PART 3. TEXTS FOR COMPREHENSION

Chicago's restaurants

Chicago is known worldwide for its wonderful restaurants. But you haven't really-dined there until you've enjoyed a fine meal in a place that can claim a dining room with a good view. From a skyscraper bird's-eye view of the city to an alfresco table along the Chicago River, some of the leading restaurants can offer the visitor a dinner that, will be picture perfect.

The 95th, located high atop the John Hancock Center, is an elegant affair of huge chrystal chandeliers; colorful draperies and white-clothed tables topped with fresh flowers and flickering candles. But the dining room's greatest design asset is the floor-to-ceiling windows that provide a frame for the spectacular view. From 95 floors up, Chicago becomes a beautiful panorama of breathtaking architecture, blue sailboat-riddled water and sparkling city night lights. If you time your dinner just right, you can witness the dramatic changing face of the city from daytime into evening.

Questions for discussion:

1. What are Chicago's restaurants known for?

a) they are located outside the city centre not to be overcrowded;

b) the food is cheap and good;

c) they command a good view;

d) they are mostly located on sailboats.

2. Your impression of a good restaurant is not complete unless:

a) you've dined in a room with a good view;

b) you've seen perfect pictures on the walls of a dining room;

c) you've been sitting in a restaurant from daytime till night;

d) you've got a table with candles and flowers.

3. What view can you not get from the 95th?

a) sailboat-riddled water of the Chicago River;

b) the changing face of the evening city;

c) faces of the passers by;

d) sparkling night lights.

4. What is not true about the 95th?

a) there are white-clothed tables;

b) there are fresh flowers on the tables;

c) there are windows on the ceiling;

d) there are chrystal chandeliers and flickering candles.

Easter Island

Easter Island, 3000 kilometers from the coast of Chilie, is about as big as Jersey. When the first European navigator, a Dutchman, landed there in 1722, he thought it was inhabited by giants. Towering over this little piece of volcanic land in Polynesia 593 enormous statues met his eye. Some of them are more than 20 meters high and weigh 50 tons. Examination of these monuments reveals, it is thought, three levels of civilization, the most advanced being the oldest. As in Egypt, the enormous blocks of tuff-stone, basalt and lava are adjusted with great skill. The island, however, is hilly and a few trees could not have provided enough rollers.

In the 19^th century, the inhabitants of Easter Island numbered 200 - three times less than the number of their statues, and there can never have been more than 3 or 4 thousand inhabitants on this island, where the land is fertile, but there are no animals.

The first Europeans to visit Easter Island discovered that the inhabitants included a race of white men with beards. There are references in legends to a Master Race of Teachers, of great antiquity.

Questions for discussion:

1. Where is Easter Island situated?

a) in Chilie;

c) in Polynesia;

b) in Jersey;

d) in Egypt.

2. Which description of the island is not true?

a) it is rather small;

b) the land is hilly and fertile;

c) there are almost no trees there;

d) there are many animals in hills.

3. What information about the statues is correct?

a) the number of the statues is 2 times greater than that of the population of the island in the 19th century;

b) the statues are made of enormous blocks of marble and lava;

c) according to legends, the gigantic statues are connected with a
race of white men fallen from the skies;

d) according to the examination of the statues, the oldest level of
civilization was the most primitive:

4. What is true about the islanders?

a) the island is inhabited by giants;

b) they have fallen from the skies;

c) the population is very numerous;

d) their civilization is quite old.

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