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UNIT VI. NATIVE CITY
Vocabulary
1. be founded – быть основанным
2. be situated – располагаться
3. be washed by – омываться
4. be proud of – гордиться
5. border – граница
6. bay – залив
7. coast – побережье
8. call at – заходить
9. district – район
10. frontier – граница
11. go sight-seeing – осматривать достопримечательности
12. gulf – залив
13. harbor – гавань
14. location – месторасположение
15. latitude – широта
16. longitude – долгота
17. monument – памятник
18. occupy – занимать место
19. population – население
20. peninsula – полуостров
21. sights – достопримечательности
22. skyscraper – небоскреб
23. shore – берег моря
24. seaside – побережье, место отдыха у моря
25. separate from – отделить от
26. square – площадь
27. two-storey house – двухэтажный дом
28. dwell – жить, пребывать
29. cabin – небольшая жилая постройка
30. strait - пролив
Ex. 1. Read and translate the text.
OUR CITY
Vladivostok is one of the most interesting and colorful cities in Russia. Its buildings climb the hillsides dropping to the sea. The se makes Vladivostok unforgettable the city is open to the ocean winds. Once it was compared to Naples and much later - to San-Francisco.
Vladivostok occupies the whole southern tip of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula. The downtown area is situated at the shores of the Golden Horn Bay, well protected from strong winds, deep and a convenient harbor for ocean-going vessels. Bosphorus the Eastern Strait links two gulfs together - the Amursky and the Ussuriysky -and separates the Russian Island from the mainland. The city is rather young. It was founded on the second of July in 1860.
Due to its location at 132 degrees longitude East, 43 degrees latitude North, Vladivostok perfectly referred to the saying: "The latitude of the Crimea while the longitude of the Kolyma river. This, by the way, explains why Vladivostok has got such a monsoon climate. In wintertime there is almost no snow in the city, while in summertime thick fog moves on it and gives way to practically, non-stop rains. The mean annual temperature is +5°C, the temperature in January is -14°C, the temperature in August is +24°C.
Only one-to-five territory of the city is built-up, the other part is occupied by the forest-park. The northern part is a kind of national park and there was a time, when the impassable Ussury taiga stood there. In the forest-park of the city you can see a lot of rare plants and trees: cork tree, cedar, aralia, eleutorococcus, lime, maple and others.
Naturally, the port is the heart of Vladivostok. A great many of the ships arrive here every day. Vessels maintain the transportation, to dozens of countries all over the world, transfer passengers to Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Kamchatka, Japan and others.
Vladivostok is an international territory. Businessmen and journalists, specialists and ordinary people of Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, Australia, the USA, Canada and Europe are visiting Vladivostok more often. American, Canadian and French Navy ships have made friendly visits to Vladivostok. Besides, sister-town relationship was established with Japanese prefectures of Niigata, Toyama, and the American states of Washington, Oregon, California.
Vladivostok has a glorious past, a glorious present and still glorious future.
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