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Общие рекомендации по выполнению заданий раздела «Чтение»

• Внимательно читайте инструкции к заданию для того, чтобы понять, какой тип за­дания Вам предстоит выполнить. Ответ на этот вопрос поможет Вам выбрать пра­вильную последовательность действий и правильно зафиксировать свой ответ.

• Внимательно читайте формулировку вопросов и вариантов ответов, пытаясь выде­лить в них ключевые слова.

• Не переживайте, если в тексте есть незнакомые слова, они Вам могут не понадо­биться для выполнения задания.

• После того как Вы выполните все задания раздела «Чтение» аккуратно перенесите свои ответы в «Бланк ответов АВ».

Рекомендации по выполнению и тренировочные задания В2
«Установление соответствия»

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• Сначала внимательно прочитайте каждый заголовок, пытаясь максимально запом­нить их.

• Далее прочитайте микротексты, выделяя ключевые слова, выражающие основное содержание каждого микротекста.

• Не пытайтесь переводить текст дословно, сосредоточьте внимание на основном содержании текста.

• Свои ответы запишите в таблицу.

• Помните, что один заголовок лишний, и что каждую цифру Вы можете использо­вать только один раз.

Задание 1

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1—8 и текстами A-G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

A. For many young people aerosol art is just as serious as wall painting was for their prehistoric ancestors. Graffiti is very personal to the teenager who produces it. The motivation behind a piece of graffiti can be happiness or sadness, frustration or relief. For some artists graffiti is a reaction to what happens in their lives. For this reason it is an art form that is very close to the hearts of the young.

B. I am allowed to do what I like with it. I don’t have a lot of space, but it is my favourite place, so I spend a lot of time there. I am the youngest in the family so I also have a lot of old toys on the shelves. I sometimes get bored with the way it is and when I do I change it round. I often move the bed and change the posters on the walls. I’ve asked my parents for a television but I don’t think Γd get one.

C. I have been playing video games since I was ten. I am now fifteen and I can’t get rid of my habit. These days I play for about twenty-five hours a week. Playing video games stops me from exercising and playing basketball and I have no time for friends. Many of the games are very violent but I don’t take them seriously. They are just fun. I think the main problem with games is that they are too much fun.

D. First impressions are vital. For many employers, neat and tidy hair and smart clothes are as important as qualifications. What factors contribute to that vital first impression? It varies a lot according to our culture. For example, in the United States tall people are considered more reliable and serious in business. In many cultures physically attractive people are thought of as warmer, kinder, more sociable and even more intelligent.

E. Dean Palmer is fourteen years old. He may also use the names Dick Page or Daryl Preston. He has short fair hair and is of medium height and slim build. He wears glasses. He was last seen wearing jeans, a brown leather jacket and black trainers. If he is at your school, or has ever been admitted into the school, please telephone the police immediately.

F. Γm known as Chase. That’s my tag. When I started I would go out at night with a few friends and just painted football slogans and things like that on any wall I could find. I suppose it was a way of making a statement. Eventually I got caught. I still continue to express my feelings with the help of aerosol painting, but these days I get permission first.

G. These people just want to get attention. Some people call them artists but many citizens really don’t think that a scribble on the wall is art. In fact, graffiti is a serious social problem as it causes great damage. It ruins the appearance of towns and cities and cleaning it up costs a lot of money.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1—8 и текстами A-G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

A. A bright sixteen-or-seventeen-year-old is needed to work on Saturdays from nine till six on our market stall selling clothes. Our stock consists of a wide range of trousers, jeans and shirts of modem design. No previous experience is necessary as we provide full training on the job. The main qualities required are an ability to deal with the customers in a positive and friendly manner.

B. You are a natural optimist. You are happy most of the time and always expect the best. However, you are often careless and you don’t always work hard enough, because you think everything will be fine. Remember, nobody is lucky all the time.

C. I was twenty-three when I went to Cosmopolitan as a secretary. I had to do all the usual secretarial jobs like answering the phone and typing letters. And at eleven o’clock I made the coffee, and I had to clean the fridge once a month. After a year I began to train as a sub-editor and then got my National Certificate — a qualification for British journalists. After a time I became features editor on Cosmopolitan. My secretarial training has been incredibly useful.

D. Find out as much as you can about your prospective employers and the business they are in. Think about the questions you are most likely to be asked, and at least three questions you would like to ask them. Don’t only talk about what you hope to get from the firm. Say what you can do for them and all the things in your previous experience and training that you think will be useful in the new job.

E. I feel I would be suitable for this position because I have good organizational skills, and I greatly enjoy going out and meeting new people. I have experience of this kind of work. Last summer I was employed by Imperial Hotels as a tour organizer, and arranged excursions to places of interest. I also worked for London Life last Christmas, which involved taking groups of tourists around the capital. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information. I look forward to hearing from you.

F. At the moment I’m staying at a hotel in Athens and Γm doing quite a lot of sightseeing. You would not believe it but the job doesn’t seem to be too demanding. Most of the time I deal with bookings and answer inquiries. But I suppose it’ll be different when the tourist season starts next month. Even now restaurants are beginning to get busier. Next, Γm moving to the island of Crete, which is where most of the people in the company live. See you soon.

G. There are Search and Rescue Services all around the coast of Britain. They must be ready to go out at any time of the day or night and in any weather. Sometimes they must rescue people in the mountains in a storm at night. It isn’t easy to navigate a helicopter in the dark just a few metres from a mountain. The crews work on 24-hour shifts, so if a ship sinks or if someone falls down a cliff, Search and Rescue will be there to help.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-7 И текстами A-F. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

A. A group of university students from Brazil have been given the job of discovering and locating all the waterfalls in their country. It is not easy because very often the maps are not detailed. The students have to remain in water for long periods of time. Every day they cover a distance of 35 to 40 kilometers through the jungle, each carrying 40 kilos of equipment.

B. For many years now, mail-order shopping has served the needs of a certain kind of customers. Everything they order from a catalogue is delivered to their door. Now, though, e-mail shopping on the Internet has opened up even more opportunities for this kind of shopping.

C. Another generation of computer fans has arrived. They are neither spotty schoolchildren nor intellectual professors, but pensioners who are learning computing with much enthusiasm. It is particularly interesting for people suffering from arthritis as computers offer a way of writing nice clear letters. Now pensioners have discovered the Internet and at the moment they make up the fastest growing membership.

