Exercises

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 380.

India

GENERAL TEXTS

GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. PHYSICAL FEATURES

India is situated in the south of Asia between the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean. It occupies the Peninsula of Hindustan and the adjoining continental part of Asia. The Peninsula of Hindustan is washed by the Indian Ocean in the south, by the Arabian Sea in the west and by the Bay of Bengal in the east. The Indian Ocean and its seas are of great importance for India's communications with other countries.

India is a vast country; its territory could cover the greater part of Western Europe.

India's neighbours are the Chinese People's Republic and Ne­pal in the north, Pakistan in the north-west and Bangladesh and Myanmar in the north-east. Near the southern extremity of the Pe­ninsula of Hindustan lies Ceylon. A narrow strip of highland Afghan territory separates India from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in the extreme north.

India lies in the zone of tropical and subtropical monsoon climate. A cold winter is not to be met with anywhere in India, except in high mountain regions. The winter is warm. The mean temperature of summer months ranges from 26° С to 32° С and that of winter months from 16° С to 25° С. The Indian Ocean gives forth an enormous amount of evaporation which is brought as rainfall to the interior of India by the summer monsoon, blo­wing from the south-west to the north-east. Three areas are clearly distinguished on the territory of India: the Himalayas, the lowlands of the Indus and the Ganges (the Hindustan Plain) and the Peninsula of Hindustan.

The powerful mountain belt of the Himalayas separates India from Central Asia. These are folded mountains of the Alpi­ne type. They protect India from cold northern winds and check the progress of the rainfall brought by the summer monsoon.

I.Be careful to pronounce the following correctly:

A. situate, situation, separate, separation, evapora­te, evaporation, communicate, communication, south, southern, extreme, extremity, monsoon, interior, exterior, progress (n), progress (v), area.

B. Bengal, Himalayas, Hindustan, Nepal, Pakistan, Ceylon, Afghan, Ganges, Indus, Alpine, Arabian.

II. Denote the following notions by a single verb:

to touch by the waters; to see or recognize the difference between; to hold back.