- •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
- •195251 Санкт-Петербург, Политехническая ул., 29
Wake up, it is summer!
The summer season makes most of us feel good, and science (1) believe that they have discovered the reason for this. Bright light makes you feel more
wake (2) and helps you feel better. Travel (3) through the eye, light sends a message to the part of the brain responsible for sleep and appetite. So in the summer months as sunlight is increase (4), your energy level goes up, thus decreasing the need to eat and sleep. In add (5), the heat from the sun also produces a calming affect (6) as it reduces blood pressure, resulting in a feeling of relax (7).
Sea and mountain air are also benefit (8) in summer as they make you breathe more deeply, increasing the take (9) of oxygen in your blood. For some people, however, there is a negative side to summer. Those suffering from low blood press (10) may experience feelings of tire (11) and anxiety at this time of the year. Experts norm (12) advise such people to take up exercise and to add more salt to their diet. So feel completely fresh (13) in summer!
6. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
Medical smile
According to the recent find (1), you not only laugh more when you are relaxed, but you also relax when you laugh, and it has been found that when you’re on holiday it is ease (2) to do both. But for some people laugh (3) is not just a pleasure, it is a way of fighting ill (4). Some hospitals have begun to bring in clowns to relieve the silent, depress (5) atmosphere, special (6) in children’s wards. This scheme is called “Medical Smile” and it helps sick children in a way, that doctors, with all their know (7), can’t do. The effect of clowns is more than psychological. Laughter helps to strong (8) the immune system, which is the part of our bodies that increases resist (9) to diseases. We inhale more oxygen when we laugh, and our heartbeat becomes more rhythm (10). Hospital clowns are becoming increase (11) popular because of the positive effect they have. They both relief (12) depression, which tends to make illnesses even
bad (13), and give people the will to fight their illnesses themselves.
7. Выберите подходящее слово из предложенных двух вариантов.
Sleep is vital
T
otal
sleep deprivation/deprive
(1) in
rats leads to death. These animals show weight loss despite greatly
increased food consumption/assumption
(2)
suggesting extensive/excessive
(3)
heat loss. The animals die, for the reasons yet to be explained,
within 10 or 20 days, faster than if they were totally/extremely
(4) deprived
of food but slept normally.
In humans, a very rare degenerative/regenerative (5) brain disease called familiar/familial (6) insomnia leads to death after several months. Whether the sleep loose/loss (7) itself is fatal or other aspects of the brain injury/damage (8) are to blame is not clear. Sleep deprivation studies in humans have found that sleepiness increases with even small reduction in overnight/nightly (9) sleep duration. Being sleepy while driving or during other activities that require continual/continuous (10) vigilance is as dangerous as consuming alcohol prior to those tasks/assignments (11).
8. Образуйте соответствующее однокоренное слово.
