Упр.5 Unit 1 Секция 3 ГДЗ English Михеева 8 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Михеева, Афанасьева 8 класс, Дрофа: 5 A. Read the text and say what information about American geography you knew/didn’t know before you read the text.
The United States of America
The United States of America is the world’s fourth largest country. Only Russia, Canada and China have bigger territories than the US. There are fifty states in the country. Forty-eight are in the same part of North America. The other two are Alaska in the north, and Hawaii situated on eight islands in the Pacific.
The United States stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, which wash the country in the west and in the east. Long mountain chains run down the Pacific coast. In this part of the country is Death Valley, the lowest place in North and South Americas. Here, too, is the Grand Canyon which the Colorado River made millions of years ago. In some places it is about 6 km deep. Farther east lie the tall peaks of the Rocky Mountains that run from Canada to Mexico. Beyond them stretch the Great Plains where the mighty Mississippi River flows. Another mountain chain, the Appalachians, runs down the eastern part of the United States. The USA borders on Canada in the north, where the five Great Lakes are situated, and Mexico in the South.
B. Listen to the tape and read the text again after it.
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Before reading the text, I knew that the USA is a very large country and that it borders Canada and Mexico. I also knew about some famous places, such as the Grand Canyon and the Mississippi River.

After reading the text, I learned that the USA is the world’s fourth largest country, that it has fifty states, and that Alaska and Hawaii are separate states. I also found out that the Rocky Mountains, the Appalachians, Death Valley, and the Great Lakes are all important parts of American geography.