Reading Task 2 .Read about Tom's typical day and answer the questions: I'm Tom. I'm a doctor. I work at a hospital. My wife Kim is a teacher. She teaches Music at college. We get up at 7 a.m. every morning. Kim sets the table, and we have breakfast. Kim likes toast and tea, but I don't. I always have an egg and some milk for breakfast. We leave home at 8.15 a.m. I start work at 9 a.m. and I'm very busy during the day. I have lunch in the hospital cafeteria. The food is very good there, so I don't have to go out for lunch. Kim returns home at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I come home at 5 o'clock in the evening. Then we have dinner: fish or meat and some salad. I like watching TV in the evenings, but Kim doesn't. She prefers reading detective stories and she sometimes listens to music. And after a tiring day we go to bed quite early, at about 9.30 p.m. 1. What time does Tom and his wife get up in the mornings? 2. Does Tom go out for lunch? 3. What do they usually have for dinner? 4. What does Tom like doing in the evenings ? 5. What books does Kim like reading? 6. Do they stay up late?
Vladivostok
From the earliest days , when back in 1639 Russia came to the shores of the Pacific Ocean , the main task was to find a suitable location for a major port city. Initially, they became Okhotsk Yasachnaya jail based Russian pervoprohodtsami in 1665 to collect taxes from the locals. The role of this small settlement in those years was huge. From here take the course in a variety of points of the Pacific constructed here with boats of Russian weapons rather uncomplicated . Otsyuda great Vitus Bering his famous expedition went in search of the legendary America. In October 1790 Okhotsk received its coat of arms . In its upper part was the emblem of Irkutsk , the capital of Eastern Siberia - running tiger with a sable in his mouth, and at the bottom were placed on a blue background with two crossed anchors Standard - a symbol of the seaport. As you can see , the elements of the coat of arms were used and in the symbolism of Vladivostok.
The function of the main city in the Pacific moved to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . In 1812 he was declared a city in summer 1854 military governor VS Zavoiko with a few garrison successfully repelled an attack by the Anglo- French squadron . To avoid more trouble the entire population of Petropavlovsk in the next year was transferred to St Nicholas -on-Amur .
In "St. Petersburg Gazette " in 1859, there was a small note that already found the name Vladivostok: "What a great future lies in these prehistoric forests due to the magnificent harbor of the world! No wonder this maze of bays is called Peter the Great Bay , that's why the best of the named port of Vladivostok , because here the cradle of our fleet in the Pacific, Russian values on its broad bosom , not guns locked Zund , Gibraltar and the Dardanelles , and our ownership of the East. Here, all the gifts of nature are concentrated in one group and are able to develop a strong colonization and strong trade movement " - though it is not yet the city and did not even post, which then was not in sight , and good bay, suitable for the device port. Who gave him a resounding Vladivostok and beautiful name ? It is known that it appeared in the newspaper , and then on the cards. Author's name under the article no, but if we look through a file of the same newspapers , we can meet another similar article about the Southern Primorye , in particular the Gulf of Peter the Great. It was written December 15, 1858 the then captain AI Romanov constantly collaborated with this newspaper . The similarity of the wording of the two articles , the same style suggest authorship Romanov and in a later newspaper article , which means it may have originated the idea to name the new port on the Pacific Ocean , by analogy with Vladikavkaz Vladivostok.