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VI. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык весь текст. Перепишите и письменно пере-
ведите 1 и 3 абзацы.
1. Weather is created by the heat of the sun. When the sun shines on the earth, the air close to the surface
heats up, expands and rises. The higher it goes, the cooler it becomes. Meanwhile, an area of warmer, low-
pressure air forms below it. Winds are caused by air moving from an area of high pressure to one of low pres-
sure. The closer the pressure centers are to each other, and the greater the pressure difference between them, the
stronger the wind will be.
2. High- and low-pressure air masses travel the globe and cause major weather changes. When a cold,
high-pressure polar air mass meets an extremely low-pressure tropical air mass, their combination can produce
intense storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and tornados. Less severe weather conditions are often caused by
small, local pressure areas. A mild rainstorm occurs when rising warm air combines with cool air. Clouds are
created as the moist warm air cools and condenses to form water droplets. When clouds reach a saturation
point, or the point at which they can no longer contain their moisture, the droplets fall to the earth as rain or
snow.
3. Weather forecasters look at the movement of warm and cold air masses and try to predict how they will
behave. Although weather forecasting is not completely accurate, satellites and computers make weather pre-
diction far more accurate today than in the past. The advantages of weather prediction are numerous, but in the
end, nature does whatever it pleases. We may attempt to predict weather but we cannot control it.
VII. Ответьте на следующие вопросы к тексту, запишите свои ответы.
1. What are winds caused by?
2. What causes major weather changes?
3. What happens when rising warm air meets cool air?
4. What do weather forecasters do?
В а р и а н т № 3
I. Перепишите данные ниже предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой ча-
стью речи является слово с окончанием -s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет в предложении,
т.е. служит ли оно:
a) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Simple;
б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;
в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.
Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. Scientists agree that America's native Indian population came from Siberia.
2. The word "computer" comes from a Latin word which means to count.
3. Only humans and some primates enjoy colour vision.
II. Перепишите следующие предложения и письменно переведите их, учитывая особенности пере-
вода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.
1. During one of the Ice Ages the sea level dropped.
2. Most allergens are complex chemical substances, usually proteins or combinations of proteins and sugar
molecules.
3. This power-station equipment is quite new.
III. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и письменно пе-
реведите их на русский язык.
1. The more distant a star is, the dimmer it seems to us.
2. A tropical cyclone is one of the most powerful storm systems in the atmosphere.
3. Death Valley, in California, which is 280 feet below sea level, is the lowest spot in the United States.
4. The second text is as difficult as the first one.
IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на
перевод неопределенных местоимений и наречий.
