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05.06.2021 19:22 •  Английский язык

Сопоставить заголовки и тексты 1. diverse population 2. city lifestyle 3.media and communication 4. countryside 5.environmental issues 6.leisure and pastime a. the usa is often called a melting pot – a total mix of races and nationalities. in fact, the same could be said of britain, except this process took far longer. the british today are the result of wave after wave of conquest, migration and mixing. now there are many people of all colours and races in the uk. they are mostly former inhabitants of the former british colonies. there are special newspapers, magazines, radio and tv programmes for them. b. visitors to britain are often surprised by the titles of the magazines on newsagents' shelves. some of them are extremely specialized and lots of them are on new technology. the british are also great newspaper readers. an almost universal british custom, going for a walk, is another surprising fact. c. recently people have been moving into suburbs, smaller towns and the country. villages, farms and cottages, which used to be full of agricultural workers, are now the homes of people who drive to their offices in cities. even so britain remains one of the most urbanised countries in the world, with nine in ten of the population living in towns or cities. d. the cotswolds are gentle green hills in agricultural country to west of england. a mixture of small fields separated by old-dry stone walls and lines of trees make this a perfect example of traditional english rural area. farming is balanced with cattle and sheep, and small spots of woods. many farms, houses and churches, like the walls dividing the fields, are built of local honey-coloured stone. villages with climbing roses around the doors of the cottages are small and beautifully kept. e. the poet william blake wrote 200 years ago of “england's green and pleasant land.” in spite of their mainly urban lives, this image is still strong in british people imagination. they love the countryside and watch hours of wildlife programmes on tv every week. some of the first environmental organisations in the world started in britain. the british managed to defeat the london smog: replacing coal by oil and gas. and they are rather proud of this achievement.