1. Заповніть пропуски наступними словами: a) sunflower b) Large c) for d) increased e) percent f) primarily

2. Знайдіть у тексті синонім до слова 100 ares or 10,000 square meters

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor, best 1)___________ for his invention of the Colton gin.

Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765, and educated at Yale College. In 1792 he visited the plantation, near Savannah, Georgia, of Catharine Greene, widow of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. There he designed and built a model for a 2)_______________ that would separate the seeds from the fibers of the short-staple cotton plant, work that until that time had been done by hand. He completed the machine— the first cotton gin—in 1793. This invention had a great 3)__________ on the development of the southern United States. With the gin, cotton could be cleaned so efficiently that it became the most important crop in the South and the basis of the region's profitable agricultural economy.

Whitney entered into partnership with the plantation manager, Plumes Miller, to manufacture cotton gins at New Haven, Connecticut, A disastrous factory fire prevented the partners from making enough gins to meet the demand, and manufacturers 4)___________ the South began to copy the invar Uno. Although Whitney and Miller received a patent on the gin in 1794, a decision protecting their patent was not rendered until 1807. In 1812, the Congress of the United States denied Whitney's petition for renewal of the patent. In all, he profited very little from his invention.

In 1798 Whitney turned to the large-scale manufacture of firearms. 5)___________ signing a contract to supply the federal government with 10,000 milady muskets, he built a factory 6)________ New Haven, at present-day Hamden, in which he experimented with a system of manufacturing standardized, interchangeable pars. He died in New Haven on January 8, 1825.

1. Заповніть пропуски наступними словами: a) machine b) impact c) throughout d) After e) near f) known

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Agriculture in Ukraine

1. For centuries agriculture has been an integral part of everything Ukrainian, be it art or the 1)___________ national cuisine. The symbols of earth, fertility, plants and sun are everywhere. You can discover them in historical reviews about Ukraine, in fine arts, in folklore.

Traditionally mostly peaceful peasants populated the territory of Ukraine. The ancient practice of living off the soil and agricultural 2)_______________ has made Ukraine one of the world leading producers of grains, vegetable oils, sugar. If you are looking for the country with favorable conditions for agricultural business there is hardly a better option than Ukraine.

Despite the dramatic changes Ukrainian 3)__________ has been passing through during the last decades, the national agricultural sector still holds its strong positions mainly due to its abundant resource base. The major alimentary products exported internationally are grains, rapeseeds, vegetables, sugar, sunflower oil, milk powder and meat.

Sugar and oil processing 4)___________ another major segment of the Ukrainian economy. Research showed that 5)___________ out of four people in Ukraine works in agriculture or forestry which speaks expressively enough for the largest European country with 46 6)________ people