D. Shopping centres are full of all kinds of stores. They are like small, self-contained towns where you can find everything you want. In a large centre, shoppers can find everything they need without having to go anywhere else. They can leave their cars in the shopping centre car park and buy everything in a covered complex, protected from the heat, cold or rain.

E. Not many people know that, back in the fifties, computers were very big, and also very slow. They took up complete floors of a building, and were less powerful, and much slower than any of today’s compact portable computers. At first, the data they had to process and record was fed in on punched-out paper; later magnetic tape was used, but both systems were completely inconvenient.

F. Potholing is a dull name for a most interesting and adventurous sport. Deep underground, on the tracks of primitive men and strange animals who have adapted to life without light, finding unusual landscapes and underground lakes, the potholer lives an exciting adventure. You mustn’t forget, though, that it can be quite dangerous. Without the proper equipment you can fall, get injured or lost.

A	B	C	D	E	F

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1—7 и текстами A-F. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.___________

1. An office at home

2. Computers for making films

3. “No” to computer games

4. Computers for building up team spirit

A. Safe, comfortable and, above all, green. Electric-powered cars will not produce any substances which are dangerous for either people or the environment. In 10-20 years all cars will have their own built-in computers. These computers will help choose the best way to go and avoid accidents. You can even sit back and let the computer do the driving!

B. As you know personal computers use a lot of power. In fact, with their printers and monitors, computers in the USA use each year as much electricity as the whole state of Oregon. Not to waste electricity, new “green” computers are being developed by more than a hundred personal computer firms in the USA. When left on but unused for more than a few minutes, they go down to a standby, using 80 per cent less energy. At a command the PCs return to full power.

C. Nowadays, people working in offices use computers, which contain hundreds of documents. Do you know how much space these documents would take up, if they were printed on paper? They’d occupy whole rooms! In many offices computers are linked in a network. This way, employees can exchange information and messages without moving from their tables.

D. Technology has allowed more and more people to work from the place where they live. Using a modem on a telephone line connected to their computer, everyone can be linked to the company computer. In this way, they don’t waste so much time because they don’t have to go to the office every day. It also means less pollution in the atmosphere caused by transport.

E. Good-bye, pencils! Farewell, sheets of paper! These days cartoons are being made with a computer. The first-ever cartoon to be created by computer was “Toy Story” produced by Steve Jobs. A typical Walt Disney cartoon usually needs up to 600 designers. “Toy Story” was made using only 100. So, like so much of modem life, today’s cinema seems to be falling more and more into the hands of the computer.

F. If someone asked you about the negative aspects of a computer game, probably the first thing that would come to your mind is that it isolates a person from other people. Now the first virtual reality computer game has appeared which can be played in a group of 6 people at the same time. The game is called “The Loch Ness Expedition.” Each player is given a role in the underwater expedition. Players have to cooperate to achieve the goal.

A	B	C	D	E	F

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-7 И текстами A-F. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

This museum tells visitors about the history of

1. Architecture 5. team

2. Theatre 6. place

3. Sport 7. ancient times

4. Army

A. At this museum you’ll discover the exciting story of the British soldier in peace and war. It’ll show you how soldiers loved, worked and fought from Tudor times to the present day. Videos, models and unusual personal things bring the soldier’s story vividly to life.

B. This open-air museum with more than 20 buildings covers seven centuries. It is set in 6 hectares of landscaped countryside. Visitors can go inside all the buildings, ancient and modem, getting the idea of how they were designed and constructed.

C. When the Manchester United Museum and Trophy Room opened in 1986 it was Britain’s first purpose built football museum. It covers the history of the famous club since its beginning in 1878 right up to the present day in pictures. The Museum’s video theatre shows some films about the famous club and the matches in which they fought.

D. The Midland Motor Museum, the only of its kind in Europe, houses over 90 exciting racing cars. Newspapers carry news about achievements of the legends of motor sports. Photographs and prints tell visitors of teams and drivers who took part in Paris-Dakar, Formula 1 and other competitions.

E. The Yorkshire Museum has a story to tell, a historical drama that went through the centuries. On show are some of the unusual exhibits from Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking periods. Visitors will see part of Yorkshire Roman city wall which runs through the Museum Garden.

F. The Ironbridge Museum tells the story of a remarkable area where two hundred years ago the world’s first iron bridge symbolised the birth of a new age. Today the area looks different. Riverside pubs, antique shops, reconstructed cottages make it very attractive for tourists.

A	B	C	D	E	F

Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-7 И текстами A-F. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

This museum tells you about the history of

1. Industry 5. a city

2. Science 6. transport

3. Toys 7. canals

4. Costumes

A. Step inside this magical 1850s «Cinema» for an exciting tour of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. As the lights go down a brilliant moving image of the capital appears before you, while the guide tells the story of Edinburgh’s historic past.

B. The National Waterways Museum of Gloucester brings to life the time when Britain’s waterways were dug between towns. Transport by these ways was cheaper than transport by land. Many exhibits give visitors the chance to relive the Age which helped to revolutionize Britain’s water system.

C. Black Country Museum is an open-air museum. Your visit there is always exciting and enjoyable. Guides in national costumes and working demonstrators tell visitors a story of the time when different machines were invented in Britain and factories began to develop very quickly.

D. Travel through time and discover the colourful story of travel. See shiny buses, tube trains and trams of different centuries. As you step into the past you’ll meet people who’ve kept London moving for 200 years. Hold tight as you put yourself in the driving seat and enjoy your journey.

E. This museum is full of wonderful models of trains, buses, ships and cars. See the 1920s model Story Land Park and play the old slot-machines. It also has a nursery of the beginning of the 20th century. The wonderful collection of dolls contains different marionettes from Ancient Roman Gladiator dolls to figures of today.

F. This museum illustrates the development of human knowledge through different instruments. The museum has a clockwork model of the solar system from 1750 as well as microscopes, telescopes, navigation instruments, electrical machines and tools.

A	B	C	D	E	F

Рекомендации по выполнению и тренировочные задания ВЗ
«Установление структурно-смысловых связей в тексте»

• Сначала просмотрите текст, чтобы составить представление о его содержании.

• Затем внимательно просмотрите весь список пропущенных частей текста (1-7), об­ращая внимание на их смысл и грамматическую структуру.

• Обращайте внимание на средства логической связи, которые помогают сделать пра­вильный выбор.

• Перечитывайте каждое предложение с заполненным пропуском, чтобы убедиться, что оно имеет смысл и правильную грамматическую структуру.

