A) 6.4.7.1 Read the text and answer the questions.
1 Why couldn't people build really tall buildings in the past?
2 When could people start building skyscrapers?
3 How did the invention of the elevator change the history of buildings
4 Why did people want to build skyscrapers in cities?
5 Why are tall buildings called 'skyscrapers'?
6 How fast did the Empire State Building grow?
7 What can you find in the Triumph of Astana in Kazakhstan?
b) 6.4.6.1 THINK! Say or write three things that impressed you
from the text. What is the author's purpose?
2. Asia is larger than Australia.
3. The Volga is shorter than the Mississippi.
4. Which building is the highest in Moscow?
5. Mary is a better student than Lucy.
6. The Alps are higher than the Urals.
7. This garden is the most beautiful in our town.
8. She speaks Italian better than English.
9. Is the word “newspaper” longer than the word “book”?
10. The Thames is shorter than the Volga.
11. The Arctic Ocean is colder than the Indian Ocean.
12. Chinese is more difficult than English.
13. Spanish is easier than German.
14. She is not so busy as I am.
15. It is as cold today as it was yesterday.
16. She is not so fond of sports as my brother is.
17. Today the weather is colder than it was yesterday.
18. This book is the most interesting of all I have read this year.
19. January is the coldest month of the year.
20. My sister speaks English worse than I do.
21. Which is the hottest month of the year?
22. Which is the most beautiful place in this part of the country?
23. This nice-looking girl is the best student in our group.
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Объяснение:
Объяснение:
What a wonderful fruit the banana is, popular all over the world. Its three colors tell you how ripe it is. Green means go, as in go find another banana. Yellow means eat me. Brown means eat me but don't bother chewing before you swallow. The only thing that would make a banana more user-friendly is if you could eat the peel. Plus, a banana is neat to eat. When you bite into it, you don't have to worry about juice squirting all over yourself and your dinner neighbors (like oranges or grapefruit, for example). And it's a silent food—you can chew it all you like without driving your neighbors crazy with crunching sounds (like apples or carrots, for example). Finally, it's easy to cut—you don't need a steak knife. You can slice it with a fork or a spoon, if you like.
You're never too young or too old to eat bananas. Babies eat mashed bananas before their teeth grow in. Great-great-grandparents eat mashed bananas after their teeth fall out.
The banana is versatile. You can fry it, bake it, mash it, or eat it raw. You can slice it and put it on your breakfast cereal. At lunchtime you can snack on a raw banana, or make a peanut butter and banana sandwich, or eat a bag of dried bananas. You can add a banana to your ice cream for dessert and call it a banana split. You can order a healthful banana smoothie at your local smoothie store. On weekends you can order a banana daiquiri at your local bar or restaurant.
Here in the US, we get most of our bananas from Ecuador and Costa Rica, although the fruit reportedly originated in Asia. Bananas give us lots of potassium and vitamins A and C, and hardly any sodium. The price of bananas hasn't changed much over recent years—they're still about 65 cents a pound, despite rising gas and labor prices. If that's too expensive, you can still get three pounds for a buck at many dollar stores.