Вопрос № 605284 - Английский язык

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The body of a skateboard is called a deck. Plywood is the most common deck material used because it’s light but strong. The front of the board is called the nose and the back is called the tail. 1 _______. These help the skateboarder perform tricks.
Fixed to the deck are two metal alloy trucks which connect to the wheels.               2 _______. The top part of the truck is called the baseplate. 3 _______. The bottom part is called the hanger. It’s fixed to the wheels, which are made of polyurethane. 4 _______. Very hard wheels are good for performance but not for rough surfaces. Between the baseplate and the hanger are bushings which provide the spring mechanism for turning the board.

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The device is called a Dervish. It is a mine-detonating vehicle for clearing anti-personnel mines from farmland in developing world countries. 1 _______. The United Nations estimates that 24,000 people die each year because of mines.
2 _______. Each wheel has steel teeth to create more pressure. When the teeth pass over a mine, it explodes. 3 _______. A motorbike engine powers the Dervish.          4 _______. As each wheel passes a certain point in the rotation, it slows down. This makes the machine advance in tight circles, about 30 mm apart. For this reason no mine in its path is missed.

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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.

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1 _______. Their colour and smell attract insects such as flies and wasps. The insects climb into the neck of the pitcher, slip down the sides and down in the water at the bottom. 2 ________. Pitcher plants have small lids to keep rain out. Pitcher plants don’t always manage to catch insects. 3 _______. It makes its web in the neck of the plant. Flies and other insects, which climb into the plant don’t fall right to the bottom. 4 _______.