9.6. Decide what text refers to.

(A) water quality, salt content and temperature

(B) your fish

(C) wild fish

(D) fish

9.7. Answer the questions.

1. What is the problem of ponds with a surface area larger than one hectare?

2. What is the advantage of free-flowing water fish farms - a lake, river or ocean?

3. What can be used to fertilize the pond and feed the fish?

4. What can be used to fertilize the crops?

5. What does the kind of fish to raise depend on?

6. What does Martin Schreibman say?

9.8. Read the whole text and decide whether these statements are true (t) or false (f).

1. Fish can be raised in ponds of standing water, on farms connected to sources of free-flowing water — a lake, river or ocean or in tanks, either indoors or outdoors.

2. Depending on the pond surface area it may be not profitable or difficult to manage.

3. Wild fish should be removed from the pond, or else they could eat all weeds and small organisms, like plankton and algae.

4. Setting up a fish farm is much more expensive and difficult than people might think.

5. Fish farming is profitable if managed properly.

6. People all over the world eat less fish instead of more.

9.9. Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the text?

(A) Fish farming is a variety of aquaculture.

(B) Intensive fishing reduces populations of wild fish.

(C) Setting up a fish farm is easier, less costly and more profitable than people might think.

(D) People should eat more fish.

9.10. Complete each sentence with one of the following words and phrases.

quality content to be raised less aquaculture hectare more

1. Ponds larger than one … may be difficult to manage.

2. Pond farming is one kind of … .

3. The water …, salt and temperature are very important when deciding which kind of fish to raise.

4. Common carp, tilapia, catfish, grouper, milkfish, eel or other kinds are popular … in ponds.

5. Africa is the only area of the world where in recent years people have been eating … fish instead of … .

9.11. Translate the sentences, restoring a name at a noun in a position of a subject and using other transformations.

1. New technology substantially changes the whole system of work or­ganization at the plant.

2. Labour security became a key issue in the Factory policies.

3. Experts visits to plants areas will add up to the security either.

4. New technological gadgets (установка) substantially change the whole system of work organization at the plant.

6. Labour security (особое внимание к) became a key issue in the Factory policies.

7. Auditors (договор) visits to plants areas will add up to the entity insurance either.

10. Foreign Students Financial Aid

10.1. Words to remember:

scholarship	стипендия для студента
fellowship	стипендия для аспирантов
loan	заем, ссуда
repay	отдавать (долг и т. п.), погашать (заём и т. п.)
requirement	зд. потребность
heritage	наследство, наследие
tuition	зд. плата за обучение
admit	зд. принимать
fall	зд. осень (амер.)