Английский язык. Стратегии понимания текста. В 2 ч. Ч. 2

УДК 811.111(075.8)
ББК 81.2Англ-923
 
А21

А вт о р ы: Е.Б. Карневская, В.М. Федосеева, З.Д. Курочкина, Н.И. Малиновская

Р е ц е н з е н т ы: кафедра иностранных языков Белорусского государственного педагогического университета им. Максима Танка; заведующий кафедрой английского языка 
Белорусского национального технического университета, кандидат филологических 
наук, доцент С.А. Хоменко

Английский язык. Стратегии понимания текста : учеб. пособие.
А21 В 2 ч. Ч. 2 / Е. Б. Карневская [и др.] ; под общ. ред. Е. Б. Карневской. – 
4-е изд., перераб. – Минск : Вышэйшая школа, 2019. – 255 с.
ISBN 978-985-06-3139-8.

Является второй частью учебного пособия, предназначенного для развития 
навыков чтения и восприятия текстов различных стилистических и жанровых видов. Охватывает темы «Работа в жизни человека», «Здоровье и медицинское обслуживание», «Спорт», «У карты мира», «Городская жизнь», «Путе шествия по 
миру», «Культурное и этическое наследие Библии». Каждая тема содержит 2–3 раздела, которые включают урок для аудиторных занятий и урок на основе внеаудиторной деятельности. Уроки содержат тексты, задания по чтению, восприятию и 
анализу текста.
Для студентов учреждений высшего образования.

УДК 811.111(075.8)
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CONTENTS

Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
7

SECTION I. WORK IN A PERSON’S LIFE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
9

UNIT I. Ambitions and Opportunities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
9

P a r t  I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
9

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Missed Opportunities (10)
Lesson B. Practice Tests. Text titles: What Are They Looking At? (15)  How 
to Research Your Family Tree (17)

P a r t  I I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
18

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Mrs. Garstin’s Hopes 
and Disappointments (20)
Lesson B. Practice Tests. Text titles: My Mother (27)  Behind Every Great Woman (29)

UNIT II. Teaching as a Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
31

P a r t  I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
31

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Why I Teach? (32)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: What Do Babies Know? (37)

P a r t  I I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
39

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: An English Language Teacher in Bath (41)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: The City College of Technology (48)

UNIT III. A Teacher Through a Child’s Eyes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
50

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Snowdrops (51)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: My Memories of a Boarding School (58)
Optional Reading  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
60
Her Life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
60
In Praise of Teachers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
64

SECTION II. HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
69

UNIT I. To Be a Doctor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
69

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: How to Be a Doctor (69)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Coping With Stress (72)

UNIT II. The Past and the Present  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
73

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: A Letter (74)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Smallpox – Epitaph for a Killer (80)

UNIT III. Threatening Millions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
81

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Aids Hysteria (82)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Back-Chat (86)

UNIT IY. Facts and Attitudes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
88

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: If Only They Could Talk (89)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Assisted Suicide (93)

SECTION III. SPORTS AND GAMES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
95

UNIT I. Good Friends or Rivals?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
95

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Where Have All the Fans Gone? (96)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Surf It (100)

UNIT II. Different Attitudes to Sport. Sport at the International Level  . . . . . . .  101

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: The Sporting Spirit (102)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Get Active (107)

UNIT III. Sport as Part of a National Culture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  109

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Americansʼ Appreciation of Sports (110)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Well Suited for Shark-fi lled Waters (115)

SECTION IV. AT THE MAP OF THE WORLD  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  118

UNIT I. What Is the Earth Coming To?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  118

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: The Population Bomb (120)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: There’s Plenty of Room Aboard Planet Earth (125)

UNIT II. Developed and Developing Countries in the Modern World  . . . . . . . .  128

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Progress in Samoa (129)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Projects Abroad (135)

UNIT III. Comparisons and Stereotypes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  138

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Traveller’s Tales (139)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Zanzibar (145)
Optional Reading  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  147
Challenges for Humanity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  147
How I Began My Shore Adventure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  148

SECTION V. CITY LIFE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  151

UNIT I. In a Big City  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  151

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Saturday Night in London (152)
Lesson B. Practice Tests. Text titles: The London Underground (157)  Shopping 
in Dublin (158)

UNIT II. Famous Names  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  159

P a r t  I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  159

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Shakespeare (160)

P a r t  I I .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  163

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Madame Tussaud’s (164)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Vermeer: A Young Woman Standing 
at a Virginal (168)

UNIT III. Theatre  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  170

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Drama in Cambridge (171)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: The Craft of Designing Costume (176)

SECTION VI. GOING PLACES AND SEEING THE WORLD  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  177

UNIT I. On a Long Railway Journey  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  177

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: The Trans-Siberian Express (179)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Slow Train to China (189)

UNIT II. What a Wonderful World  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  190

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Traveler (191)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: An Extract from a Novel (196)  The Art 
of Travel (196)  Should I Stay or Should I Go? (197)

UNIT III. It’s a Delightful Experience  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  198

