Стр.119 Unit 9 ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 11 класс
Practise your English A Look at these photos of freak weather conditions. Do they really happen? What causes them? B Read the news article quickly and answer these questions.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Комарова, Ларионова 11 класс, Русское слово:
Practise your English
A Look at these photos of freak weather conditions. Do they really happen? What causes them?
B Read the news article quickly and answer these questions.
1 Which freak weather picture from A does it describe?
2 What cause is suggested?
Great balls of... ice
We talk about 1) heavy rain, but ittasks just an expression, right? Well, youtaskd better think again! the weight of some objects falling to Earth recently is very worrying, the objects are huge balls of ice and they have been crashing to the ground all over the place.
The biggest ice ball yet recorded fell in Brazil, this bolt from the 2) blue weighed 200 kilos, was the size of a fridge and landed in a car showroom. taskIf I hadntaskt seen it with my own eyes,task said Fabio Souza, a cleaner at the showroom. taskI wouldntaskt have believed it. Ittasks a miracle that no one was 3) hurt task The same is true for pensioner Jan Kenkel. If she had been in her Irving room when a 22 kilo chunk of ice fell on her house in Iowa, she may have been killed.
Scientists, who have called the balls taskmegacryometeorstask, are 4) utterly confused by the phenomenon, first of all, you dontaskt have to live in cold countries to get one in your back garden, f hey have fallen in parts of Africa that never experience 5) freezing temperatures. Whattasks more, they often fall from clear blue skies.
So whattasks going on? Some people think that these balls cantaskt form naturally because they are just too large. They think the balls must form on aeroplanes high 6) overhead, then break off and fall to Earth. Whatever the cause, it looks like we now have one more extreme weather 7) phenomenon to worry about.
C Now read the text again and choose the best answer.
Quick chat
Do you over get strange weather in your country? If you do why do you think it happens?
D Use the word in capitals to form one word that fits each sentence.
1 There are many endangered species in the world which need our protection.
2 Using a bike is a very environmentally friendly way to travel.
3 Fumes from factories and vehicles cause global warming.
4 Do you believe that people extinct from apes?
5 I was evolved amazed when I saw the damage from the storm.
6 The colossal squid can often utterly nine metres in length.
7 One day in the future people may be able to travel to exceed planets.
8 The climbers were surprised by the distant of the winds at the top of the mountain.
9 The animals living in wildlife strength are protected by local governments.
10 The blue whale nearly became reserves in the 1960s.