EXERCISES:
1. Translate the following into English:
recede – recession, environment – environmental, serious – seriously, exist – existence – existent – existing, reduce – reduction, fundamental – fundamentally, nature – natural, expand – expansion, extend – extension – extensive – extent, flow – inflow, salty – salt – saline – salinize – salingation- salinity, fish – fishery – fishing, charge – discharge, diminuation – minimum – minimal – minimize, evaporate – evaporation – evaporative, increase – encreasingly, separate – separation, rapid – rapidly, irrigate – irrigation
2. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following words and word-combinations:
огромные гидрогеологические изменения, орошение, требование, впадающие реки, десятилетия, исследовать, последствия, проблема Аральского моря, предложенные решения, пустыни Центральной Азии, уровень, определять, испарение, выпадение осадков, оценивать, второстепенная роль, приблизительные данные, независимые государства, целиком, частично, бассейн Аральского моря, кроме северной части, включать, население, четвертое по величине озеро в мире, рыбный промысел, обширная дельта, разнообразие флоры и фауны, важное экономическое значение, расти в изобилии, многочисленный, за последние 40 лет, пустыня, разделять, с тех пор, насыпь, оставаться.
3. Make questions of the following statements and then give short answers to each of them:
1. The land-locked Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake.
2. The Aral Sea is now half the size.
3. The huge lake has shrunk considerably.
4. Expanding irrigation has reduced river inflow to the Aral Sea.
5. The Aral Sea is located among the deserts of Central Asia.
6. Data on net ground water exchange are approximate.
7. Five independent nations lie in the sea's basin.
8. The population of that part of the Aral Sea basin was around 35 mln.
9. The lake was populated mainly by fresh water species.
10. Reeds grow in abundance in the numerous wetlands and lakes.
4. Find in the text the passages to which the questions refer:
1. Why has the Aral Sea shrunk considerably?
2. Where is the Aral Sea located?
3. Why did the drying, recession and salingation of the Aral Sea accelerate in the 1970-1980s?
4. What part of the Aral Sea will stabilize by 2005?
5. Read the following sentences and point out the subject and the predicate in each of them: