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20. Read the text and make a list of facts discussed. E.g. Australian’s population is only about 22 million.

………………………………………………………………………………………

21. Match the words to make word combinations. Look through the texts below to check your ideas. Choose any three to make sentences

about Australia.
fertile		attempts
outstanding		land
flightless		coast
southern		successful
wild		feature
repeated		density
partially		animals
international		bird
population		kilometre
square		immigrant
			И
		Д
22. Match the animals to the pictures (pic. 185a – 185l). What are you
going to read about?		А
1) numbat;	и	б
2) koala;
3) kangaroo;
4) lyrebird;
4) lyrebird;
5) cockatoo;
6) opossum;

7) snake; С

8) duck-billed platypus;

9) dwarf penguin;

10) emu;

11) dingo;

12) kiwi.

185a) ___

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185b) ___

					И
					185c) ____
				Д
			А
		б
185d)	и
185d)
С					185e) ___
					185e) ___

185f) ___

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185g) ___

			Д
		А		И185h) ___
	б			И185h) ___
С	б
185i)и

185j) ___

185k) ___

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23.			И
23.	Which of them are marsupial mammals, reptiles and birds?
24.	бА
24.	Read the text and entitle it.	Д
		Д		entire	conti-
				the	conti-

as large

as that of the United States.иThis is mainly because most of Australia consists of deserts.СIt lacks the large expanse of fertile, well-watered land that has made America a “fruited plain.” Because of its much smaller population, Australia is divided into only six states – Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania (“Tassie”), South Australia, and Western Australia. A seventh administrative unit, the huge Northern Territory, has not yet become a state. In addition, the separate Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – the equivalent of the District of Columbia – houses the national capital, Canberra. It, too, lacks the status of a state.

The most outstanding feature of the Australian climate is the huge expanse of desert land, a “red heart, dead heart” dominating the center of the continent. Some people call Australia the “desert continent.”

The word dead describes the desert character of the continental interior. Red comes from the mainly reddish hue of soil and rocks of these deserts. In fact, the color “signal” given off by the continent Australia, like other continents, has not remained in one place. Instead, it broke away from Antarctica, Africa, and South America eons ago and drifted northeast.

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During most of this strange journey, the continent was isolated from all others. Isolation allowed unique forms of plant and animal life to develop. Among the animals, marsupials became dominant. Marsupials are mammals that place the newborn offspring in maternal pouches for additional development. Marsupials existed before continental drift began, and in the Americas the opossum is an example.

In isolated Australia, the marsupials developed into many distinctive animals, such as kangaroos, wombats, and koalas. Other unique species also developed, such as the duck-billed platypus, an egg-laying, webfooted water creature. Australia shares with Africa the crocodile, a danger to swimmers in many waterways. Another danger is the wide variety of Australian snakes – all of them deadly. The continent also evolved its own

southern coast, demonstrates the continent’s former link to Antarctica.

versions of the giant flightless birds of southern Africa, represented in Australia by the emu. Another flightless bird, the dwarfИpenguin of Australia’s

Phillip Island, near Melbourne, is the bestДplace to see those endangered

penguins. Until about 50,000 years ago, no invader animal species except birds and fish reached Australia. Then Aborigines came, bringing dogs with them, and some of those caninesАevolved into the wild dingo, a meateating predator. With the European colonization of Australia came many wild animals. The most destructiveбwere the rabbit and the fox (introduced so the English could continue their pastime of fox hunting). Repeated attempts to eradicate theиrabbit have proven futile. An enormous fence was erected across Australia to try to stop the spread of rabbits, but it has proven only partiallyСsuccessful.

25. Read the text again. For questions (1 – 4), choose the correct answer (A, B or C).

1. The separate Australian Capital Territory houses… a) ACT;

b) Canberra;

c) the District of Columbia.

2. “Red heart, dead heart” stands for …

a)huge expanse of desert land;

b)reddish hue of soil and rocks;

c)an Australian superhero.

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