VII. Переведите текст в с английского языка на русский и ответьте на вопросы. Cereal Crops

Cereal crops are grasses that are grown for their edible seeds. They are all members of the family Graminea.Cereals are also called grains, or grain crops. The edible fruit of cereals may be called a kernel or grain.

About 75 percent of the total world cereal crop production is composed of rice, wheat and corn. Most of the remaining 25 percent comes from barley, oats, rye and millet. Triticale , a synthetic cereal from a wheat - rye cross, is an important cereal for future.

Cereal crops are vital to people for several reasons:

They are an excellent source of high –energy food.

They are easy to harvest, clean, store and handle.

They are tolerant of insects and disease.

They are adapted to many climates, soils and cropping systems.

As annuals, they produce a crop in arelatively short time.

The major cereals are annuals. Farmers plant spring types ( such as spring wheat, barley and oats as well as corn, sorghum, rice and millet ) in the spring and harvest them in the summer or early fall. Farmers plant winter types, which include wheat, barkey, rye, oats and triticale, in the fall. They are harvested the next spring or summer.

Вопросы к тексту В. Переведите на русский язык и ответьте на данные вопросы.

1. What cereal crops do you know?

2. What are cereal crops grown for?

3. Are the major cereals annuals?

4. What spring types do farmers plant?

5. What winter types do farmers plant?

VIII. Составьте реферат следующего текста на русском языке.

Winterhardiness become important with the winter annuals.

Winter rye and triticale are the most hardly. Winter wheatis relatavely hardy for northern areas. Winter barley and winter oats cannot survive very severe winters.

The distribution of cereal crops is determined in part by climate. Wheat, rye, barley and oats grow best in fairly cool climates or during the cool season of the year. Corn, rice, grain sorghum, and millet grow best in warm climates.

The growth and development of most cereals after germination follow six stages. Farmers must be able to recognize these growth stages in order to know when to apply chemicals,such as herbicides or fertilizers, and when to irrigate.

IX. Выполните итоговый тест.

1. It . . . interesting to mechanize many agricultural processes.

a) be

b) would be

c) would

d) should

2. They say that you . . . an agronomist.

a) is

b) am

c) was

d) are

3. I thought that you . . . this problem.

a) will solve

b) solve

c) is solving

d) would solve

4. I am sure that he . . . a good planter.

a) shall be

b) is

c) would

d) have been

5. If they got that chemicals they . . .happy.

a) would be

b) were

c) was

d) been

6. If I . . . you, I should apply nitrogen.

a) be

b) were

c) have been

d) was

7. It . . . interesting to visit this collective farm.

a) would be

b) were

c) was

d) been

8. It is necessary that he . . . this area.

a) visit

b) visits

c) might visit

d) visited

9. He proves . . . a contemplative person.

a) to be

b) be

c) was

d) is

10. They made him . . . chemicals.

a) use

b) to have used

c) to use

d) has used

11. The sky is blue, the sun . . . in the sky.

a) shine

b) was shining

c) shining

d) are shining

12. He knows much on the subject, they . . . to him very attentively.

a) listening

b) listens

c) having listen

d) are listen

13. We didn`t expect you . . . it.

a) to do

b) to be done

c) do

d) to have been

14. The teacher supposed the text about education . . . by the students.

a) to read

b) to be read

c) read

d) to have read

15. . . . highschool there is a formal ceremony.

a) Graduating from

b) Gratuate from

c) On graduating from

d) Graduated from