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Complete the following sentences in Future Continuous.
1. "The evenings (to get) long soon," – I said to my aunt, to cheer her up.
2. "I do wish you’d do something about these stones," – said Mary. – "We … all (to fall) over them."
3. He is very much ashamed. He realizes that it is all over between them. I think he (to leave) quite soon.
4. I (to have) some people in after dinner tonight at my place. Will you come?
5. Well, I (to see) you this evening.
6. "What is your brother like? I (to know) him at Oxford," – said Val.
7. Now that your assistant’s gone you (to look) for someone to do his job.
LESSON 9
Grammar:
1. Настоящее совершенное время (The Present Perfect Tense).
2. Прошедшее совершенное время (The Past Perfect Tense).
3. Будущее совершенное время (The Future Perfect Tense).
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THE COAST REDWOODS OF CALIFORNIA
They are the oldest living things on the face of the earth and the tallest. Some have looked down on the
world around them for two thousand years. Earlier cultures had the good sense to revere them; but ours, since
the mid-nnineteenth century, has systematically destroyed them. The greatest remaining concentration of these
great trees – and historically the scene of the greatest devastation by loggers – is along California’s north coast.
As a species, the coast redwoods are not endangered. New growth takes root easily. What is in danger is the old
growth, described as trees that are more than
250 years old, with a trunk diameter of more than four feet at breast height. At one time, the majestic old
growth forests covered millions of acres along a 50-mile wide coastal band stretching from San Francisco to
southern Oregon.
Today, less than 90,000 acres of old-growth forests remain. Through the concerted and often courageous
action of conservationists, starting in the early twentieth century, about 80,000 acres are now incorporated into
state or national parks. Some of the most notable are:
• Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve, located north of San Francisco on the Russian River, where two of
the largest and most famous trees, named Parson Jones and Colonel Armstrong, stand under the watchful eye of
a legendary park ranger;
• Humboldt Redwoods State Park, located in the Eel River Basin of northern California, containing what
is claimed to be the largest remaining contiguous old-growth redwood forest in the world. The oldest trees are,
of course, irreplaceable, and most of them are gone. The remainder is now, for the most part, under federal or
state protection. Only a few thousand acres of old growth – perhaps as few as 6,000 – are under the control of
the big forest products companies. Is this really enough to cause the intense conflict that still rages between two
or three corporations on one side and local conservationists on the other? In our opinion, the answer is yes, and
for more than one reason.
The statistics are complicated and are therefore capable of being used in different ways by the differing
parties. Published information suggests the following:
• the total distribution of coast redwoods, including old and new growth, currently occupies about
1,740,000 acres;
• of these, only about 350,000 are in the public domain, of which about 80,000 acres are old growth;
• most of the coast redwood forests, amounting to well over a million acres, are owned by no more that
seven industrial forest products companies, only a few of which are considered by the conservation community
to be engaged in sustainable practices.
Some corporate executives argue that most of the old growth is already protected and that the destructive
harvesting of the past was, in any event, not their responsibility. Conservationists argue, we believe correctly,
that any remaining old growth forests – even as little as 6,000 acres – represent a national treasure, which
should be placed under a public trust. But the argument, and its intensity, runs much deeper. A generally ac-
cepted paradigm is that the family-owned timber companies, many of which harvested sustainably, protecting

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