WE LEARN ENGLISH. PART I. Ромаданова О.Н - 39 стр.

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Task 8. Read the text “Books and Libraries”. Give Russian equivalents of
the underlined words.
The Lenin State Library in Moscow is one of the greatest in the world. It
has many
reading halls and hundreds of kilometres of shelves full of books in
more than 170 languages. Here we find millions of books, newspapers,
manuscripts and a great number of rare priceless volumes. The library is not
only for the use of Muscovites. If a reader from any place of Russia or from
abroad needs a rare book he can’t find elsewhere, he can
send his order to
Moscow
through his local library. There are excellent catalogues and qualified
librarians here.
There is
a public library in every town in Russia. Anyone may join a
library and borrow books. At the lending department you may borrow three
books
at a time and keep them for a fortnight. If at the end of the period you
haven’t finished reading a book, you may
renew it. The librarians know a lot
about literature. They can
give you advice about literature and recommend you
what books to take.
Most public libraries also have a
reading room and a reference library. In
the reading room you can read the
daily papers and all the other important
periodicals. In the reference library there are encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases
and other books of reference on every possible subject.
Active Vocabulary
- a card – a. a library card; b. a reader’s card
- a catalogue – a library catalogue; a card catalogue; to make catalogue of
books
- to arrange – to arrange books on shelves; to arrange books in alphabetical
order
- reference – reference books; a reference library
- an encyclopedia
- a dictionary – to use a dictionary; to look up a word in a dictionary;
English-Russian dictionary; a pocket dictionary
- to consult – to consult smb.; to consult a dictionary
- a novel – a novel by Dickens
- a chapter – Chapter 5
- a cover – the cover of a book; to read a book from cover to cover;
- contents – the contents of a book
- a table of contents
- a volume
- to publish – to publish a book (information, news, novel, review)
- a choice – a good (poor) choice; to make one’s choice
- a plot – an original plot
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