Практикум по английскому языку (по истории Англии Средних веков). Пилипенко В.А - 10 стр.

IV. Reading.

1. Check the meanings of the words in your dictionary:
      to be responsible for, pattern, squire, enduring merit, casually,
to escape, passionate, deep-seated.

2. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
       a) The traditional pattern of an English village is a group of
small houses grouped round a big square.
       b) The English have passionate love for the beauty of big
cities.
       c) The suburban gardens are better kept in Japan.

3. Text for reading.

Read the text about Britain by Gordon Winter. It will be continued
after each unit.
       If the hand of man was largely responsible for giving Britain’s
landscape the qualities that we love and admire, what influence has
been at work that has enabled that hand to produce results of such
enduring merit? Why is the traditional pattern of an English village,
of little houses grouped casually round church, squire’s house and
village green, so satisfying to man’s emotional needs that whenever
people can afford to do so they escape from industrial townscapes to
live in the villages? What is it that has given the people of these
islands their passionate and deep-seated love for the beauty of the
countryside? Why have organizations like the National Trust and the
National Trust for Scotland been conceived in Britain, to form a
model for other countries to follow in the rest of the western world?
Why do we still devote so much time and energy to town and country
planning? Why are suburban gardens better kept in Britain than
anywhere else in the world?




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