2. Задание 2

1. Прочитайте текст.

2. Перепишите и переведите письменно 1-й, 2-й, 3-й и 4-й абзацы текста на русский язык.

3. Перепишите вопросы к тексту и ответьте письменно на них:

1. Why do Australia’s farms require a minimum of human labor?

2. What part of country’s workers are farmers?

3. How do farmers make the cropland highly productive?

4. What are Australia’s leading farm products?

5. What products are country’s chief agricultural products?

6. Wheat is grown in all areas of the country, isn’t it?

AUSTRALIA

Agriculture

(1) Australia's farms are highly mechanized and thus require a minimum of human labor. Only about 5 per cent of the country's workers are farmers. But they produce nearly all the food the people need.

(2) Farmland covers about 65 per cent of Australia. However, most of this land is dry grazing land. Crops are grown on only about 5 per cent of the farmland. But farmers use modern agricultural methods and so make the cropland highly productive. About 10 per cent of the cropland is irrigated.

(3) Australia's leading farm products by far are cattle and calves, wheat, and wool, followed by dairy products, fruits, and sugar cane. These products are also the country's chief agricultural exports. Australia is the world's largest producer and exporter of wool and a leading producer and exporter of beef, sugar, and wheat. The country's other major farm products include barley, chickens and eggs, oats, rice, potatoes, sheep and lambs, vegetables, and cotton.

(4) Sheep and cattle are raised in all the Australian states. New South Wales and Western Australia together raise more than half the country's sheep and produce about half its wool.. Victoria is the leading producer of dairy products.

(5) Wheat is grown in all areas of the country that have medium rainfall and moderate temperatures. But production is heavily concentrated in New South Wales and Western Australia. Farms on the east coast of Queensland grow sugar cane, bananas, pineapples, and other crops that need a wet tropical climate. Such fruits as apples and pears are grown in all the states. New South Wales and South Australia produce most of the country's oranges. South Australia also produces large quantities of grapes for use in making wine.

Words:

thus – таким образом

farmland – фермерские угодья

crops – сельскохозяйственные культуры

croplands – сельскохозяйственные угодья

irrigate – орошать

cattle – крупнорогатый скот

raise – выращивать

rainfall – осадки

Queensland, New South Wales – Кунсленд, Новый Южный Уэльс (названия штатов)

2. 4. Перепишите следующие слова и выражения и напишите их русские эквиваленты:

highly mechanized, human labor, farmers, food, farmland, modern agricultural methods, cropland, leading farm products, cattle, wheat, wool, dairy products, sugar cane, vegetable, rainfall, grapes, wine.

2.5. Закончите предложения, используя предлагаемые варианты:

1. Most of this land is …

1. a fertile land.

2. a dry grazing land.

3. a dry, but fertile land.

2. Farmers use …

4. modern agricultural methods.

5. modern agricultural machines.

6. human labor.

3. Australia's leading farm products by far are …

1. cattle and calves, wheat, and wool.

2. fruit, vegetables and cotton.

3. beet sugar, rice, potatoes, sheep and lambs.

4. Sheep and cattle are raised in …

a) South Australia.

b) New South Wales and South Australia.

c) all the Australian states.

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