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Вопрос №8738
A new material as nylon has been accepted. It is material for the manufacture of bearings and runners of all sizes in many types of machines, earth-moving equipment and agricultural machinery due to its fundamental characteristics of low friction and good wear resistance. Nylon is a very versatile…
Вопрос №8740
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту. Many young urban girls today smoke. While smoking is bad for your health at any time, it is particularly so during pregnancy and result in an underweight, small-size baby, and so smoking is best avoided during pregnancy. It is…
Вопрос №8753
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Agroforestry 1. Agroforestry is an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy…
Вопрос №8759
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. The aims of law 1. Law has several aims. They are all concerned with making society more stable and enabling people to flourish. The law forbids certain ways of behaving like murder, libel, and requires others, like paying income tax. If people disobey the…
Вопрос №8760
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Deforestation 1. Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. The term deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed. However in temperate…
Вопрос №8761
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Deforestation 1. Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. The term deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed. However in temperate…
Вопрос №8762
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Deforestation 1. Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. The term deforestation is often misused to describe any activity where all trees in an area are removed. However in temperate…
Вопрос №8764
Прочитайте текст Management plays a vital role in any business or organized activity. Management is composed of a team of managers who have charge of the organization at all levels. Their duties include making sure company objectives are met and seeing that the business operates efficiently…
Вопрос №8765
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What does the breakfast consist of? It goes without saying that the usual meals are breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. It is the common order of meals in most Ukrainian families. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. On weekdays all the members of the…
Вопрос №8771
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Child Psychology 1. Generally speaking, psychology is the study of the mind and how it works. The main issues studied by psychologists include learning, cognition, intelligence, motivation, emotion, personality, and the extent to which individual differences…
Вопрос №8777
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Satellite radio 1. A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR) is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals. Satellite radio offers a meaningful…
Вопрос №8778
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Satellite radio 1. A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR) is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals. Satellite radio offers a meaningful…
Вопрос №8779
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Satellite radio 1. A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR) is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals. Satellite radio offers a meaningful…
Вопрос №8780
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Satellite radio 1. A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR) is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals. Satellite radio offers a meaningful…
Вопрос №8783
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Sex Roles in America 1. Historians have argued that the early colonists in this country granted women a higher status than they had held in England. One reason for the break with English custom was the importance of women's labor in colonial times. Each family…
Вопрос №8785
Прочитайте текст The Smithsonian Institution is a large group of different museums, scientific building and collections in Washington, D.C., established in 1846 using money left by James Smithson, an English scientist. The Institution holds some 139 million exhibits “for the increase and diffusion…
Вопрос №8788
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту This is a workshop. Two students are here. They are Sveta and Oleg. They are electricians. A toolboard is in the middle of the workshop. Many tools are on the toolboard. They are chisels, screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, a set…
Вопрос №8819
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту. Hardly anyone likes to go to the dentist. Jane Foster is no exception. But today is the day that she has been dreading. She has to have some work done on her teeth. Seated in the dentist’s chair, Jane decides that her fears…
Вопрос №8820
Прочитайте текст Christmas Day (Xmas), a Christian holy day held on December 25th in honour of the birth of Christ, is usually an official holiday. It is marked by special church services, gift-giving and feasting. Most churches have Christmas Eve services. Christmas is a family holiday. Stores…
Вопрос №8825
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: How was plague called? Man tried to protect health during the Middle Ages. Certain important health methods were used during this period. Epidemics of diphtheria, typhoid, fever, leprosy, influenza, bubonic plague and other diseases took millions of lives…
Вопрос №8826
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту Nina Ivanova is our best ward nurse. She works at our hospital and everybody respects her very much. In the morning she always comes into the ward with a smile on her face. Everything she does in the ward she does quickly and…
Вопрос №8831
Прочитайте текст Over 85% of secondary school pupils attend comprehensive schools. These schools take children of all abilities and give secondary education for children from the age of 11 to 16 or 18. Grammar schools give academic education for the children from 11 to 18 -years old. Children enter…
Вопрос №8837
Прочитайте текст Edward Jenner was English physician, the discoverer of vaccination. He was born at Berkley, Gloucestershire, on May 17, 1749. Jenner studied medicine in London at St George’s Hospital. He began practice in Berkeley in 1773 when he was 24 years old. Edward Jenner liked to observe…
Вопрос №8840
Прочитайте текст Engineering is putting knowledge of Nature to practical use. The end result of engineering is some physical thing: a machine, a tool, a gadget. Engineering is solving problems. It’s convenient to discuss engineering projects within the framework of five steps for solving problems…
Вопрос №8844
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту Blood is called the ‘life giver’. Often people die without blood transfusion. More and more blood is needed these days. It takes 5 litres of blood for heart or kidney operations. A special Blood Service operates in Moscow…
Вопрос №8845
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Law 1. Law in common parlance means a rule which (unlike a rule of ethics) is capable of enforcement through institutions. The study of law crosses the boundaries between the social sciences and humanities, depending on one's view of research into its…
