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10.3 Read and translate the text 
Asia 
Asia is the world’s largest continent. With outlying islands, it covers about one 
third of the land area on Earth. The mainland is situated between latitude 78 
0
N and
1 
0
N and longitude 26 
0
E and 170 
0
W; it extends for about 9,700 km from east to west 
and 6,500 km from north to south. The continent is bounded on the north by the 
Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the Indian Ocean; 
the western boundary, with Europe, rungs roughly north-south along the eastern Ural 
Mountains, the Embo River, the Caspian Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, 
and the Red Sea. The islands of Sri Lanka and Taiwan and archipelagoes of 
Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan also form part of Asia. 
Topographically, Asia is a ridge and valley system. The center of Asia is the 
Himalayas which is nearly 10 kilometers above sea level. Low plains occupy about 
one fifth of Asia and include the plains of northern and western Siberia, Turan, 
Mesopotamia, northern India and Southeast Asia. Tablelands and plateaus include the 
Arabian plateau, the Deccan Plateau, and the Indo-Pacific Plateau. Of the many 
desert regions, the largest ones include the Thar in India and Pakistan, the Gobi in 
Mongolia and China. Rivers, including the Euphrates, Tigris, Indus, Ganges, 
Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy drain about half of the continent into the Indian Ocean. 
The Ob, Lena, Yenisey rivers drain into the Arctic Ocean. The Caspian Sea is the 
world’s largest body of inland water; the Aral and Dead seas are Asia’s major 
saltwater lakes. 
Climate ranges from the arctic in the north of Asia and sharp continental in 
Western Siberia to the equatorial in the Indonesia. Southern Asia is hot, seasonally 
wet tropical region under the control of the monsoon winds. The monsoon marks the 
semiannual rhythm of rainfall and drought. The characteristic effects of the monsoon 
are the seasonal reversal of wind direction, the strong summer maximum of rainfall, 
and the long winter dry season. 
Vegetation types range from Arctic permafrost and tundra meadows along the 
northern coast in Siberia to tropical rain forests in the south-east. Between these two 
extremes are extensive coniferous taiga forests (north), deciduous and mixed forests 
(south), vast steppes (central), and xerophytic vegetation (south-east). 
More people live in Asia than in any other region on Earth. Its people account 
for three fifths of the world’s population. In the early 1990s, Asia had more than 3,2 
billion inhabitants. All three major races – Mongoloid, Negroid and Caucasoid – 
make up Asia’s population. But its huge population is not spread evenly over its vast 
lands. Some parts of Asia’s interior are cold, too dry, or too mountainous to support 
people. Four main areas in which the population is highly concentrated are the 
Ganges River Valley in India and Bangladesh; the island of Java in Indonesia, eastern 
China; and southern Japan. 
Asia is the birth place of all the world’s major religions and hundreds of minor 
ones: Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity; Taoism and Confucianism. 

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10.4 Find these Asian countries on the map and name their capitals 
Азербайджан – Azerbaijan – Baku 
Армения – Armenia – Erevan 
Афганистан – Afghanistan – 
Бангладеш – Bangladesh – 
Бахрейн – Bahrain (Bahrien) – 
Бирма (Мьянма) – Burma (Myanmar) – 
Бруней – Brunei – 
Бутан – Bhutan – 
Вьетнам – Vietnam – 
Грузия – Georgia – 
Западный берег реки Иордан и Сектор Газа –West Bank and Gaza – 
Израиль – Israel – 
Индия – India – 
Индонезия – Indonesia – 
Иордания – Jordan – 
Иран – Iran – 
Ирак – Iraq – 
Йемен – Yemen – 
Казахстан – Kazakhstan – 
Камбоджа – Cambodia – 
Катар – Qatar – 

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Кипр – Cyprus – 
Китай – China – 
Кувейт – Kuwait – 
Кыргызстан – Kyrgyzstan – 
Лаос – Laos – 
Ливан – Lebanon – 
Малайзия – Malaysia – 
Мальдивы – Maldives – 
Монголия – Mongolia – 
Непал – Nepal – 
Объединенные Арабские Эмираты – United Arab Emirates – 
Оман – Oman – 
Пакистан – Pakistan – 
Россия – Russia – 
Саудовская Аравия – Saudi Arabia – 
Северная Корея – North Korea – 
Сингапур – Singapore – 
Сирия – Syria –
Таджикистан – Tajikistan – 
Таиланд – Thailand – 
Тайвань – Taiwan – 
Туркменистан – Turkmenistan – 
Турция – Turkey – 
Узбекистан – Uzbekistan – 
Филиппины – Philippines
Шри Ланка – Sri Lanka – 
Южная Корея – South Korea – 
Япония – Japan – 
10.5 Say whether the following statements are true or false 
1. Asia covers over 30 percent of the land area on Earth. 
2. Asia is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. 
3. The surface of Asia includes mountains, low plains, tablelands, deserts regions, etc. 
4. The Himalayas are situated in the central part of Asia. 
5. The Aral Sea is the world’s largest body of inland water. 
6. Monsoons occur in South Asia. 
7. Vegetation types differ greatly depending on the parts of the continent. 
8. The whole territory of Asia is densely populated. 
9. Christianity was originated in Europe. 

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10.6 Fill in the blanks with the suitable words and word combinations from the text 
1. Topographically, Asia is ………. system. 
2. South Asia is a hot region under the control of ………. . 
3. Vast steppers are found in ………. of Asia. 
4. ………. are Asia’s major saltwater lakes. 
5. All three major races – ………. – make up Asia’s population. 
6. ………. occupy about one fifths of the continent. 
7. Asia is the birth place of ………. . 
8. The continent is situated between ………. 78 
0
N and 1
0
N and ………. 26 
0
E
and 170 
0
W. 
9. Vegetation types range from the ………. in the north to the ………. in the 
southeast. 
10.7 Make up a table distributing the enumerated animals between the different 
regions of Asia 
The Arctic coast 
Taiga forests 
Central 
Asian 
Highlands 
Southern Asia 
Animals: migratory birds, elephant, arctic fox, brown bear, elk, leopard, seal, walrus, 
marmot, cobra, the Siberian tiger, Arctic hare, lynx, wild yak, crocodile, snow 
leopard, sable, gibbon, peacock. 
10.8 Answer the following questions 
What percentage of the world’s land is occupied by Asia? 
Where is Asia situated? 
Where does the boundary between Asia and Europe run? 
How high are the Himalayas from the sea level? 
Which rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean? the Indian Ocean? 
How is climate range? 
What are the monsoons? 
Describe the flora and fauna of Asia. 
What regions of Asia are the most populated? 

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10.9 Text for written translation 
Despite large expanses of mountainous, Arctic and desert wastelands, more than 
15 percent of Asia’s land area is arable. At least three fourths of this is developed to 
basic cereal and tuber crops (rise, wheat). About 1 percent of the continent is pasture 
of rangeland, supporting nearly a third of the world’s cattle. Asia is well endowed 
with nearly every mineral resources required by modern industrial society: antimony, 
magnesium, tin, iron, bismuth, titanium, manganese, nickel, two third of the global 
reserves of both petroleum and natural gas. 
Asia is marked by great disparities in wealth between different countries and 
within those countries. A few parts of the continent, notably Japan, Singapore, and 
the oil-rich nations of Arabia, have achieved very high standards of living, and such 
East Asian countries as South Korea and Taiwan are industrializing rapidly. Other 

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