Fill in: reflect, shelf, draw, race, flood, scenery in the correct form. (Вставьте слова в нужной форме.)
1 After the storm, there was ........................ in many areas of the city.
2 In 1953, climbers from several countries were ........................ to be the first to reach the top of Mt Everest.
3 The ........................ on the way up the glacier was amazing.
4 One of the things that ........................ people to mountain trekking is the chance to be so close to nature.
5 Ouch! The sunlight is ........................ off the ice and hurting my eyes.
6 Ice ........................ are shrinking at an alarming rate due to the increase in the Earth's temperature.
- After the storm there was … — неисчисляемое существительное: flooding [ˈflʌdɪŋ] (наводнение, затопление).
- were … to be the first — Past Continuous: were racing (соревновались, спешили).
- The … was amazing — существительное: scenery [ˈsiːnəri] (пейзаж).
- One of the things that … people — that заменяет существительное things во мн. числе, поэтому глагол без -s: draw (притягивают) people to mountain trekking.
- The sunlight is … off — Present Continuous: is reflecting (отражается).
- Ice … are shrinking — мн. ч. от shelf: shelves (ледяные шельфы).
