A Long Way to Travel for Your Dinner. Read the text and determine whether the statements are True or False. Text: This is an Arctic tern. It is not a very big bird. It is only about six inches (16 centimeters) from its bright red beak to its tail. Soon this small bird will begin a wonderful journey. It will fly from one end of the Earth to the other — a journey of about 12,000 miles (18,000 kilometers). The tern spends the summer in the Arctic, but it can’t spend the winter there. It is too cold and there is no food. If the tern stays in the Arctic, it will die. In autumn the Arctic tern will leave the North Pole and fly south across the equator to the South Pole. When spring comes again in the northern hemisphere, the tern will come back to the Arctic. How do these small birds make this wonderful journey? We don’t know the answer. Perhaps they use the sun, the moon and the stars as a compass. If it is cloudy or foggy, the birds will not migrate. In its life, an Arctic tern travels as far as to the moon and back. That’s a long way to travel for your dinner! 1. An Arctic tern is a very big bird. 2. The bird travels round the world. 3. The bird can’t spend the winter in Arctic. 4. There is nothing to eat in Arctic in the winter. 5. The tern will return to Arctic, when the spring ends. 6. The birds will migrate only when it is foggy or cloudy.

Перевод задания: «Долгий путь ради еды». Прочитай текст и определи, соответствуют ли утверждения тексту (True) или не соответствуют (False).

1. False. The text says that the Arctic tern is not a very big bird. (Неверно. В тексте сказано, что полярная крачка — небольшая птица.)
2. True. The bird flies from one end of the Earth to the other, from the Arctic to the South Pole and back. (Верно. Птица летит с одного конца Земли на другой — от Арктики к Южному полюсу и обратно.)
3. True. The text says that the tern can’t spend the winter in the Arctic because it is too cold. (Верно. В тексте сказано, что крачка не может проводить зиму в Арктике, потому что там слишком холодно.)
4. True. The text says that there is no food in the Arctic in winter. (Верно. В тексте сказано, что зимой в Арктике нет еды.)
5. False. The tern returns when spring comes, not when spring ends. (Неверно. Крачка возвращается, когда наступает весна, а не когда она заканчивается.)
6. False. If it is cloudy or foggy, the birds will not migrate. (Неверно. Если пасмурно или туманно, птицы не мигрируют.)

Ответ: 1 — False; 2 — True; 3 — True; 4 — True; 5 — False; 6 — False.