Профессиональный английский язык. Контрольные задания. Учебно-методическое пособие для магистрантов очной и заочной форм обучения аграрных вузов всех

1. What were you explaining when the principal entered?

2. They’ll hold the conference in Oslo later this year.

3. Galileo’s study of nature inspired his discoveries.

4. He is fixing my mobile phone at the moment.

5. We define a millisecond as a thousandth of a second.

Who knows? Maybe one day Post-it Note dresses

shops!

1. They told us, ‘We’ll see both of you outside the swimming pool at 6.30 this evening.’

2. Matt asked Ann, “Did you see Jan at the gig last month?”

3.“Who is making that awful noise?” the teacher cried.

4. The teacher told us, “Don’t write in your books.”

5. Rachel says, “Tim, you must help me with the shopping today.”

1. If they don’t update/ update their website more often, they’ll lose a lot of customers.

Scientists are (1) ____ cows and sheep scapegoats for a small part of global warming. There are new reports that methane gas produced from the animals burping and flatulence (2) ____ be more hazardous to the environment than four­wheel-drive cars. Experts (3) ____ cows are responsible for about three per cent of Britain's greenhouse gases. Michael Abberton of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research said the average cow or bull belches out about 100 to 200 litres of methane each day, a lot more damaging than the carbon emitted (4) ____ gas guzzling cars. Methane emissions from cattle account for a quarter of the gas in our air. In Britain, cows and sheep are the biggest single source of methane - a gas that is 23 times more harmful than carbon dioxide when it comes to global warming.

The race is now (5) ____ to reduce burping and farting in cows and sheep. If scientists can achieve this, it could help Britain reach its commitments (6) ____ the Kyoto agreement. Researchers are trying to find a new way to feed cattle and sheep which leads to less gas being produced. The key seems to be (7) ____ developing new types of food that are easier for farm animals to (8) ____. Scientists in Wales believe putting garlic in their food could reduce the impact on global warming by cutting the amount of gas produced by up to 50 per cent. Project leader Professor Jamie Newbold said: "Garlic directly attacks the (9) ____ in the gut that produce methane." He is conducting tests to see if the garlic gives the animals (10) ____ breath or, more specifically, if it lead to garlic flavoured milk and meat.

3. “Why is he looking for a new job?” I asked.

4. ‘Play one more song,’ the audience asked the band.

5. ‘Tomorrow’s concert will be my last,’ the famous conductor tells the reporters.

1. If Mr. Ross won’t/ doesn’t come to school today, nobody’ll check our homework.

2. If you scream/ will scream at the cat, it runs away.

3. If you were coming with us, we would have/ would have had more fun.

4. If she hadn't driven/didn’t drive so fast, she would not have had the accident.

The research team said eggshells are one of nature’s most (7) ____ creations.

Professor John Harding from Sheffield University told reporters: "Understanding how chickens make eggshells is fascinating in itself but can also (8) ____ clues towards designing new materials and processes." Eggshells are very lightweight but incredibly strong. The most (9) ____ -edge materials designed by the world’s top engineers cannot produce anything as brilliant as an eggshell. Professor Harding added that studying eggshells could help find new answers to bone­healing processes and materials used by the construction industry: "Nature has found (10) ____ solutions that work for all kinds of problems in materials science and technology -- we can learn a lot from them," he said.

Animals have always had a specific purpose for thousands of years. Farm dogs have been bred to herd pasture animals, cows to produce tender meat, horses to be stronger. Modern biotechnology has now become scientifically advanced and there is no known limit of the ability that biotechnology has.

should? Genetic engineering is the direct manipulation of an organism’s gene to

alter or enhance the species. Humans alter animal species for producing drugs, enhancing yields and provide a higher rate of food. For example, aqua advantage salmon area genetically engineered species that grow at twice the speed of regular salmon. Muscly pigs to produce more meat and mice used in a laboratory for medical testing are just a few species along with the salmon that have unnecessary

“superiority”. Although there has already been a major negative impact on the

naturally occurring mutation of “double muscling” and can weigh up to 1200kg as

Pregnancies become difficult and calves often have defects. This species suffers from the cardiorespiratory, bone a joint problem and this leads to an

blue breeders that they struggle and are in pain the majority of their lives, yet they are still bred to improve human quality of life and produce more food and money.

law, letters

1. You mustn’t/ don’t have to learn Italian. You can learn French instead if you want to.

3. “How long have you been learning English?” asked the examiner.

4. “Don’t show the dog that you are afraid,” Dad said.

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