Переводчик в сфере профессиональной коммуникации. Борисова Л.А - 12 стр.

      There are about 50 chimps here, all looked after by a Frenchwoman who                F There they will be able to gather all their own food, and they will be
has lived in the Congo for 20 years. 1 ___ Then, in 1991, the Congo authorities       checked regularly by sanctuary staff.
let her establish the sanctuary as a government reserve. She is dedicated to               G At �rst Aliette Jamart ran her orphanage from her home in Pointe
caring for the chimps, and the family electronics business in Pointe Noire pays       Noire, but she ran out of space.
for their upkeep.                                                                          H “But then one day I went to the zoo in Pointe Noire and I saw these
      “When I �rst came here in 1963, I didn’t �nd much to interest me,” she          poor chimps which were being kept in terrible conditions.
says. 2 ___ I had to do something.”
      Many of the chimps come from animal markets, where they are chained                   Task 8. Read the article about a new invention carefully and then decide which
together and fed on scraps. They arrive in poor physical and psychological            of the sentences 1–6 are true (T), which are false (F), according to the text.
condition. “We get them physically back on their feet in a few days,” says
Jamart, “but their greatest need is for affection. We give them a lot of physical                                 To uproot couch potato
contact. I’m like a mother to them.”                                                        A television set that will only work if children pedal an exercise bicycle
      Most of the chimps live on three mangrove islands in the lagoon. 3___           to provide the electricity has been invented by researchers examining weight
For this reason Jamart and her six helpers bring supplies in by boat. Their           problems at a New York hospital.
most important source of nourishment is a baby food with milk, cereals and                  Experiments involving overweight children aged between eight and
vitamins. Jamart and her helpers also help the younger chimps hunt for their          twelve showed that those who had to pedal when they wanted to watch their
own food. “We spend hours together in the jungle searching for fruit and edible       favourite programmes not only watched far less television, but also recorded
roots.                                                                                impressive loss of fat.
      4 ___ They are intelligent, and their instincts help them �nd food in places          The “couch potato TV” was developed by researchers at St Luke’s
I’d never think of.”                                                                  Roosevelt Hospital as a result of growing concern over weight problems among
      Chimps become less controllable with age, so Jamart plans to release the        an increasing number of American children. David Allison, who headed the
older animals into a larger area of forest nearby. 5 ____                             research, said: “I am not naive enough to think we’re going to solve the world’s
      Once the older chimps have gone, there should be more space for the             weight problems with TVs hooked to bicycles. But there are other things we
young ones. The orphanage is full and, as Jamart is painfully aware, there are        could do that are only limited by our imagination.”
many more young chimps being kept in terrible conditions in animal markets,                 Mr Allison once proposed that people should be charged to travel in
                                                                                      lifts in an effort to encourage them to use the stairs. He said that 13 % of
where their future is uncertain.
                                                                                      American children were considered seriously overweight, and that the number
      Jamart is philosophical. 6 ____ In the end, anything she can do is better       was growing. During the tests children who had the “couch potato TV sets”
than leaving the chimps to their fate. “One day I’ll be dead and they’ll still be     watched on average one hour of television a week, while children in a second
here,” she says. “Until then, I’ll do my best.”                                       “control’” group watched more than twenty hours.

     A Although most of them know how to get fruit and berries for themselves,
there just isn’t enough food on the islands.                                              1. The new invention is a television set combined with a bicycle. T / F
     B There is little that she or anyone can do to solve the problem.                    2. The aim of the experiment was to measure how much electricity we can
     C There was trouble when some chimps escaped, but enclosures have                generate through exercise. T / F
solved that problem.                                                                      3. Mr Allison says watching television limits children’s imagination. T / F
     D This chimpanzee is being raised by humans because other humans                     4. Mr Allison tried to discourage people from using lifts. T / F
killed his parents.                                                                       5. The invention has reduced the number of overweight children in the
     E I try to teach them to locate the best things to eat, but I also learn a lot   USA by 13 %. T / F
from them.                                                                                6. All the children in the experiment watched television for twenty hours. T / F



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