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Read the text and mark the sentences True/False/Not Stated. Marathons Many Americans enjoy running marathons – a forty-two kilometer race. More than three hundred marathons were held in the United States last year and that number is expected to grow. The New York City marathon is held every year on the first Sunday of November. It is a big sporting event with thousands of participants. One can see celebrities and famous sportsmen among the marathon runners. A famous cyclist, whose excellent physical condition helped him complete the marathon in less than three hours, admitted that the race was ‘the hardest physical thing he had ever done’. While the New York City marathon is the biggest, the Boston Marathon is the oldest one. Boston’s is held in April. Boston is famous for the fact that Roberta Gibb became the first woman to unofficially run that marathon in 1966. At that time, people did not believe women could run marathons. The Olympics did not hold a women’s marathon event until 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Today’s marathons welcome everyone. The popularity of the sport has spread among people who are interested in health and fitness. Many middle-aged people like to spend a weekend visiting a new city and running a marathon there. Some magazines call the middle-aged people of today the ‘marathon generation’. Forty-three percent of marathon runners in the United States are 40 years old or older. There are many organisations for marathoners. Nowadays many local running clubs offer training programmes that can prepare runners for the big race. A marathon really starts several months before the race. You need to run about five days every week to prepare. Most runs should be for half an hour. You should also try to run for an hour or more each Sunday. This is a very basic way for an average runner to prepare. What you can’t prepare for is running in a big marathon with thousands of other participants. A marathon is in many ways a social event. There is a sense of community. The spectators are as much a part of the race as the runners. Almost every age group is present. At the start of the race there is a lot of shouting as the runners want to release some tension. They have three to five hours of hard running ahead of them. However, there are people who want to run farther. For them ultra-marathons are organised that take running to a different level. An ultra-marathon is any race longer than a marathon. One of the oldest ultra-marathons is held annually in California, USA. It is 160 kilometers long. Last year, 210 people finished the race. The winner, Graham Cooper, finished in eighteen hours and seventeen minutes. 3. In the 20th century doctors believed that marathons were harmful for women.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 1. The programme features real police officers.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 2. All the video footage is shot from helicopters.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 3. Police, Camera, Action! shows lots of different crimes.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 4. The suspect doesn’t injure any pedestrians.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 5. The suspect goes under a bridge.

Read the text and mark the sentences true or false. Police, Camera, Action! is a popular TV series of reallife police videos. It is part-documentary and part-reality show. It features video footage from cameras in police cars, helicopters, and sometimes from hand-held cameras, too. It focuses on road crime and bad driving. Each episode has a catchy title and the narrator really draws the viewer into the action. A typical voice-over would go something like this: “As we join the scene from the air, the ‘eye-in-the-sky’ can see the suspect is driving his motorbike very fast through the town. He’s driving on the pavement and on the road. There he’s going across a zebra crossing. Luckily, there aren’t many pedestrians around or else lots of people could be injured. Now he’s going toward the traffic lights – no wait – he’s doing a U-turn into oncoming traffic. That is so dangerous! Look at him now! He’s going along the bus lane and up the hill. I hope no one is on the other side or they’ll be shocked. Now where is he? There he is! I don’t believe it! He’s going under the bridge just as the police car is going over the bridge. They just missed him. He’s going along the bike lane toward the tunnel. Now he’s going into the tunnel. The officers on the ground are speeding over the level crossing to cut him off at the end of the tunnel. This is so exciting! Yes! It’s all over. They got him!” So next time you’re channel hopping, make sure you catch an episode – you’ll be glad you did! 6. The police car follows the suspect through a tunnel.

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Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. My friend Tanya is my classmate. She is a Russian girl. She is in the fifth form. She is a student of School number 44. Tanya is young, she is twelve years old. She is a bit taller than me. She looks like her mother. She is pretty. Tanya is a thin girl with large brown eyes. Her hair is fair, long and straight. Her face is oval and her nose is turned-up. She wants to look like all the models. Tanya likes wearing smart things: bright blouses and skirts. She is always well dressed. She doesn't like jeans. Tanya is a good friend. She never gossips. Everyone loves her. She is clever, honest and kind. She always tells the truth. She has a good sense of humour. She knows a lot of interesting and funny stories. She does well at school. She always does her homework. She is very good at English and math. Tanya plays the piano very well. I think she is very talented. I am happy to have such a friend as Tanya.

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. Michelangelo Buonarotti is considered one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. He is looked at as an equal counterpart to Leonardo da Vinci and Rafael. He was a true Renaissance man; a poet, an artist, a sculptor and an architect. Michelangelo was born in a banking family just outside of Florence. When he was very young, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with a stone cutter's family. Michelangelo always wanted to be an artist and he hated school. After studying for two years, Michelangelo discovered his true passion — sculpture. His father unwillingly sent him to the school for sculptors founded by the great Lorenzo de Medici. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts and saw Michelangelo's talent early. To enhance his knowledge of the human body, Michelangelo visited the monastery of San Spirito to examine the dead. At night he would dissect the corpses in secret. By knowing what the body looked like under the skin, and how the muscles work, he was able to create life-like drawings.

