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Задание 1

Making a good impression

Think abOut wHat it is like when you meet someone new. After a short time, you can 1 ∣If this person is someone you would like to know better. You can quickly sense if he is someone that would fit in 2You and your friends. If he doesn’t fit in, you probably will not spend more time

Their first impressions are formed by what they See anD sense in you. If they don’t like what they see, they probably will not 4 you, no matter

Your AppeaRance is one of the basic things that form an impression. It makes a 5 . If you look neat and clean, the impression is that you take pride of yourself and your work. If you look dirty and unkempt, suitS. WoRkers should wear work clothes. Make sure your clothes are clean and 6 . Your shoes should be clean and shined. When interviewing for a job, you want to look good and smell good. Do not put on ∣ 7 ∣ perfumes or colognes. Avoid alcohol, cigarette and onion or garlic breath. Your body and breath should be clean and fresh.

Задание 2

E-mail is electronic mail, a__________

Computer to other users. It’s a wonderful new way of communicAting! E-mail is cheaper than normal mail and even if you send your message 2It only costs the same as a local telephone call. This isbecause your message goes to computer called a mail server and then it is 3 Net via other mail servers to its destination.

E-mail is also much quicker and can arrive at most destinations in a minute. In fact, ordinary mail is so slow by comparison that Net users call it ’snail mail’.

With e-mail you a So haVe to know someone’s address and everyone on the Net has their own 4 e-mail address. An e-mail address has two main sections: the user’s name and the domain name. The user’s name is usually the Name or nickname of the person using e-mail, for example, ’Paul’. This is 5 by the symbol @ which means ’at’. Then there is the domain name Which gives information about the computer, for example, ’home’, the type of 6 , for example, ’com’, means a commercial and its location. So a complete e-mail address might look something like this:

Задание 3

What type of work would suit you?

By coMpany. There are lots more people working on short and fixed term

2, instead of full-time, permanent ones. Some people choose to get

Themselves, but take on short-term contracts forcompanies. Freelancersoften have a great deal of experience in a specialized 4 . The workforce is now more skilled and qualified than ever. With employers having a larger group

Starting at 9.00 a. m. and finishing at 5.00 p. m. with an hour for lunch somewhere in the middle, may still be 5 ∣A working day, but for more and morepeople it is not a reality. Some job, like nursing or manufacturing, depend 6 using shift patterns, which means working during the night and early morning. Some jobs will be outside, some will be in an office,

Задание 4

Producing fresh drinking water from sea-water normally requires lots of energy. This meansthat the water costs more to produce and that more pollution is produced 1 Drinking water on a small ∣~~3 Are very useful in helping to provide drinking water in dry, rural areas.

A German organization has developed a method using solar EnergY. Solar panels provide the energy to heat sea-water. When the water

To steam, it passes through a membrane. The mEmbrane allows the steam to pass, but it doesn’t let the salt through. On 5 The steam cools and becomes clean water. This small system can produce about 120 litres of drinking water a day.

In Holland scientists have developed a different method using wind 6 . As the arms of a windmill turn, they provide energy to power a pump. The pump forces salt water through a membrane. The membrane lets the water pass but not the salt. No electricity is needed for this process. The energy provided is purely mechanical. Using this meThod, it is possible to create a reservoir of water. In this way, there is always a

Even when there is no wind. The system can produce enough fresh water for the daily needs of about 500 people.

Задание 5

Clothing and electrical goods.

Little change was found in food and drink shopping habitS. OveR 70% of supermarket shopping in the UK is done by the women of the 3 , and they generally control how much is spent on food. The report suggests that women show a greater ability to find special offers and are more interested Than mEn in getting good value when they shop.

___________ , in the area of clothing, women are still greater consumers than men. There haS been a general increase in the purchase of clothes over the last few years, ∣ 5

Rest of the Far East. Discount clothing has become more popular, as retailers have beCome skilled in reproducing fashion designs at lower coasts. This is most significantly in the last year.

Задание 6

A true pioneer

Marco Polo is probably the most famous traveller and explorer of the Far East. He was bom in 1254 and was the son of an Italian merchant living in Venice, an importaNt traDe centre at that time. Marco was well educated and also very curious, father had already travelled to the Far East several times, and in 1271, when Marco was seventeen, he decided to take Marco with him on his journey to China along the Silk Road, a series of trade 2 through Asia.

They set out from Venice, travelled through Armenia, Persia and Afghanistan and along the Silk Road. After travelling for 3 Years, they finally arrived at their destination; the summer residence of the EmpeRor Kublai Khan at Shang-tu, close to modern-day Beijing. Marco Polo I 4In love with the city and became close to Kublai Khan, advising him on many matters.

Marco Polo left a

Задание 7

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and she reigned from 1558 until Her deAth in 1603. Elizabeth was loved by her people and her forty-five year

England. It was the age of Shakespeare and the discovery of the New World.

When the Spain Armada, the fleet sent by the Catholic King of Spain King Philip II to invade England in 1588, was approaching the English

, Elizabeth made a passionate speech to encourage her soldiers. She said: ’ I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king of England, too’. The Spain invasion was unsuccessful and Elizabeth was ∣3 monarchs Britain has ever had.

But Elizabeth was anything but weak and feeble. In fact, writers of the of her being extremely strong andaggressive. One day when she got angry with her secretary she threw a slipper ∣5 him and hit him in the face, and on another occasion she hit one of her ministers who had offended her.

