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А) From the northern tip of Scotland to the southern coast of England, it is about 600 miles (1,000 km).

В) The capital, London, is situated on the tidal River Thames in southeastern England.

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А) In the west these lowlands have provided a haven for traditional Welsh culture, but the deeply penetrating eastern valleys have channeled English culture into the highland.

В) A more extensive lowland—physically and structurally an extension of the English lowlands—borders the Bristol Channel in the southeast.

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А) Many topographic features derive from glacial processes, and some of the most striking scenery stems largely from former volcanism.

В) The mountain areas above 2,000 feet (610 metres ) are most extensive in North Wales.

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А) Northern Ireland contains a westward extension of the rock structures of Scotland.

В) These common rock structures are breached by the narrow North Channel.

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А) The archipelago formed by Great Britain and the numerous smaller islands is as irregular in shape as it is diverse in geology and landscape.

В) This diversity stems largely from the nature and disposition of the underlying rocks, which are westward extensions of European structures, with the shallow waters of the Strait of Dover and the North Sea concealing former land links.

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А) The Cambrian Mountains, which form the core of Wales, are clearly defined by the sea except on the eastern side, where a sharp break of slope often marks the transition to the English lowlands.

В) Cycles of erosion have repeatedly worn down the ancient and austere surfaces.

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А) The irregularities of the 600-mile (970-km) Welsh coast show differing adjustments to the pounding attack of the sea.

В) The United Kingdom comprises four geographic and historical parts—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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А) The United Kingdom contains most of the area and population of the British Isles—the geographic term for the group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and many smaller islands.

В) Together England, Wales, and Scotland constitute Great Britain, the larger of the two principal islands, while Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland constitute the second largest island, Ireland.

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А) The valleys, often containing long, narrow lakes, have been widened to a U shape by glacial action, which has also etched corries from the mountainsides and deposited the debris in moraines.

В) Glacial action also created a number of “hanging valleys” by truncating former tributary valleys.

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А) The volcanic belt is largely an irregular upland traversed by deep, narrow valleys, and it includes England's highest point, Scafell Pike, with an elevation of 3,210 feet (978 metres), and Helvellyn, at 3,116 feet (950 metres).

В) Nine rivers flowing out in all directions from the centre of this uplifted dome form a classic radial drainage pattern.

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А) There are three such surfaces: a high plateau of 1,700 to 1,800 feet (520 to 550 metres); a middle peneplain, or worn-down surface, of 1,200 to 1,600 feet (370 to 490 metres); and a low peneplain of 700 to 1,100 feet (210 to 340 metres).

В) These smooth, rounded, grass-covered moorlands present a remarkably even skyline.

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А) These include Snowdonia—named for Snowdon(Yr Wyddfa), the highest point in Wales, with anelevation of 3,560 feet (1,085 metres)—and its southeastern extensions, Cader Idris and Berwyn.

В) With the exception of Plynlimon and the Radnor Forest, central Wales lacks similar high areas, but the monadnocks of South Wales—notably the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons—stand out in solitary splendour above the upland surfaces.

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А) To the south of England and between the United Kingdom and France is the English Channel.

В) The North Sea lies to the east.

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А) To the west of Wales and northern England and to the southeast of Northern Ireland, the Irish Sea separates Great Britain from Ireland, while southwestern England, the northwestern coast of Northern Ireland, and western Scotland face the Atlantic Ocean.

В) At its widest the United Kingdom is 300 miles (500 km) across.

