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Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A–F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1–7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
1) Fresh fruit can put you in a good mood.
2) Eating fresh fruit is the best way to improve health.
3) Eating fresh fruit keeps your energy levels high.
4) Fresh fruit is too expensive for many people.
5) Eating fresh fruit helps you study better.
6) Fresh fruit may make your eating habits better.
7) Fresh fruit can make you look good.
Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A–G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного Вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.
A. John and Sandra live in the UK.
B. John is pessimistic about the weather for the next week.
C. Sandra’s parents travel very often.
D. It’s Sandra’s first visit to Thailand.
E. The best time to visit the floating markets is the midday.
F. Sandra’s mother didn’t buy anything in Bangkok.
G. John thinks it’s not worth going to Bangkok’s markets.
What does Dana NOT mention as a health benefit of yoga?
1) Eliminating stress.
2) Fighting diseases.
3) Making one sleep better.
In her childhood Vanessa produced a …
1) newspaper.
2) collection of poems.
3) comedy.
How does Karen describe her home?
1) Beautiful.
2) Relaxing.
3) Convenient.
How does Anna describe her working space?
1) Multi-functional.
2) Fantasy-like.
3) Business-like.
Eric dislikes … reactions of his readers to his writing.
1) positive.
2) negative.
3) indifferent.
According to John, the hero’s goal in a story …
1) must go throughout the whole story.
2) should be easy enough to achieve.
3) may motivate the readers of the story.
Who is Brando for Paul?
1) A role model.
2) An old friend.
3) A person to admire.
Установите соответствие между текстами A–G и заголовками 1–8. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
1. Inspired by nature
2. Wonderful combination
3. Restoring old traditions
4. Protecting the environment
5. Different at different time
6. Chosen as the best among hundreds
7. The closest to the sky
8. Saved from being pulled down
A. Sydney Opera House was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007 as one of the most iconic buildings in the world. Its planning began in the 1940s, as the existing building for large theatrical productions was not large enough. The Opera House was designed by a Danish architect Jorn Utzon whose design was selected as the winning one among 232 other entries in an international design competition. The formal inauguration of the building took place on 20 October 1973.
B. The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 in Paris. It was designed as an entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. However, initially the plan was to make it stand for only twenty years since its construction. The City had planned to tear it down in 1909, but as the tower proved to be valuable for the image of the city, it was allowed to remain. Now it has become the symbol of the city, seen as one of the World's wonders.
C. The Electric Forest Festival, which started less than a decade ago, is a four-day multi-genre event, held in Rothbury, Michigan. The main focus of the event is upon electronic and jam bands. But what captures the eyes is a special atmosphere during this festival. The surrounding environment becomes a kaleidoscope of laser light shows. The mixture of electronic lights and the sounds appeal to different senses and together create a unique, surreal, magical experience.
D. Casa Mila, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, is one of Barcelona’s World Heritage sites and is one of the most visited attractions the city has to offer. The building is also known as “La Pedrera” translated as the Stone wave, because of the facade which is made up completely with natural stones and does not have any straight lines. Gaudi explained it by the fact that straight lines cannot be found anywhere in the wild landscape and it can be made only by men.
E. To mark the end of the Christmas season, Shetland in Scotland celebrates a variety of fire festivals every year. The most interesting of them is held at the capital, where this practice was born as early as in 1876, when strong men dragged barrels with burning tar on sledges. Today, thousands of people dress up in period‐clothes. The procession burns down the model of a Viking ship. The brightness of the fire and men in clothes of the long-gone era make a spectacle show.
F. Burj Khalifa is an 829.8 m skyscraper in Dubai. It is the tallest structure in the world. There are hotels, residences and observational laboratories in the 163 floors of the building. It’s not only the tallest building in the world, it is also the tallest freestanding structure in the world, has the highest number of stories in the world, highest occupied floor in the world, highest outdoor observation deck in the world, and an elevator with the longest travel distance in the world.
G. The Taj Mahal is an architectural marvel made of white marble situated on the banks of the river Yamuna in Agra, India. It was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Nowadays around 8 million tourists visit the Taj Mahal every year. They come to see the changing colors of the Taj Mahal, which change from pink in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden at night when lit by the moon.
Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.
London’s skyscraper
The Shard is a modern glass skyscraper in London. The skyscraper is situated in the London Bridge Quarter in Southwark. It is right near the heart of London and only the river separates it from the City of London. The area is full of history: a bridge was built there by the Romans around 50 AD A ________.
The plans for the London Bridge Tower, as the building was initially called, caused a strong protest from people B ________ for a historic neighbourhood with mostly low-rise brick buildings. They claimed the tower would cut through the neighbourhood like a shard of glass. The name “shard” stuck C ________ — “The Shard”.
When it was completed the Shard held the record as Europe’s tallest skyscraper with a height of almost 310 metres. Only a couple of months later, it was surpassed in height by Moscow’s Mercury City Tower. The Shard towers over the neighbourhood and is visible from afar. The iconic skyscraper looks particularly spectacular at night D ________.
The building is multifunctional, with offices and a hotel on the lower floors E ________. The top floors of the Shard are home to the “View from the Shard”, an observation deck F ________ of the city. On a clear day one can see as far as sixty kilometres. At a height of 245 metres, this is the highest public viewing gallery in London, almost twice as high as the London Eye.
1) when seen from across the river Thames
2) who is concerned about the city’s heritage
3) and the developers even renamed the tower
4) who considered the glass tower inappropriate
5) and residential apartments on the upper floors
6) that offers visitors spectacular 360 degree views
7) and in 1836 the first railway station opened there
According to the text, college students get particularly stressed because of …
1) personal relationships.