Задание 1

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F Частями предложений, обозначенных цифрами 1—7. Одна из частей в списке 1—7 лишняя. Перенесите цифру, обозначаю­щую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

In the summer of 1969, John Wesley Power set out with eight companions and three boats A. Powell and his men planned to travel hundreds of miles through unknown parts of the western United States. Powell was a naturalist, explorer, and former army officer. Although his right arm had been amputated above the elbow B , he never turned away from danger. In August, after travelling through

Many canyons, the group reached the Grand Canyon. It often rained in torrents and cloudbursts. At midday the sun poured down C. More than half the party was without hats and not one of them had an entire suit of clothes. They sat up all night on the rocks, shivering, and were more exhausted by the night’s discomfort than by the day’s heat and toil. They guarded their precious flour supply D, keeping it always in watertight compartments and dividing it equally among the three boats — so that if one of the boats cracked up only a third of it would be lost. Mile after mile, day after day, the vast gorge of the Colorado twisted on through the earth, E. They had seen a few ancient ruins, but no sign that any living Indians ever came down to the river. Suddenly, with their flour almost gone, they saw a sight F. On the bank they found a garden planted with com and squash.

1. As if it would fry them down

2. As if its waters would roar for eternity

3. They made about twenty miles a day

4. On one of the greatest adventures of all time

5. They could scarcely believe

6. As if it had been sacks of gold

7. As a result of a war injury

A	B	C	D	E	F

Задание 2

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F Частями предложений, обозначенных цифрами 1-7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 Лишняя. Перенесите цифру, обозна — чающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

Imagine a world white with snow all year, where it can be so quiet A ι. That’s where Maria Davis and her husband, Randy, lived for a year —

In the Antarctic. They went there to study the behavior of the Weddell seals which are the only seals B. Maria and Randy wanted to find out how the seals keep warm and what they eat during the long cold season. This kind of information may someday help humans survive in cold places. The seals had no fear of Maria and Randy, so they could get close enough to attach recorders to their hind flippers. The air temperature dropped every day. Then, to their surprise, the seals disappeared. They knew that seals could not live in the severe winter weather, C . Maria and Randy soon learned

D . They couldn’t see the seals, but they knew they were there E. On land, seals bleat and baa like sheep. Underwater, they sing. Maria and Randy stood on the ice and heard the seals peep, chirp, gurgle, and whistle, and knew they were under their feet. To avoid the cold, the seals spend the entire winter in water. The water is warmer than the air F. There the seals are protected from the wind and are close to their food source.

1. but they didn’t expect them to vanish into thin air

2. because they could hear them

3. the seals had gone into the water under the ice

4. even though it is under a thick crust of ice

5. you can hear your heart beat

6. because they swam through the dark water under the ice

7. known to survive under ice

A	B	C	D	E	F

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F Частями предложений, обозначенных цифрами 1-7. Одна из частей в списке 1-7 Лишняя. Перенесите цифру, обозна­чающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

Before the invention of the internal combustion engine, the only successful human flights were in balloons filled with hot air or a gas like hydrogen which is “lighter than air”. But balloons cannot be properly controlled in flight A. Not until man had invented a powered, “heavier than air” machine could he claim to have conquered the skies. Steam-engines were often tried in the nineteenth century, but they were much too heavy in relation to the power they produced. It was the lighter, more compact petrol engine B.

Wilbur and Orville Wright were bicycle-makers from Dayton in the USA. In 1903, after carefully studying the problems of flight, they fitted a wooden glider with a twelve horse-power petrol engine and two propellers driven by bicycle chains. On a cold morning in December at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they became the first men to fly a “heavier than air” machine.

The British were slow to respond to the new invention. Five years went by C . In 1909, when the “Daily Mail” offered £1000 for the first man to fly the

Channel, it was won by a Frenchman, Louis Bleroits. However, when the First World War broke out, five years later, the vast majority of the population had not yet seen an aeroplane. The military possibilities of aircraft were quickly realized, D. For the first time planes were mass produced from standard parts.

The extent of the progress made during the war was shown in 1919, when two Royal Air Force officers, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, made the first flight across the Atlantic. They covered the 1890 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland at an average speed of 118 m, p.h., battling all the way against fog, ice and storms. At one point, Brown had to climb on the wings to hack away ice with a knife. In August of the same year, the world’s first daily air service began, E_________ .

By 1923 Croydon Airport, in Surrey, was handling up to thirty cross-channel flights a day. A high standard of safety and reliability was achieved, F.

1. carrying goods and passengers between London and Paris

2. so the war led to a rapid development of aviation

3. that lasted only fifty-nine seconds

4. that held the key to success

5. although the journey was slow and bumpy

6. before the first powered flight was made in England

7. because they are at the mercy of the wind and air-currents

A	B	C	D	E	F

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-F Частями предложений, обозначеных цифрами 1—7. Одна из частей в списке 1—7 лишняя. Занесите цифру, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

Even if you don’t have the Internet there is one resource for up-to-date information A . From it you can Ieam about important events in other parts of the world; what

The weather is likely to be tomorrow; what shows will be on your television tonight; what items are for sale in stores near you. Your local newspaper tells you this and more. There are differences among newspapers, B. If you know the things they have in

Common, you can use any newspaper quickly and easily. The first part of a newspaper has news stories. The most important news C__________________________________ . The size of the headline generally

Shows how important the editors of the paper thought D. The largest headlines are used for the most important stories. A well-written news story has the most important information in the first paragraph. That paragraph should tell who or what the story is about E . Most papers also have an EDITORIALS section. Here you may read about

Some of the same events and issues that are covered in the news section F. News stories are supposed to give just the facts. Editorials give the opinions of the writers.

1. the news story was

2. but they are presented in a different way

3. that can be available in your own home every day

4. as well as columns that give the opinions of sports writers

5. is likely to be on the front page

6. as well as when and where it took place

7. but most are alike in many ways

А	В	C	D	E	F

Рекомендации no Выполнению и тренировочные задания А15—А21
«Множественный выбор»

• Сначала быстро просмотрите текст, чтобы понять, о чем он.

• Прочитайте вопросы к тексту.

• Прочитайте текст второй раз внимательнее и определите, какая его часть относится к какому вопросу.

• Тестовые вопросы расположены в том порядке, в каком расположены относящиеся к ним части текста. Все четыре варианта ответа будут касаться одной и той же части текста.

• Основываясь на информации в тексте, продумайте ответы на вопросы, сначала не читая вариантов ответа. Затем сравните предполагаемый ответ с каждым из 4-х предложенных вариантов ответа и выберите тот, который Вы считаете верным.

