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Word Study

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  4. B) Study the text, give your own alternative title to it, and try to encounter the main types of presentations and their formats. Draw up the plan of the text.
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1. Give the Russian equivalents to the following words:

population, human, civilization, to train, specially, llama, distance, tractor, intelligent, to guide, to control, police, criminal, laboratory, to test, medicines, genetic, producing, clone, identical, public, to conserve, category, characteristics, to separate, bacteria, barakuda, eukaryotic, heterotrophic

2. Guess the meaning of the underlined words. Translate the sentences.

1) Breeding farm animals is done under human management and control. 2) Animal can work as assistants in various human activities. 3) The tractor has now replaced the cattle that supplied most of the farm draft power.4) Great physical changes have taken place in domesticated animals.5) Using selection, much experience has been gained. 6) Now domesticated animals differ considerably from their wild forms. 7) People cannot live without producing food. 8) Satisfying the people of the country with food products is the main task today. 9) The new method of improving this old breed of cows has been discussed at the conference.

3. Translate the following word combinations:

to tame wild animals; to breed animals; the process of domestication; to rear animals for food; many breeds of dogs; to look different from wild ancestors; to be particularly intelligent; to sniff out drugs; to guide blind people, to help find cures, certain diseases, the genetic makeup of animals; to place the emphasis (on); to conserve wild animals; in return for food and shelter; to suffer from stress; several characteristics; to feed directly or indirectly on other living things; in every kind of terrain and every kind of climate

4. Match a word from list A with its definition in list B.

A B
1) tame 2) breed   3) rear 4) ancestor   5) in return (for)   6) affection 7) suffer   8) conserve 9) digest 10) habitat a) bring up, cause or help to grow b) keep from change, loss or destruction c) feel or have pain d) kindly feeling, love e) any one of those persons from whom one is descended f) keep animals for the purpose of producing young, especially by selection of parents g) as repayment (for) h) change in the stomach and bowels, so that it can be used in the body i) bring up an animal under control of human beings j) usual natural place and conditions of growth

5. Place the appropriate word from the list in each of the blanks below:

blind, hunted, distinguished, adults, to tame, digest, sniff out, to rear, suffer, wild ancestors, skills, behaviour, habitat

1) Animals generally ... food in an internal chamber.

2) Animals are also ... from plants, algae, and fungi by lacking cell walls.

3) Since the earliest times, people have ... wild animals.

4) The first farmers began ... wild animals.

5) People continued ... animals for food and clothing.

6) Many dogs look different from their ...

7) Many animals are trained to work for people because of their ...

8) Dogs can be taught to guide ... people.

9) Some breeds of dogs can easily ... drugs or explosives.

10) Zoos allow people to learn about animal ...

11) Many ... and children keep animals as pets.

12) People with pets ... less from stress.

13) An animal's living place is called its ...

 



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