Английский язык. Бабушкин А.П - 7 стр.

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girls are pretending to be afraid of snakes.
       All night the drums beat and the fires burn. But the dancers never seem to get
tired.
Choose the correct answer.
1. The story does not say so, but it makes you think that
a. few people go to Kikuyu dances.
b. the Kikuyu dance is an old custom.
c. the Kikuyu girls and boys dance to band music.
2. The dancers' skin and clothes are covered with
a. paint.     c. feathers.
b. dust.      d. chalk.
3. On the whole, this story is about
a. the beat of drums.
b. an African dance.
c. African storytelling.
4. What do the Kikuyu dances tell?
a. The dances tell the story of drum beats.
b. The dances tell about adventures.
c. The dances tell funny jokes.
5. Which of these sentences do you think is right?
a. The Kikuyus do not often get together.
b. Dancing is important to the Kikuyus.
c. The most important event is a singing group.
                                  From Farm to Family
        Everyone knows cows give milk. But did you know that machines get the milk
from farm to family?
       At one time, a farmer had to milk his cows by hand. (1) ___. A milking ma-
chine can milk two or more cows at one time. And it does the job in a matter of min-
utes.
       From the milking machine, the milk flows through pipes into a big metal tank.
(2) ___. The tank truck can hold 2,000 gallons of milk and keep it cold. The tank
truck may go to a dairy more than 100 miles away.
       (3) ___. It is also put into bottles. Bottling machines do the work of many
hands. They wash and scrub thousands of bottles inside and out. (4) ___. This ma-
chine fills each bottle with the right amount of milk. (5) ___.
       Other machines put milk into paper cartons. After the milk has been put into
bottles or cartons, it is ready for your family.
Put in the missing sentences.
A. There, the milk is kept cool until a large tank truck stops at the farm.
B. When the bottles are clean, they are carried on a moving belt to a bottle-filling ma-
     chine.
C. Then it puts on the cap.
D. Today, many farmers have electric milking machines to do the work for them.
E. At the dairy, the milk is heated to kill germs.