Вопрос № 857100 - Английский язык

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They recently built a new swimming pool in the small town of Winter Park, Florida. It is one 1_______ deep at one end and 55 metres deep at the other. That was not the original 2_______: half the pool has been eaten by an enormous hole.
The hole has also eaten two businesses, 3_______, five cars, several trees, and a large piece of road. It was still growing yesterday.
Mrs Mae Rose Owens was the first person to see it, last Friday. As she looked out of her 4_______ she saw a tree getting shorter and shorter.
‘Suddenly the earth just opened up and down this tree went. I couldn’t believe it.’
The hole seems to be a result of the drought. Underground streams have dried out, making the subsoil contract.

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Heart disorders fall into two broad groups: 1_______ and acquired. Congenital heart defects are caused by structural defects. Acquired 2_______ disease is mainly due to rheumatic fever.
Congenital defects may result in cyanosis if the defect is such that blood does not pass through the lungs for oxygenation. The patient has blue 3_______ and blue-finger and toe-nails. The 4_______ of the fingers and toes are rounded and club-like.

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Electric power is generated at power plants and it must be transmitted to other parts of the country. How is 1_______ transmitted to those parts? Thick 2_______ carry electric power over long distances. The wires are not always made of copper, often they are made of other 3_______.
A number of wires put together form one thick 4_______. A cable consists of a number of wires put together and a pair consists of two insulated conductors forming a metallic circuit. Thus the basic transmission element of communications is a long transmission line, and a cable is the main part of this long transmission line.

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Maldacena is an Argentine 1_______. In the US, many scientists 2_______ him. He’s more famous there than in Argentina. He used other 3_______ to make a new theory that is more complete than Newton’s and Einstein’s. Thanks to Maldacena, the structure of matter is easier to 4_______ now than a few years ago.

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A solid body has a definite form, and tends to keep it; a liquid body must be kept in a vessel and adapts itself to the shape of that vessel, but so as to keep its upper surface horizontal, it tends, moreover, to flow from a higher to lower level. A gas, or a gaseous body, cannot be kept in an open vessel, but must be kept in a vessel closed in all sides; it always fills the vessel completely.
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What form does a solid body have?

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Tin is a silvery metal which is not corroded by air. The chief use is for making tin plate, i.e. sheetiron coated with tin. Tin plate is suitable for cans in which acid fruit and other food-stuffs are packed because tin is not attacked by weak acids. For good containers, iron is coated with tin instead of zinc because tin is not subject to attack by acids in food.
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Why is tin plate suitable for cans?