Вопрос №8848
Прочитайте текст. Oxford University has been a centre of learning for over 900 years. Today, there are over 16,000 people studying at Oxford, but they are not all British. About 4,000 of them come from other countries. In fact, there are currently students from over 130 countries studying there…
Вопрос №8850
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту Sugar is extracted from sugar cane and the sugar beet. Cane sugar is manufactured from sugar cane. In the manufacture of sugar cane, the first step is crushing of the cane to express the juice. The juice is then clarified…
Вопрос №8855
Прочитайте текст Louis Pasteur was born in 1822. He was a prominent French chemist, one of the founders of modern microbiology. His research work helped much to establish the field of bacteriology. In his early years Pasteur devoted his energies to the discovery of microorganisms in wine and beer…
Вопрос №8856
Прочитайте текст The quality of concrete is known to depend on the properties of materials it consists of. The amount of constructing materials is also of great importance. Among the kinds of concrete used in modern construction there are plain concrete and reinforced, or ferro-concrete. The usage…
Вопрос №8858
Прочитайте текст Jayson Meyer was sixteen when he and his younger brother Matthew started their technology company. Jayson lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, in the USA. He looks like any typical university student, but Jayson doesn’t go to university. He doesn’t need to. He is already a successful…
Вопрос №8863
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова. It is a well-known fact that every building needs permanent stability. In order to have stability, buildings should have foundations. We know that the function of a foundation is to transfer the loads of a building into the…
Вопрос №8864
Прочитайте текст и выберите утверждение, соответствующее содержанию текста Ceilings are considered to be extremely important parts of any room. A well-designed ceiling is one of the most pleasing features of a room. In modern constructions the variants of ceilings are limitless. Ceilings can be…
Вопрос №8869
Прочитайте текст Not long ago, Christopher Reeve had everything. He was a successful actor, famous for the Superman films. But in 1996, when he appeared at Hollywood’s Oscar ceremony, he went in a wheelchair. Disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back. The doctors did not…
Вопрос №8873
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова Any form of tool or complex machine which is used by a man forms a man/machine system. The purpose of the system may be to get a man or goods from one place to another; it may be to communicate, or it may be to manufacture some…
Вопрос №8875
Прочитайте текст. Wiltshire is extraordinarily rich in the ritual monuments of early man. The mystical and awe-inspiring stone circle at Stonehenge, set in Wiltshire, is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world and has created endless speculation for scientists concerned with…
Вопрос №8876
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого грамматического явления. Hollywood is the center of the international movie industry, and American movies are distributed all over the world. They are made in English, but often dubbed into other languages. In some countries, 90…
Вопрос №8877
Прочитайте текст. If you happen to like a famous singer or film star, you can join a fan club. Fan clubs started in the 1950’s when popular singers appreciated their fans so much that it was decide to start a club so that they could find out more about their favourite star. Fans could receive…
Вопрос №8878
Прочитайте текст и выберите утверждение, соответствующее содержанию текста Information technology (IT) is an important part of the travel business. Almost all suppliers, such as tour operators, airlines, and hotels, have their own website. Customers can find information and make online booking…
Вопрос №8879
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту The study of electricity may be divided into three classes or branches: magnetism, elektrostatics, and electrodynamics. Magnetism is the property of the molecules of iron and certain other substances through which they store…
Вопрос №8885
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Light 1. The form of energy that illuminates our world is called light. It usually comes from hot objects, like the sun or fire, but it is also produced by electricity and some chemical reactions. Light is the only part of the electromagnetic spectrum (which…
Вопрос №8900
Прочитайте текст Scientists consider that the oldest tools are known to the mankind are 2,600,000 years old. They were used by people in manual operations and that is why they were called hand tools. By the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people had already devised simple hand tools for…
Вопрос №8905
Airships are huge balloons with propellers to drive them, and they were once used to carry as many as 200 passengers. The airships were filled with hydrogen, a light gas. However, hydrogen is also inflammable. There were several disasters in which airships caught fire, and they disappeared by the…
Вопрос №8912
Прочитайте текст и выберите утверждение, соответствующее содержанию текста Crops are variously grouped and classified. They may be classified as cultivated crops such as potatoes and corn or as non-cultivated crops such as wheat and barley. Crops may also be grouped according to the duration of…
Вопрос №8913
Прочитайте текст. James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Naismith was a Canadian, but lived in the United States. He was a teacher at Springfield Training School. He taught sports and found there were no interesting games to play indoors in the winter months. So he thought of a game…
Вопрос №8924
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого грамматического явления. When a company needs to recruit new people, it can give an announcement in the «NEED HELP» section of a newspaper. People who are looking for a job can send a letter of application or covering letter (US…
Вопрос №8925
Прочитайте текст Business law (also known as commercial law) covers rules that apply to business situations and transactions. Business law is largely concerned with civil law, especially with contracts. Some business law applies to torts (private wrongs against individuals, distinct from breaches…
Вопрос №8930
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What is it compulsory for children? It is compulsory for children to have an education, but you may find it surprising that the teaching doesn’t always have to take place in the school building. As long as they have the necessary paper qualifications, parents…
Вопрос №8935
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Hyperinflation 1. Inflation is a sustained increase in the aggregate price level. Economists generally reserve the term hyperinflation to describe episodes where the monthly inflation rate is greater than 50 per cent. 2. Hyperinflations are largely a…
Вопрос №8937
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What were hospitals founded for? A very important development during the Middle Ages was the hospital. Hospitals appeared in Ceylon early in the fifth century В. С. and in India in 260 В. С. Hospitals were founded during the Middle Ages in Italy, France…