Vocabulary Exercises. Reading Comprehension Questions

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. What zone is being currently formed in south of Primorsky Krai?

2. What status did the seaport Zarubino elevate a few years ago?

3. Where is Zarubino situated?

4. Which products does the seaport Zarubino handle?

5. What is turnover and infrastructure of the seaport Zarubino?

6. Where is a base port for export of coal from Sakhalin’s largest brown coal field Solntsevskoye going to be created?

7. What will Nabil Bay be specialized in in the near future?

8. Where is petroleum extracted on Sakhalin?

9. What is also related with the international offshore oil projects upcoming on Sakhalin?

10. What may become the most optimal point for further transportation of Sakhalin oil to domestic and external markets?

Find an appropriate word for each blank space in the box

seasonality	national	container
coastal trade	fishing port	Arctic coast
operates	break-up
turnover	navigation

1. After the … of the USSR, Russia lost easy access to many Baltic and Black Sea ports.

2. As a consequence, the Russian Far East ports gained in national importance, especially the modern … port of Vostochny and the Nakhodka ports.

3. Other ports of … interest are the Port of Vanino in Khabarovsk Krai, and a new potential port complex at Khasanskii Commercial Port at Zarubino near the Chinese-North Korean border.

4. One of the distinct features of the coastal trade is its ….

5. Maximum turnover is registered in May-October, when the … season in the Arctic regions is open.

6. However, cargo for the … has fallen dramatically over the past several years.

7. Khabarovsk Krai, in addition to Vanino, has a … in Sovetskaya Gavan and an all-purpose port at Nikolaevsk- on-Amur.

8. Sakha (Yakutiia) has one port, Tlksi, on its …, opened for navigation only four months a year.

9.Kamchatka Oblast … three ports: Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskii (commercial port) and List-Kamchatsk (fishing port and commercial port).

10. A new commercial port (with expected annual … of 1.5 million metric tons of cargo) is currently being developed at Sovetskaya Gavan.

Complete each sentence using an appropriate form of the verb in the italics

1. Ocean carriage, that which serves both foreign trade and that, which supplies territories in the far north, become the single most important sector in transportation.

2. Railway and marine transport facilities serve mainly transit freight.

3. Russian Far East ports use for export-import trade not only by producers and consumers in Russia's hinterland, but by many other former Soviet republics as well, for example, Kazakhstan.

4. Khabarovsk's new international passenger terminal complete in 1993.

5. While the railway and automobile road infrastructure of the Russian Far East be by far underdeveloped, the region have three times more navigable inland waterways per unit than Russia’s average - 31 kilometers per each 10,000 square kilometers of total area.

6. The majority of these waterways find in the northern sub-Arctic scarcely populate areas of Sakha and Magadanskaya Oblast, and use very little.

7. Cargoes carry between the ports and wharfs of the republic’s cities and settlements.

8. In the Russian Far East’s south, waterways use for shipping be the Amur River and its tributaries.

9. Total length of navigable fairways in this region reach 6,000 km.

10. The water depths and the width of the Amur allow use self-propelled ships and barges with cargo capacity from 500 up to 3,000 tons, and up to 5,000 tons in the lower reaches.

Match the words and their definitions

producer	(a) a person who uses a commodity or service
consumer	(b) situated outside of smth
external	(c) the amount that can be contained
domestic	(d) deepness
capacity	(e) manufacturer
depths	(f) of a particular country
width	(g) the linear extent of anything as measured from end to end
length	(h) situated in the interior part of a country or region
infrastructure	(i)the basic framework of smth
inland	(j)wideness

Use the following word combinations in sentences of your own

Export-import trade; Asian Pacific regions; Far Eastern seaports; to raise turnover; port’s railway and automobile road infrastructure; transit cargo flows; renewal of the island’s main ports; be specialized in loading petroleum; oil and gas pipeline; domestic and external markets.

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