1. The Urals are а mountain change, a mountain chain that appeared many years ago due to tectonic activity.
2. Mountains were being destroyed, and now the highest mountains are only one thousand metres high.
3. In the 18th century the Urals with their high-quality ores and rich forests (a fuel for plants) played the greatest role in the world industry.
4. The modernisation of the Ural industry began with the Magnitogorsk plant, built near the mountain Magnitnaya, rich in metallic ores.
5. The greatest plants are situated in Magnitogorsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Chelyabinsk and Novotroitsk.
6. At the beginning of the 20th century the Ural metal industry suffered a crisis because of the shortage of coal.
7. About 70 metals and minerals were first discovered in the Ural mountains.
8. Nowadays some of the deposits are exhausted, and the plants work on the ores from the new layers (Kazakhstan, Siberia).
9. Hopefully, the Urals will have new stages of development.
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences. Make use of the words given below.
(pick up, put trough, look up, call back, cut off, hold on, get trough, put on, to be over)
1.The phone’s ringing. Why don’t you...pick up the receiver?
2.Mrs. Scott isn’t available at the moment. Can you…call back later?
3.Can you…look up Mr. Brown’s number in the directory, please?
4.I’m afraid she’s with a client. Shall I…put trough you. to her secretary?
5.I’m sorry about that. I’m glad you are still there. We must have been cut off… for a moment.
6.Mr. Green never seems to be in the office. I’ve been trying to get trough… to him all the morning.
7.Could you…hold on for a moment, I’ll just find out for you.
8.Is Graham there? If so, could you…put him on., please?
9.If an American telphonist asks “Are you through?” she wants to
know if your call….is over.
