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Лексический тест для итогового контроля
за 1-й семестр
для студентов специальности
" Геология и разведка месторождений полезных ископаемых" с
двухгодичным сроком обучения
Составитель: Чалова О.Н.
Вариант 1 (Earthquakes)
1. Выберите подходящее по смыслу слово.
1. During an earthquake, the ground A1 ______.
2. Planet Earth is covered with a thick A2 ______.
3. The crust is cracked into more than twenty sections. These cracked sections are called A3 ______.
4. The earth's A4 ______ is in constant motion.
5. The earth's most A5 ______ belts surround the Pacific Ocean and cross Eurasia along the Alps and the
Himalayas.
6. Earthquakes A6 ______ within the crust as well as the upper mantle, but most begin within 3 miles of the
surface.
7. An earthquake results from the sudden A7 ______ of rock that has been subjected to prolonged stress.
8. Earthquakes can make buildings fall down, set off A8 ______ and do other deadly things.
9. When two lithospheric plates A9 ______ stresses are set up that cause certain rocks to fracture.
10. The Christmas weekend tsunami of 2004 was caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean measuring 9.0
on the A10 ______.
11. During seismic A11 ______, gas pipe and electricity cable cause fires and explosions.
12. A tsunami is a chain of huge A12______ caused by an earthquake.
13. When a tsunami reaches the coastline, it slows down but its height A13______.
14. There have been tsunamis as high as 30 metres above sea A14 ______.
15. The planet that we live on is A15 ______ .
16. A16 ______ is a sudden, violent shaking of the Earth’s surface.
17. A17 ______ is a mass of earth, rock, that falls down the slope of a mountain or a cliff.
18. A18 ______ is an extremely large wave in the sea caused, for example, by an earthquake.
19. A19______ is the floor of the sea.
20. Life would be impossible without oxygen on the A20 _____ of the earth.
21. A21 ______ is a line on the surface of something where it has broken but not split into separate parts.
22. When the plates rub against each other, an earthquake A22 ______.
23. Big earthquakes are really A23 ______.
24. Repeated earthquakes over thousands of years opened up the ground to form an enormous A24 ______.
25. Earthquakes cause a lot of A25 ______.
А1 1) shakes
А2 1) soil
А3 1) quakes
А4 1) soil
А5 1) quake-prone
А6 1) destruct
А7 1) movement
А8 1) landslides
А9 1) collide
А10 1) move
А11 1) earthquake
А12 1) waves
А13 1) begins
А14 1) scorpion
А15 1) Earth
А16 1) a quake
2) falls down
2) crust
2) cracks
2) crust
2) resistant
2) disappear
2) move
2) ocean
2) fix
2) Richter scale
2) activity
2) coastlines
2) develops
2) level
2) Mars
2) a rock
3) appear
3) shell
3) tectonic plates
3) shell
3) shocked
3) originate
3) moving
3) rock
3) break down
3) temperature
3) surface
3) cracks
3) grows
3) earthquake
3) Jupiter
3) a tsunami
А17 1) tectonic plate
А18 1) a tsunami
А19 1) a seabed
А20 1) soil
А21 1) a crack
А22 1) disappears
А23 1) funny
А24 1) landslide
А25 1) destruction
2) coastline
2) a storm
2) jet
2) crust
2) a shell
2) happens
2) dangerous
2) trench
2) buildings
3) a landslide
3) a crust
3) a cloud
3) surface
3) a tectonic plate
3) destroys
3) broken
3) pit
3) tectonic plates