Vocabulary Exercises

Find an appropriate word for each blank space in the text

1. Seaports handle the export flows of Russian c… to international markets and imports from the Asian Pacific nations to Russia.

2. Sea transport is practically the only m… of delivering cargoes to some RFE regions.

3. There are 300 harbors with available w… and a…, scattered along the RFE coast.

4. There are about 270 f… b… performing port functions in the region.

5. The most important ports of y… n… are: Zarubino, Posyet, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Vanino, Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, and Korsakov and Kholmsk on Sakhalin.

6. The major ports, situated in Primorye, Khabarovsky Krai and on Sakhalin are capable of h… up to 100 million tons of cargo annually..

7. The export-bound flows from the Russian Far East consist of d… to the Asian Pacific countries of timber, fish and seafood, metal, coal, and ore.

8. Imported cargoes are chiefly f… products.

9. There are two f… services in the region, Vanino - Kholmsk and Korsakov – Hokkaido.

10. The Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Railway make the Far eastern ports key points in attracting t… cargo flows via Russia to East and Central Europe nations.

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

1. The Russian Far East- have about 300 operational ports and mini-ports.

2. Most of them be small and specialize in certain cargo (fish, timber, coal, fuel, metals). There be, however, about two dozen major ports located mainly in Primorye and Sakhalin.

3. Primorye's major ports include: Vostochny, Nakhodka (commercial trading port, fishing port, fuel port), Vladivostok (commercial trading port, fishing port), Poset, Khasanskii commercial port at Zarubino, Rudnaia Pristan, Plastun and Ternei.
4. There be five major ports in Sakhalin Oblast at Kholmsk (commercial trading port and fishing port), Korsakov (commercial trading port), Nevelsk (fishing port), and Moskalvo in the north, the only specialized fuel port outside Nakhodka.
5. Khabarovsk Krai, in addition to Vanino, have a fishing port in Sovetskaya Gavan and an all-purpose port at Nikolaevsk- on-Amur.

6. A new commercial port (with expected annual turnover of 1.5 million metric tons of cargo) currently develop at Sovetskaya Gavan.

7. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug operate four ports: Anadyr, Provideniya, Egvekinotskii, and Pevek.

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

9. Magadan Oblast operate two ports in Magadan, a trading port and a fishing port.

10. Sakha (Yakutiia) have one port, Tiksi, on its Arctic coast, opened for navigation only four months a year.

Match the words and their definitions

1. handle	(a) place of shelter for ships
2. commodity	(b) structure at which ships are moored
3. deliver	(c) manage, deal with, control
4. harbor	(d) place for anchoring
5. wharf	(e) article of trade
6. anchorage	(f) take goods to the buyer
7. navigation	(g) edible fish or shellfish from the sea
8. seafood	(h) boat that carries people and goods across a river, channel
9. ferry	(i) get the attention, pull toward
10. attract	(j) act of navigating

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