Прочитайте текст

Прочитайте текст

Прочитайте текст

Прочитайте текст

Чтение текстов с извлечением основной информации (ознакомительное чтение)

Профессиональное общение

Техника перевода профессионально-ориентированных текстов

ИА ИсламДин

The first commercial television broadcast was made on April 20, 1939 by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Since 1939, it has become one of the most important facts of modern life. Television is very much a part of the modern world. Its effects are felt all over the world.

Television is a reflection of the modern world, say some people. It shows contemporary society. It affects customs and culture, others say. Television is bad for culture because it keeps culture from growing, say still others.

Good or bad, television is difficult to avoid.

Найдите информацию, содержащуюся в тексте

Television …

a) has wide influence. с) is a modern day fact.

b) cannot influence culture. d) is easy to avoid.

Early men did not have clocks. They told time by the sun and the shadows of trees. At first, they used sticks placed in the ground instead of trees. They made marks on the ground, and the shadows from the sticks told the time of the day.

Later, men began to use sundials. Some sundials were boxes with a stick to cast a shadow. The mark for noon was very important. The sundial always had to face the same way or the time was wrong. Sundials were the first kind of the clock.

Найдите информацию, содержащуюся в тексте

Early men …

a) told time by shadows. c) used the moon to tell time.

b) had clocks made of trees. d) did not have clocks.

Americans have contributed to many art forms, but jazz, a type of music, is the only art form that was created in the United States.

Jazz was created by black Americans.

Jazz is a mixture of many different kinds of music. It is a combination of the music of West Africa, the work songs the slaves sang, and religious music. Jazz bands formed in the late 1800s. They played in bars and clubs in many towns and cities of the South.

Jazz became more and more popular. By the 1920s jazz was popular all over the U.S. By the 1940s you could not only hear jazz in clubs and bars, but in concert halls as well. Today people all over the world play jazz.

Найдите информацию, содержащуюся в тексте

Jazz …

a)is a mixture of many different kinds of music.

b) could be heard in concert halls by the 1920.

c)is a type of music.

d) was popular all over the U.S. by the 1910s.

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Naismith was a Canadian, but lived in the United States. He was a teacher at Springfield Training School. He taught sports and found there were no interesting games to play indoors in the winter months. So he thought of a game.

Nasmith’s students played the first game of basketball in the Springfield gym

in 1891. There were nine men in each team. They used a soccer ball. They put peach baskets on the gym wall. The goal or purpose of the game was to throw the ball in the basket. That is why he called the game basketball. A man with a ladder went to the basket. He climbed the ladder and took the ball out of the basket. Luckily, only one man got the ball into the basket in the first game.

Today basketball is an international sport. Basketball is also an Olympic sport today.

Найдите информацию, содержащуюся в тексте

Basketball …

a) is an international sport.

b) was first played in an American school.

c) was invented by an American.

d) is not an Olympic sport.

Дата добавления: 2015-03-31