Millets

Millets are rapid- growing, warm- weather crops. They do not grow satisfactorily where cool conditions prevail during the growing season. Nevertheless, they can be used in northern areas, because of their unique ability to grow and mature very rapidly during the short period when temperatures are favourable.

Under very favourable conditions some of the early-maturing varieties can be harvested for hay 45 to 50 days after sowing. Under average conditions about 65-70 days are required. The later maturing types usually require from 10 to 15 days longer than the early varieties before they are ready for harvesting.

Millets grow well on a wide variety of soils, but they do best on fertile loams that are high in organic matter. Any soil that will give a good crop of corn or potatoes will produce satisfactory yields of the millets. The plants are very susceptible to injury by hot, drying winds or by drought. Millets grow very rapidly and as a result are ready for harvest before the usual hot, dry weather of midsummer arrives.

In the drier areas millets are sometimes planted in rows sufficiently far apart to permit cultivation. This practice conserves moisture and enables the plants to grow satisfactorily even though seasonal rainfall is quite low.

Millets grow best when they are sown in the same type of seedbed required for the small grains. Such a seedbed should be firm, well-worked and free of trash.

Найдите в тексте ответы на следующие вопросы:

1) Are millets warm- weather crops?

2) What climate is suitable for millets?

3) What soil do they grow well on?

Вариант № 3

/ Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в каждом из них видо-временную форму и залог глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1.1. Only deciduous trees grow in our region.

1.2. Barley is grown in many subtropical and temperate countries.

1.3. The fertility of the soil has been recently improved through the extensive application of fertilizers.

1.4. The pupils will soon sow the seeds of carrots.

//. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it, that, one.

2.1. It is the water supply that often limits the yields of potatoes in dry summers.

2.2. One should transplant the seedlings to the cold frame.

2.3. This soil contains more lime than that one.

2.4. It is necessary that the students know all the properties of this land.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, помня о различных значениях глаголов to be, to have, to do.

3.1. Does the potato tolerate soil acidity?

3.2. Minerals have some chemical and physical properties.

3.3. Soils are dark due to the presence of vegetable matter.

3.4. What does she do? She is an agronomist, like me.

IV Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.

4.1. We know the importance of clean land for carrots can hardly be overestimated.

4.2. Transplanting machines we spoke about last time are seldom used now.

V. Перепишите и переведите на русский язык следующие предложения; обратите внимание на то, что в них просьба (побуждение) выражена с помощью глагола to let.

5.1. Let me interrupt the discussion to report the latest news.

5.2. Let us begin a new sowing campaign.

VI. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива, герундия и причастия в предложении.

6.1. The main object of growing sugar beet is the production of sugar.

6.2. This soil is too poor to give good yields.

6.3. The factors to affect our yields are drainage, timing of cultivation, fertilizer usage, grass weeds and crop diseases.

6.4. Having been planted in the soil seeds completely lose their natural form.

VII. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

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