2) health problems.
3) pressure to succeed.
4) paying for courses.
The author believes that going to a foreign country without knowing its language is …
1) hard.
2) useful.
3) stupid.
4) common.
Which statement is NOT true according to Pete Phrase?
1) Foreigners know few English dishes.
2) The English prefer home cooked dishes.
3) Prices in English restaurants are low.
4) The English are good at cooking.
Which statement about Elena Ricci’s experience is FALSE?
1) She had a vision of her future job.
2) She worked abroad for some time.
3) She worked for a firm for a short time.
4) She is satisfied with her experience.
Which technique does the author’s husband believe is the best?
1) Students should be allowed to retake everything.
2) No retakes are allowed.
3) Homework can be retaken, but important tests cannot.
4) Important tests can be retaken, but homework cannot.
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 12–18. В каждом задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
Agatha Christie’s secret life as an archaeologist
She is one of the best-known crime writers of all time, but few know the extent of Agatha Christie’s archaeological pedigree. What can we discover if we dig into her past?
Married in 1930 to Max Mallowan, an eminent archaeologist, Christie spent two decades living on excavation sites in the Middle East, writing her crime novels and helping out with her husband’s work. Travel by boat and on the Orient Express to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad provided ideas for some of Christie’s best-known works of detective fiction, including “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Death on the Nile”, and “Murder in Mesopotamia”.
Now, 3,000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, are currently on display at the British Museum in London. “Face cream in fact is quite a good thing to clean (artifacts) with. Obviously conservators now wouldn’t use that, but I don’t think it has done (the pieces) any harm,” he claimed, adding that in fact it was quite resourceful of Christie to think of applying her Innoxa face cream to the fragile, dirty pieces. “Agatha, who was very conscious of being fifteen years older than her husband, travelled everywhere with her moisturiser and it was just the right consistency for cleaning artifacts,” said Henrietta McCall, the author of “The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie.”
Christie’s interest in archaeology, according to McCall, went deeper than support for her husband’s work and even formed the backdrop to works such as “Murder in Mesopotamia”, in which the culprit turns out to be an archaeologist. Several of the characters in the book can be traced to the people Christie knew from a dig in Ur in what is modern Iraq, including the murder victim, which McCall believes is based on the wife of archaeologist Leonard Woolley. “She made a wonderful quote on archaeology and crime detection, that they are very similar because you have to clear away the debris to reveal the shining truth,” said McCall. And Christie’s elaborate plotting and clue building came in handy when piecing together broken artifacts.
According to the archaeologist Charlotte Trumpler, “Christie was of course fascinated by puzzles, using little archaeological fragments, and she had a gift for piecing them together very patiently.” Trumpler co-curated a 2001-2 travelling exhibition “Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia” alongside Henrietta McCall.
Although Christie played an important role in her husband’s work, even financing many of his expeditions, she was, according to McCall, very modest about her contributions. She was fiercely proud of Mallowan, who is often referred to as one of the best-known archaeologists of the post-WWII period. However, Trumpler believes that though Christie never publically mentioned it, her contribution to archaeology was larger than she imagined. Her notes and black and white photographs of excavation sites are used by archaeologists and researchers even today, she said.
Christie’s readiness to muck in and help her husband, says Trumpler, stemmed from her desire to be a devoted wife but also from a fascination with the Middle East that stayed with her for many years. “Everyone thinks Agatha Christie was a bit like the character Miss Marple, that she lived in England and was into knitting and looking after the garden,” said Trumpler. “Actually, she wasn’t … she had such a fascinating life apart from being an author.”
Why does Charlotte Trumpler admire Christie’s role in archaeology?
1) Her money helped her husband’s expeditions.
2) She promoted Mallowan archaeological research.
3) Her modesty is an example for other archaeologists.
4) The records she made are still in demand nowadays.
What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
1) Little do we know about Agatha Christie’s life.
2) Miss Marple is similar in character to her creator.
3) The famous writer had very common hobbies.
4) Agatha Christie supported her husband’s work.
Winston Churchill
| Winston Churchill was a great political leader and a very clever man. Many British people think since then there ________________ a prime minister better than him. | NOT BE |
Anytime a commercial comes on he turns his head to the side and so he ____________________ to watch the commercial. When the show is back on the air, he will start watching the show again.
NOT HAVE
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That is why archaeology is the ____________________ method for the study of human pre-history. |
IMPORTANT |
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was a famous Persian philosopher and poet. Many people all over the world enjoy reading his works. His poetry ____________________ known to Europeans only in the 19th century.
BECOME
The country’s capital and largest city is Oslo, and ____________________ official language is Norwegian.
IT
Modern e-books are much ________________ for your eyes than they used to be in the past and are very affordablesAFE now.
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Visiting Tasmania |
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Are you planning a trip to Tasmania? Without a doubt, any ____________________ will find some things to do there. |
TOUR |
The brochure will be ____________________ to visitors.
HELP
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The student ____________________ of the University of Auckland is 40,000, about 4,000 of whom have come to study |
POPULATE |
Among numerous outdoor ____________________ visitors to the Arenal Volcano National Park can enjoy adventure tours toACTIVE the rainforest there or just relax in a natural geothermal hot spring.
ACTIVE
Medvedev is known for mirroring his opponent’s play. His playstyle incorporates strong returns with as few mistakes as possible and making games ________________.
PREDICTABLE
1) said
2) told
3) spoke
4) talked
1) areas
2) regions
3) spaces
4) zones
1) watch
2) see
3) look
4) glance
1) revised
2) reminded
3) recalled
4) remembered
1) time
2) case
3) event
4) fact
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