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Advertising a Voyage to the Indonesian 
Islands (199)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: Make Up Your Mind (205)

SECTION VII. THE CULTURAL AND ETHICAL HERITAGE 
OF THE BIBLE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  208

UNIT I. Creation of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  208

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text title: Six Days of Creation (209)
Lesson B. Practice Test. Text title: History Set in Stone (216)

UNIT II. The Temptation and Fall of Man  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  217

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text titles: Life in God’s Garden (218) The Fall 
of Man (219)
Lesson B. Practice Test (227)

UNIT III. The Ethics of a Christian Marriage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  230

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text titles: The Sacrament of Martimony (231)
Lesson B. Practice Test (237)

UNIT IV. Spiritual Standards of Christianity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  240

Lesson A. Intensive Reading. Text titles: Cristian Virtues (241) Sins and Struggle 
With Them (243)
Lesson B. Practice Tests (251)

Literature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  254

INTRODUCTION

This book is designed for Second-Year University 
and College students majoring in English (from Upper Intermediate to Advanced levels). It is aimed at enhancing the students’ ability to understand authentic English 
texts of different stylistic varieties and genres.
Reading in this book, as well as in Book 1, is treated 
as a self-contained course with its own specifi c requirements to the overall structure and composition. At the 
same time Reading Comprehension is integrated into 
the general syllabus of English speech practice primarily through the choice of reading materials. These are 
centered around the following broad areas, or topics: 
Work in a Person’s Life, Health and Medical Care, 
Sports and Games, At the Map of the World, City Life, 
Going Places and Seeing the World, The Cultural and 
Ethical Heritage of the Bible. 
In accordance with the number of topics the book 
contains 7 Sections consisting of 2–4 units each. The 
units in their turn are further subdivided into 2 lessons: 
A and B.
Lessons A presuppose the students’ out-of-class 
preparation for an in-class detailed analysis of the essential elements of the text contents and structure. Special emphasis is laid on features such as linking, cohesion, expressiveness and modal-stylistic variation. The 
lessons include three main stages: Reading and Comprehension Tasks; Text Features and Language Focus; 
Follow-Up or Discussion, each stage providing a set of 
vocabulary exercises and communicative activities. 
Vocabulary development and reinforcement is provided in two steps. Apart from pre-reading word lists 
intended as an aid for comprehension there are vocabulary tasks in Language Focus including multiple choice 
and matching exercises, word-meaning defi nition and 
word-building practice as well as Russian-English 
translation, serving as a bridge to implementing new vocabulary.

The purpose of the Discussion and Follow-Up stage 
is to stimulate the students’ creative speaking and writing 
skills by providing them with the background information and relevant issues and ideas encouraging communicative activity. 
Lessons B focus on the skills and strategies of ‘quick’ 
reading: synthesizing, summing up and comparing information, extracting main ideas, identifying topic (key) 
sentences, completing paragraphs, etc.

SECTION I
WORK IN A PERSON’S LIFE

UNIT I.
UNIT I. Ambitions and Opportunities

A man can succeed at almost anything for which 
he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

PART I

LESSON A. INTENSIVE READING

I. Reading and Comprehension Tasks

1. The following words are essential for understanding and discussing the main 
ideas of the text. Learn the meaning and pronunciation of these words.

Permanent Under-Secretary: senior civil servant responsible for advising the elected Minister and effectively in charge of the department.
The crisis in 1973: the oil crisis which caused the price of oil to rise 
very quickly and was responsible for a fall in industrial production.
Palm Springs: a place in California famous for the wealth of the inhabitants.

Nouns
gambler    a person who risks money or possessions on cards, 
horse races, etc
misery    great suffering or discomfort caused by being very 
poor or sick

Verbs
anticipate    think about something that is going to happen 
and be ready for it
invest   give money to business companies to get profi t
miss    fail to use an opportunity to do smth
part    end a relationship with someone
regard    think about smth in a particular way
succeed smb come next after smb to take their place in a position

Adjectives
civil    connected with the ordinary people or things in a country 
rather than the military ones
crazy    not sensible
reasonable    fair and sensible

Adverbs
inevitably    unavoidably
sharply    quickly and suddenly

2. Practise the pronunciation of the following proper, geographical and official 
names.

Paulette 
Marilyn 
James Graham  
Alaska  
Los Angeles   
Palm Springs  
Government Service  
Martian Invaders  
Social Security  
Merchant Navy  

3. Read the text and do the tasks that follow.

Missed Opportunities
Missed Opportunities
I 
t was about six o’clock on a winter afternoon. Everyone else who had attended James Graham’s ‘goodbye party’ 
had gone home. I had intended to go home 
myself but James insisted on my staying. 
He looked rather sad and lonely, and I 
knew how he felt because I had been in the 
same position two years earlier when he 
had succeeded me as Permanent Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security. I imagined he was looking forward to his retirement because he 
would have more time to spend in his garden but was wondering if he 
would fi nd enough to do.
“It’s not easy, after a lifetime of service”, I said to cheer him up, “but at 
least you’ve got a good pension.”