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. The person I admire the most is Leonardo da Vinci. He was born on 15th April 1452 in the town of Vinci, Italy. His full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, which means Leonardo, son of Piero from Vinci. He was not only one of the greatest painters of all time, but he was an architect, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician and musician. Leonardo da Vinci was a very intelligent and imaginative man. He created many designs. Some of them were for a bicycle, a helicopter, a parachute and even an aeroplane. He liked to study everything in nature. You can find some of his notebooks in museums today you can see drawings of plants and animals as well as detailed sketches of the human body. Leonardo da Vinci paid a lot of attention to detail and his paintings are very realistic. The Lisa, for example, is one of his best known works of art. It is a painting of a woman whose face makes people wonder if she is smiling or not. I admire Leonardo da Vinci for his amazing works of art and his great inventions. His will last forever and people around the world admire it even today.

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. Writers have the reputation for being lonely. However, every now and then they forget about bonds of friendship with one another. Hemingway and Fitzgerald met in Paris in 1925. Fitzgerald had already published a few novels. Hemingway had not even published his first yet. Although despite the feeling of jealousy, the two became really close friends. Fitzgerald even helped edit "The Sun Also Rises". Fantasy giants Lewis and Tolkien first met at Oxford University, where both of them belonged to a group of writers known as The Inklings. They had a very intimate friendship, Tolkien even played a key role in converting Lewis to Christianity. That is not to say their friendship was perfect, however. They bickered over the quality of each other's work, and they finally drifted apart.

Read the text and mark the sentences True, False or Not stated. Charles Dickens Charles Dickens can be considered to be the first celebrity author in the world. He had become popular by the age of 25 and he was treated just like rock stars and movie stars are treated today. Everywhere he went, there were crowds of people cheering him, shaking his hand, and asking for his autograph. His fans in the US even cut bits of fur from his coat for souvenirs. He was so famous that when he died at the age of 58 he was buried at Westminster Abbey. A great novelist, short story writer, journalist, he was also an editor - and a father of 10 children! Dickens’s life was much like that of his many characters, a rags-to-riches story. Born in Portsmouth on the 7th of February, 1812, he was the second of eight children. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to London. But there were serious money problems and his father went to prison for debt. His family later joined him. It was common in those days for the family of a debtor to live with him in prison. Charles was taken out of school and sent to work in a blacking factory where he put labels on bottles of shoe polish. He worked long hours for very little money and lived away from his family, alone in London. Charles never forgot this. Even as a famous and successful adult, he carried a deep memory of the grief, humiliation and hopelessness he had felt. Later, he went to school again, and left it at 15 to become a reporter. His genius for describing comical characters and his anger about social injustice were soon noticed. In 1836, he began The Pickwick Papers. The book was so popular that by the age of 25 Charles was the most popular novelist in both Britain and America. Charles Dickens’s novels were funny and exciting, but they had a very serious message. He described the hard life of poor people and attacked injustice, hypocrisy and other social ills of Victorian England. He often wrote about real people and real events. His stories were so powerful that Parliament sometimes passed laws to change things for the better. For example, after publishing Nicholas Nickleby, some of the cruel boarding schools in England were closed down. London was Dickens’s muse. Throughout his life, he both loved and hated the city. When he was a boy, it filled him with horror and wonder. As a man, he regularly walked ten to twenty miles across the city, working out his plots. The city always inspired him, and when he was away from it he often found it difficult to work. He called it his ‘magic lantern,’ and it never failed to spark his imagination. Dickens is read and remembered today for the unique characters he created. Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Uriah Heep, Ebenezer Scrooge, and many, many more live in our memories as real people. When Dickens created his characters, he often ran to the mirror and acted out their movements and facial expressions. Probably that’s why they are so memorable. One of his most famous characters is Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Today, this name is part of the English language: we often call a mean person a ‘scrooge’. Dickens is as popular today as he was during his lifetime. To mark his birthday, there are celebrations all over the English-speaking world — performances, exhibitions, festivals and even parades!

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. The Man in the Iron Mask He didn’t wear an unusual iron mask but he wore the one made of cloth. For thirty-five years this man was kept in prison. To this day nobody knows who the man was. He was put in prison by the King of France who refused to answer any questions about why the prisoner was there or who he was. When the famous author Alexander Dumas heard about that mysterious person, he used him as the basis of his popular book “The Man in the Iron Mask”. To make the story even more tragic, Dumas changed the cloth mask which the man actually wore for the iron one. The real man was put in prison when he was no more than twenty-two. He was told by his heartless guards that if he said one word about who he was, he would be killed. So, he was allowed to speak only about his health and food. According to some records, the man was kind, patient and never complained. When he died in prison, he was buried under a false name.

