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II. READING AT HOME
1. Translate the Texts in Writing
Text 1
POLYPS ARE TINY ANIMALS
Like buds on a tree, polyps sprout on a tube coral. Polyps are tiny animals.
They have soft bodies protected by hard skeletons shaped like cups. The corals
have tentacles for trapping food. Young polyps anchor themselves to old ones.
Each polyp splits into two polyps. Then each splits again. The colony grows.
The skeletons of millions of dead polyps can form coral reefs and islands.
Notes:
polyp полип
tentacle щупальце
Text 2
WHY ARE MOTHS ATTRACTED TO A LIGHT
Scientists tell us that moths are not really attracted to the light itself. When
moths fly at night, they use moon as a beacon to guide them. By always keeping
the light of the moon falling on its eyes at the same angle, a moth is able to fly a
straight path. Since the mean is far away, its light falls in much the same angle
to the earth for whatever distance the moth might fly. But nearby lights confuse
it. When it tries to navigate by a street light instead of the moon, the moth is
forced to fly in ever smaller circles that eventually lead to the light itself.
Text 3
WHAT'S NEW IN BUG CONTROL
Go into the fields and collect several cups of insects that are damaging the
crops. Put them in a blender and add water. Blend at high speed. Dilute the
mixture with more water. Spray the thinned-out bug juice on your crops. It may
kill same kinds of bugs that you’ve just blended.
Some farmers are finding out that this method is not as ridiculous as it may
seem. For years they have used strong chemicals to kill or reduce the number of
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