Elizabeth must have been very vain. A French visitor to England when she was old said, ’When anyone speaks of her beautyshe was never beautiful but she speaks of her beauty as often as she can.’ to know what Elizabeth really looked like, because she did not personally pose for many of her portraits. She 7 the showing of any portraits which showed her as ugly. Although she had admirers Elizabeth never married or had children.

Задание 8

A bright future for e-re tailing

FouR volunTeers recently took part in an unusual experiment. They spent five days 1 in their rooms in a London youth hostel with nothing as a credit card and 2∣to the Internet. They wanted to find out how

Department store.

There has been an

Since the late 1990s. You can now buy almost everything via the Internet, from pizzas to leading designer labels. That’s true; the Internet gives you great choice. If youneed a new outfit, for example, you can travel the world to see what’s they 4 More than the cost of a phone call.

WEb shops are open 24 hours a day, which allow you to choose the I 5You want and pay instantly. Of course, you then have to wait for delivery — and that’s where the problems canstart. Buying groceries on the Internet seems to be the perfect solution

Supermarket shopping. But when it comesto that designer outfit you order for next week’s party, be prepared for the 7 time. Delivery times can be up to four weeks.

Задание 9

Fashion

You can tell a great deal about people from the clothes they wear.

1 , most people fall into one of three groups. Firstly, thereare those who feel they must wear whatever ’look’ is currently fashionable, 2 it suits them or not. These people rush to shops to buy whatever is being promoted by the large fashion houses and retail chains. They would never Be seEn in last year’s styles or colours, because they spend quite a large of their income for clothes and accessories, and devote a lot of time to Iookingthrough fashion magazines.

On the other hand, there are people who do not feel they have to follow the. They are content to wear the same colours and designs year after year and they havE little been no interest in ever-changing world of fashion.

They prefer to buy 5 is cheap, comfortable or long-lasting.

And then there is the third group, take great pride of being different. These people are used to great lengths to wear clothes that are not only unfashionable, but also rather shocking. There is always a danger, however, that such trends can become so popular that the unconventional clothes of the rebels ActuaLly turn to the latest fashion, of the latest twentieth

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Задание 10

Television

After more than fifty years of television, it might seem only obvious to conclude that iT is heRe to stay. There have been many objections to it during this time and ∣ 1 a variety of grounds. Did it cause eye strain? Was the screen bombarding us with radioactivity? Did the advertisements I 2 I subliminal messages, persuading us to buy more? Did children

Turn to violence through watching it, either because so many programmes taught them how to shoot, rob andkill or because they had to do Somethingto counteract the hours they had 3 glued to the tiny screen? Or did it simply crEate a vast passive audience, drugged by glamorous serials and inane situation ∣4?

On the other hand, did it increase anxiety by sensationalizing the news and filling our living rooms with war and political unrest? All in all, television πoved to be the all-purpose scapegoat for the second half of the century, 5 for everything, but above all, eagerly watched. For no

6How much we despised it, were bored by it or felt that it took us away from the old paradise of family cOnversAtion and hobbies such as collecting stamps, we never turned it off. We ∣ 7 ∣Staring at the screen aware, that our own tiny reflection was in it if we looked carefully.

Задание 11

Shakespeare’s love life

Romeo and Juliet is the greatest love story ever written. It was inspired, about William Shakespeare’s love life?

Despite being the most famous EnglishMan in the world, very little is known for certain about Shakespeare’s 2 life. We know he married Anne Hathaway at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1582 when he was 18 and she was MoveD to London, attracted by the world of the theatre.

3, just as he arrived, the theatres were being closed because of the :erribLe plague epidemic which hit London, so he turned to poetry as a way to

4His own creativity.

Of the poetry suggests a real woman with whom

Hathaway in Stratford because of the passion in his work, but Shakespeare names no names. 6 ∣A love letter turns up, signed and addressed to his lover, we will never know if there really was another woman. We do know of one episode in his life which 7 his success with women. During the performance of Richard III, a woman in the audience fell in love with him and went backstage to arrange a meeting later that evening…

Задание 12

Submarines

The first craft to be able to travel under water was built as early as the 17th century. Over a century 1 ∣, an American engineer invented a submarine which was usedto attack a British ship in New York harbour. Named Bushnell’s Turtle 2 its inventor, it could remain submerged for thirty minutes because it had no underwateR oxygEn supply.

In 1800, the first submarine which was

Modem submariNe waS built. It used compressed air as an underwater oxygen supply but the could move under water. ToWards the end of the nineteenth century, the first submarine with an efficient

In the First World War, German submarines, known as U-boats, sank many British ships. Their effectiveness lead to the development of submarines that could remain submerged for long perioDs of tIme without having to surface. By 1950, the record was a distance of just 7 ∣5,300 miles.

Nowadays, there are nuclear-powered submarines, many of which can travel about 400,000 miles without having to be refueled.

Задание 14

The world’s finest chocolates

Belgium likes to think of itself as the home of the finest chocolate in the world. If this 1 is true, then the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels must be the centre of the chocolate world. This square is not far from the

Regarded as the most fashionable chocolatE-makEr in Belgium. The designers of the company’s shop have evidently been 3 ∣Up ideas from Emporio

6 As the chocolates are concerned, these are displayed in

Impressive glass cases. Once you’ve achieved youR selecTion, you go over to the counter to pay, and get a wonderful close-up 7 of a flowing

Some Belgians would suggest that the best examples of the country’s skill at chocolate-making are the small chocolates called pralines. These have a hard outer shell of chocolate around a softer filling that comes in a variety of flavours. It was these that I decided to try.