IV. Определите без словаря значение следующих словосочетаний:

high level of living; land cadastre; agro-industrial association; Ministry of Agriculture; department of land uses; modern technology; soil scientists

V. Переведите предложения на русский язык. Объясните, почему глагол-сказуемое употреблен в форме продолженного времени:

1. The need for land is constantly increasing throughout the world. 2. He was not preparing for his examinations during those two weeks, he was ill. 3. The records are being modernized by means of remote sensing and modern technol­ogy. 4. We shall be planning our work when you return from your business trip. 5. The students were making their calculations by means of computers when their tutor came in. 6. He was being asked by the teacher while the rest of the students discussed their plans for the holiday. 7. I am not going to stop my work now. You may go alone or with Mike. 8. We were discussing cadastral problems from 6 till 8 in the evening.

VI. Закончите следующие предложения:

1. The Department of Land Uses maintains basic land-title records... . 2. Cadastral surveys are very important for... . 3. Our state is the owner of... . 4. Land resources are used to help to provide... . 5. There are two sets of reasons why the need for land cadastre is constantly... .

VII. Дайте русские эквиваленты следующих слов и словосочетаний:

land use practice; level of living; cadastral survey; land conservation; land cadastre; land-title system; land inventory; soil classification

VIII.Запишите формы прошедшего и будущего продолженного времени от данных ниже глаголов. Употребите эти глаголы в вопроситель­ных предложениях. Вопросы и ответы на них запишите в тетрадь:

to increase, to plan, to consult, to meet, to demand, to make, to give, to develop

IX. Вставьте подходящие по смыслу слова. Переведите предложе­ния на русский язык:

1.We have sufficient land now in use to provide ... space, food, ... and other land products. 2.. There are two sets of reasons why need for land cadastre has ... in recent time. 3.. We modernize land-title records by means of ... and modern technology. 4. We need both agricultural and ... land. 5. We shall be planning the land needs for ... purposes. 6. Farmland covers only ... per cent of the total territory. 7. We are con­stantly in need of ... land.

X. Переведите с русского языка на английский:

1. Роль земельных ресурсов в различных отраслях производства неодинакова. 2. Важнейшим свойством земли, используемой в сельском хозяйстве, является плодородие. 3. Назовите составные части государственного земельного кадастра. 4. Государственный земельный кадастр включает регистрацию или учет земель, бонитировку почв и эконо­мическую оценку.

XI. Запишите словами следующие количественные числительные, дроби и хронологические даты:

12; 40; 88; 100; 107; 2,506; 8,000; 6,432; 505; 8,001

2/3; 4/6; 3/8; 4/3; 1/7; 1/4; 1/18; 7.85; 0.9; 3.8

1242, 1799, 1900, 1905, 1917, 1941, 1945, 1977, 1980, 1983

LESSON 6. ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF LAND

I.Выучите новую лексику урока:

evaluation n оценка embrace v включать, заключать

influence v влиять, оказывать в себе

влияние index n (pi indices) показатель

input п. вложение (капитала); approach n подход

v вкладывать (средства) valid а действительный,

as regards что касается имеющий силу

property n свойство

II.Прочтите и переведите текст:

Text. Soil Assessment and Land Evaluation.

Land use planning calls for a more broad understanding of numerous factors that influence land uses. The planners have to consider and plan the economic returns. They must know all the factors that influence the proper, sound and wise land uses. They are to understand the response of land as the main factor of farm production to varying input com­binations of capital and labour.

The great differences which exist in land productivity result in incomes. Through an objective comparative and economic assessment of land resources land use planners reveal the differences between land parcels.

Land economic evaluation serves as a basis for application of modern science and technology in farming.

Soil assessment, land quality and productivity evaluation, economic evaluation of land and registration of land uses are the main concepts of land cadastre.

The comparative evaluation of soil, for example, as re­gards their natural productivity is known as soil assessment. The rating of the natural soil properties influencing yields is the aim of soil assessment. The land use planners consider the factors which determine both the potential and actual fertility. Land productivity evaluation embraces various factors such as soil, climate, geographic location, etc. These factors affect strongly the final economic results.

Soil assessment is the first stage in evaluating land. The next stage is land productivity evaluation which is, in fact, a correction of soil assessment by coefficients for climate, humidity, etc. The economic evaluation of land comes as a final, concluding stage of the complete evaluation of land as a means of production.

Soil assessment and land productivity evaluation are both characterized by a comparatively great stability as compared to the economic evaluation of land. Due to the fact that it is based on economic indices the economic land evaluation can vary from year to year to a considerable extent. The economic land evaluation is subject to considerable fluctua­tion.

The use of calculated yields of crops is rather common for all the methods of land evaluation. A common feature of the approach to land evaluation is the combining of 1 and evaluation and land supply. A general concept, known as "land cadastre" gives expression to that relation which is, in fact, both qua­litative and quantitative assessment of land used in agricul­ture.

Soil assessment and land productivity evaluation are actually valid only at a definite level of technology of crops. The change of crop rotation system and of fertilizer appli­cation, etc., results in a respective change in the evaluation values of soils and ecologic conditions. Therefore it is necessa­ry to repeat economic evaluation of land or correct the existing one by suitable methods.