Текст к вопросу V. Read the text. Write down 6 questions and answer them in English.
Text IB. The Land Use Planner and His Work
Land has much to do with our needs and the way we fulfil them. Many of our activities are devoted to getting the basic items of food, shelter, and clothing. We need highways and automobiles, forests and railways and many other things. It is likely that if we had all that we could list, new wants would arise. And again we would be faced with the problem of how to satisfy them.
Land is necessary to satisfy man's needs. The people's needs can be satisfied only if we secure the best uses of land resources.
It is true that no progress in satisfaction the needs of man can be made if no labor is applied. If we want to live better we must work better. No progress can be made if labor is applied without intelligence. The land use planner is to secure wise land uses.
When we approach a familiar city after a year's absence, we now expect to see housing developments on land. We observe that old buildings are being demolished to permit new constructions.
The land use planner must decide whether to use a tract for a home
site or for crops, or whether to use a valley to produce corn. He is to decide whether to use the river bottom-land for growing tomatoes and cabbage. He is to be aware of the ability of land to satisfy wants when it is used for pasture or when it is used for wheat. He must know its productivity in each use. He must know many things about the land ability.
The land use planner determines which acreages to employ in each land use. He decides whether the land should be used now or later and how it must be used. He plans the living centres and the field patterns and many other services that land can supply. He must consider the best uses of the land.
The land use planner determines not only the productivity of land. He has to distinguish between the physical productivity and the economic productivity of the land. He is to know the productivity of the land itself and that of labor, capital and other resources. The general principle is: each hectare of land should be given to the use in which its economic productivity is the highest.
ЗАДАНИЕ РЕШИТЬ
VIII. Open the brackets by using the verbs in the correct form:
1. Land (to be) not only the soil under our feet. 2. We (to devote) much of our labour to get the basic items of food and clothing. 3. The land use planner (must) secure wise land uses. 4. Farmers (to use) land to producte wheat or cotton or to feed cattle. 5. The land use planners (to determine) which acreage is to be employed in each land use. 6. I (to be) a student of the Land Use Planning FACULTY.
IX. Complete the following sentences with the words from text IB:
1. To get the basic items of food, shelter and clothing we 2. If we secure the best uses of land resources 3. We expect to see new housing developments when 4. The land use planner determines which acreages 5. The land use planner must decide whether to use a tract 6. Each hectare of land must be used
- Many of our activities are devoted to getting the basic items of food, shelter, and clothing.
2. Why is land necessary to satisfy man's needs?
- Land is necessary to satisfy man's needs because the people's needs can be satisfied only if we secure the best uses of land resources.
3. What does the land use planner decide?
- The land use planner decides whether to use a tract for a home site or for crops, or whether to use a valley to produce corn. He is also responsible for deciding whether to use the river bottom-land for growing tomatoes and cabbage.
4. What does the land use planner need to know about the land?
- The land use planner needs to know the productivity of the land in each use. He must know many things about the land's ability, including its ability to satisfy wants when used for pasture or wheat.
5. What does the land use planner determine?
- The land use planner determines which acreages should be employed in each land use. He also decides whether the land should be used now or later and how it must be used. He plans the living centers and field patterns and considers the best uses of the land.
6. What is the principle for using land?
- The general principle is that each hectare of land should be given to the use in which its economic productivity is the highest.
VIII. Open the brackets by using the verbs in the correct form:
1. Land is not only the soil under our feet.
2. We devote much of our labor to getting the basic items of food and clothing.
3. The land use planner must secure wise land uses.
4. Farmers use land to produce wheat or cotton or to feed cattle.
5. The land use planners determine which acreage is to be employed in each land use.
6. I am a student of the Land Use Planning Faculty.
IX. Complete the following sentences with the words from text IB:
1. To get the basic items of food, shelter, and clothing, we need land.
2. If we secure the best uses of land resources, our needs can be satisfied.
3. We expect to see new housing developments when we approach a familiar city after a year's absence.
4. The land use planner determines which acreages to employ in each land use.
5. The land use planner must decide whether to use a tract for a home site or for crops.
6. Each hectare of land must be used in a way that maximizes its economic productivity.