Exercise 8. Complete the text with the given words: The Russian Federation is the largest country in the 1)……. In the South Russia 2)……. China, Mongolia, Korea, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. It covers the eastern part of Europe and the 3)…….part of Asia. Its total 4)….. is about 17 million square kilometres. The country 5) ….12 seas of 3 oceans. There are several mountain 6)…….. on the territory of the country: the Urals, the Caucasus, the Altai and others. There are over two million rivers in Russia. Europe's biggest river, the Volga, 7)…….. the Caspian Sea. Russia is 8)……. beautiful lakes. There are two great plains in Russia: the Great Russian Plain and the West Siberian 9)……. On the vast territory of the country there are various types of 10)……, from arctic in the north to subtropical in the south. There's hardly a country in the world where such a variety of 11)…….can be found. We have steppes in the South, plains and forests in the midland, tundra and taiga in the North, highlands and 12)……. in the East. Russia is a 13)…….. republic. The Head of State is the President. The legislative powers 14)………..the Duma. The Russian flag was adopted in 1991. It has three horizontal 15)……..which symbolize: white-the earth, red- the freedom, blue-the sky. flows into, are exercised by, climate, area, Lowland, parliamentary, chains, scenery and vegetation, world, is washed by, deserts, stripes, rich in, borders on, northern

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