 147  1. What are social reasons for which girls avoid mathematics courses? 2. What do the worldwide statistics on science achievement show? 3. When, according to the author, does the difference in the approach to girls and boys come out? 4. What, according to the author, is the essential behaviour for learning how to- solve problems? III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста. 1. Girls are more likely to take up mathematics and science as they become teenagers. 2. It seems certain that where mathematics and science are concerned school encourages competition between boys and girls. №29 Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания. Airline pilots have high social status and earn a great deal of money. Air hostesses' have an uncertain status and earn little. For those recently qualified, the basic pay in some airlines is as little as £300 a month. This is little to balance against the possibility of a hijack2 or a disaster. So why do they do it? I went to see Diane Humphreys, Senior Hostess with Dan-Air at Manchester Airport, to try to find the answer to this question. Mrs. Humphreys has had the job for 16 years. Before that she was an ordinary air hostess for six years. One reason why air hostesses don't get over-anxious about flying • may be that they're so busy, before, during and after a flight. I asked Mrs. Humphreys to tell me what a typical summer timetable for a hostess would be. She said that four or five flights a week during the summer is not uncommon. «On a Monday morning, a hostess might have an early morning flight, ' perhaps at 7 a.m. She has to check in 1.5 hours before the flight. She has to prepare the cabin and toilets and make sure that the food and drinks are aboard. Dan-Air does not do long-distance flights, just short or medium distance ones, and so there are no overnight stopovers unless weather conditions prevent take-off or landing, or the plane develops technical problems. There's a 45-minute interval, when the hostesses have to prepare the plane for the return flight. Depending on where you're flying, this can make it a 12-hour day; with delays it can even be 16 hours.» 147 |
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