Alabama

Rushing brooks and streams slice through Alabama’s dark forests, and then join to form rivers and mighty waterfalls. Here, in the Heart of Dixie, there is more navigable water than in any other state – a 1,350-mile system so much a part of Alabama’s history that rivers form the dominant element in the state’s Great Seal.

The north of Alabama is dominated by the green mountains and valleys of the Appalachian Highland. The once-wild Tennessee River loops through this part of the state. Farther south, the mountains soften into wooden hills, the hills into a gentle coastal plain.

On the Gulf Coast stands Alabama’s oldest city Mobile.

In the early 1800’s cotton lured hordes of settlers, mostly southerners who made their way to state. Most of the new arrivals tilled the thin soil of the northern hills and southern plains. The center of the state, named the Black Belt for its dark clay soil, became the domain of the legendary southern planter. Cotton ruled the Black Belt until boll weevils ravaged the fields and compelled farmers to diversify. In 1919 the town of Enterprise erected the Boll Weevil Monument to honor the tiny insect that by destroying the region’s cotton crop had forced farmers to diversify – and prosper.

Today cotton culture has almost vanished. The flat meadows have been transformed into grazing lands for beef and dairy. Soybeans are the big new crop. Paper, textile, chemical and food processing plants and flowering now as cotton once had. Oil and gas finds in southern Alabama added a lucrative new element to the state’s economy.

Alabama joined the Union in 1819 as the 22nd state.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ№ 2

ВАРИАНТ 3

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите видовременные формы глаголов и залог; укажите их инфинитив. Переведите предложения на русский язык /см. образец выполнения 1/

1. We are living and learning from life.

2. The political economy has always been and will remain a class and ideological science.

3. They did not believe what they had seen.

4. His articles are often published in the magazine.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык причастий (Participle I и Participle II). Подчеркните причастия. Помните, что причастие в предложении может выполнять функцию определения, обстоятельства или составной части глагола-сказуемого /см. образец выполнения 2/.

1. Great Britain still remains a leading country in wool production.

2. Nearly all the raw material used in factories of Greet Britain must be imported from abroad.

3. While visiting Nagasaki I could see peace activities held in support of the call for abolition of nuclear weapons.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент; переведите предложения на русский язык /см. образец выполнения 3/.

1. The conference was to begin on Tuesday.

2. She had to stay with her son because of his illness..

3. I think you should go out for a walk.

IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на многозначность.

1. One can see a lot of parks in London, and the most popular one is Hyde Park.

2. This method is more effective than that used at your plant.

3. When the book was published, it was a success.

V. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык текст.