Read the text and mark the sentences True, False or Not stated. Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an English writer and author of two of the best loved children's books in English Literature – “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”. The characters and phrases from these books have entered and become part of the English culture so if someone calls you “Mad as a Hatter”, you know whom to thank. Charles Dodgson was talented in many ways. Apart from being a creative writer, he was also a Mathematics Don (professor) at Oxford and a well-known logician. He was interested in photography and music. He sang very well, played chess and enjoyed creating and solving puzzles. Charles Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832 and spent the first eleven years of his life at Warrington, Cheshire where his father was the priest. His family was large; his parents had 11 children, 4 boys and 7 girls. Charles was educated first by home-schooling, then at two boarding schools, and finally at Christ Church College, Oxford. Later in life, he remembered his boarding school experience without any warm feelings. Still, he was an excellent student and studied very well in all his subjects. In 1854 Charles Dodgson got a 1st class degree in Mathematics and one year later he became a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church College. It was then that he started his literary career and took his pen-name, Lewis Carroll. While his creative books and poetry were published under his pen-name, he also wrote books on Mathematics under his own name. When a new Headmaster arrived at Christ Church College, he brought with him his family. Dodgson became the family’s close friend. The Headmaster’s little daughters, the youngest of which was called Alice, enjoyed his company very much. Charles often entertained the girls by telling them stories about imaginary worlds with fantastic creatures. The story about the adventures of little Alice became popular all over the world. “Alice in Wonderland” is primarily a children’s story, but adults have enjoyed the novel for over a century together with children. Many elements of “Alice” were not completely new. Talking animals, for instance, or the story idea in which a child or children are carried away from reality into a fantasy world. However, it was Carroll who established a new motif that would be used again and again in children’s literature: Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Narnia books, and the Harry Potter books. That is the possibility for the main characters to travel back and forth between the real world and wonderland. Though his characters travelled a lot between one world and another, Charles Dodgson himself didn’t like being away from home. The only occasion on which (as far as it is known) he went abroad was a trip to Russia in 1867. He died of pneumonia on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home. He was 2 weeks away from turning 66.

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Match the phrases to the correct verbs (MAKE, AFFECT, or CAUSE) to make the set expressions.

Choose the correct option. I like sleeping with my windows open. But unfortunately, there’s no window in my room now. I think I ..... it.

Choose the correct option. Leo moved to Thailand a few years ago. Hot weather was a problem for him then. But eventually he .....  it.

Choose the correct option. Nadia got a new job and has to work long hours. – I hope, she ..... it.

Choose the correct option. They ..... together, although they are very different.

Choose the correct option. She still can’t ..... the Irish accent.

Choose the correct option. I ..... jeans every day when I was a student.

Choose the correct option. Jerry has a new Biology teacher who is very strict. Jerry doesn’t like him much. Well, he’ll ..... to him.

Choose the correct option. I ..... every day, it’s my habit.

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Read the text again and decide if the statements are True, False or Not Stated. A horror novel is a fantasy world of ghosts and monsters. The stories aren’t real, of course—or are they? Callum Calder writes ghost stories, and his books sell thousands of copies. But Callum is also a ghost hunter, and he bases all of his bestsellers on real experiences of real haunted houses. So what’s it like to be a ghost hunter and writer? Callum believes that writing is just like any other job, so he likes to be very organized. After breakfast, he goes up to the attic, where he has a tiny office. Here, he creates his terrifying tales. Usually he writes for four hours, grabs a sandwich and then returns for another four hours. "I always stop at five o’clock". "Eight hours of writing is enough for one day", he says. That’s what he does from Monday to Friday, but it’s what he does on weekends that is the most interesting. "The weekends are for investigating ghosts. I spend nights at haunted houses all over the country. I take cameras and tape recorders, as well as lots of other equipment. Sometimes a recording shows something that we miss. I get ideas from talking to witnesses. They give me the history behind the ghosts. I’m quite creative, so it quickly turns into another book idea". But do ghosts really exist? Callum is sure that they do. "Every time I step inside a haunted house, I get the feeling that there’s something there. The ghosts aren’t trying to hurt us. They’re just trying to communicate. "What are they trying to tell us, though?", Callum says, "When I find out, that book will be my best ever!"

Read the text and mark the sentences True or False. Nowadays, environmental problems have become a major concern for our planet. From air pollution to deforestation, the Earth is facing numerous challenges that are directly impacting the well-being of all living organisms. One of the most pressing issues is climate change, which is largely caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. The increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is leading to rising global temperatures, melting ice caps, and more frequent extreme weather events. This not only endangers ecosystems and wildlife but also poses a threat to human populations through food and water shortages. Another significant problem is plastic pollution. Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste end up in the oceans, harming marine life and disrupting entire ecosystems. Microplastics have been found in seafood, posing a risk to human health as well. It is crucial that we reduce single-use plastics, recycle more, and find sustainable alternatives to plastic in order to combat this issue. Overall, it is clear that urgent action is needed to address these environmental problems before it is too late. Governments, businesses, and individuals must work together to implement effective solutions and adopt more sustainable practices. By taking responsibility for our actions and making environmentally conscious choices, we can help protect the planet for future generations.