Ex. 3. Mark the sentences in the text that are equivalent to Russian ones:
- There is hardly another country in the world with such a diverse landscape and vegetation.
- The vast territory of the country covers various climatic zones from Arctic in the north to subtropical in the south.
- Legislative power is exercised by the Duma.
- Today, the country has many opportunities to become one of the leading countries in the world.
(You would need to compare these sentences with the Russian equivalents to mark the correct ones.)
Ex. 4. Complete the sentences using the options given:
The country is washed by 12 seas of oceans:
b) the Pacific, the Arctic and the Indian.The main Siberian rivers - the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena - flow
b) from the south to the north.Forests are concentrated in
a) the European north of the country, in Siberia and in the Far East.