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A) This district is widely known for its association with the history of English literature and especially with the name of William Wordsworth (1770-1859), the founder of the lake School of poets.
B) The largest cities of Great Britain are: London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh.
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A) Although Scotland takes up one third of the territory of the British Isles, its population is not very big.
B) It is the most northern part of the island of Great Britain and is not far away from the Arctic Circle.
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A) Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland are the leading industrial centre and a large port.
B) Its chief industries are the production of linen and other textiles, clothing, shipbuilding, engineering.
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A) In Ireland the national musical instrument is the harp.
B) A taxi, sometimes called a cab, is the most comfortable way to travel in London.
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A) It consists of four main parts which is: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
B) Their capitals are London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
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A) Northern Ireland are the smallest component of the United Kingdom.
B) It occupies the north-east of the island of Ireland, only one-sixth of its territory.
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A) Northern Ireland contains six of the nine counties of the historic province of Ulster and that is why the name ‘Ulster’ is sometimes used as equivalent to Northern Ireland.
B) Its capital city are Belfast.
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A) Now Eisteddfod is a festival of Welsh culture.
B) It includes competitions in prose, poetry and singing. Wales has its own flag called the Welsh dragon.
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A) Now there is a growing movement of revival of Welsh culture from which sprang the revival of Eisteddfod.
B) Eisteddfod in the form of a gathering of bards had occasionally been held in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
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A) That’s why it are not densely populated: its population is a little over 5 million people.
B) The Cheviot Hills mark the boundary between England and Scotland. Apart from this land link with England, Scotland are surrounded by sea.
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A) The largest industry is agriculture conducted for the most part on small family farms.
B) It occupies about 72 per cent of the land area.
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A) The Midland plain makes good farm land.
B) In Southern England are found some of the oldest British settlements and traces of ancient monuments such as Stonehenge.
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A) The most important ports is: London, Liverpool, Southampton, Belfast, Glasgow and Cardiff.
B) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) occupies most of the territory of the British Isles.
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A) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the official name of the state which is sometimes referred to as Great Britain or Britain (after its major isle), England (after its major historic part) or the British Isles.
B) The UK is an island state: it is composed of some 5.500 islands, large and small.
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A) The wool industry is centred in Leeds and Bradford, the cotton industry in Manchester, iron ore goes to the steel, heavy machinery and shipbuilding industries of Newcastle and other cities.
B) The industries of the Midlands, with Birmingham as its chief city, produce metal goods, from motor cars and railway engines to pins and buttons.
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A) You simply hail a taxi in the street or go to a taxi-rank where there are several taxis waiting, for example, at a station.
B) At the end of your journey you can to see how much the fare is by looking at the meter.
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Выберите возможные варианты: A well-known example is the cockney of East Londoners. The Scottish and Irish forms of Gaelic survive in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.
Выберите возможные варианты: At first you won’t be feeling very well because of it, but don’t worry - it won’t take you long to get used to it.
Выберите возможные варианты: English is the official language of the UK. Besides standard literary English there are many regional and social dialects.
Выберите возможные варианты: It’s the jet-lag, a difference between the time you are accustomed to and the new time.
Выберите возможные варианты: Now there are also many people of all colours and races in the UK. These are mostly former inhabitants of the former British colonies. These people, called the coloureds, came to the UK in search of better living standards.
Выберите возможные варианты: The day before he had cancelled his ticket for a morning flight and had booked an afternoon flight instead. He had to go to the reservations desk to collect his new ticket.
Выберите возможные варианты: The earliest known people of Britain were of Iberian origin. Then followed a long succession of invaders including the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes and at last in 1066 the Normans. It was the last time Britain was invaded.
Выберите возможные варианты: There is another inconvenience you have to be prepared for when travelling long distances by plane.
Выберите возможные варианты: Wales is officially bilingual, Welsh is spoken by about a fifth of its population. Welsh is the first language in most of the western counties of Wales and at least formally has the same status as English.
Выберите возможные варианты: When Wilson got to the airport, his flight was already being called over the loudspeakers.
Выберите правильный вариант: Another constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is Wales.
