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Another longer the coffee appeared. I took a gulp…It was without a shadow of doubt the most dreadfully a cup of coffee6 ever made. I quicklyreached for the water to erase the memory.We began a three-hour journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo. I dozed on theback seat as a driver put on a CD. The joyful, bouncy7 music was like a movie cliché about Africa as I, the European blank canvas, gazed out at black children running carefree, women dressedin the blaze of colour and bustling market stalls crouching on the lush green hills.
We went higher and higher and I woke to see a long march along the road. Each man, woman or child wasgripping a yellow can and walking with a purpose. Presumably, they were all bound for the nearest water source. A boy broke rank and stood in the corner watching me. I went back to sleep.“This is it! Wake up!”, announced the driver.
The driver seemingly was a little too keen to getrid of me. He drew off and I stood alone on the dark patch of land, not entirely sure where to gonext. A few curious locals turned to look, apparently unaccustomed8 to see someone so obviously not from around here. Adjacent to this rough, unromantic and unmysterious clearing Icould see Lake Kivu9 glinting in the sunshine. I found a shabby clearing office and got my passport stamped.
“So,” I said, ‘Is dear Congo that way?” I pointed at a piece of coastline on myright. The woman left and shook her head, “No. It’s over there”. I looked to my left for a ratherless appealing view of Goma. But I was grateful that she had saved me from a one-week wandering along a wrong country.238Задание 16Extract 1The water supply for millions of people has already dwindled .
And now residents inGuizhou and Yunnan provinces are facing another challenge, depleted food supplies. Locals saythe dry weather has affected normal crop yields, sending food prices skyrocketing. In GuizhouProvince over five million people and almost three million livestock are short of water.Extract 2Emergency services are trying to put out blazes started by exceptional weather conditions. Thousands of livestock have died. Homes and buildings have been destroyed as temperatures topped 50 degrees Celsius. It will be cooler on Wednesday but the heatwave is expectedto return by the weekend…Задание 21Speaker 1In India gods come in a host of forms — animal as well as human, with living things often revered as avatars of supernatural beings.
The tradition of keeping sacred groves undisturbedhas given wildlife some precious footholds even as the country’s human population has burgeoned. Seemingly unattractive species like snakes and monkeys are protected in some places. But as villages, towns and cities have grown and gobbled up the animal habitat across thesubcontinent, this left less room for everyone. And Anu Anand says, “Harmonious coexistencecan turn quickly to conflict”.The other day a passenger plane about to take off towards New Delhi hit a water buffaloon the runway. The poor beast, blood from head to hoof, simply couldn’t be seen in the gloom ofthe evening. A week earlier a wildlife charity was called into capture of cobra looking at a NewDelhi cash machine.
Needless to say, it failed to charm unsuspecting customers. All summercomplaints of monkeys raiding homes and offices have flooded city cut lines. Cows, cobras andmonkeys are considered holy by Hindus and they will be forgiven as their divine status bringsthem better life.(BBC Radio 4, From Our Own Correspondent, 15 November 2010)Speaker 2My guide Faura, a tall slender woman in her late thirties, wears jeans and a simple mantle, a mandatory robe women must wear in public. It covers from neck to knee.
Her long blackstraight hear is tucked beneath her headscarf, but visible as it coils at her neck.We are going to a bazaar in North Teheran to explore ten different kinds of dry plantsand other goodies. We choose the metro. For us it was convenience. And I had a chance to go239underground in Teheran because it provides the picture most tourists never see and as I learn it’sa double-sided one. For most locals don’t see tourists either.It’s mid morning. Women and men sit separately but the rule relaxes at such busy timelike now.
We along with other women clasp our hands around the pole, standing next to menyoung and old in an air-conditioned modern carriage.Two steps later and about twenty commuters further segregation happens naturally.Women are in one end and men in the other, still within a view but separate. A handful offashionable girls admire their own reflections in the glass window. They wear tight leggings andbrightly coloured robes, pushing back headscarves and boundaries.
