Методические указания и контрольное задание №5 по английскому языку. Доржиева Г.Б - 15 стр.

                          Вариант 5                                  nation. Most Americans are troubled by the fact that some
Задание I.                                                           social, ethnic, and racial groups show a disproportionate
I. Read the text and answer the question in written form, using      number of people living below the official poverty level.
the vocabulary list.                                                     3. The “official poverty level” is set by the federal
What facts are most Americans troubled by?                           government and adjusted from time to time. This is interpreted
                                                                     as the stage at which a decent standard of living can no longer
                           Vocabulary list:                          be expected. In 1985, for example, the official poverty level for
     1.   ethnic background – этническое происхождение               a four-person family was $10, 989 per year. This amount refers
     2.   ancestry (n) –предки                                       to earned income only. It should be noted that this poverty
     3.   affiliation (n) – присоединение                            figure does not already include any welfare benefits, housing
     4.   decent (a) – минимальный                                   support, aid to children, food stamps, Medicaid, or other help
     5.   starvation (n) – голод                                     from federal and state programs. Nor does it include the free
     6.   adjust (v) – поправлять                                    school breakfast and lunch programs or the surplus food
     7.   minority (n) – меньшинство                                 program which distribute food free of charge to the poor.
                                                                         4. Among the areas with many people below the poverty
                    Prosperity and Poverty                           level is Appalachia, that mountain region which includes parts
                                                                     of such states as West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
    1. Describing America and American society by race and           Thousands of people there need better housing, medical
ethnic background, ancestry, and religious affiliation gives         treatment, and other services. Much poverty also exists among
fundamental information about the United States today. Other         minority groups. The average incomes of American Indians,
basic information is concerned with economic factors. What           blacks, and Hispanics continue, as a whole, to be lower than
does the average American earn and how is income distributed?        those of whites.
Also important is where Americans live. How many live in
urban and how many in rural areas? What are the largest cities?      II. Rewrite the following words, find their derivatives from the
    2. Approximately 100 years ago the United States overtook        text and translate them.
Great Britain to become the richest nation in the world. Since           Model: 1. minor – minority (меньшинство)
then, whether measured by average income or by gross national
product (GNP), the U.S. has remained among the wealthiest               1.   minor
nations. In 1985, for example, the median family income of all          2.   country
Americans was about $27,700. In other words, one half of all            3.   starve
families earned more than this amount each year, and one half           4.   proportion
less. What this means is that, as a whole, the American people          5.   prosper
are a very prosperous nation. Nonetheless, Americans are very
concerned with that percentage of their countrymen who fall          III. Choose and write down words with opposite meaning:
below what they consider “a descent standard of living”. This             Model: Rich – poor, …
is not starvation: it is being poor in relation to the rest of the   Rich, income, spend, prosperity, urban, earn, poverty, rural,