Task 2. Answer the questions according to the text. Give full answers. 1. How high can a tsunami be?

2. What most often causes tsunamis?

3. Where do most tsunamis occur?

4. What are two other ways tsunamis can be caused?

5. What is the best defense against tsunamis?

Choose the correct answer.

1. What is the author’s purpose in the reading passage?

A. To warn;

B. To give advice;

C. To describe;

2. What do these numbers mean in the text?

A. 80

B. 100 ​

Archimedes. Why in the first place was the ancient Greek scientist? First of all, because he is one of the greatest mathematicians of all times, close he came to the calculation of the number of "PI". Today all students and students of the daily study and enjoy the discoveries of the Greek. Also Archimedes was famous for the invention of many useful machines. Among these are the siege guns, and mirrors, поджигающие sails on the Roman ships by focusing sunlight. Archimedes made the first theorist of mechanics. For example, he presented the complete theory of the lever, applying it in practice. Also, scientists have developed a Archimedes screw (screw), with the help of which вычерпывается water and the present day. The primacy of the inventor of merit - all of it was opened more than two thousand years ago, when there were no computers, no technology available today, the inventors. Archimedes, perhaps, he studied in the libraries of Alexandria, but most of his knowledge was acquired independently.

Kazakhstan is the ninth wonder of the world. Its territory is full of amazing corners - it is endless steppes, majestic mountains, bottomless lakes, dense forests.

We represent the most beautiful places in our country that everyone should see.

Baikonur is the first and largest missile launch complex. The cosmodrome became the first polygon in the world, from which the first launch of an artificial Earth satellite and manned flight into space. On October 4, 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite was launched from the test site into orbit using the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile developed by S.P. The royal. On April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board. The spaceport is located in the southern part of Kazakhstan on 6717 square meters. km He is currently on loan from the Russian Federation. On the territory of the complex is a museum of the history of cosmonautics, which includes a large building with thousands of exhibits, an open-air exposition with real rocket engines and the Buran space shuttle, as well as the museum’s complex includes the houses of Korolev and Gagarin, where the father of Russian astronautics and first cosmonaut of the world.