В предложении: On the coast the waters of the English Channel have undermined and eroded the upfold to produce a dazzling succession of chalk cliffs facing the European mainland, 21 miles (34 km) distant at the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel.. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The Cumbrian Mountains, which include the famous Lake District celebrated in poetry by William Wordsworth and the other Lake poets, constitute an isolated, compact mountain group to the west of the northern Pennines. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Between these two synclinal areas rises the anticlinal, or structurally upwarped, dome of the Weald of Kent and Sussex. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Downfolds, subsequently filled in by geologically recent sands and clays, now floor the London and Hampshire basins. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: East of the Fens the scarp is very low, barely attaining 150 feet (45 metres), but it then rises gradually to the 807-foot (246-metre) Ivinghoe Beacon in the attractive Chiltern Hills. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Greater expanses of level upland, formed from thick beds of lava and the ash thrown out by ancient volcanoes, lie to the south. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: It begins in the north with the open rolling country known as the Yorkshire Wolds, where elevations of 750 feet (230 metres) occur. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: It is breached by the River Humber and then continues in the Lincolnshire Wolds. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Many deep gorges, separated by narrow ridges and sharp peaks, characterize the northern Cumbrian Mountains, which consist of tough slate rock. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Several wind gaps, or former river courses, interrupt the scarp, and the River Thames actually cuts through it in the Goring Gap. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Southward the narrow coastal plain bordering the Lake District broadens into the flat, glacial-drift-covered Lancashire and Cheshire plains, with their slow-flowing rivers. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The arch of this vast geologic upfold has long since been eroded away, and the bounding chalk escarpments of the North and South Downs aretherefore inward-facing and enclose a concentric series of exposed clay vales and sandstone ridges. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The chalk outcrop continues into Dorset, but in the south the chalk has been folded along west-to-east lines. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The chalk scarp is a more conspicuous and continuous feature than the sandstone and limestone outcrops farther west. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The eastern horizon of much of the Midland plain is the scarp face of the Cotswolds, part of the discontinuous outcrop of limestones and sandstones that arcs from the Dorset coast in southern England as far as the Cleveland Hills on the north coast of Yorkshire. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The flat, often reclaimed landscapes of the once-marshy Fens are also underlain by these clays, and the next scarp, the western-facing chalk outcrop (cuesta), undergoes several marked directional changes in the vicinity of the Wash, a shallow arm of the North Sea. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The former, an asymmetrical synclinal (or structurally downwarped) lowland rimmed by chalk, is occupied mainly by gravel terraces and valley-side benches and has relatively little floodplain; the latter is similarly cradled by a girdle of chalk, but the southern rim, or monocline, has been cut by the sea in two places to form the scenic Isle of Wight. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The lowland continues southward along the flat landscapes bordering the lower River Severn, becomes constricted by the complex Bristol-Mendip upland, and opens out once more into the extensive and flat plain of Somerset. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The main valleys contain rivers, while the other valleys remain dry. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The more massive limestones and sandstones give rise to noble 1,000-foot (300-metre) escarpments, yet the dip slope is frequently of such a low angle that the countryside resembles a dissected plateau, passing gradually on to the clay vales of Oxford, White Horse, Lincoln, and Pickering. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The younger rocks of the Midlands terminate at the edge of the Cambrian Mountains to the west. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: The climate of the United Kingdom derives from its setting within atmospheric circulation patterns and from the position of its landforms in relation to the sea. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: West of the North York Moors lies the wide Vale of York, which merges with the east Midland plain to the south. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении: Where the dip slope of the chalk is almost horizontal, as in the open Salisbury Plain, the landscape forms a large dissected plateau with an elevation of 350 to 500 feet (110 to 150 metres). выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении:: East of the Pennine ridge the lowlands are continuous, except for the limestone plateau north of the River Tees and, to the south, the North York Moors, with large exposed tracts that have elevations of more than 1,400 feet (430 metres). выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: The South West derives much of its renowned physical attraction from its peninsular nature; with both dramatic headlands and magnificent drowned estuaries created by sea-level changes, the coastline is unsurpassed for its diversity.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: The South West—England's largest peninsula—has six conspicuous uplands: Exmoor, where Dunkery Beacon reaches an elevation of 1,704 feet (519 metres ); the wild, granite uplands of Dartmoor, which reach 2,038 feet (621 metres ) at High Willhays; Bodmin Moor; Hensbarrow; Carn Brea; and the Penwithupland that forms the spectacular extremity of Land's End.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: A network of deep, narrow valleys alternates with flat-topped, steplike areas rising inland.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: At lower levels the larger dales are more richly wooded, and the trees stand out against a background of rugged cliffs of white-gray rocks.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Despite the variation in elevation, the landscape in the South West, like that of so many other parts of the United Kingdom, has a quite marked uniformity of summit heights, with a high series occurring between 1,000 and 1,400 feet (300 and 430 metres), a middle group between 700 and 1,000 feet (210 and 300 metres), and coastal plateaus ranging between 200 and 400 feet (60 and 120 metres).

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Gauged by the 700-foot (210-metre) contour line, the lowland zone starts around the Solway Firth in the northwest, with a strip of low-lying ground extending up the fault-directed Vale of Eden (the valley of the River Eden).

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Granite reappears above the sea inthe Isles of Scilly, 28 miles (45 km) farther southwest.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In Northern Ireland, structural extensions of the Scottish Highlands reappear in the generally rugged mountain scenery and in the peat-covered summits of the Sperrin Mountains, which reach an elevation of 2,241 feet (683 metres ).

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: In the central region of Northern Ireland that corresponds to Scotland's Midland Valley, an outpouring of basaltic lavas has formed a huge plateau, much of which is occupied by the shallow Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Southward the narrow coastal plain bordering the Lake District broadens into the flat, glacial-drift-covered Lancashire and Cheshire plains, with their slow-flowing rivers.

Укажите синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: The dales' craggy sides are formed of millstone grit,and beneath them flow streams stepped by waterfalls.