Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык текст. HOLLAND – THE COUNTRY OF TULIPS AND WOODEN SHOES What can you see in Holland? Bicycles, for example. Cycling in Holland is not only a national pastime. It is a necessity for the people to travel to their work. Holland is also famous for its cheeses, especially the cheeses which are like round red cannon-balls. And the wooden shoes, of course… These wooden shoes are known as klompen. Go to a house where you see a pair of them hanging from a signboard and ask the klompen-maker to let you see how they are made. First he takes a small log and hacks it into shape; then with a sharp gouge he starts to make a hole in it. He makes no measurements – just trusts his eye. In two hours the shoes are finished. You have a pair of nice klompen. You will see houses with thatched roofs, and people in national costumes. Men wear black trousers, and women wear white lace caps. Those people, who know this Dutch dress, can tell by a woman’s clothes where she lives, and if she is married or not. There are a lot of flowers in Holland. It is the country where tulips are grown. Holland has more tulips than any other country, and Dutch tulips are the finest in the world. This beautiful flower was found during the crusades, nearly a thousand years ago, in Asia Minor. It was given by the crusaders to the monasteries in Turkey. Then the tulip was brought to the west through south and south-eastern Europe. At last it took root in Germany. In the 16th century a Dutchman sent some of the tulip bulbs from Turkey to his home. And now you can see fields and fields of tulips in Holland in the tulip season. Everywhere in the country you can see the famous windmills of Holland. Most of them are used to pump water from one canal to another. People of Holland say, jokingly, that the windmills are there specially to make a proper Dutch landscape! But the time of windmills is coming to an end. In the 17th century there were seven thousand windmills in Holland. Now there are only about one thousand.