geography
- •Do you know where the kong mountains are?
- •Polar exploration
- •Arctic encounter
- •Great discoveries and tragedies
- •I. Captain cook
- •Survey charted natives continent passage coast
- •II. Lieutenant bligh
- •Boat explorer conspiracy navigated voyage adrift circumstances feat crew instruments
- •Hot springs and geisers
- •From the history of toponymy
- •I. Horse latitudes
- •VI. Australia or antarctica?
- •Confusing geographical terms
- •Quizz 1. Words of geographical origin
- •Apple casual city glossy goat headwear inhabitant jeans leather pattern porcelain race slot steel
- •Quizz 2. “national brands”
- •Natural selection
- •Mutualism in nature
- •Brainy crows learn how to upgrade tools
- •Interfering with nature
- •Invaders
- •Unwelcome gifts
- •Camels in america
- •Fatal frogs
- •Ants united
- •The grizzly bear
- •Appearance flesh nature reputation temper avid cautious frosted terrifying classed destroyed observed
- •Spiders
- •Crocodiles, blood and carbon dioxide
- •MBreeding long mass mysterious only particular regular return sure steadily bodies causes efforts guideposts landmarks ysterious migration
- •Curious facts about animals
- •Balance in nature
- •Hunting
- •Nature’s last resorts
- •Golden lion tamarin
- •The american eagle
- •Vanishing horses
- •The coelacanth
- •Analysis fossils coast decomposed prevented presumed exciting enabling carrying ancient common extinct hollow peculiar
- •Crocodiles: scary but lovely to watch
- •Extinct species
- •Dinosaurs
- •Existent features prehistoric powerful principal vegetarian era hind period range
- •Stegosaurus
- •Mammoth
- •The phoenix: extinct or never existed
- •Number one factor
- •Keeepng fit
- •Feeling happy against all odds
- •Keeping warm in winter
- •Wake up, it is summer!
- •Medical smile
- •Sleep is vital
- •A breath of fresh air
- •Is smoking beneficial for you?
- •Living a long time
- •Good news for baldies
- •Running
- •Exercise – the case against
- •Mountaineering
- •Evolution of nutrition
- •Food: quality vs. Quantity
- •Canned food
- •A short history of beef
- •Worcestershire sauсe
- •Retirement order safe local wonderful original manufacturers horrible clearing stuff natural annually
- •It takes your breath away!
- •Ice cream
- •Margarine
- •CPhysical sequence combined brewed substance range resist unknown currency addiction explorers divine powers similar energized hocolate
- •Coca-cola
- •The sandwich
- •Existed sense advertising established incident gambling drag toast lump original portable
- •Eat more fruit and vegetables
- •Learning strategies
- •Intellegence and learning languages
- •Advantage animal approach genius intelligence habit measure mistakes question solution way word
- •The unique role of language
- •Iq (intelligence quotient)
- •Age and performance
- •Midlife crisis
- •Eq (emotional intelligence)
- •Rapport
- •How to be in high spirits
- •Caused claimed overcome improved guilt damage suicide hesitation shift coloured fed undervalued
- •Ways to successful learning
- •English spelling
- •Alarming tendency
- •Television and reading
- •Listening
- •Who invented writing
- •Invention in literature
- •Backgammon
- •Popular board games
- •I. Monopoly
- •II. Scrabble
- •The piano
- •Central combine central early impressive irritating
- •The origins of photography
- •Farewell to darkness
- •How television was invented
- •Available commercial convinced determination exploring earnings live living origin outline overnight persuaded recognizable transmitted spare
- •Gilletee, men’s best friend
- •The can opener
- •Inventions in sport
- •I. Frisbee
- •II. Basketball
- •Named after their creators
- •Boots cloth footwear hat instrument jacket pen raincoat revolver tuba
- •Technology and human history
- •Information revolution
- •A new generation of mobile phones
- •Indespensable device?
- •Telephone calls
- •Intelligent home
- •Satellite tv
- •Identity cards
- •Credit cards
- •Multycard
- •Refrigerators and environment
- •Technology and crime
- •Contribution of thieves
- •The microwave
- •Traffic lights
- •The world’s most loved car
- •Life behind the wheel
- •Housed humble luxury obsession response
- •Shortages traced used waiting working
- •6 . The car of the future
- •In Search of the Ideal Car
- •Deadly driving
- •Bicycles
- •Vanadium in automobile industry
- •Analyzed beaten discovered found invited made mined picked revolutionized remained unknown used
- •What does it take to be an astronaut?
- •Early years of space exploration
- •Board cooperation countdown joint mission orbit space risks crewed astronautics traveler scientist
- •Crewed space station
- •I. Salyut
- •II. Skylab
- •Challenger disaster
- •Weightless and heavenly happy
- •Apollo 13
- •Moon walk
- •Alone attention captured circling collective eternity fault historic link slipped surface uttered witnessed
- •In and out of space
- •Moon colony
- •Shelters explore determined attempts survival speculating permanent maintain steps conquering serve expand manufacturing extreme require
- •Sustaining life in space
- •Interstellar travel
- •Список использованной литературы
- •Useful words and facts текстовые задания по словообразованию и словоупотреблению
- •Часть I
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Balance in nature
The
awe (1)
truth is that many species are in danger of becoming extinction
(2)
unless wildlife conserve
(3) societies
are supported by all of us. We must not miss the opportunity to help
animals which need
protect (4)
and we have to pay attend
(5)
to the species which are danger
(6).
National parks, reserves, being established throughout the world, as well as convention (7) zoos, provide us an experience of seeing wild animals at close quarters. This helps to persuasion (8) all of us that wildlife needs as much help as we can give them. On the other hand, there is a number of species whose aggression (9) spread around the world can result in severe economic and environmental problems, thus upsetting the natural balance and biological diverse (10). The tasks of biologists is to identity (11) such species and to take the necessary prevent (12) measures.
2. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
Hunting
I
n
the beginning, humans hunted because they had to. Until the introduce
(1)
of farming methods, animals had to be tracked down and killed in the
wild. A success
(2)
hunting trip would sure
(3)
that the hunters’ families did not die of starve
(4)
for another few weeks.
Nowadays, however, hunting has nothing to do with survive (5). Fresh meat is easily obtain (6) from shops. What is more, people frequent (7) hunt animals which they cannot even eat. So why do they do it? For some, hunting is a profit (8) business. But for others, the only explain (9) seems to be that they take some kind of pleasure in cruel (10).
Many people have guilty conscious (11) realizing that our gaming and hunting passion have contributed to the extinction of number (12) species. As for history (13) species, many paleontologists have been trying, though success (14), to explain the enigma (15) disappearance of such species as mammoths and dinosaurs.
3. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
Nature’s last resorts
In Darwin’s time there were very many nature (1) predators, and a balance of differ (2) species existed. Wild birds showed so little fear that the first men could approach them without making them fly off. The biggest dangerous (3) was that once upon a time an occasion (4) fire broke out, which actually helped control the animal popular (5). However, early visitors proved to be
welcome (6) guests: they introduced rats, cats and dogs that grew in number and hunted iguanas and ate tortoise eggs. These create (7) having remained in evolutionary preserve (8) of million years ended up in danger of extinction and were lost in hundreds.
Fortune (9), radical measures were taken to ban uncontrollable hunting and locals started to destroy as many of these invade (10) as necessary, though wild cats and rats turned out difficult to find. In the recent years, a new threaten (11) has appeared in the form of tourism. Despite the best efforts of the Ecuador government, the tide of tourists seems resist (12), and may again upset the fine balance of nature on the population (13) islands.
4. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