• Выбор ответа должен быть основан только на информации, которая есть в тексте, а не на основании того, что Вы думаете или знаете по предложенному вопросу.

• Проверьте и убедитесь, что другие три варианта ответа не могут быть верными, так как они либо противоречат тексту, либо об этом в тексте не говорится.

• Лексика в формулировке тестовых вопросов и в тексте часто не совпадает, поэтому при чтении необходимо сосредоточить внимание на синонимичных выражениях или словах близких по смыслу.

• Не выбирайте варианты ответов только потому, что в них есть слова, которые встречаются в тексте. Очень часто они являются неправильными ответами.

• Обращайте внимание на слова типа As if, as thoughВ значении «словно», «как буд­то», а также на модальные глаголы May, mightСо значением «возможно», «вероят­но», которые могут менять смысл предложения.

Задание 1

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А15-А21. В каждом задании обведите циф — ру 1, 2, 3 Или 4, Соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

Our province has not always been a dead place, entirely unknown to fame, as it is today. Long ago, the people from all the farms within 20 miles brought us their crops of grain to grind. To right and left, one could see nothing but the sails turning about in the wind above the huge pine trees, and long strings of little donkeys loaded with bags climbing the hills and stretching out along the roads.

On Sundays, we went to the mills in groups. The millers treated us to wine, and we danced until it was pitch-dark. Those mills, you see, were the pleasure and wealth of our province. Then some Frenchman from Paris got the idea of setting up a steam flourmill on the road to Tarascon, and the people fell into the habit of sending their grain there, and the poor windmills were left without work. We saw no more strings of little donkeys. No more wine! No more dancing!

But one little mill continued to turn bravely on its hill. That was Master Comille’s mill. The Master was an old miller who was crazy over his trade. Then the old man shut himself up in his mill, and lived alone like a wild beast. He wouldn’t even keep with him his granddaughter Vivette, a child of 15. Since the death of her parents, she had no one but her grandfather in the world. The poor child had to hire herself out among the farms for the harvest or the olive picking. And yet, her grandfather seemed to love the child dearly. He often travelled eight miles on foot to see her at the farm where she was working. When he was with her, he would pass hours at a time gazing at her and weeping. They were tears of grief for the girl.

There was something in Master Comille’s life we couldn’t understand. For a long time, no one in the village had brought him any grain, and yet the sails of his windmill were always in motion as before. In the evenings, people met the old miller on the roads, driving before him his donkey loaded with fat bags of flour. If anyone asked where so much work could come from, he would put a finger to his lips and answer gravely: “Hush! I am working for export.” No one could get anything more from him. Everyone had his own explanation of Master Comille’s secret. But the general report was that there were even more bags of silver in the mill than bags of grain.

After a while, however, everything came to light. One day I found out that my eldest boy and Vivette had fallen in love with each other. So I went up to the mill to say a word to the grandfather. Ah! You should have seen how he received me! It was impossible for me to get him to open his door. I explained my reasons through the keyhole. The old man didn’t give me time to finish, but shouted that if I was in such a hurry to get my boy married, I could go and look for a girl at the steam mill. The blood went to my head when I heard such rough talk.

I returned to inform the children of my treatment. They decided to speak to the grandfather themselves. When they reached the mill, Master Comille had gone out. The door was locked, but the old fellow had left his ladder outside. Suddenly it occurred to the children to go in by the window.

The main room of the mill was empty. Not a sack, not a particle of grain, not the slightest trace of the silver which had been spoken a lot about, not the slightest trace of flour on the walls or on the spider webs. The lower room had the same look of poverty and neglect: a few rags, a crust of bread, and in a comer three sacks, which had burst, with rubbish and plaster sticking out. That was Master Comille5S secret! It was that plaster that he paraded at night on the roads, to save the honor of the mill and to make people think that he made flour there. Poor mill! Poor Comille! Long ago the steam millers had robbed him of his last customer. The sails still turned, but the mill ground nothing.

A15According to the narrator, the province used to be famous for

1) rich harvests of grain.

2) large territories of pine woods.

3) a large number of windmills.

4) a great number of little donkeys.

A16 When a steam mill was set up on the road to Tarascon

1) the farmers felt resentful and angry.

2) the millers’ life became easier and more enjoyable.

3) the millers welcomed the invention heartily.

4) the people’s lifestyle became less enjoyable.

Δ1ZJ Vivette worked on farms because

1) she had to provide for herself.

2) she had no wish to live with her grandfather.

3) her grandfather needed money badly.

4) she preferred picking olives to working at a mill.

A18Master Comille would look at Vivette for hours and cry because he felt

1) pityforthegirl.

2) lonely without her.

3) sorry he couldn’t see her often enough.

4) that people were cruel to her.

A19 People of the village were curious to know

1) if the Master was really working for export.

2) where the Master got the grain to have his mill working.

3) how many bags of silver there were in his mill.

4) what the bags on his donkey were full of.

A20 The Master talked to the narrator roughly because he might have been

1) afraid that the narrator would get into his mill.

2) angry with the narrator for using the steam mill.

3) sure that the narrator’s son was a bad match for Vivette.

4) In a hurry to finish his work.

When the young couple got into the mill they realized that the Master

1) was a miser who lived on a crust of bread.

2) used his mill as a hiding place for his silver.

3) was an untidy and careless person.

Was suffering because the days of windmills had passed.

Задание 2

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Sometimes my father scares me. He can tackle something he knows nothing about, and nine times out of ten, it will come out all right. It’s pure luck, of course, but try convincing him. “Frame of Mind,” he says. “Just believe you can do a thing, and you’ll do it.” “Anything?” I asked. “Some day your luck will run out. Then see what good your Frame of Mind will do,” I said.

Believe me, I am not just being a smart alec. It so happens that I have actually tried Frame of Mind myself. The first time was the year I went all out to pass the civics final. I had to go all out, On account of I had not cracked a book all year. I really crammed, and all the time I was cramming I was concentrating on Frame of Mind. Just believe you can do a thing — sure. I made the lowest score in the history of Franklin High. “Thirty-three percent,” I said, showing my father the report card. “There’s your Frame of Mind for you.” He put it on the table without looking at it. “You have to reach a certain age and understanding,” he explained. “That’s the key to Frame of Mind.” “Yeah? What does a guy do in the meantime?” “Maybe you should study. Some kids Ieam a lot that way.”

That was my first experience with Frame of Mind. My latest one was for a promotion at the Austin Clothing Store. Jim Watson had a slightly better sales record and was more knowledgeable and skillful. Me, I had Frame of Mind. Jim Watson got the job. Did this convince my father? It did not. To convince him, something had to happen. To him, I mean. Something did happen, too, at the Austin Clothing Store. My father works there, too. What happened was that Mr Austin paid good money for a clever Easter window display. It’s all set up and we’re about to draw the curtain when we discover the display lights won’t work. I can see Mr Austin growing pale. He is thinking of the customers that could go right by his store in the time it will take him to get hold of an electrician.

This is when my father comes on the scene. “Is something the matter?” he says. “Oh, hello, Louis,” Mr Austin says. He calls my father “Louis.” Me, Joe Conklin — one of his best salesmen — he hardly knows. My father, a stock clerk, he calls “Louis.” Life isn’t always fair. “These darned lights won’t work.” “Hm, I see,” my father says. “Maybe I can be of service.” From inside his pocket comes a screwdriver. Mr Austin looks at him. “Can you help us, Louis?” “No, he cannot,” I volunteer. “You think he’s Thomas Edison?” I don’t intend to say that. Itjust slips out. “Young man, I was addressing your father,” Mr Austin says, giving me a cold hard look. My father touches something with his screwdriver and the display lights go on.

What happened next was that the big safe in Mr Austin’s office got jammed shut with all our paychecks in it. From nowhere comes my father. “Is something the matter?” he says. “The safe, Louis,” Mr Austin is saying. “It won’t open, I was going to send for you.” “Hm, I see,” my father says. “Can you help us, Louis?” Mr Austin inquires. I start to say he cannot, but I stop myself. If my father wants to be a clown, that’s his business. “What is the combination of this safe?” my father says. Mr Austin whispers the combination in my father’s ear. Armed with the combination, he starts twirling the knob. I can’t believe it: grown men and women standing hypnotized, expecting that safe door to open. And while they stand there, the safe door opens.

“Go ahead, say it was luck, my opening the safe today,” my father says. “OK,” I reply. Then I tell him what I saw in the faces of those people in Mr Austin’s office: confidence and trust and respect. “The key to Frame of Mind is you have to use it to give support to those who need it when there’s no one else to save the situation. Otherwise it will not work.”

A15The narrator thought that his father

1) believed that he was the luckiest man in the world.

2) was a knowledgeable and highly qualified man.

3) succeeded in almost everything he did.

4) didn’t mind being called a lucky man.

Al6 In paragraph 2 “I had to go all out” means that the narrator had to

1) take the civics examination one more time.

2) take the civics examination in a different school.

3) try as hard as he could to prepare for the exam.

4) find somebody to help him pass the exam.

Al7 They didn’t promote the narrator because he had

1) proved less successful than Jim.

2) sold few records.

3) no Frame of Mind.

4) not reached the promotion age.

Alg Mr Austin was in despair because

1) the curtain wouldn’t draw open.

2) he couldn’t find an electrician.

3) the display had cost him a lot of money.

4) he was likely to lose some customers.

A19When Mr Austin called the narrator’s father “Louis” the young man felt

1) proud of his Dad.

2) hopeful of his Dad.

3) JealousofhisDad.

4) sorry for his Dad.

A20 The narrator was sure that

1) his Dad would open the safe.

2) his Dad knew nothing about safes.

3) Mr. Austin wanted to make fun of his Dad.

4) Mr. Austin had sent for his Dad to open the safe.

According to Louis’ words, Frame of Mind worked if one was

1) knowledgeable in many fields.

2) ready to help other people.

3) a lucky person.

4) respectful and trustful.

Задание 3

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I had first become acquainted with my Italian friend by meeting him at certain great houses where he taught his own language and I taught drawing. All I then knew of the history of his life was that he had left Italy for political reasons; and that he had been for many years respectably established in London as a teacher.

Without being actually a dwarf — for he was perfectly well-proportioned from head to foot — Pesca was, I think, the smallest human being I ever saw. Remarkable anywhere, by his personal appearance, he was still further distinguished among the mankind by the eccentricity of his character. The ruling idea of Peska’s life now was to show his gratitude to the country that had given him a shelter by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman. The Professor aspired to become an Englishman in his habits and amusements, as well as in his personal appearance. Finding us distinguished, as a nation, by our love of athletic exercises, the little man devoted himself to all our English sports and pastimes, firmly persuaded that he could adopt our national amusements by an effort of will the same way as he had adopted our national gaiters and our national white hat.

I had seen him Risk his limbs blindly Unlike others at a fox-hunt and in a cricket field; and soon afterwards I saw him risk his life, just as blindly, in the sea at Brighton.

We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. If we had been engaged in any exercise peculiar to my own nation I should, of course, have looked after Pesca carefully; but as foreigners are generally quite as well able to take care of themselves in the water as Englishmen, it never occurred to me that the art of swimming might merely add one more to the list of manly exercises which the Professor believed he could Ieam on the spot. Soon after we had both struck out from shore, I stopped, finding my friend did not follow me, and turned round to look for him. To my horror and amazement, I saw nothing between me and the beach but two little white arms which struggled for an instant above the surface of the water, and then disappeared from view. When I dived for him, the poor little man was lying quietly at the bottom, looking smaller than I had ever seen him look before.

When he had thoroughly recovered himself, his warm Southern nature broke through all artificial English restraints in a moment. He overwhelmed me with the wildest expressions of affection and in his exaggerated Italian way declared that he should never be happy again until he rendered me some service which I might remember to the end of my days.

Little did I think then — little did I think afterwards — that the opportunity of serving me was soon to come; that he was eagerly to seize it on the instant; and that by so doing he was to turn the whole current of my existence into a new channel. Yet so it was. If I had not dived for Professor Pesca when he lay under water, I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman, who now directs the purpose of my life.

Peska taught

1) drawing.

2) Italian.

3) English.

4) politics.

A16 Peska impressed people by being

1) well-built.

2) well-mannered.

3) strange.

4) ill-mannered.

Al 7 Peska tried to become a true Englishman because he

1) was thankful to the country that had adopted him.

2) enjoyed Englishmen’s pastimes and amusements.

3) loved the way the English did athletic exercises.

4) was fond of the eccentric fashions of the English.

AlS,… .risk his limbs blindly’ means Peska

1) didn’t look where he went.

2) was unaware of danger from others.

3) caused a problem for others.

4) acted rather thoughtlessly.

A19 The narrator didn’t look after Peska carefully because

1) they both had been engaged in the peculiar English exercise.

2) foreigners were generally bathing not far from the shore.

3) the narrator was sure that Peska would Ieam swimming on the spot.

4) the narrator was sure that Peska was a very good swimmer.

A20 Peska wanted to do the narrator some favour as

1) it was in his warm nature.

2) the narrator had saved his life.

3) the narrator was his best friend.

4) he wanted to look English.

A21 Peska managed to

1) change the narrator’s’s life completely.

2) become English to the core.

3) meet a woman who later directed his life.

4) turn his existence into a new channel.

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During the baking hot months of the summer holidays my mother and I used to escape to one of the scattered lakes north of Prince Albert. In its magic surroundings we used to spend the long summer days in the open air, swimming and canoeing or just lying dreaming in the sun. In the evening the lake was always a bright, luminous grey after the unbelievable sunset colours had faded.

The last summer before we returned to England was particularly enchanted. For one thing, I was in love for the first time. No one will ever convince me that one cannot be in love at fifteen. I loved then as never since, with all my heart and without doubts or reservations or pretence.

My boyfriend Don worked in Saskatoon, but the lake was «his place». The strange and beautiful wilderness drew him with an obsessive urgency, so I suspected it was not to see me that he got on his motor-cycle as many Fridays as he possibly could, and drove three hundred­odd miles along the pitted prairie roads to spend the weekends at our place.

Sometimes he couldn’t come, and the joy would go out of everything until Monday, when I could start looking forward to Friday again. He could never let us know in advance, as we were too far from civilization to have a phone or even a telegraph service. Three hundred miles in those conditions is quite a journey. Besides, Don was hard up, and sometimes worked overtime at weekends.

One Friday night a storm broke out. 1 lay in bed and listened to the thunder and the rain beating on the roof. Once I got up and stood looking out over the treetops, shivering. I tried not to expect Don that night hoping he would have enough sense to wait until the storm ended. Yet in my frightened thoughts I couldn’t help imagining Don fighting the storm. His motorbike, which had always looked to me so heavy and solid, seemed in my thoughts frail enough to he blown onto its side by the first gust that struck it. I thought of Don pinned under it, skidding, his face pressed into the mud.

I crawled back into bed, trying to close my throat against the tears. But when my mother, prompted by the deep sympathy and understanding between us, came in to me, she kissed my cheek and found it wet.

«Don’t get upset, Jane,» she said softly. «He may still come.»

When she had tucked me in and gone, I lay thinking about Don, about the danger of the roads. You couldn’t ride or walk along them safely after heavy rain; your feet would slip from under you. The roads in Northern Canada are not like the friendly well-populated English ones, where there are always farmhouses within walking distance and cars driving along them day and night.

It was hours later, that I suddenly realized the sound of the roaring engine was real. The storm was dying. I lay absolutely still, relief and pain fighting for ascendancy within me, each in itself overwhelming enough to freeze the breath in my lungs as I heard Don’s heavy tired footsteps on the wooden stairs.

Al 5 The last summer was particularly fascinating for Jane because she

1 spent it in the magic surroundings.

2 had a lot of fun in the open air.

3 enjoyed unbelievable sunsets by the lake.

4 fell in love for the first time.

Al 6 Jane believes that love at fifteen is

1 a sincere deep feeling.

2 associated with doubts.

3 full of reservations.

4 connected with pretence.

A17 Don travelled three hundred-odd miles every weekend because he was

1 desperate to see Jane before she left.

2 fond of riding his motorcycle.

3 attracted by the beauty of the lake.

4 fond of spending weekends with his friends.

Sometimes Don didn’t come to see Jane and her mother on Friday because he

1 thought they were too far from civilization.

2 had given up hope of seeing Jane.

3 worked to make some extra money.

4 hated travelling in exhausting conditions.

A19 Mother came into Jane’s room during the storm because she

1 felt Jane was afraid of the thunder.

2 felt Jane was worried about Don.

3 heard Jane walking in the room.

4 heard Jane crying in her bed.

A20 According to Jane, the roads in Northern Canada were

1 slippery.

2 muddy.

3 lonely.

4 busy.

…»relief and pain fighting for ascendancy within me…» means that Jane felt

1 overwhelming pain.

2 relief and pain alternately.

3 relief as a prevailing emotion.

4 neither relief nor pain.

Задание 5

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The London Marathon celebrates its 23rd birthday. That is 23 years of stresses and strains, blisters and sore bits, and incredible tales. Somehow, yours truly has managed to run four of them. And I have medals to prove it. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I watched the inaugural London Marathon on March 29th, 1981. It seemed extraordinary that normal people would want to run 26 miles and 385 yards. And, it must be said, they looked strange and not quite steady at the end of it all. There are, indeed, terrible tales of people losing consciousness by the time they reach that glorious finishing line. But I was captivated. I knew I had to do it.

Three years later I was living in London, not far from Greenwich where the event begins, and it seemed the perfect opportunity to give it a go. I was only a short train ride from the starting line, but more than 26 miles from the finish. “Who cares?” I thought. By the end I did. The moment I crossed that finishing line, and had that medal placed around my neck, was one of the finest in my life. The sense of achievement was immense. It was a mad thing to do, and ultimately pointless. But knowing that Γd run a Marathon — that most historic of all distant races — felt incredible.

London provides one of the easiest of all the officially sanctioned marathons because most of it is flat. Yes, there are the cobblestones while running through the Tower of London, and there are the quiet patches where crowds are thin and you are crying out for some encouragement — those things matter to the alleged “fun” runners like myself, the serious runners don’t think of such things.

This year London will attract unprecedented number of athletes, a lot of title holders among them. It is set to witness what is probably The greatest field ever for a marathon. In the men’s race, for example, among numerous applicants there’s the holder of the world’s best time, Khalid Khannouchi of the USA; the defending champion El Mouriz of Morocco; Ethiopia’s Olympic bronze-medallist Tesfaye Tola. And, making his marathon debut, is one of the finest long distance runners of all time Haile Gebrselassie.

Since 1981, almost half a million people have completed the London Marathon, raising more than $125 million for charity. For the majority of the runners, this is what it is all about. It is for charity, for fun, for self-development. It is a wonderful day. I have run it with poor training, with proper training. And I have always loved it.

It’s crazy, and it’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever done. If you want to feel as though you’ve achieved something, run a marathon.

Al 5 Participation in the London Marathon resulted for the narrator in

1) stresses and strains.

2) blisters and sore bits.

3) memorable medals.

4) incredible tales.

A16 When the narrator watched the end of the first marathon he saw people who were

1) extraordinary steady.

2) feeling weak and exhausted.

3) losing consciousness.

4) having a glorious time.

A17 The reason for the narrator’s participation in the marathon was the fact that he

1) was fascinated by it.

2) lived not far from its finishing line.

3) wanted to receive a medal.

4) wanted to do something incredible.

A18 “By the end I did” means that the narrator

1) found the distance suitable.

2) found the distance challenging.

3) decided to take part in the marathon.

4) eventually took a train to the finish.

According to the narrator, the London Marathon is one of the easiest because

1) it goes through the Tower of London.

2) there are quiet patches without crowds.

3) many “fun” runners participate in it.

4) its course does not slope up or down.

«… the greatest field ever for a marathon ”Means that the marathon

1) will take place on a big field.

2) is to be run by the famous runners only.

3) will be witnessed by more people.

4) will welcome a huge number of sportsmen.

A21 According to the narrator, one should run the London Marathon to

1) raise money for charity.

2) get some training.

3) feel self-fulfillment.

4) have fun in a crazy way.

Задание 6

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Some fifty years ago Mrs. Gage, a poor elderly widow, was sitting in her cottage in a village in Yorkshire when the postman opened the door and threw a letter in her lap. Mrs. Gage opened it and read, “Dear Madam: We have the honour to inform you of the death of your brother Mr. Joseph Brand. He has left you his entire property, which consists of a dwelling house, cucumber frames, etc., etc. in the village of Rodmell in Lancashire, and his entire fortune of £3,000 sterling”. Mrs. Gage almost fell into the fire with joy. She hadn’t seen her brother for many years and, as he did not even acknowledge the Christmas card which she sent him every year, she thought that his miserly habits made him grudge even a penny stamp for a reply. But now it had turned to her advantage. With three thousand pounds, to say nothing of the house, she could live in great luxury forever.

She determined to visit Rodmell at once. The village clergyman lent her two pound ten, to pay her fare, and by the next day all preparations for her journey were complete. The most important of these was the care of her dog during her absence, for in spite of her poverty she was devoted to animals.

Mrs. Gage reached Rodmell on a November night and knocked at the door of the house at the end of the village which had been left her by her brother. There was no answer. She knocked again. A very strange high voice shrieked out “Not at home!” She was so much taken aback that if she hadn’t heard footsteps coming she would have run away. However, the door was opened by an old village woman, by name Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Ford told Mrs. Gage that it had been the parrot shrieking out “Not at home!” He was a seaman’s parrot. However, she added, Mr. Joseph was very fond of him, had called him James and talked to him as if he were a rational being. He was a very handsome bird, as Mrs. Gage could see; but his feathers were sadly neglected. Mrs. Ford soon left. Mrs. Gage at once fetched some sugar and offered it to the parrot, saying in a very kind tone that she meant him no harm, but had come to take possession of the house, and she would see to it that he was as happy as a bird could be. She next went round the house and saw only holes in the carpets and broken furniture. She only cheered herself by thinking of the 3,000 pounds in the bank.

When she got into the lawyer’s office next morning she had to face some very disagreeble news. “I have gone carefully through Mr. Brand’s papers”, said the lawyer. “I regret to say that I can find no trace whatever of the money. I went to Rodmell and searched the premises with utmost care and found absolutely nothing except a grey parrot which 1 advise you to sell for whatever he will fetch”. Mrs. Gage was almost crazy with grief. She would return home absolutely empty handed, for the parrot would have to be sold to pay her fare.

Mrs. Gage’s progress on the way back to Rodmell was very slow indeed. In the evening it became pitch dark and she could scarcely see her own hand before the nose. Suddenly a wonderful thing happened. An enormous light shot up into the sky lighting up every blade of grass and Mrs. Gage realized that it was her brother’s house blazing to cinders before her very eyes. Mrs. Gage made an attempt to look for the parrot, but she was held back by the village people, who thought she must be crazy to hazard her life for a bird.

Mrs. Ford took Mrs. Gage by the hand and led her off to her own cottage to sleep the night. But poor Mrs. Gage could not sleep. She tossed and tumbled thinking of her miserable state, and wondering how she could get back home. She was even more grieved to think of the poor parrot James, who had died a terrible death. If only she had been in time, she would have risked her own life to save his.

Suddenly a slight tap at the window made Mrs. Gage start. To her utmost surprise, sitting on the window ledge, was an enormous parrot. She was overcome with joy at his escape. The parrot cried shrilly, “Not at home!”, walked away a few steps and looked back as if inviting Mrs. Gage to follow him. The bird took Mrs. Gage to the burnt house and started to hop around the brick floor. Mrs. Gage saw that the bricks were only loosely laid together. It was not until she had removed the entire upper layer of bricks, that a most miraculous sight was displayed before their eyes — there, in row after row, beautifully polished, and shining brightly in the moonlight, were thousands of brand new sovereigns!

“It” in the sentence “But now it had turned out to her advantage» refers to the fact that

1) Mrs. Gage had sent her brother a Christmas card every year.

2) Mrs. Gage had not seen her brother for many years.

3) Mrs. Gage’s brother had been so greedy all his life.

4) Mrs. Gage’s brother had never written her any letters.

A16 Before Mrs. Gage left on her journey she had

1) given the village clergyman the money she owed him.

2) found somebody to look after her house and garden.

3) notified her brother’s lawyer about her visit.

4) made provision for her dog to be looked after.

Mrs. Gage got frightened when she knocked at the door of her brother’s house because

1) nobody answered her knock for a long time.

2) the door was opened by a person she hadn’t expected to see.

3) she heard somebody speak in a loud voice in the empty house.

4) she heard a strange sound of footsteps coming to the door.

АД8 Mrs. Gage spoke to the parrot kindly because

1) she had no one else to talk to in the empty house.

2) she thought the bird needed care and attention.

3) her late brother had been very fond of the bird.

4) she was afraid the bird would dislike her.

A19Mrs. Gage’s bitter disappointment was caused by the fact that

1) her brother’s house was dilapidated and was worth nothing.

2) the three thousand pounds her brother had left her had been stolen.

3) the lawyer had deceived her about her inheritance.

4) the sum of money she expected to inherit was nowhere to be found.

A20 The thing which upset Mrs. Gage most about the fire was

1) the fate of the big grey parrot.

2) the loss of her brother’s house.

3) her dependence on Mrs. Ford’s hospitality.

4) the bad luck that seemed to follow her.

A21 The message of the story is:

1) Goodness of heart is always rewarded.

2) To become rich and happy, you have to overcome difficulties.

3) Pets act rationally when they are treated well.

4) Hidden treasures are always found.

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It took months of negotiation to come to an understanding with the old man. He was in no hurry. What he had the most of was time. He lived up in Rio en Medio, where his people had been for hundreds of years. He tilled the same land they had tilled. His house was small and wretched, but quaint. The little creek ran through his land. His orchard was gnarled and beautiful.

The day of the sale he came into the office. His coat was old, green and faded. He also wore gloves. They were old and tom and his fingertips showed through them. He carried a cane that was only the skeleton of a worn-out umbrella. But all that did not affect his imposing presence.

Behind him walked one of his innumerable kin — a dark young man with eyes like a gazelle. The old man bowed to all of us in the room. Then he removed his hat and gloves, slowly and carefully. Chaplin once did that in an old film. Then he handed his things to the boy, who stood obediently behind the old man’s chair.

There was a great deal of conversation, about rain and about his large family. Finally we got down to business. Yes, he would sell, as he had agreed, for twelve hundred dollars, in cash. «Don Anselmo,» I said to him in Spanish, «we have made a discovery. You remember that we sent that surveyor, that engineer, up there to survey your land so as to make the deed. Well, he tells us that your land extends across the river and that you own almost twice as much as you thought.» He didn’t know that. «And now, Don Anselmo,» I added, «these Americans are good people, and they are willing to pay you for the additional land as well, at the same rate per acre, so you will get almost twice as much, and the money is here for you.»

The old man hung his head for a moment in thought. Then he stood up and stared at me. «Friend,» he said, «I do not like to have you speak to me in that manner.» I kept still and let him have his say. «I know these Americans are good people, and that is why I have agreed to sell to them. But I do not care to be insulted. I have agreed to sell my house and land for twelve hundred dollars and that is the price.»

I argued with him but it was useless. Finally he signed the deed and took the money but refused to take more than the amount agreed upon. Then he shook hands all around, put on his ragged gloves, took his stick and walked out with the boy behind him.

A month later my friends had moved into Rio en Medio. They had replastered the old adobe house, pruned the trees, patched the fence, and moved in for the summer. One day they came back to the office to complain. The children of the village were overrunning their property. They came every day and played under the trees. When they were spoken to they only laughed and talked back good-naturedly in Spanish.

I sent a messenger up to the mountains for Don Anselmo. It took a week to arrange another meeting. When he arrived he repeated his previous preliminary performance. He wore the same faded clothes, carried the same stick and was accompanied by the boy again. He shook hands all around, sat down with the boy behind his chair, and talked about the weather. Finally I broached the subject. «Don Anselmo, about the ranch you sold to these people.

When you sold to them you signed a document, a deed, and in that deed you agreed to several things. One thing was that they were to have the complete possession of the property. Now, Don Anselmo, it seems that every day the children of the village overrun the orchard and spend most of their time there. We would like to know if you, as the most respected man in the village, could not stop them from doing so in order that these people may enjoy their new home more in peace.»

Don Anselmo stood up. He said, “I sold them my property because I knew they were good people, but I did not sell them the trees in the orchard. You know, I am the oldest man in the village. Almost everyone here is my relative and all the children of Rio en Medio are my descendants. Every time a child has been bom in Rio en Medio since I took possession of that house from my mother I have planted a tree for that child. The trees in that orchard are not mine, they belong to the children of the village. I did not sell the trees because I could not. They are not mine.»

There was nothing we could do. Legally we owned the trees but it took most of the following winter to buy them, individually, from the descendants of Don Anselmo in Rio en Medio.

It took months of negotiation to come to an understanding with the old man (Don Anselmo) because

1) he wanted to sell his property for as much money as he could.

2) he had to find some place to live after selling his house.

3) the sale for him was an important occasion not to be dealt with in a rush.

4) it was difficult for him to understand American English the buyers spoke.

When Don Anselmo came into the office on the day of the sale the narrator felt that the old man looked

1) ridiculous reminding him of Charles Chaplin.

2) pitiful in his worn out and shabby clothes.

3) dignified due to his bearing and good manners.

4) proud to be treated with respect by the Americans.

Al 7 The narrator informed Don Anselmo that

1) the Americans had insisted on measuring Don Anselmo’s land.

2) the old man had more land than he had always believed.

3) the surveyor had found out that Don Anselmo had been cheating.

4) Don Anselmo had illegally acquired a plot of land across the river.

Don Anselmo felt he was insulted because he

1) was offered more money than he had asked.

2) thought the Americans were cheating.

3) didn’t like the way the narrator spoke to him.

4) was shamed in front of his young relative.

After the narrator’s friends had moved into Don Anselmo’s house they came back to the office to complain because

1) the house needed more renovation than they had expected.

2) their orchard was constantly trespassed on.

3) the children of the village kept coming into the house.

4) the children made too much noise while playing.

A20 The narrator arranged another meeting with Don Anselmo in order to

1) make the old man sign an additional deed concerning the property.

2) cancel the previous agreement concerning the property.

3) ask Don Anselmo to clarify the meaning of the deed to the people of the village.

4) ask Don Anselmo to persuade the children to leave the Americans alone.

A21 The problem with Don Ancelmo, s former property was caused by the fact that

1) legally every child in the village owned a tree in the orchard.

2) Don Anselmo was sure that he did not own the trees in the orchard.

3) Don Anselmo had refused to sell the orchard around the house.

4) Don Anselmo’s descendants refused to acknowledge the Americans as the new owners of the property.

Задание 1

European Green Lizard

P4 The European Green Lizard is one of the LARGE

Lizards in Europe. Some of them reach a length of 40 centimetres,

25 centimetres of which is its tail.

B5 Green lizards ._________________________ widely throughout Europe FIND

Although they do not live naturally in Great Britain. Recently

Zoologists have tried to establish colonies there but the British

Climate is not really warm enough for these lizards.

You may find a Green Lizard for sale in a pet shop. If you

B6 One, you will see that it is not difficult to BUY

Look after it but it needs proper conditions.

Singing in Choirs

Aled Jones sang in a choir in the 1980s. One year he became

B7 Choirboy of the year and immediately after that a recording star.

Ihen the voice changed and now BOk

B8 Aled to see what happens to his voice WAIT

Before he sings in public again.

______ Many people sing in church choirs before their voice

B9 — ■ — CHANGE