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5. Spring comes slowly in England.
6. England is a land of gardens and flowers.
7. Fog is the greatest disaster that can happen.
8. British weather can be favourably compared with the weather of other coun-
tries.
Exercise 5.
Explain the italicized part.
1) ...there is a cold, dry, biting wind which brings black frosts.
2) ...it is here that great floods occur which do the worst damage in narrow val-
leys.
3) ...fine summer days return in mid-October gilding the autumn leaves.
4) ...icy roads can stop traffic.
5) The moods of British weather are really surprising.
6) ...thick fogs which are called “pea-soupers” belong more to fiction than to
fact.
Exercise 6.
a) Break up the text into several parts.
b) Give a title to each part.
Exercise 7.
Translate the following texts into Russian. Retell the texts in Eng-
lish.
a) It is Raining Cats and Dogs.
When it pours with rain we often say: “It’s raining cats and dogs.” But we
don’t know why, and what this saying’s original meaning was. In distant times,
people thought that witches could turn themselves into cats and ride across the
stormy skies on their broomsticks, and cats were thought to be a big influence
on the weather. The dog was the servant of the North storm God, Odin, and rep-
resented the wind. Cats and dogs from that time have meant the wind and the
rain.
b) London Fogs.
Because of its geographical position in a deep river valley London is occa-
sionally enveloped by unusually thick fog. The worst of these fogs began on De-
cember 4
th
, 1952 and there was a similar one in December 1962. All traffic was
forced to a standstill as visibility fell to nil. The streets near the centre of London
were jammed with buses crawling along at two miles per hour.
At Convent Garden a performance of La Traviata had to be abandoned after
the first act because so much fog penetrated into the building that the audience
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