11 класс Контроль навыков чтения
Text “Animals at home: Dogs”
Vocabulary:
Tamed-приручил
Excavations-раскопки
Breeds-породы животных
Deftness-ловкость
Merit-заслуга
Nobody knows
how the friendship between the man and the dog began:
Whether it
came to the man by the smell of the food and the warmth of the fire,
Or the man
brought the cub of wolf to his dwelling and tamed it. But nevertheless
, the dog
is true friend and constant companion of a man for many thousand years.
Skeletons and bones of dogs are found by archeologists at the places of
excavations where prehistoric people lived. Ancient artists drew the pictures
of the dogs on the rocks .In ancient Greece and Rome the dogs were so spread
and valued so high that scientists and poets dedicated their poems and
scientific works to them.
Of course
,dogs have not always been the ones we know nowadays. People began to create
new breeds of dogs, using their natural qualities: a fine sense of smell, keen
ear, strength and deftness. There are more than four hundred breeds of dogs
now.
But the main
quality of the dog is not in it’s working skills and tricks which it can be
taught .The invaluable merit of the dog is in it’s unselfish love and devotion
to the man. In many cities of the world there are monuments to the dogs-the the
signs of memory and gratitude of the man to his four-legged friend.
1.
Say if the
sentence is true or false:
A )In
ancient Egypt the dogs were valued high.
b) The bones
of the dogs are found in the places where pre-historic people lived.
c) There are
more than four thousand breeds of dogs nowadays.
d) The main
quality of the dog is it’s working skills and tricks it can be taught.
e) There are
many monuments to the dogs in many cities of the world.
2 .Answer
the questions:
a) How did
the friendship between the dog and the man begin?
b) Where did
the ancient artists paint the pictures of the dogs?
c) Where
were the bones of the dogs found?
d) How was
the dog valued in ancient Greece and Rome?
e) Why was
the dog valued by the man so high?
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