Объяснение:
SCOTLAND
Although Scotland forms a part of the United Kingdom, it has a distinct character of its own. In area it is more than half as big as England. Its population is, however, only one-eighth as great — about 5 200 000.
Scotland is a land of romance and it has had a most eventful history. The Picts and Celts lived there before the coming of the Romans to Britain. Those Northern tribes worried the Romans so much that the Great Wall was built to protect the Roman camps in the Northern part of England.
It was in the 11th century that the Normans began to settle in Scotland. Almost all of Scotland's history is associated with and reflected in many castles and forts that are to be seen all over the country. They are very picturesque, having retained their medieval features: stern, proud, impressive, perched high on a rock or at a hillside. Mary, Queen of Scots, the beautiful Mary Stuart was married in one of them, her son James (who was to become James I of England) was born in another.
And now some words about the Highlands. For centuries the Highlands were a strange land, where the king's law common to all the rest of the country, wasn't even known, where C Long after the rest of Britain adopted modern ways they kept to the old life.
In 1603 King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England too, and from then onwards the countries were under the same monarch, though the Act of Union was not passed until 1707. This Act incorporated Scotland with England in the United Kingdom, but the Scots kept their own legal system, religion and administration, centred in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh – the capital of Scotland has always been admired as one of the most beautiful cities. Glasgow – its second city – always had a bad reputation. It was too often seen as a dirty, run-down urban area. But no longer. The buildings have been cleaned up, the streets are tidy and the people now take an obvious pride in their city. Glasgow was chosen to be the cultural capital of Europe 1890.
Not far from Glasgow there is one of the most famous of Scotland's many lakes (called «lochs»), Loch Lomond. Scottish numerous valleys are known as «glens». Scotland is a country with an intense and living national tradition of a kind only too rare in the modern world. It has its distinctive national dress, the kilt, worn only by men. It also has its own typical musical instruments (the pipes, sometimes called «the bagpipes»), its own national form of dancing, its own songs, language, traditions and education. Scotland has even its own national drink, a fact so widely known that one need only ask for «Scotch».
Notes
The Picts and Celts – пикты и кельты (племена)
tribe — племя
camp — лагерь
to pass the Act — принять Акт/Закон (в парламенте)
Тranslate using the text
1.полный событий 11.грязная, жалкая местность
2.доставлять неприятности 12.явная гордость
3.заселять 13.не далеко от
4.замок 14.многочисленные долины
5.живописный 15.сохранять
6.средневековые качества 16.располагались высоко
7.законы короля 17.иметь плохую репутацию
8.объединять 18.национальная одежда для мужчин
9.сохранить свою собственную религию 19.волынка
10.иметь плохую репутацию 20.широко известен
2. Comprehension Check. Complete the sentences.
1. Scotland forms...
2. The Northern tribes...
3. Mary Stuart...
4. The kilt...
3. Answer the questions.
1. What is the population of Scotland?
2. Why was the Great Wall built?
3. Why are there so many castles in the country?
4. What have you learnt about the Highlands?
5. When was the Act of Union passed?
6. What's the country's second city?
7. What do they call Scottish valleys and lakes?
8. Are national traditions still alive in Scotland?
4. Put down words, and translate the sentences into Russian.
1. Scotland has … history.
2.The Great Wall was built … in the Northern part of England.
3. Scotland's history is associated with … that are to be seen all over the country.
4. The Highlands were a strange land, where the king's law …
5. The Scots kept their… , centred in Edinburgh.
6. Glasgow was seen … area.
7.People now … in Glasgow.
8. The kilt is … , worn only by men.
Объяснение нет человека который бы не задумывался над во Что я хочу от жизни?» «Каким я хочу видеть свою жизнь?» .
И у каждого из нас свой ответ, и это совсем неудивительно. Ведь каждый имеет собственные предпочтения, личные наклонности и собственные планы на будущее – а все это вместе взятое и составляет повседневную жизнь каждого. Сколько людей – столько и историй.
Возраст подростков это сложный возраст – родители и учителя настойчиво предлагают выбирать профессиональные направления, которые станут основой дальнейшего профессионального, а затем, видимо, и карьерного роста. Мама, бабушка и вся женская часть человечества учат, что девочка должна быть хорошей хозяйкой, потому что от нее зависит уют в доме.
А друзья-студенты советуют отрываться по полной, ведь став студентами будем больше учиться и скорее всего еще и работать и не всегда сможем отдохнуть.
И что интересно, каждый из них абсолютно прав, и советы правильные, и очень уместны. Но я лично задумалась над тем, стоит так буквально следовать всем советам. Я честно попробовала и поняла, что всех послушать одновременно – я не в состоянии. По какому времени мне пришлось сесть и задуматься, ведь советы были совсем хороши и очень уместны, однако очень так сказать разноплановые.
И вот что я поняла: даже самые лучшие советы – это только советы. Я должна решить, какие из них слушать, а может и нет.
1 - C; 2 - D; 3 - A; 4 - C; 5 - C; 6 - B; 7 - C.
Объяснение:
1. Every summer Jane used to spend (C) near the lake:
"During the baking hot months of the summer holidays my mother and I used to escape to one of the scattered lakes north of Prince Albert."
2. The last summer was particularly fascinating for Jane because she (D) fell in love for the first time:
"The last summer before we returned to England was particularly enchanted. For one thing, I was in love for the first time."
3. Jane believes that love at fifteen is (A) a sincere deep feeling:
"No one will ever convince me that one cannot be in love at fifteen. I loved then as never since, with all my heart and without doubts or reservations or pretence."
4. Don traveled three hundred-odd miles every weekend because he was (C) attracted by the beauty of the lake:
"My boyfriend Don worked in Saskatoon, but the lake was ''his place'' – the strange and beautiful wilderness drew him with an obsessive urgency, so I suspected it was not to see me that he got on his motor-cycle as many Fridays as he possibly could, and drove three hundred-odd miles along the pitted prairie roads to spend the weekends at our place."
5. Sometimes Don didn't come to see Jane and her mother on Friday because he (C) worked to make some extra money:
"Besides, Don was hard up, and sometimes worked overtime at weekends."
6. Mother came into Jane's room during the storm because she (B) felt Jane was worried about Don:
"I tried not to expect Don that night hoping he would have enough sense to wait until the storm ended. Yet in my frightened thoughts I couldn't help imagining Don fighting the storm."
"I crawled back into bed, trying to close my throat against the tears. But when my mother, prompted by the deep sympathy and understanding between us, came in to me, she kissed my cheek and found it wet."
7. According to the author, the roads in Northern Canada were C) lonely:
"The roads in Northern Canada are not like the friendly well-populated English ones, where there are always farmhouses within walking distance and cars driving along them day and night."