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Task 1. Discuss the following questions (Time for preparation – 3 min. Time for answer – 1 min.)
1.What are the most popular ways of keeping healthy in your country?
2.Do you think people worry more about their health as they get older?
3.Why do you think some people continue bad habits when they know that they are damaging to their health?
4.How can children be encouraged to adopt healthy eating habits?
5.Do you think people have become more health conscious in recent years?
Task 2. Describe something you do to keep healthily. (Time for preparation – 4 min. Time for answer – 2 min.)
You should say what this activity is, when you do it and how often you do itand explain why you think it’s a good way to look after your health.
READING (10 min.)
Task 1. Read the first passage of the text and translate it. (Time for preparation -5 min.Time or answer -2 min.)
There is a fondness for scientific advancement and technological innovation in American culture, resulting in the flow of many modern innovations. The great American inventors include Robert Fulton (the steamboat); Samuel Morse (the telegraph); Eli Whitney (the cotton gin, interchangeable parts); Cyrus McCormick (the reaper); and Thomas Alva Edison (with more than a thousand inventions credited to his name). This propensity for application of scientific ideas continued throughout the 20th century with innovations that held strong international benefits.
The twentieth century saw the arrival of the Space Age, the Information Age, and a renaissance in the health sciences. This culminated in cultural milestones such as the Apollo moon landings, the creation of the Personal Computer, and the sequencing effort called the Human Genome Project. Throughout its history, American culture has made significant gains through the open immigration of accomplished scientists. Accomplished scientists include: Scottish scientist Alexander Graham Bell, who developed and patented the telephone and many other inventions in 1872; German scientist Charles Steinmetz, who developed new alternating-current electrical systems in 1889; Russian scientist Vladimir Zworykin, who invented the motion camera in 1919; Serb scientist Nikola Tesla who invented the brushless electrical motor based on rotating magnetic fields in 1884.
With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, a large number of scientists fled Germany and immigrated to the country, one of them being theoretical physicist Albert Einstein in the year 1933.In the years during and following WWII, several innovative scientists immigrated to the U.S. from Europe, such as Enrico Fermi, who came from Italy in 1938 and led the work that produced the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Post-war Europe saw many of its scientists, such as rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, recruited by the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.
Task 2. Write suitable heading to each passage. (Time for preparation -2 min. Time for answer -1min.)
WRITING (10 min.)