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    dima_znohub_eng

    Reading 17-22
    Reading 17-22. Test 1

    What if you went to sleep and woke up ten days later? It


    happened to millions of people in Europe in October of 1582,
    (17) _____.
    It all had to do with problems in the calendar instituted 1,628
    years before by Julius Caesar. That was just the tiniest bit off,
    and so ____ (18) , for sixteen hundred years. The spring
    equinox had drifted from March to winter. Things were a
    mess.
    Pope Gregory III took matters in hand. He appointed a
    committee of calendar experts to examine the problem, and
    (19)___. The pope accepted their recommendations and issued
    a papal bill mandating the changes.
    But to get things back on schedule, ten days had to be
    slashed. So on October 4, 1582, much of Western Europe went
    to sleep and woke up the next morning on October 15.
    Reaction was mixed. (20) ____ , who they thought was trying to
    steal days from their lives. On the other hand, peasants living
    in isolated rural villages barely noticed at all.
    (21) ______ , creating massive confusion. But eventually
    everyone let go of the missing days and adopted (22) _____.

    A. the citizens of Frankfurt, Germany, rioted against the pope


    B. the new calendar wasn't adopted for 170 years
    C. they suggested a more scientifically correct model
    D. some countries didn't accept the change for years
    E. the world lost eleven minutes per year
    F. the Gregorian Calendar we still use today
    G. the Gregorian Calendar is off one day every 3000 years
    H. and some of them were quite upset about it

    dima_znohub_eng
    Reading 17-22. Test 2

    As critical for ocean life as coral reefs but less well known,
    seagrass beds around the planet are also in sharp decline,
    according to a study (17)_________, Spain and the United States,
    and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
    Sciences.
    'Seagrass beds are at least (18)_________ as tropical forests or
    coral reefs,' said coauthor James Fourqurean of Florida
    International University.
    Seagrass meadows provide important habitat and nurseries
    (19)_________, which in turn draws larger marine life to these
    areas to feed. They also help prevent coastal erosion by
    stabilizing sediments on the ocean bottom and filter out many of
    the wastes that flow into the ocean from the land.
    Yet according to the study, the rate of annual seagrass decline
    has leaped from 1 percent per year before 1940 to 7 percent per
    year today. An estimated 58 percent of all seagrass meadows
    around the world (20)_________. Since 1879, a full 29 percent, or
    19,690 square miles, of the meadows have disappeared.
    'Globally, we lose a seagrass meadow the size of a soccer field
    every thirty minute,' said co-author William Dennison of the
    University of Maryland.
    Development has been the primary driving force behind sea
    grass destruction. Forty-five percent of the world's population
    lives along the coast, and the industrial revolution led directly to
    sea grass declines in North America and Europe (21)_________ and
    outright dredging of sea grass meadows. The major areas of sea
    grass decline are now along coasts of the Pacific and Indian
    oceans.
    Global warming is expected to exacerbate sea grass decline
    (22)_________ and rising sea levels.

    dima_znohub_eng
    Reading 17-22. Test 2

    A. for large numbers of shellfish and fish


    B. conducted by researchers from Australia
    C. due to ocean warming
    D. as economically and ecologically important
    E. protected from large storm waves
    F. due to water pollution
    G. because they live in the same kind of environments
    H. are currently in a state of decline

    dima_znohub_eng
    Reading 17-22. Test 1

    A B C D E F G H

    Відеопояснення. Reading 17-22. Test 1.

    Reading 17-22. Test 2

    A B C D E F G H

    Відеопояснення. Reading 17-22. Test 2

    dima_znohub_eng

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