"Without geography you're nowhere."

Jimmy Buffett

Задание для магистров


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Консультация состоится 13 января (15.00, ауд. 430), экзамен 16 января (14.00, ауд.430). 

Явка строго обязательна,т.к. во время консультации будет письменный экзаменационнный перевод. При себе необходимо иметь англо-русские словари (желательно побольше ).


15.12.11

1. Пересказ текстового материала презентации "What is geography? ". 
2.  Выполнить тесты № 6-8 (см.ниже)

3.Подготовить сообщения по 11-21 главам книги Всеволода Овчиниикова "Корни дуба". 

Test 6
Select the correct answer for each question:

1. In which country would you find the historic Orissa Feudatory States?
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Indonesia
India

 2. Which branch of the U.S. armed forces maintains a major base at Quantico, Virginia?
United States Navy
United States Army
United States Air Force
United States Marine Corps

 3. Where is New Miami?
Georgia
California
Ohio
Arizona

 4. Yemen is the location of which historic country?
Sheba
Siam
Abyssinia
Catalonia

 5. Which country does not cross the Tropic of Capricorn?
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Namibia


Test 7
Select the correct answer for each question:

1. Which Iraqi city is farthest north?
Kirkuk
Mosul
Basra
Baghdad

 2. What is the Shatt al Arab?
plateau
dry lake bed
delta
desert

 3. In which year did Saddam Hussein become president of Iraq?
1968
1974
1979
1983

 4. Which colonial power held Iraq in the decade prior to independence in 1932?
Turkey
Portugal
France
United Kingdom

 5. The three stars on Iraq's flag represent a proposed union with which two other countries?
Egypt and Syria
Afghanistan and Yemen
Iran and Saudi Arabia
Oman and United Arab Emirates

Test 8
Select the correct answer for each question:

1. What is known as the "roof of the world"?
Gobi Desert
Nunavut
Tibetan Plateau
The Alps

 2. The largest church in the world can be found in Yamoussoukro, in which country?
Cambodia
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cote d'Ivoire

 3. Ploudiv, Varna, and Burgas are major cities of which country?
Bulgaria
Brunei
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina

 4. What number do you use to calculate doubling time by dividing the number by the percent growth rate to obtain the doubling time in years?
23
35
70
100

 5. Which country borders the exclave of Kaliningrad?
Estonia
Belarus
Latvia
Lithuania