Выберите правильный вариант: As a result of the hard struggle of the Irish people for independence the larger part of Ireland (26 counties) gained the status of a British dominion in 1921.
Выберите правильный вариант: But now this city is rapidly changing, turning into an important cultural centre.
Выберите правильный вариант: Due to the colonial policy of Great Britain the Irish nation was forcefully partitioned.
Выберите правильный вариант: Each clan had its own tartan.
Выберите правильный вариант: Edinburgh has been the capital since the 15th century, when its fortified castle was the centre of Scotland’s resistance to its enemies.
Выберите правильный вариант: Edinburgh is the cultural centre of Scotland.
Выберите правильный вариант: Everybody in the clan had the same family name, like MacDonald or MacGregor (Mac means ‘son of’).
Выберите правильный вариант: For seven centuries Ireland was a colony of Britain.
Выберите правильный вариант: Glasgow is sometimes called ‘the friendly city’.
Выберите правильный вариант: Glasgow was a grim city because of the greyness of the houses many of which were not suitable for living and needed repairs or rebuilding.
Выберите правильный вариант: Greater London, the south and the south-east are the most densely populated areas. London’s population is nearly 7 million.
Выберите правильный вариант: Here, on the Clyde, is Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest city.
Выберите правильный вариант: It became part of England in 1536 by the Act of Union.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is also associated with the world-famous Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is associated with the names of George Gordon Byron and Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns and Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is bounded by the North Sea on the east.
Выберите правильный вариант: Its emblem is a thistle.
Выберите правильный вариант: Many valleys between the hills are filled with lakes, called lochs.
Выберите правильный вариант: Most of the mountainous parts of the UK including much of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Pennine Chain in northern England are very sparsely populated.
Выберите правильный вариант: Most of the population of Scotland is concentrated in the Lowlands.
Выберите правильный вариант: Much later, in 1949 it was officially proclaimed an independent state, the Irish Free State or Eire.
Выберите правильный вариант: One of the things that people associate with Scotland is the kilt.
Выберите правильный вариант: Our musicians, dancers and singers were a great success.
Выберите правильный вариант: Scotland had been an independent state and was joined into the UK in 1707, after a long struggle for its independence.
Выберите правильный вариант: Scotland includes the Hebrides off the west coast, and the Orkney and Shetland Islands off the north coast.
Выберите правильный вариант: Scotland is divided into three regions: the Highlands, which is the most northern and the most underpopulated area with a harsh climate, the Lowlands, which is the industrial region, with about three quarters of the population, and the Southern Uplands, with hills, which border on England.
Выберите правильный вариант: Ships and helicopters travel from Aberdeen to the North Sea oil rigs.
Выберите правильный вариант: The population of the United Kingdom is over 57 million people. There are fourteen other countries in the world with more people.
Выберите правильный вариант: The best known is Loch Ness where some people think a large monster lives.
Выберите правильный вариант: The British are the descendants of different peoples who settled in the British Isles at different times.
Выберите правильный вариант: The clan had its own territory and was ruled by a chieftain.
Выберите правильный вариант: The distribution of the population is rather uneven. Over 46 million people live in England, over 3 million in Wales, a little over 5 million in Scotland and about 1.5 million in Northern Ireland.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Edinburgh International Festival of 1987 was devoted to the Soviet Union.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Festival was first held in 1947 and has been held annually ever since.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Highlands of Scotland are among the oldest mountains in the world.
Выберите правильный вариант: The kilt is a relic of the time when the clan system existed in the Highlands.
Выберите правильный вариант: The most important city here is Aberdeen which is the oil centre of Scotland.
Выберите правильный вариант: The population of the UK lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. Four out of every five people live in towns.
Выберите правильный вариант: The two main islands are Great Britain (in which are England, Wales and Scotland) to the east and Ireland (in which are Northern Ireland and the independent Irish Republic) to the west.
Выберите правильный вариант: The UK is inhabited by the English, the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish who constitute the British nation.
Выберите правильный вариант: The UK is situated off the west coast of Europe between the Atlantic Ocean on the north-west and the North Sea on the east and is separated from the European continent by the English Channel (or La Manche) and the Strait of Dover (or Pas de Calais).
