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be used. And then I will have done what I must do. And by then, I will know how to make
myself useful. And by then, also, I will have travelled further than I will ever travel here. I will
see what it is like, that other world. Not many people go there, but to that place I shall go”, 2.
“Who knows”, he thought, “perhaps when I am fifty I will have forgotten the extreme gloom
into which I sank”. 3. I suppose you will have finished typing before the cleaner goes, Miss
Murchison. If not, please remember to extinguish the light and to hand the key to Mrs. Hodges
in the basement.
2.

III. MAIN PART

Task 3. Read and retell.
A significant minority of the population of Ukraine are Russians or use Russian s their
first language. Russian influence is particularly strong in the industrialised east, as well as in
Crimea, an autonomous republic on the Black Sea which was the part of Russia until 1954. The
Russian Black Sea Fleet is based there.
Crimea is also the homeland of the Crimean Tatars whom Stalin accused of
collaborating with the Nazis and deported to Central Asia in 1944. More than 250,000 have
returned since the late 1980s.
In 1932— 1933 Stalin's programme of enforced agricultural collectivisation brought
famine and death to millions in Ukraine, the bread basket of the USSR. Not until its twilight
years did the Soviet Union acknowledge the extent of the suffering.
News of another Soviet-era calamity, the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power
station, rang alarm bells around the world immediately. About 8% of Ukraine's territory was
contaminated as were large areas in neighbouring Belarus. Millions have suffered as a result.
Independence
The first president after independence, former Communist Party official Leonid
Kravchuk, presided over a period of economic decline and runaway inflation.
Although trade with EU countries now exceeds that with Russia, Russia is the largest
individual trading partner. Ukraine depends on Russia for its gas supplies and forms an
important part of the pipeline transit route for Russian gas exports to Europe.
A dispute over price rises prompted Russia briefly to cut supplies for use by Ukraine in
January 2006 and raised concerns across Europe too. The gas was switched back on only after
Ukraine agreed to pay almost twice the former price, which rose sharply again for 2007. In
January 2009, Russia again cut gas supplies in a row over unpaid fees.
The Ukrainian economy's dependence on steel exports made it particularly vulnerable to
the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, and in October of that year the country was
offered a $16.5bn (£10.4bn) loan by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Since Viktor Yushchenko became president, Ukraine has made clear its aspiration
towards EU membership; 2015 has been mooted as a possible target entry date.
In 2002 Ukraine announced that it intended to seek Nato membership. Nato decided not
to offer Ukraine membership at its Bucharest summit meeting in April 2008, but promised to
review the decision in December.
There were Ukrainian peacekeepers in the stabilisation force in Iraq and the country
also sent peacekeeping troops to Kosovo.
Mr Yanukovych was declared the winner of the second round of voting in the 2010
presidential election, with a 3.48% lead over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Task 4. Prepare good reading in English. Learn the underlined phrases.

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