III try to study to the best of my abilities to achieve my life's ambition and to justify the hopes of my parents. I also hope that I'll never regret my choice and get a well-paid and interesting

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III try to study to the best of my abilities to achieve my life's ambition and to justify the hopes of my parents. I also hope that I'll never regret my choice and get a well-paid and interesting job afterwards.

Text ЗА Choosing an Occupation

I want to be a civil engineer. Builders construct and reconstruct residential and industrial buildings, bridges, schools, palaces of culture, museums, theatres, kinder gardens and hospitals. They build tunnels, canals, power stations, dams and reservoirs.

An architect has to think not only of what he wants the building to lode like when it is finished, but also what it is to be used for. The structure an architect creates should give us pleasure and a sense of beauty. He is engaged to prepare the plans and specifications and usually to supervise the construction of the project

I'll try to study to the best of my abilities to achieve my life's ambition and to justify the hopes of my parents. I also hope that Г11 never regret my choice and get a well-paid and interesting job afterwards.

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Text 1A Higher Education in Britain

There is a considerable choice of post-school education in Britain. In addition to universities, there are also polytechnics and a series of different types of assisted colleges. Universities in Britain enjoy complete academic freedom, choosing their own staff and deciding which students to admit, what and how to teach, and which degrees to award (first degrees are called Bachelor degrees). They are mainly government-funded, except for the totally independent University of Buckingham.

Virtually all degree courses are full-time and most last three years {medical and veterinary courses last five or six years).

Students who obtain their Bachelor degree (graduates) can apply to take a further degree course, usually involving a mixture of exam courses and research. There are two different types of post-graduate courses — the Master’s degree (MA or MSc) and higher degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Every student can choose which lectures he will attend during the term, though his own college tutor will advise him which lectures seem likely to be more useful. Attendance at lectures is not compulsory. Apart from lectures, teaching is by means of the "tutorial" system, which is a system of individual tuition organized by the colleges. A student does not necessarily go only to his own tutor but may be assigned to another don in his college or in another college.

Text 2 Oxford and Cambridge

Text 5 Our University

Words and word combinations:

1) to be founded -основанный;

2) to meet the demands - отвечать требованиям;

3) curriculum - учебный план (программа);

4) extramural department - заочное отделение;

5) final paper-дипломная работа;

6) to embody — включает в себя /содержит;

7) a hostel (a hall of residents) - общежитие.

The Kuban State Technological University was founded in 1918.0n the 16^th of June/1918 the Congress of the Council of Public Education decided to ppen tljg^Polytechnic Institute in Ekaterinodar. Later it was called North Caucasian Institute of Food Industry. It was established to meet the demands of local food industry and agriculture for trained specialists and engineers. It had only about 900 students and trained «qualified specialists for canning, milk, moot, vegetable oil and margarine industries.

At present our university trains about 12,000 students in different specialties. It consists of 10 faculties: Mechanical Engineering and Car Care; Information Technology and Automated Systems; Construction and Real Estate Management; Highway and Cadastre Systems; Chemistry, Standard and Quality Engineering and Foodstuff Expertise; Food Biotechnology and Restaurant Business; Economics and Business Management; Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies and: Gas and Oil Power Engineering Institute. It also has the Extramural Department which provides teaching for those who work.

The curriculum includes mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, foreign languages etc. The «chief methods of instruction are lectures, seminars and work in laboratories. Standard lectures and seminars are combined with independent research work under the department supervision. The Final Paper [Graduation Paper] is submitted in a written form and is presented publicly. It embodies die results of the graduates’ independent research in their field of interest.

The construction of the main building of our University was completed in 1985. It houses the library with a spacious reading-room, many classrooms and well-equipped laboratories. Our University has other four buildings in different parts of the city.

Many of our teachers and instructors are outstanding specialists and scientists in various fields of technology and science. Some of them are the graduates of our University. The University has five hostels where the students from different towns and villages live. There is also a sport centre, numerous

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Text 1A About Myself

First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Andrew Nazarov. I am seventeen years old. I am a student. My family lives in Moscow in one of the residential areas. My family is rather large. My parents have two more kids besides me. Thus I have got an elder sister Marina and a younger brother Ivan. My brother is a schoolboy. He is thirteen. My sister is five years elder than I am. So she is twenty three already. She is a designer by profession. She is married. Her husband is a computer programmer.

My parents are not old at all. Daddy is forty-four and Mum is one year younger than he is. My father is a journalist and my mother is a teacher of English at the University. They like their work very much. They have been married for twenty-five years. They have much in common, but their views on music, films, books and sports are rather different. My father is fond of tennis and my mother doesn't go in for sports.

Text 1A Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was bom at Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later die family moved to Munich.

In 1896, he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher of physics and mathematics.

In 1901 he gained his diploma. He acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905, he obtained his doctor's degree. 1911 was a very significant year for Einstein since he was able to make preliminary predictions about how a ray of light from a distant star, passing near the Sun, would appear to be bent lightly, in the direction of the Sun.

He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1932.1n 1915 Einstein published the definitive version of general theory of relativity.

Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921, but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.

A third visit to the United States in 1932 was followed by the offer of a post of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton. Einstein accepted an offer and left Germany in December 1932 for the United States. The following month die Nazis came to power in Germany and Einstein was never to return there. He became a United States citizen in 1940. and retired from his post in 1945.

One week before his death Einstein signed his last letter. It was a letter in which he agreed that his name should go on a manifesto urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons.

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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Td like to describe you my ordinary working day. I get up at about 7 o'clock and my working day begins. First of all I do my morning exercises. Then I go to the bathroom, take a warm shower to keep my spirits up todi clean my teeth. After that I go to my bedroom to get dressed.

At half past seven I am ready to have breakfast. Then I usually switch on my Walkman and leave for.University. As it is not far from my house it takes me 10 minutes to get there. Walking fast is good exercise. f

1 am a second-year fiill-time student of tlie........ Faculty, two lectures,

a seminar and a practice a day is my ordinary timetable. The University life is very interesting. I am back - home at two pan. While having dinner I usually like to listen to music and after that I rest a little.

I start doing my homework at 4p.m. I do not work by fits and starts that is whу it takes me aboiit four or five hours to cope with my work proj&fly. As a rule, I finish doing my homework at about 9 o'clock. Then I have supper. I go to bed at about 11 o'clock or even later completely exhausted. I go out like a light.

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Text 4A Higher Education in Russia

There are a lot universities and colleges in Russia. They teach almost in all subject areas: Arts, Sciences, Law, Engineering, etc. The staff are knowledgeable in their subjects. Higher educational institutions are headed by Rectors. Vice-rectors are in charge of the academic and scientific work. The departments are headed by the Deans. There are subdivisions within Departments. Usually after completing five years of study students receive a university degree. For five years at the end of each year students have oral examinations. Students have holidays twice a year. They take a fortnight rest after winter exams, and they are holidaying for four weeks after summer exams. Then they have summer practice. Moreover, they write a graduate paper for a university degree. They write dissertations for advanced degrees. After three years of post-graduate work and the writing of the dissertation it is possible to obtain a candidate degree.

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