Task 1. Learn new Eтglish words and word combinations. Read and translate the text.

1. Complete - закончить
2. Applicant - абитуриенты
3. Application - заявление
4. Admit - допускать, принимать, разрешать
5. Admission test - вступительный тест
6. Curriculum - учебная программа
7. Preclinical sciences - дисциплины
8. Hands-on experience - практический опыт
9. Interact under the supervision - взаимодействовать под руководством
10. Staff veterinarians.- штатные ветеринары
11. Estimate - подсчитывать примерно
12. Approximately - примерно, почти
13. Be enrolled - быть принятым
14. Receive a license - получить лицензию
15. Internships - интернатура
16. Sharpen one's skills - совершенствовать способности

17. Intend to achieve advanced qualification - пытаться достичь высокой квалификации

 

To become a veterinarian, students must complete an undergraduate course of study that typically includes basic language and communication skills, social sciences, humanities, mathematics, chemistry, and the biological and physical sciences. Most students enter veterinary school after four undergraduate years, although some are ready in three years. Applicants must take the Veterinary Aptitude Test (VAT), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

Twenty-eight colleges and schools of veterinary medicine are accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in the United States. The four-year curriculum is usually divided into two phases. The emphasis of the first phase is on preclinical sciences such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Students spend the majority of their time in classrooms and laboratories. The second phase of veterinary education is more clinical, covering the principles of medicine and surgery through class work and hands-on experience. At this point students treat animals, perform surgery, and interact with clients under the supervision of staff veterinarians.

They also study infectious and noninfectious diseases, diagnostic and clinical pathology, obstetrics, radiology, clinical medicine, anesthesiology, and surgery. Courses in public health, preventative medicine, toxicology, clinical nutrition, professional ethics, and business are also offered. By graduation, students have spent an estimated 4,000 hours in the classroom, laboratory, and clinic. Each year approximately 2,100 people receive their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree in the United States.

Traditionally a male profession, veterinary medicine has seen an increase of female practitioners in recent years. From 1980 to 2002 the number of female veterinarians in the United States rose from about 3,000 to 19,000. Currently 35 percent of veterinarians in the United States are women and nearly 70 percent of all students enrolled in veterinary schools are women.

New veterinarians can go right to work once they have received a license in the state in which they plan to practice. They do not have to complete an internship, although internships and residencies are available. These positions are filled by people who want to sharpen their skills or intend to achieve advanced qualification or board certification in one of 20 specialty fields, such as ophthalmology, radiology, or laboratory animal medicine. These individuals complete a two- to five-year residency program and must pass an examination that demonstrates proficiency in their area of specialization.

Task 2. Find correct professional Russian equivalents given in the left column to the following English words and word combinations.

1. Сomplete an undergraduate course включать базовый язык
2. Сommunication skills проводить большую часть времени в
аудиториях и лабораториях
3. Include basic language включать принципы медицины и

хирургии
4. Enter veterinary college практический опыт
5. Medical College Admission Test заканчивать интернатуру
6.Be accredited by the American закончить подготовительный курс

Veterinary Medical Association
7. Be divided into two phases четырехлетняя учебная программа
8. Spend the majority of one's time делать операцию

in classrooms and laboratories
9. Cover the principles of medicine and surgery получить лицензию
10. Hands-on experience совершенствовать свои способности
11. Four-year curriculum быть аккредитованным американской

ассоциацией ветеринарной медицины
12. Interact with clients under the профилактическая медицина

supervision of staff veterinarians.
13. Preventative medicine достигать высокой квалификации
14. Male profession вступительный тест в медицинское

учебное заведение
15. Received a license коммуникативные умения
16. Complete an internship демонстрировать профессионализм в

определенной области специализации
17. Sharpen one's skills мужская профессия
18. Achieve advanced qualification быть разделен на две фазы (два периода)
19. Demonstrate proficiency in взаимодействовать (общаться) с

ne's area of ​​specialization клиентами под руководством
20. Perform surgery поступить в ветеринарный колледжа

Task 3. Find synonyms.

1. Complete	permit	be enrolled
2. admit	Ability	share
3. test	prophylactic	allow
4. skill	syllabi	collaborate
5. enter	feeding	knack
6. applicant	graduate	disbalance
7. curriculum	humans	control
8. divide	separate	therapy
9. education	Grow	preservation
10.work	examination	finish
11.treat	Recent	adds
12. perform	be admitted	requirement
13. interact	Get	individuals
14. disease	cooperate	student in prospect
15. pathology	disorder	learning
16. preventative	Future student	demonstrate
17. nutrition	improve	raise
18. offer	training	for some time past
19. people	illness	learner
20. increase	Show	obtain
21. lately	Cure	job
22. receive	Pupil	branch
23. area	Field	create
24. sharpen	propose	suggest
25. student	activity	disturbance