Vocabulary exercises

I.

1. e

2. p

3. o

4. t

5. u

6. g

7. m

8. q

9. d

10. a

11. s

12. r

13. j

14. k

15. l

16. c

17. b

18. f

19. i

20. n

21. h

II.

1. a

2. d

3. e

4. f

5. b

6. i

7. g

8. c

9. h

III.

1. 2b 3e

2. 2d 3c

3. 2f 3a

4. 2a 3i

5. 2e 3d

6. 2j 3j

7. 2h 3f

8. 2i 3b

9. 2c 3h

10. 2g 3g

V.

1. a

2. j

3. g

4. n

5. l

6. c

7. m

8. i

9. b

10. d

11. e

12. f

13. h

14. k

VI.

1. hard/heavy/severe/sharp frost; 2. quіet/steady/wіdespread raіn; 3. peltіng/pourіng/torrentіal raіn; 4. whіte frost; 5. drіvіng/pourіng/torrentіal raіn; 6. bіtіng/hard/heavy/sharp frost; 7. hard gale; 8. moderate clіmate; 9. drіvіng/peltіng/pourіng raіn; 10. damp clіmate; 11. contіnuous/quіet/steady raіn.

VII.

1. pressure; 2. rainfall; 3. climate; 4. hurricane; 5. vegetation; 6. season; 7. temperature; 8. thunderstorm; 9. hail; 10. sleet; 11. weather.

III.

1. with, for, in; 2. out, of, with; 3. to; 4. in, in; 5. in, of, after; 6. round, in; 7. of; 8. for; 9. of, of, in; 10. on; 11. of, at; 12. on, out, of.

IV.

1. a, a, _; 2. a, a; 3. the, an, a; 4. _, the; 5. the, the, the, _; 6. _, a, _; 7. the, _; 8. the; 9. _, the; 10. the, the, _; 11. the, the, the; 12. the, the; 13. the, the, _.

V.

1. thunderstorm; 2. grass, lawns; 3. belief, major; 4. crawl along, horns; 5. comparison, changeable; 6. melting, flood; 7. fogs, cause; 8. heavy snowstorm; 9. take care of; 10. two days running; 11. distinctive, vegetation; 12. altoge­ther, all the year round; 13. atmospheric pressure, rainfall; 14. moisture; 15. nationalities.

VI.

1. The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when it rains all day long. 2. England is famous for its weather as it is very changeable, never the same two days running. 3. “Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather”. This statement is often made by the English to describe the meteorological conditions of their country. 4. When the British go abroad they often surprise people of other nationalities by this tendency to talk about the weather. 5. People can make fogs disappear from aeroplane landing fields and they can cause rain. 6. People have learned to change the 'weather', they can make the air warmer, or cooler, put more moisture in it if it is too dry. 7. Even if a person does not mind heat or cold or rain or snow, the weather is important to him. 8. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and is connected with atmospheric pressure, temperature, rainfall, cloudiness and wind. 9. In Britain it rains quite often all the year round and that's why Britain is a very green country, with long rich grass. 10. London gets no more rain in a year than most other major European cities, the further west you go, the more rain you get.

V.

1. The English are famous for their weather as it is very changeable. 2. The weather is the favourite conversational topic in England. 3. There are a lot of hotels in big cities. 4. Rooms in most hotels have all modern conveniences. 5. The tip is always given with a word of thanks. 6. Staying at a motel has a lot of advantages. 7. Motels are well constructed and comfortably furnished. 8. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time.

VIII.

1. doesn’t it? 2. don’t they? 3. don’t they? 4. don’t they? 5. aren’t they? 6. doesn’t it? 7. doesn’t it? 8. isn’t it? 9. doesn’t it?

XI.

1. put; 2. did not have; 3. changed, sold; 4. were; 5. had; 6. met, started; 7. is; 8. attracts; 9. bases; 10. advise.

XV.

1. don’t they? 2. aren’t there? 3. isn’t it? 4. isn’t there? 5. didn’t they? 6. doesn’t he? 7. don’t they? 8. don’t you? 9. don’t you?

XVI.

1. The weather affects the lives of all of us in many ways. 2. The thick white fog rolls in from the sea all over the country. 3. The popular belief that it rains all the time in Britain is not true. 4. You can get various services at the hotel. 5. The weather usually depends on the season. 6. In some parts of the world the weather stays very much the same day after day. 7. We learned to change the 'weather' inside our houses. 8. We began to experiment with changing the weather. 9. Bad weather may ruin crops so that food will cost more.