2 Read the text about unique Kazakhstan. Then work in pairs and decide which fact or facts you find the most amazing.
At 2,724,900 km², Kazakhstan is the world's largest
landlocked country, larger than all of Western Europe.
The Kazakh Steppe is the biggest of its kind in
the world, occupying a third of the country.
Kazakhstan boasts the world's largest chimney.
The chimney of the Power Station in Ekibastuz
is 419.7 m high, which is taller than the Eiffel Tower
in Paris!
Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan is one of the largest lakes
in the world. One part of the lake contains
fresh water, and the other is made up of salt water.
The Medeu Sports Centre, located near Almaty,
Kazakhstan, boasts the highest skating rinkin
the world at 1,690 m above sea level.
• The gray monitor lizard, the world's largest lizard,
is found only in the Kyzylkum Desert.
The border between Russia and Kazakhstan is
the longest continuous land border in the world
- 7,512.8 km.
1) I lost my keys while I was walking to school.
2) Hardly we had finished dinner when the doorbell rang.
3) He was listening to the radio while he
was preparing breakfast.
4) My father was driving at 70 km per hour when a policeman
stopped him.
5) When they came to London, they visited many museums and art galleries.
6) Cindy broke her leg while she was snowboarding.
7) After Angela had locked the door, the school bus
arrived.
8) He had met a lot of friendly people before he
moved to California.
9) While we were waiting, we were doing crossword.
10) The students opened their exercise books and
started writing.
11) What were you doing when you heard the news?
12) While the children were drawing, their parents were watching TV.
Объяснение:
1. The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput. As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high. Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale. Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when among the liliputians.
2. Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage. The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water. While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants. They are good-natured creatures and treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his small size and look upon him as a plaything.
Brobdingnag is an expression of Swift's desire to find the ideal and escape from the disgusting world of the Liliputians. The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch. Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag. He is clever, honest and kind to his people. He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.
3. The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa. Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences). It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa. Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century. The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.
3. In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety. The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.
"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature. Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.