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А) The SOI is strongly negative when weak Pacific winds bring less moisture than usual to Australia.

В) Prolonged negative phases are related to El Niño episodes in the South Pacific, and most of Australia's major droughts have been related to these episodes.

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А) The Maori language is taught at a number of schools.

В) The only other non-English language spoken by any significant number of people is Samoan.

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А) New Zealand is predominantly an English-speaking country, though both English and Maori are official languages.

В) Virtually all Maori speak English, and about one-third of them also speak Maori.

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А) Heat waves are common, and, though the highest amounts of solar radiation arereceived in northern South Australia, the highest temperatures and longest heat waves are recorded in the northwest of Western Australia.

В) For example, Marble Bar has recorded a maximum temperature of 100 °F or more on 162 consecutive days.

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А) Night frosts are common in winter throughout southern Australia and in the interior.

В) Because of its relatively low latitudinal position, Australia comes under the influence of the southeast trade winds in the north and the westerlies in the south.

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А) Northern Australia is affected by a northerly monsoon, partly because of the latitude and the seasonal migration of planetary wind zones and partly because of the summer heating of the continental interior that draws in surface winds.

В) The monsoon brings summer (December–February) rains to the northern coastal area that penetrate inland for variable distances.

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А) Parts of the southern Mount Lofty Range, in South Australia, average more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rainfall per year, but Adelaide, to the west, averages only about 20 inches (500 mm), while the Murray plains, in the rain shadows of the range, receive 15 inches (380 mm) or less rainfall annually.

В) In the great mass of the interior of Australia, annual rainfall averages less than 20 inches (500 mm), and over vast areas the total is less than 10 inches (250 mm); the Lake Eyre region averages less than half that amount.

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А) Rainfall in these areas is unreliable and capricious, with long droughts broken by damaging rains and floods.

В) Over Australia as a whole, rainfall is indeed extremely variable.

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А) These areas are also affected by tropical cyclones and receive the heaviest rains of any part of Australia.

В) Within this coastal fringe, the northern Queensland area around Tully, south of Cairns, is the wettest, with an annual average of nearly 160 inches (4,050 mm).

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) These summer rains are all the more important because most of northern Australia is inthe sheltered rain shadow of the Eastern Uplands, which block the rain-bearing southeast trades in winter.

В) The trades, forced to rise by the uplands, bring heavy rains to the Pacific coasts of Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) New Zealand is nominally Christian, about half of the population adhering to the Anglican, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Methodist denominations; of these, Anglicans make up the largest religious group in New Zealand.

В) Other Protestant sects, the Eastern Orthodox churches, Jewish congregations, and Maori adaptations of Christianity (the Ratana and Ringatu churches) account for nearly all of the rest, although nearly one-fourth of the population does not claim any religious affiliation.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) Prolonged positive SOI phases (during La Niña) normally bring above-average rainfall and floods to eastern and northern Australia.

В) In each case, however, the correlations are not exact.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) Southern Australia receives winter rains from depressions associated with the west-wind zone.

В) Again, there are local topographic controls, with uplands receiving higher amounts than the adjacent plains.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) The resulting large-scale swing in air pressure is known as the Southern Oscillation.

В) Monitoring the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is now considered essential to seasonal weather forecasting.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А) There is no established (official) religion, but Anglican cathedrals are generally used for state occasions.

В) Because New Zealand is small and the population is relativelyhomogeneous, there are no sharply differentiated social or political regions.

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А) Temperatures commonly soar above the 100 °F (38 °C) mark in the interior, but because there rarely is any cloud cover, radiation loss is considerable at night, and daily temperature ranges are wide.

В) High temperatures dominate the Australian summers in all but Tasmania.

Являются ли предложения сложными?

А)Only in the far north, around Darwin, in the southwest of Western Australia, in southern South Australia and Victoria, in Tasmania, and in eastern New South Wales is the recorded annual precipitation fairly consistent, in any given year totaling no more than 10 percent above or below the long-term average in specific years.

В) Much of Australia's marked climatic variability has been ascribed to the changeability in differential air pressures over the central Pacific and the Indonesian archipelago, primarily caused by contrasts in sea and ocean temperatures.

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В предложении Australia, the continent and the country, may have been quite isolated at the beginning of the 20th century, but it entered the 21st century a culturally diverse land brimming with confidence, an attitude encouraged by the worldwide fascination with the land “Down Under” and demonstrated when Sydney hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

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В предложении The federal authorities also govern the external territories of Norfolk Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Ashmore and Cartier islands, the Coral Sea Islands, and Heard and McDonald islands and claim the Australian Antarctic Territory, an area larger than Australia itself. выделенное слово употреблено в значении:

В предложении The only extensive uplands occur near the east coast, and even they are not, by world standards, very high. выделенное слово употреблено в значении: