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ПОЛУЧИТЬ ОТВЕТ Edinburgh Castle is outside the city.
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 2–7. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют (False), и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Not stated). What to do in Edinburgh When it is raining, go to Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh Castle is a very old building, high on a hill in the centre of Edinburgh. You can take a tour of the castle or walk around on your own. You can see many interesting exhibitions, including the Scottish Kings and Queens of the past, and the National War Museum. If the sun comes out, you have a fantastic view of the shops and buildings on Edinburgh’s famous street, the Royal Mile. When the sun is shining, go to Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat is a high hill in the centre of Edinburgh with excellent views of the city. You can choose an easy walk or a difficult walk to the top, depending on how fit you are. From the top you can see all of Edinburgh’s famous monuments including the Castle, the Royal Mile, and Holyrood Palace. It’s the perfect place to take some great photos of the city. When it is cold, go to Princes Street at New Year New Year has a different name in Scotland: Hogmanay – and the Hogmanay Party in Princes Street is famous all over the world. Over four days, thousands of people join in the fun in the street, and you can buy hot food all night. At midnight, everyone sings a traditional New Year’s song called Auld Lang Syne, and then they watch some fantastic fireworks from Edinburgh Castle.
Arthur’s Seat is outside Edinburgh.
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 2–7. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют (False), и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Not stated). What to do in Edinburgh When it is raining, go to Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh Castle is a very old building, high on a hill in the centre of Edinburgh. You can take a tour of the castle or walk around on your own. You can see many interesting exhibitions, including the Scottish Kings and Queens of the past, and the National War Museum. If the sun comes out, you have a fantastic view of the shops and buildings on Edinburgh’s famous street, the Royal Mile. When the sun is shining, go to Arthur’s Seat Arthur’s Seat is a high hill in the centre of Edinburgh with excellent views of the city. You can choose an easy walk or a difficult walk to the top, depending on how fit you are. From the top you can see all of Edinburgh’s famous monuments including the Castle, the Royal Mile, and Holyrood Palace. It’s the perfect place to take some great photos of the city. When it is cold, go to Princes Street at New Year New Year has a different name in Scotland: Hogmanay – and the Hogmanay Party in Princes Street is famous all over the world. Over four days, thousands of people join in the fun in the street, and you can buy hot food all night. At midnight, everyone sings a traditional New Year’s song called Auld Lang Syne, and then they watch some fantastic fireworks from Edinburgh Castle.
Read the text and choose the correct answer to the question. For 14 years the Sports Medicine Centre of Lyon (France) has been studying the injuries of young sports players and sports professionals. The study has established that the best course is prevention and good shoes. 18% of sports players aged 8 to 12 already have heel injuries. The cartilage of a footballer's ankle does not respond well to shocks, and 25% of professionals have discovered for themselves that it is an especially weak point. The cartilage of the delicate knee joint can also be irreparably damaged and if care is not taken right from childhood (10–12 years of age), this can cause premature osteoarthritis. The hip does not escape damage either and, particularly when tired, players run the risk of fractures as a result of falls or collisions. According to the study, footballers who have been playing for more than ten years have bony outgrowths either on the tibia or on the heel. This is what is known as ‘footballer’s foot’, a deformity caused by shoes with soles and ankle pants that are too flexible. If a shoe is too rigid, it restricts movement. If it is too flexible, it increases the risk of injuries and sprains. A good sports shoe should meet four criteria. Firstly, it must provide exterior protection: resisting knocks from the ball or another player, coping with unevenness in the ground, and keeping the foot warm and dry even when it is freezing cold and raining. It must support the foot and in particular, the ankle joint, to avoid sprains, swelling, and other problems, which may even affect the knee. It must also provide players with good stability so that they do not slip on the wet ground or skid on a surface that is too dry. Finally, it must absorb shocks, especially those suffered by volleyball and basketball players who are constantly jumping. Dry feet to avoid minor but painful conditions such as blisters or even splits or athlete’s foot (fungal infections), the shoe must allow evaporation of perspiration and must prevent outside dampness from getting in. The ideal material for this is leather, which can be water-proofed to prevent the shoe from getting soaked the first time it rains. What does the author intend to show in this text?
Read the Introduction. Imagine that a local library is hosting a lecture next week. The lecture will be given by a professor from a nearby university. She will discuss her field work on the island of Rapa Nui in the Pacific Ocean, over 3200 kilometres west of Chile. Your history class will attend the lecture. Your teacher asks you to research the history of Rapa Nui so that you will know something about it before you attend the lecture. The first source you will read is a blog entry written by the professor while she was living on Rapa Nui. Read the blog. According to the blog, when did the professor start her field work? Choose the correct answer. The Professor’s Blog Posted May 23, 11:22 a.m. As I look out of my window this morning, I see the landscape I have learned to love here on Rapa Nui, which is known in some places by the name Easter Island. The grasses and shrubs are green, the sky is blue, and the old, now extinct volcanoes rise up in the background. I am a bit sad knowing that this is my last week on the island. I have finished my field work and will be returning home. Later today, I will take a walk through the hills and say good-bye to the moai that I have been studying for the past nine months. Here is a picture of some of these massive statues. If you have been following my blog this year, then you know that the people of Rapa Nui carved these moai hundreds of years ago. These impressive moai had been carved in a single quarry on the eastern part of the island. Some of them weighed thousands of kilos, yet the people of Rapa Nui were able to move them to locations far away from the quarry without cranes or any heavy equipment. For years, archeologists did not know how these massive statues were moved. It remained a mystery until the 1990s, when a team of archeologists and residents of Rapa Nui demonstrated that the moai could have been transported and raised using ropes made from plants and wooden rollers and tracks made from large trees that had once thrived on the island. The mystery of the moai was solved. Another mystery remained, however. What happened to these plants and large trees that had been used to move the moai? As I said, when I look out of my window, I see grasses and shrubs and a small tree or two, but nothing that could have been used to move these huge statues. It is a fascinating puzzle, one that I will explore in future posts and lectures. Until then, you may wish to investigate the mystery yourself. I suggest you begin with a book called Collapse by Jared Diamond. Traveler_14May 24, 4:31 p.m. Hi Professor! I love following your work on Easter Island. I can’t wait to check out Collapse! KB_IslandMay 25, 9:07 a.m. I also love reading about your experiences on Easter Island, however, I think there is another theory that should be considered. Check out this article: www.sciencenews.com/Polynesian_rats_Rapa_Nui
Read the text. Choose if the statement below is True, False or Not stated.
Read the letter and choose only true sentences. Dear Becky, I am in Year 4 now. I have got a new school bag. There is a new pencil case in it and there are new books too. And we have got a new teacher! Her name is Anna Olegovna. She is very kind. She is thin. She's got fair hair and green eyes. We like her and she likes us. I’ve got some new friends too. We play games after school. It’s fun! What about you? Have you got any new teachers or friends? Love, Ira
You have found four people's blogs about their jobs on the Internet. Read the blog entries below and choose the correct statements. Sarah, "I answer the phones and take messages, and I meet people and introduce them to my boss when there’s a business meeting. I’m usually the first person that people see when they walk in the office. There are a lot of people coming and going, and everyone knows me. I like my job because it’s never boring. When it’s not busy, I get to read the paper, but that’s not often". John, "I never know what I’m going to see when I go to work: Accidents, fights..... in a big city like this I see everything. It can be dangerous. I have to be in good shape because I have to move fast, and usually I have to lift people into the ambulance. I have to stay calm, and talk to people, to get them to relax... Usually they’re pretty upset". Mark, "I like my job, because I work with my friend Tom, and we’re outside all day. When it’s raining, we just stop for a while or work inside. We work all over the city, and we see lots of nice neighbourhoods. We spend only a few days on each house, so there’s a lot of variety. We keep all the paint in the back of my pickup truck". Mary, "I work part-time to help pay for my college. I work in the evening; it’s the busiest time. I have to wear a black skirt, which I hate, but otherwise the job is OK. I’m usually so busy that the time passes really quickly. Most customers are nice and polite. Lots of people come here all the time. They give the biggest tips. Sometimes someone complains, but not often. If customers don’t like their food, I give them something else".
Read the suggestions below. Choose the words in brackets so that they correspond grammatically to the content of the text.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. IBM list called “Five in Five” includes five recent inventions most famous in five biggest countries of the world.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. There is a special project to develop devices that could use our five senses.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. A new technology will give you a chance to feel the material of the clothes you choose from the distance.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. When a child feels lonely he/she immediately gets ill.
*Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS). Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. PC will be able to diagnose serious diseases.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. Computers will be useful for inventing new dishes and different diets.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. University students are active participants of the new computer science inventions.
*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. What you find in science fiction today can become real in future.
Read the text and choose the correct statements. The end of winter is the same as the start of spring. It takes several weeks for the weather to change enough for people to notice the difference. The summer is the season with the best weather. In general, it is hot and sunny, with only a little rain sometimes. However, it can sometimes be cold, and wet for one or two weeks at a time. British people like to spend a lot of time outside when it is nice in the summer. After the summer is the autumn. In this season, the weather gets colder and there are stronger winds, it will rain more. All the leaves will start to fall off the trees as it is cold. Frost might start to form on the ground towards the end of the autumn. Winter is the coldest season in the UK. The temperature will often be at zero degrees Celsius. This means that ice will often form on the ground overnight where there were puddles. This makes it difficult to walk sometimes. There might also be snow, but the UK does not get much snow, mainly just cold rain in the winter. Then, when winter ends, the spring starts. The temperature will start to get warmer and the winds will not be as strong. Plants start to grow again and new leaves form. It is always nice when the spring starts, as it means the nice weather in the summer is nearly back again.
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 1. My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 2. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 3. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 4. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 5. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 6. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes, and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Read the text with the gaps № 1–10. Choose the correct option for the gap № 7. My Best Friend James My Best Friend James One Friday evening while I was walking home from school, I saw a boy from my class struggling to 1) ____ a huge pile of books. I didn't know much about him, just that his name was James. He wore quite unfashionable clothes and didn't seem to have any friends. I knew that he lived near me, and I could see that he needed some help, but I just shrugged my 2) ______ and walked on. Suddenly, a group of kids ran past him, pushing him out of the way. He 3) ____ over, and his books flew out of his arms and onto the ground. He looked up, and I saw a terrible sadness in his eyes. At that moment my heart 4) ____ out to him. I jogged over to him and helped him pick 5) ____ his books. He looked at me surprised and said, "Hey, thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. As we walked home together that day, I discovered that James was pretty cool! Now, whenever I think 6) ____ the day my best friend and I first met, I am reminded of one thing: you should never judge a book by its 7) _____! Who knows what special friendship you might miss out on!
Your classmate Jastin has just visited a guitar factory. Read his review. Then, read the descriptions of eight guitar factories. Decide which factory he has visited. Choose the correct option. Jastin: Last weekend my father went to the guitar factory to buy a new guitar. He took me with him. Just think! They have made guitars for over sixty years. The staff were highly qualified. They helped my Dad to choose a guitar and answered all our questions about their work. After visiting the factory shop, we had a cup of tea in the cafe where we enjoyed listening to the professional musicians. We made sure that the guitars made by this factory sounded perfectly. Then, on the way home we saw some houses of famous rockstars nearby. We had a good time. If you need a guitar I'll definitely recommend this brand to you. Rockalls The café at Rockalls is always a lively place to be — great music is played live on instruments made at this well-known guitar factory. Its location is surprising though, as it’s miles from the nearest town, but it’s definitely worth the trip. Ronsons Ronsons have their own museum full of the guitars they've made for rock stars. You will have a chance to see some famous replicas. Your guide will tell you about the skills used to make sure that each guitar was exactly what its owner wanted. After the tour, go and visit the Ronsons shop, where guitars are available at better discounts than you'll find in other shops. Barnards Barnards are well known for the individual design of their guitars, ideal for professional players with money to spend. You can discuss your needs with staff, who'll make the perfect instrument for you. After your factory tour, relax in the café, before visiting the shop which has gifts for every age. Stocktons The staff at Stocktons are always happy to talk to interested visitors about the love and care that goes into designing and making their stylish modern guitars. The shop has a fantastic selection of books on the guitar to choose from, as well as guitars, of course. PSA Staff at PSA have made guitars by hand since 1956, and they’ll answer any questions about their work. Visit the factory shop after your tour, or watch professional players performing on PSA guitars in the café. There’s also the chance to go and see the homes of several rock stars that lived in this area. Maxwells Maxwells have made guitars for over 100 years. In their museum, you can find out about the early development of the guitar, and see how much care still goes into selecting the wood that’s used to create perfect guitars. And don’t forget the gift shop, with its huge selection of books on the guitar. Delamere The shop at the Delamere factory is worth a visit as guitars are for sale at lower than average prices, plus there’s plenty of advice about what to buy. There is little else on offer though after your visit and apart from the shop the factory offers a few visitor facilities. Mitchells Mitchells train their staff to become as skilled as possible in the art of guitar-making — and encourage people who are considering this as a profession. You’ll get the opportunity to watch exactly how each guitar is put together, and you can even play one!
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Choose the correct answer. Look! It ____________ outside.
Choose the correct word.
Choose the correct option. Listen! _______ the baby crying?
Choose the correct form of the verb. Run downstairs. Your sister __ for you there.
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Read the text and choose the correct answer to the questions below.
Choose the correct answer. Listen! The baby_________.
Choose the right variant. I ________ (to read) a nice book now.
Choose the right answer. It...outside.
Choose the right answer. It usually...in autumn in Moscow.
Choose the right answer. I...a book now.
Choose the right answer. My father...books every evening.
Choose the right answer. Listen! The baby...
Choose the right answer. My sister often...cakes.
Choose the right answer. I'm sorry, I...Chinese.
Choose the right answer. Don't disturb me! I...homework.
Choose the right answer. We sometimes...songs at our English lessons.
Choose the right answer. Run downstairs! Your sister...for you.