We find seats next to a groupof conservative women dressed in black.Задание 231. Partly cloudy early followed by mostly cloudy skies and a few showers later in the day.Chance of rain 30%.2. A mix of clouds and sun in the morning followed by cloudy skies during the afternoon.3. Cloudy with periods of light snow after midnight. Chance of snow 60%. Snow accumulations less than one inch.4. Generally sunny despite a few afternoon clouds. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.5. Showers early then scattered thunderstorms developing later in the day. Chance of rain90%.6.
Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms during the morning. Chance ofrain 50%.7. Some clouds early will give way to generally clear conditions overnight. Hard freeze expected.Задание 24Int. - Today my guest is a master chef, Shelina Permaloo who cooks the perfect student dish“Egg Rougaille”. So what is it?S.P. - It’s basically from Mauritius. It’s a traditional Mauritian dish. Basically it’s like a spicytomato sauce and it’s too dammed with onions, garlic, ginger and some fresh aroma herbs.
Youcan see some thyme in it and coriander and eggs on the top of it. It’s really simple so studentsshould enjoy it. It’s lovely with some big egg or parasmati rice.Int. - So you chop the onions. Is that ginger you steam with them?S.P. - That’s ginger.Int. - So you fry them all together.240S.P. - Yes. So I’m just adding the onions now. I’m just going to add a bit salt to take the moistureof the onions. So you must cook it quite quickly and we also should cook down some jammytype of tomato, a sauce really.Задание 25Part 1S o here we have a map of Lake Baikal which is showing the full size extent of the lake,about (from -uh) 600-700 kilometres in length and also showing the main river that leaves a lakethat finds its way eventually into the Arctic Ocean, called the River Angara.
I’ve often caught acomparison that Lake Baikal’s surface area is about the size of Belgium. And I think some of thedeepest locks in Scotland are maybe a hundred metres, and this is ten times of those depths atleast, probably more than ten times those depths. Water flows in the lake from about over 300rivers, and on average the water will stay in the lake for about between 370 and uh (an) 400years. And eventually the water leaves the lake through one outflow and finds its way up into theArctic Ocean.Part 2But the size and the age of Baikal don’t make it immune from modern pressures. The virtual disappearance of the Aral Sea since the 1960s is proof that evn enormous bodies of watercan be harmed by man’s interference.
The Soviet irrigation schemes saw the Aral Sea loose 90%of its area leaving behind a little more than a polluted puddle.Lake Baikal is facing its own threats. The lake tends to face pressures both from climatechange and perhaps also more importantly from human instances of catchment. There is a largescale deforestation which leads to increased erosion. And the reason for this thing is deforestation, which is in large part due to the increase in agriculture and at the same time from thepressures from increased tourism on the lake. There is also intense growth of some cities in thearea. I mean an increase in industry.
And this concern that all these pressures are perhaps altering the lake in the way that might threaten this unique ecosystem and environment.The lake, is.. it’s an ecosystem that’s potentially very fragile to changes in climate and tochanges in pollution so so the quality of the water is at threat from changing.Another major problem of the lake actually is that the main river, the Selenga, has a hugecatchment that goes right into Mongolia. And all along the Selenga and other rivers that flow into the Selenga there is lots of industrial mining activity — the people are mining for heavy metals, such as gold e.t.c.
Some of this mining is unregulated. And we see from what has been done241in the Selenga River that there is a sort of effluence being discharged from the mines into theriver and they eventually find a way into Lake Baikal itself.Задание 26International conservationists have warned of a catastrophic decline in wildlife in Mongolia. The vast, sparsely-populated country was once a refuge for the large mammals of CentralAsia. But in a new report, the Zoological Society of London said illegal hunting and trade hadforced many species to the brink of extinction.The red deer, wild camel and Gobi bear are all vanishing from the steppes, the reportsays.
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