ЗАДАНИЯ ПОСЛЕ ТЕКСТА Since February 2012, a scanner has been checking cargo transported by rail into the port of Rotterdam as trains travel at speeds up to 60 kilometres per hour. The train scan is the latest innovation in non-intrusive detection implemented by Netherlands Customs and is currently the most modern train scanning system in the world. Not only it is the fastest in comparison with conventional installations that only allow for train speeds up to 30 kilometres, it is also the best in term of image quality. Being a fully automated scanning operation, no inspectors needed to be positioned on site. After the train passes through the scanner, an x-ray image analysis is performed at an Inspection Office in the heart of the Port, several kilometers away from the scanner’s location. In order to facilitate the analysis, the cargo manifest and container number are automatically linked to the relevant x-ray image. Customs expect that approximately 200,000 outgoing containers will pass through the train scan this year. With the collection of so many scanned images it should be possible to devise a solution that would automatically recognize anything unusual about a container’s content. (WCO NEWS) b) Make up 10 questions of all types to the text; c) Give the gist of the story.

негативними
You must not make your bed
Peter can not tell you a lot of psychological anecdotes.
You need not ring the bell
You must not drink this
You need not bring an umbrella
You can not open lion’s cage.
You must not do all the exercises
You need not clean the window
You can not make some more sandwiches
You must not put salt in any of his dishes
питальними
Must you make your bed?
Can Peter tell you a lot of psychological anecdotes?
Need you ring the bell?
Must you drink this?
Need you bring an umbrella?
Can you open lion’s cage?
Must you do all the exercises?
Need you clean the window?
Can you make some more sandwiches?
Must you put salt in any of his dishes?

Learning foreign languages is important nowadays. I think that any educated person must learn foreign languages. But I prefer English to other foreign languages. Why? English is becoming a global language. A half of billion people in the world use English at home or work. English is the language which is known for the most part of our fine, magnificent and surprising world. English is so widespread that it has become the standard language for all kinds of international communication.

A lot of problems of the 21st century, such as the problems of war and peace, ecology, can not be solved without speaking the same language.

The English language is now the first language of about 350 million people, the native language of 12 nations and the official language of more than 33 nations. It means that one of seven people in the world speaks English.

English is also the international language of businesspeople, pilots and air traffic controllers, sportsmen, scientists and students. If you want to be a stewardess, a pilot or an air control officer you have to learn English, the language of international communication. Every year thousands of people from Russia go to different countries as tourists or to work. They can’t go without knowing the language of the country they are going to. A modern engineer or even a worker cannot work with an imported instrument or a machine if he is not able to read the instruction how to do that.

Some people learn English because they need it in their work; others to travel aboard and for lots of people learning English is just a hobby.