Выберите правильный вариант: They are separated by the Irish Sea. The UK is one of the world’s smaller countries (it is twice smaller than France or Spain), with an area of some 1.244.100 square kilometres.
Выберите правильный вариант: They reach their highest point in Ben Nevis (1343 m).
Выберите правильный вариант: Work on an oil rig is difficult and dangerous.
Заполните пропуск: England is mostly a lowland country. There are upland regions _______ the north and the south-west, but the rest of England is almost flat.
Заполните пропуск: In everyday speech ‘Great Britain’ is used to mean the United Kingdom. Geographically, the island of Great Britain _______ subdivided into two main regions - Lowland Britain and Highland Britain.
Заполните пропуск: It is interesting to note that the sea has been important in the history of England. It was a good protection against the attacks ________ outside peoples.
Заполните пропуск: Lowland Britain comprises southern and eastern England. Highland Britain consists of Scotland, most of Wales, the Pennines, _______ the Lake District.
Заполните пропуск: On either side of the Pennines the plains of Yorkshire and Lancashire stretch to the sea. In Yorkshire swift rivers flow down from the hills _______ valleys called ‘dales’.
Заполните пропуск: The coasts of England are washed by the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the English Channel and the Strait of Dover. No part ________ England is more than 120 kilometres from the sea.
Заполните пропуск: The rivers of Ireland are short, but deep. The largest river _______ the Shannon.
Заполните пропуск: The swiftest flowing river in the British Isles is the Spey. Part of the border between Scotland and England is along the lower reaches ________ the Tweed, near which is made the woollen fabric that bears its name.
Заполните пропуск: There are many lakes in Great Britain. On the north-west side of the Pennine system lies the Lake District, containing the beautiful lakes which give _______ its name.
Заполните пропуск: There are many rivers in England. The longest is the Severn (388 km), the most important is the Thames (354 km). The rivers are _______ great importance for communication and especially for carrying goods.
Заполните пропуск: England is separated ________ Scotland by the Cheviot Hills running from east to west.
Заполните пропуск: Fishing has always been an important industry, especially _______ the east. The sea also has a great effect on England’s climate.
Заполните пропуск: Grass grows well in such a climate and it makes ________ island look so beautiful.
Заполните пропуск: Great Britain is the name of the largest island of the British Isles and it is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, it _______ not include Northern Ireland.
Заполните пропуск: Is the grass really greener _______ Ireland? The fact is that the winds usually blow in from the Atlantic Ocean and make the air and soil warm and damp.
Заполните пропуск: It has its roots _______ three basic industries - agriculture, textiles and shipbuilding.
Заполните пропуск: It is also an administrative _______ educational centre.
Заполните пропуск: Northern England, Midlands and Southern England - each part _______ England is different.
Заполните пропуск: Since World War II there has been intensive development _______ the metals industries especially in the south and south-east.
Заполните пропуск: The chief rivers of Great Britain are: the Severn, flowing along the border between England and Wales, tributaries of which include the Avon, famed by Shakespeare; the Thames, which flows eastward to the port ________ London and some others.
Заполните пропуск: The Lake District _______ Northern England with its lakes, mountains and valleys is a favourite holiday area.
Заполните пропуск: The Mourne Mountains _______ the southeast slope down to Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles.
Заполните пропуск: The Pennine Chain extends southward from the Cheviot Hills into the Midlands, a plain region with low hills _______ valleys.
Заполните пропуск: The population of Northern Ireland ________ about 1.5 million people. 53 per cent of the total population live in urban areas.
Заполните пропуск: The second largest city in Wales is Swansea _______ mainly steel production can be found.
Заполните пропуск: The Welsh people, especially in rural areas, _______ fond of folk music, singing, poetry and drama.
Заполните пропуск: The whole economy _______ Northern Ireland is closely integrated with that of Great Britain.
Заполните пропуск: There are low hills and peaks of rocks ________ the north-west, while the north-east sector of the island is a plateau.
Заполните пропуск: There are many choirs in Wales, the standard _______ singing is high and the love of good music is widespread.
Заполните пропуск: Welsh literature ________ one of the oldest in Europe.
