Vocabulary and Speech Exercises. Reading Comprehension Questions

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. How many shipping companies are registered in the Russian Far East?

2. How many ships do the Russian Far Eastern shipping companies own?

3. What are the largest Russian Far Eastern shippers?

4. Which ships is the Russian Far Eastern fleet composed of?

5. What kind of cargo does Russia’s largest tanker flotilla carry?

6. Which countries do RFE cargo ships support Russia’s foreign trade with?

7. Which companyserves container lines “Australia - USA” with calls to the largest Australian (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide) and U.S. (Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Long Beach) ports?

8. What company was the line “KSDS” organized with?

9. Which lines does the Sakhalin Shipping Company operate on?

10. What are the most important international lines in the Russian Far East?

Explain the meaning of these words and phrases within the text

Ships for ocean, coastal and in-harbor shipping; small businesses; liquid food products; international trade-cross routes; in conjunction with; to call to; to be specialized; to serve container lines; ice-class ships.

Fill in the gaps with active words and word combinations from the box given below

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

2.Cargoes are carried between the … and wharves of the republic’s cities and settlements.

3.Total … of navigable fairways in this region reaches 6,000 km.

4.The water … and the … of the Amur allow to 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.

5.The bulk of … traffic on the Amur is handled by the relatively large ports of Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-na-Amure.

6.The Amur Shipping Company, the region’s largest river …, delivers cargoes to the northern areas of Khabarovsky Krai and Amurskaya Oblast as well as to destinations on the … of Sakhalin, Primorye, Magadanskaya Oblast.

7.In former times, the company operated primarily … lines and carried more than 5 million tons of cargo annually.

8.Once the state … was opened for trade with China, the Amur has become an international transport artery

9.While passenger traffic in domestic routes is declining in recent years, there is a trend to … of passenger turnover in Russian-Chinese lines.

10. Port … in Russia is one of the highest priorities of the Russian Federal and regional governments.

carrier; border; cargo; width; domestic; depths; growth; length; ports; infrastructure; development; navigable; coast

Find words or phrases in the text which mean the following

Possessing; vessel; consist of; handle; shipment; area; establish; frozen; back; foreign trade.

Write out words and phrases from the text that are necessary to speak about

a) largest shippers of the Russian Far East;

b) ships of the Far Eastern Shipping Companies

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