In other places heavily guarded State Stores are only open during office hours

and offer a minimal selection. Root beer, in spite of its name, is not alcoholic. It’s the
American equivalent of ginger beer, but flavoured with sassafras and sasparilla roots.
Even Americans acknowledge that this is an acquired taste; other, more sensible
nationalities won’t touch it.
Traditional American beer is unique. It’s not particularly good, or anything
like that, just different from the beer the rest of the world drinks. One reason is the
American climate: in the United States most beer is designed to be drunk in huge
quantities, while watching sporting events, during weather hotter than 90 F. Hence the
need for a high water content, to promote sweet, and a very low serving temperature, to
prevent heart stroke.
American dietary and safety concerns have married one another in the form of
light beer which is lower in calories, lower in alcohol, and (a truly awesome
achievement) even lower in flavour than the usual American beer.
In the past 5 to 10 years, however, a beer revolution has shaken America’s
brewing tradition to its foundations. Loosening of local alcohol laws has allowed some
restaurants to brew their own beers in the premises, and nearly every city with any
pretensions at least one “brewpub”.
As a result the number of breweries has more than doubled since 1987. This
trend does lead to occasional lapses such as Christmas Cranberry Lager or Pumpkin
Stout - out this is America.

Ex. 10. Translate the text.

Eating Disorders
Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and
sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority-more than 90 percent of
those afflicted with eating disorders are adolescent and young adult women. One reason
that women in this age group are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders is their
tendency to go on strict diets to achieve an “ideal” figure.
Researchers have found that such stringent dieting can play a key role in
triggering eating disorders. Approximately 1 percent of adolescent girls develop
anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to
death.
Another 2 to 3 percent of young women develop bulimia nervosa, a
destructive pattern or excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other “purging”
behaviors to control their weighty. These eating disorders also occur men and older
women but much less frequently.
The consequences of eating disorders can be severe. For example, one in ten
cases of anorexia nervosa leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest, other medical
complications, or suicide.
Fortunately, increasing awareness of the dangers of eating disorders-sparked
by medical studies and extensive media coverage of the illness-has led many people

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