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Укажите значение слова: A light bag is classified as hand luggage and you can take it with you on the plane.
Укажите значение слова: After fulfilling all these formalities you go to the departure lounge where you can have a snack, read a paper, buy something in the duty-free shop and wait for the announcement to board the plane. Some of these formalities are repeated when you arrive at your destination.
Укажите значение слова: An experienced customs officer usually “smells” a smuggler, but he may ask any passenger routine questions, for instance, “Have you got anything to declare?” or “Any spirits, tobacco, presents?”
Укажите значение слова: An immigration officer looks at your passport and a security guard checks your hand luggage before you go into the departure lounge to wait till your flight is called. If you want to, you can buy some cheap duty free goods here.
Укажите значение слова: At the airport you may be met by a specially trained dog who will make sure that you are not carrying drugs, and the immigration officer might want to know at whose invitation you are coming and whether you have a return ticket.
Укажите значение слова: Finally, permission is received from the control tower and the plane moves faster and faster in order to take off.
Укажите значение слова: Flying is fun. I like being in a big airliner with the cabin crew (stewards and stewardesses) looking after me.
Укажите значение слова: If you have a lot of luggage, you can put it on a trolley and push it to the check-in desk where someone will check your ticket and weigh your luggage.
Укажите значение слова: If you have excess luggage, it can be expensive. Your heavy luggage is put on a conveyer belt and carried away.
Укажите значение слова: If, for instance, you are supposed to begin with going through the customs, you’d better fill in the customs declaration before you talk to the customs officer.
Укажите значение слова: In most countries there is also a security check when your carry-on luggage is inspected.
Укажите значение слова: Of course, if your luggage weighs more than 20kgs, you have to pay extra.
Укажите значение слова: The usual answers would be, “Yes, I’ve got some valuables, but I’ve put them all down in the declaration”, or “I’ve got two blocks of cigarettes for my own use” or something of that kind.
Укажите значение слова: The customs declaration and the immigration form are often filled in on board the plane.
Укажите значение слова: The form has to be filled in in block letters. You write your name, nationality, permanent address and the purpose of your trip.
Укажите значение слова: The next formality is filling in the immigration form and going through passport control.
Укажите значение слова: Then you go to the check-in counter where your ticket is looked at, your things are weighed and labeled, a claim-check for each piece of luggage is inserted in the ticket and you are given a boarding pass, which has a seat number on it.
Укажите значение слова: Then you see on the departures board or hear an announcement that you must board your plane.
Укажите значение слова: They walk up and down the aisle bringing meals and drinks; and if the flight is going through some turbulence, they warn everybody that it might be a bit bumpy and ask us to fasten our seatbelts.
Укажите значение слова: This is an anti-hijacking measure, and anything that might be dangerous or disturbing to other passengers must be handed to one of the crew and only returned to the owner after the plane has reached its destination.
Укажите значение слова: When all the passengers are on board and when the captain and his crew are ready in the cockpit, the plane begins to taxi to the end of the runway.
Укажите значение слова: When travelling by air you have to get to the airport early in order to check in about an hour before your flight.
Укажите значение слова: You go through the departure gate, then there is sometimes a security check before you actually enter the plane.
Укажите значение слова: The rules for passengers who are going abroad are similar in most countries: but sometimes there might be a slight difference in formalities.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Most buses have a two-person crew: the driver who drives, of course, and the conductor (or the conductress if it’s a woman) who takes your money.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: You add a tip to this, and that’s all. Very simple. But expensive!
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: You catch a bus by waiting at a bus-stop.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: For longer distances take a train or a long distance bus, usually called a coach which is slower but cheaper.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Go down to the platform on the escalator or in the lift. The train comes. The sliding doors open. You get on. You look at the map of the underground system. Very simple.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: If it has only one floor, it’s called a single-decker.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Keep your ticket because an inspector might want to check it.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Put your luggage on the rack and sit and wait till you arrive.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The train is very fast.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: What about taking a bus? It has two floors, it’s called a double-decker and you can get a good view from the top.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: You buy your ticket at the ticket-office.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: You can see where a bus is going because the destination is written on the front. But try to avoid the rush hour.