Английский язык. Дьякова Н.П. - 4 стр.

                                 Контрольная работа № 3

    Составлена на основании учебника английского языка «Продукты моря» [1].

    Для выполнения контрольной работы студент должен знать:

    1. Лексический минимум, прилагаемый к данной контрольной работе.
    2. Числительные.
    3. Грамматическую модель страдательного залога (Passive Voice)

    Для защиты контрольной работы студент должен уметь ответить на вопросы
по тексту, перевести предложения с русского на английский, знать образование
Passive Voice, дать краткое сообщение по теме и знать лексический минимум.


                                         Вариант 1

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                                        THE OCEAN

     As an antipode to the dry land1 the ocean is a mobile aquatic cover of the globe.
The world ocean is divided into four parts, namely: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. The surface of the world ocean is equal
to 361,600,000 km2. Here are the figures illustrating the size of the oceans and seas
(in million km2): the Pacific – 130, the Atlantic – 106, the Indian Ocean – 75,
the Arctic Ocean – 12.8; the Mediterranean Sea – 3, the Bering Sea – 2.3, the Okhotsk
Sea – 1.5, the Sea of Japan – 1.04, the Black Sea – 0.38.
     The average depth of the ocean is about 4,000 metres. It was common opinion that
the greatest depth of the ocean was 9,870 metres (the Filippine Abyss in the Pacific).
Yet in 1953 the expedition of Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of sciences
of the USSR who explored the Kuril-Kamchatka Abyss ascertained that the greatest
depth there equalled 10,382 metres. The depth in the seas are less than those in the
ocean. For example, the greatest depth in the Caribbean Sea is 6,269 metres, in the
Mediterranean – 4,400 metres, in the Bering Sea – 5,100 metres, in the Black Sea –
2,245 metres.
     The relief of the ocean bottom is much plainer and more monotonous than that of
the surface of the land. This phenomenon is due to2 the absence of destruction made by
such forces as running water, wind, ice… On the other hand3 the bottom of the sea is
a field of eternal depositions which still more smooth out its relief.
     To a casual observer the ocean is a barren waste chiefly used for transportation.
Actually it is not so. The ocean is a cradle of life on the Earth. The first living organ-
isms, as scientists assert, arouse in the ocean depths. The largest animals and the tallest

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