Number 72, exercise 20.0:06
Listen to the first part of the text and try to read it in the same manner.0:11
Even in medieval times, there were stories about a large continent in the Southern hemisphere.0:20
But Europeans had never seen it.0:27
They wondered what it was like and whether it was inhabited.0:30
They called this land Terra Australis Incognita, or the unknown southern land Australia.0:34
Nowadays, when people speak of Australia, they can mean three Australia as a continent, Australia as an island, and Australia as an independent country.0:43
Australia is the world's largest island and its smallest continent.0:56
Asia is the continent nearest to Australia.1:01
In the north, the icy shores of Antarctica lie to the south.1:04
New Zealand is to the east.1:10
To the west of Australia stretches the vast Indian Ocean.1:12
In the east, the continent is washed by the Pacific Ocean.1:16
Australia is a land of striking differences.1:22
In the center of the continent and in the west, more than 50% of the land is desert, dry and uninhabited.1:25
There are three deserts there.1:34
The Great Sandy Desert, the Great Victoria Desert, and the Gibson Desert situated between them.1:36
Naturally, very few people live there.1:44
Most of them live on the narrow coasts of the east and Southeast.1:47
Main cities, where people live among tall office buildings, automobile plants and busy factories are also situated there.1:53
In the northeast, tropical forests cover the coast.2:03
In the mountains of the Southeast, the snow lies for seven months of the year.2:07
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