Методические указания и контрольное задание №5 по английскому языку. Доржиева Г.Б - 12 стр.

                History of American Welfare                            4. Among the programs that began during the Depression
                                                                    years was the Social Security program, approved in 1935.
    1. From the days of British colonial rule in North America
until the 1930s, there was little disagreement about the proper     II. Rewrite the following words, find their derivatives from the
role of government with regard to the welfare of the American       text and translate them.
people. Local government gave a small amount of money to the            Model: limit – limitless (безграничный)
very poorest, but most people refused to accept this help unless
they were desperate. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a      1.   limit
number of nations in Europe were establishing and                      2.   poor
administering government-funded public welfare programs.               3.   necessary
    2. No equivalent movement existed in the United States             4.   act
until the beginning of the 20th century. Millions of European          5.   govern
immigrants had almost limitless opportunities to establish a
good life for themselves, and many of them, through applied         III. Choose and write down the words with similar meaning:
intelligence and hard work, succeeded beyond their wildest               Model: establish = accomplish, …
dreams. Such opportunities were not always available to Black       Establish, keep, succeed, assist, hold, create, majority,
Americans (most of whom were held in slavery until the end of       accomplish, support, the greater number.
the Civil War in 1865) and Native Americans. The majority of
Americans could, if they worked hard, establish themselves in       IV. Match the following words with their definitions:
comfort, both socially and economically within a generation of        Model: 1. severe - b) harsh, stern
two. Government aid was unnecessary for this majority.
    3. In 1929, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs          1.    severe         a) to express favorable opinion
because of a severe economic decline known as the Great              2.    accept         b) harsh, stern
Depression. The President, Herbert Hoover, introduced                3.    refuse         c) to decay, fall
programs to solve the problem, but changing a system takes           4.   generation      d) to deny
time. Within days after Roosevelt took office in 1933, the old       5.   conservation     e) the average time interval between the
idea that direct federal government support was not a useful                               birth of parents and that of their off-
way to help people faded into history. Suddenly, congress was                              spring
establishing many public welfare programs which were                 6. renovate          f) concerning, connected with
radically different from any earlier activities undertaken by the    7. with regard to    g) ready for immediate use
American government. The government began using its money            8. decline           h) to return to a good condition
and power to provide jobs for people on public projects such as      9. approve           i) to agree
nature conservation, building dams, repairing roads, renovating      10. available        j) protection
public buildings and establishing new electrical systems for
rural areas.                                                        V. Read these sentences and arrange them according to the
                                                                    logic of the text.