Daily routine

Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

A day in the life of the USA

6.30 am, Poughkeepsie, New York. Norman Davis, 37, gets up and washes. After breakfast, he goes to the station. He works in New York City and the journey takes an hour, so he hurries to catch his train.

7.15 am, Roanoke, Virginia. A tired Annie Laurence, 10, wakes up and gets ready for school. An hour later she leaves home. She has lunch at school, usually sandwiches and an apple. It’s a long day for Annie. She doesn’t get home until 5pm at the end of the afternoon.

10.30 am, Long Beach, California. Tony Valera takes a coffee break between meetings. He works for the Disney corporation as an imaginer, a job that is somewhere between an artist, an engineer and a science-fiction writer.

12.45 pm, Evanston, Illinois. Thirty-four-year-old Amelia Noriega, head of public relations for a major car manufacturer, stops work and goes shopping. Then she has lunch with a friend. ‘There aren’t many women at my job level’, she says. ‘But there are more every day.’

4.30 pm, Tampa, Florida. George Marcopoulos, 65, comes home after his daily swim. Then he joins his wife at the community centre, where she teaches physical education. ‘I feel twenty years younger than I am.’

6.15 pm, Seattle, Washington. Jo-Ann Rosenthal leaves work after a long day as a telephonist at a downtown bank. It’s Friday night so she walks to her local bar and meets her friends.

7.45 pm, Lubbock, Texas. Cliff Renton III, 61, meets Walter Avery, 62, to have dinner and to talk about the local Ranch Handler’s Ball, the most important event in the Lubbock social calendar. Cliff is president of the Social Committee, so he is responsible for the success of the evening.

11 pm, Athens, Georgia. Shirlee Lewis finishes dinner, washes up and watches the TV news. Her five children are asleep, so she tries to be very quiet.

Задание 2. Заполните пропуски словами из текста.

7.00 am. Charles Wilder 1 _____ and 2 _____. He has his breakfast and leaves home. He works in the City and goes to work by bus so he hurries 3 ______ his bus.

9.00 am. Charles reads the documents and answers the letters that he got yesterday. He is an office manager.

10.30 am. He 4 ______ _______. He usually has a cup of coffee and a cake.

11.00 am. He has an important meeting with his boss and gets tasks for the next day.

12.45pm. Charles stops work and goes to the nearest restaurant 5 ______.

5.30 pm. He finishes work and goes to the swimming pool to have his 6 ______.

7.45 pm. Charles comes back home and has dinner with his family. His wife 7 ______ and he plays with his son.

9.00 pm. The little son goes to bed and Charles 8 _______ news.

Задание 3. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

Just an ordinary day?

In 1990, Dr Ron Parise was one of a team of astronauts who went on a nine-day mission that took them round the Earth 143 times. Dr.Parise describes life on board the space shuttle Columbia.

‘Living and working in zero gravity is OK. It’s quite nice floating around, but you have to fix your feet into position while you are working so you don’t float off. But it wasn’t all work. There was lots of time for serious things like standing on the ceiling and holding each other up with one finger. One of our favourite games was throwing and catching sweets and blowing water at each other.

There are some problems with living in space. For example, it’s pretty difficult to eat chips or spaghetti. Food is freeze-dried and kept in sealed boxes. It is not bad, but you know you are not going into space to eat gourmet meals. It’s also a bit like hospital because you have to choose all your meals beforehand.

Cleaning your teeth is a problem. You can’t brush your teeth with your mouth open because it’s a very messy job. If you spill anything in the shuttle, you have to catch it in a cloth otherwise it just keeps floating around.

Astronauts have twelve hours of hard work and then twelve hours off. You have to rest in your bed even if you don’t sleep. Each sleeping compartment is very narrow and closed like a long cupboard. It’s also vertical – horizontal depending on which way you decide is up!’

Определите, правдивыми или ложными являются следующие утверждения, исходя из содержания текста:

1. When you are working on board the apace shuttle you are always floating off.

2. Astronauts work a usual working day – from 9 am till 5 pm.

3. Astronauts rest in bed even if they don’t sleep.

4. Astronauts cook gourmet meals for themselves.

5. They have some problems while eating some kinds of food.

6. Astronauts may choose the kind of sleeping compartment.

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