Подберите пары слов, близких по значению.

Ex. 3.

Подберите пары слов, противоположных по смыслу.

Ex. 4.

Замените подчёркнутые слова словами из текста.

1. Glaciers are slowly moving bodies of ice.
2. Glaciers commonly originate through the accumulation of snow and its further transformation.
3. Glaciers do not move with a rate anything like that of water.
4. The ice moves forward all the time.
5. The position of the end is influenced by the velocity of advance and the velocity of retreat.
6. Besides valley glaciers there are continental glaciers or ice-caps.
7. Glaciers weather the surface over which they move.
8. Rock fragments are transported and deposited by glaciers.
9. Drift is divided into stratified and non-stratified.
10. Stratified drift includes the deposits sorted by the action of melt water.

Ex. 5.

Сравните действие ледников и потоков воды, выбрав правильный вариант из предложенных в скобках.

1. (Like/unlike) streams glaciers run downhill.
2. Glaciers move slowly (like/unlike) streams of water.
3. The effects of glaciations are erosion (like/unlike) those of water.
4. (Like/unlike) water a glacier is an accumulation of solid ice.
5. A glacier is a solid (like/unlike) water which is a liquid.
6. Water can never run uphill (like/unlike) a glacier.
7. (Like/unlike) a stream a glacier can transport and deposit fragmentary materials.

Ex. 6.

Заполните пропуски, выбрав правильный вариант.

1. Glaciers originate __________ the accumulation of snow.

a) though

b) through

c) thought

2. Glaciers accumulate snow with its __________ transformation.

a) late

b) latter

c) later

3. Accumulation of snow with __________ further transformation results in the formation of a glacier.

a) it’s

b) its

c) it is

Ex. 7.

Употребите нужные существительные вместо их слов-заменителей.

1. The movement of a glacier resembles that of a river.
2. Glaciers never move with a velocity anything like that of water.
3. The glaciers in Europe are much smaller than those of Asia.
4. The effects of glaciations, like those of all other surface processes, are erosion of highlands and filling of the low places.
5. Topography shaped by glaciers differs sharply from that shaped by running water.

Ex. 8.