Номер 2, страница 134 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

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Emigration from Ireland

2 Read and complete the text with these words.

starvation potato fungus

landowners disease poverty

The potato famine

At the beginning of the 19th century, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom and was one of the poorest regions in Europe. The land was controlled by a few (1) ... with enormous estates and peasant families rented small areas of land where they cultivated vegetables at a subsistence level. Many people emigrated to look for a better life for themselves and to escape from (2) .... By the 1840s, Irish peasants had come to rely on just one vegetable, the (3) ... , for food. The potato is rich in nutrients and people can remain healthy on a diet almost exclusively of potatoes. When a (4) caused by (5) destroyed the potato crop in 1845, millions of people had nothing to eat. It was a disaster and conditions were made worse by the policies of the British government which ruled Ireland at that time. The crisis continued through the 1840s and over a million people died from (6) ... or disease. From a population of about 8 million, over 1 million people emigrated to North America.

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