UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREȘTI

Facultatea de Geografie
Specializare: Geografie; Grupa 101
Student: Chioseaua Andrei-Daniel

UNIT 4 - GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK

A. READING COMPREHENSION
1.
a) After visiting the Grand Canyon,Roosevelt recognized it’s mastery and he said that
we should take care of it,over the years.
b) Many people shared Roosevelt view of the canyon because the visitor at the brink of
the mighty abyss feels himself humbled, cleansed of self-interes.
c) The awesome Grand Canyon has forever been regarded in this manner, and by
everyone, not solely because it staggers the senses, but as a moody, crumbling
composite of rock that could hardly be adapted to ‘practical’ purposes.
d) The visitor at the brink of the mighty abyss feels himself humbled, cleansed of self-
interes.
e) John Burroughs called it „he world’s most wonderful spectacle, ever changing, alive
with a million moods”
f) Because of expansion the park’s area increased from 783,561 acres to 1,218,375.
g) Measured from the North Rim developed area, which is 1,200 feet higher than Grand
Canyon Village on the South Rim, it is 5,800 feet deep - substantially more than 1
mile straight down.
h) The North Rim extends into the Canadian zone of climate and plant life and, at 9,000
feet, into the subarctic Hudsonian zone.
i) -
j) In the Grand Canyon there are two types of tassel-eared squirrel: the black-bodied
Kaibab squirrel and Abert squirrel.
k) The Kaibab squirrel lives in the heavily forested North Rim and the Abert squirrel is a
South Rim dweller. They are different because of their colours.

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B. VOCABULARY STUDY
3.
1. To mar – e
2. To stagger – j
3. To crumble – i
4. Composite – f
5. To harness – g
6. Toll – b
7. Rim – d
8. To dam – k
9. To heed – m
10. Plea – h
11. Cleanse – n
12. Acreage – c
13. Spruce – o
14. Dweller – a
15. Tassel – l

SYNONYMY
4.
1) spectacle
2) exceptional, awesome
3) solely
4) proposal
5) mighty
6) mood
7) extending

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5.
Improve – decrease, reduce
Upstream – downstream
Unimproved – improved
Available – unavailable, limited
Developed – undeveloped

GRAMMAR OVERVIEW

1.
1. Ability
2. Predicting
3. Predicting
4. Ability
5. Duty and advice
6. Duty and advice
7. Ability
8. Ability
9. Predicting
10.Duty and advice
11.Duty and advice

4.
1. Holiday packages can be very expensive sometimes.
2. They might be on the next train.
3. He must not be responsible for the error because he looks too experienced.
4. The shuttle bus might not be working at the moment - it is the low season.
5. Unfortunately, you couldn’t grow bananas in the British climate

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6.Who can make all that noise next door?
7.We can predict hurricanes quite accurately , thanks to satellites.
8.You should consider postponing the trip because the weather will get worse
over the next few days.
9.This must be the boarding house that was recommended to us.
10.You should try this dish.
11.You don’t have to get an international driving licence for this country.
12.It may not be difficult to get tickets for the first night.
13.They must report to reception by noon.