Вопрос № 605283 - Английский язык

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The first houses were merely shelters for the purpose of protecting their owners from weather and therefore were very simple – a roof to keep of the rain, and walls to keep out the wind. 1 _______. A little later each house had its fireplace and a masonry chimney. 2 _______. There was no water supply, no heating system, and no electric light. 3 _______. First, there was running water in the kitchen, then hot water and later fully equipped bathrooms.
4 _______.

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Cladding is a material used as the exterior wall enclosure of a building. 1 _______. Its major purpose is to separate the indoor environment of a building from the outdoors.
2 _______.Cladding must prevent the entry of water, snow and ice into a building. Water on the face of a building is known to be driven by wind not only in a downward direction, but in every other direction, even upward.
3 _______.Water problems, that is keeping water out, are especially great on very tall buildings. These buildings rise to height where wind velocities are extremely high.
4 _______. It should be taken into account that on tall buildings water tends to penetrate the smallest crack or hole and enter the building.

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1 _______. The work of chewing is done by the gizzard, the part, the part of the bird’s stomach where the food is ground up. 2 _______. After food is swallowed, it passes into a space called a “crop”, in the chicken’s gullet, or throat. 3 _______. Then the food passes into the gizzard. 4 _______.

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The people of Holland are getting seriously worried about the shortage of storks.    1 _______. And many visitors used to go there just to see these magnificent birds perched on the nests which they built on cart-wheels mounted on top of long poles above the roof tops.
2 _______. Only 28 stork chicks were born, while a stork has not been seen in The Hague for 25 years. This year an attempt is to be made to coax these welcome summer visitors back to their former homes.
3 _______. To encourage new immigrants, a number of pairs of storks are to be flown in by jet aircraft from Hungary and Africa.
 4_______. But their parents will have their wings clipped so that they will remain in Holland, and maybe encourage the new chicks to make their homes there!

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The camel has always been an enigmatic beast, and only now scientific research has shown that the camel does not store water in his hump. That is an old wives’ tale. 1 _______. It seems that muscles and other tissues act as a kind of reservoir that can provide several litres of water if needed. 2 _______. At the end of that period he had lost 202 pounds, but made it all up in ten minutes by drinking 16 gallons of water when they let him near an oasis.
3 _______. He never pants, never breathes with his mouth open even in the hottest weather in the Sahara. And he perspires so little that his skin always feels completely dry. He allows his body temperature to rise 11˚F above the normal, while his thick coat of fur keeps out the heat of the desert. The Arabs with their thick cloaks have obviously learnt from their beast of burden. 4 _______.

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Man has developed mechanical contraptions to help him travel quickly, but Nature has equipped some of her creatures with built-in speed. 1 _______. A jack rabbit can build up a speed of about forty-five miles an hour when a hound is close behind it. 2 _______. The white-tailed deer can do almost fifty miles an hour when it needs to and a long-legged ostrich can tiptoe over the ground at nearly a mile a minute. 3 _______. Many of the large fishes in the ocean can keep up with the fastest ocean liners man has made. There is one fish, the wahoo that can scoot along at seventy miles an hour. The really speedy animals, though, are animals of the air. 4 _______. A fast bird may even reach a speed of some aeroplanes.