Задания к тексту
1. Answer the following questions and give examples.
1. Does the water become streams and rivers that run down to the ocean.
2. Can the moving or falling water be used to do work?
3. Does moving water have kinetic energy?
4. Which kind of energy can be used to make electricity from water?
5. How was moving water used for hundreds of years?
6. What was the Domesday Book written about?
2. Make the following statements true according to the text.
a) The multi– volume books are very small.
b) The Domesday Book listed 8 000 waterwheel– driven mills in England south of the Trent River.
c) That was about one mill for each 4 people.
d) Today, moving water can not also be used to make electricity.
e) Hydro means wind.
f) Hydro– electric means making electricity from solar power.
g) Hydroelectric power uses the potential energy of moving water to make electricity.
h) Dams can be built to stop the flow of a river.
i) Water behind a dam often forms a reservoir.
j) Dams are also built across larger rivers and reservoir is made.
k) Hydro is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States.
3. Find key words and phrases which best express the general meaning of each paragraph.