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Greenwich

Greenwich is on the river Thames, five miles from the middle

of London, and its story is 2,000 years old. The first English people

~ the Saxons — were fishermen there and they gave Greenwich its

name — «the green village».

You can still walk along the old Roman road in Greenwich park.

But the river was the true road to the outside world for the Romans

and for English kings and queens who later lived in Greenwich.

The King Henry VIII loved this place. He knew that England

must be strong at sea. So two big shipyards were started at Greenwich

and for 350 years the ships made there were the best in the world.

Many ships were lost at sea — their sailors did not know how to

tell exactly where they were.

In the 17th century astronomer Flamstead tried to find the answer.

He worked in an Observatory on the high ground in Greenwich

park. The walls of its big light-sided (непрочной) room shook

when the weather was bad. But from it, with a telescope made by

himself, Flamstead could look all round the sky. And he did look

night after night for twenty years. Carrying on Flamstead's work a

hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison finally made a

clock which told the time at sea and helped sailors to know where

they were. You can see Harrison's clock, still working in Greenwich

museum of the sea. Because of Flamstead's work every country

in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time.

Every year a million people come to Greenwich to see its museums

and palaces and its two famous ships: one old, one new.

Both the big CUTTY SARK and the little GYPSY MOTH sailed

through dangerous waters before they came safely back to their

Greenwich home. At-the end of the 1800's the CUTTY SARK was

the fastest ship of its size. Carrying more than a million kilos of tea,

she travelled the 25,000 kilometeres from China to England in only

hundred days.

Next to the CUTTY SARK is the GYPSY MOTH - only 16.5

metres long, but full of newest equipment. Her captain Sir

F. Chichester wanted his ship to sail as far and as fast as the

CUTTY SARK. When he sailed round the world by himself in

CYPSY MOTH in 1966 - the first man ever to do this - he took a

flag from the CUTTY SARK with him.

ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ЗАДАНИЯ

Упражнение 1. Найдите в тексте 9А:

а) ключевые слова со значением deep sea ship; переведите их;

б) словосочетания с under и близкие по значению выражения, переведите

их;

в) слово marine и словосочетания с ним; поясните их и приведите примеры.

Упражнение 2. А. Прочитайте текст. Постарайтесь догадаться о значении

термина scuba divers,

А computer for scuba divers will provide in one device information

about time, depth and air supply. It is to be used together with

special divers' tables. A display will provide visual information and

audible warnings about critical conditions.

If a diver wants to know an accurate depth he is down, he must

set water type he is in. If he is in the sea, he will set «sea water»,

otherwise he will set «fresh water». The device shows the diver's

current depth in meters and the level of power left in the batteries.

It will indicate if the level is low, medium or high.

If a diver wants to know how long he has been down, he can see

this from the display. If a diver needs to spend some minutes at a

certain depth for decompression, he will start his stop watch, and

will wait until the time has elapsed (passed). If a diver wants to

know the amount of air left in the tank, he can see this from the

contents display.

A warning signal tells him when he must start his ascent. Before

he descends, the diver sets the time to ascend. If he began his ascent

before the display started flashing, he would be within safe

Umits. If he did not ascend then, he would expose himself to decompression

sickness. If he started his ascent and went up too

quickly, he would see a warning light «Too fast». Then he should

slow down his ascent.

B. Объясните на английском языке значения следующих слов и словосочетаний:

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