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Archibald Mirrielees lived in

1)  Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century.

2)  Moscow in the second half of the 19th century.

3)  St Petersburg in the first half of the 19th century.

4)  St Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century.

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The word ‘ambitious’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to the word

1)  determined.

2)  aggressive.

3)  arrogant.

4)  hopeful.

According to the 4th paragraph, Andrew Muir

1)  was responsible for the quality of imported goods.

2)  started selling musical instruments in Moscow.

3)  spent his holidays in different European countries.

4)  had two grown-up sons who were helping him.

According to the article, which of the following was NOT a novelty that made a Department store different from an ordinary small shop?

1)  Clients could order goods from stores to be delivered to their homes.

2)  Clients could return goods to the store and get their money back.

3)  Client could pay much less if they negotiated the price at the store.

4)  Clients could buy things cheaper at the store at certain seasons.

William Whiteley called his store a ‘Universal Provider’ because

1)  he sold his goods all over the country.

2)  of the variety of goods that were sold there.

3)  his clients came from all social classes.

4)  he provided many smaller shops with goods.

According to paragraph 7, on November 24, 1900

1)  Feodor Shalyapin was watching the fire from across the street.

2)  Feodor Shalyapin had fewer admirers listening to him than usually.

3)  there was a drama played at the Bolshoi, rather than an opera.

4)  performances in the Bolshoi and Maly theatres ended at midnight.

The new Muir & Mirrielees building seemed unusual to Muscovites because

1)  from the outside it looked like a sky-scraper.

2)  of the modern technologies that were used in it.

3)  it was designed by an American architect.

4)  of the attractive decorations on the lifts.

According to the 4th paragraph, Andrew Muir

1)  was responsible for the quality of imported goods.

2)  started selling musical instruments in Moscow.

3)  spent his holidays in different European countries.

4)  had two grown-up sons who were helping him.

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The word ‘ambitious’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to the word

1)  determined.

2)  aggressive.

3)  arrogant.

4)  hopeful.

Archibald Mirrielees lived in

1)  Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century.

2)  Moscow in the second half of the 19th century.

3)  St Petersburg in the first half of the 19th century.

4)  St Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century.

According to the article, which of the following was NOT a novelty that made a Department store different from an ordinary small shop?

1)  Clients could order goods from stores to be delivered to their homes.

2)  Clients could return goods to the store and get their money back.

3)  Client could pay much less if they negotiated the price at the store.

4)  Clients could buy things cheaper at the store at certain seasons.

William Whiteley called his store a ‘Universal Provider’ because

1)  he sold his goods all over the country.

2)  of the variety of goods that were sold there.

3)  his clients came from all social classes.

4)  he provided many smaller shops with goods.

According to paragraph 7, on November 24, 1900

1)  Feodor Shalyapin was watching the fire from across the street.

2)  Feodor Shalyapin had fewer admirers listening to him than usually.

3)  there was a drama played at the Bolshoi, rather than an opera.

4)  performances in the Bolshoi and Maly theatres ended at midnight.

The new Muir & Mirrielees building seemed unusual to Muscovites because

1)  from the outside it looked like a sky-scraper.

2)  of the modern technologies that were used in it.

3)  it was designed by an American architect.

4)  of the attractive decorations on the lifts.

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1.  A lasting relationship

2.  An inspirational city

3.  An unexpected discovery

4.  A brilliant celebration

5.  A random birthday

6.  Undestroyed beauty

7.  The future of the city

8.  Not intellectual enough

A. Nobody knows when Moscow first appeared on the face of the earth. It is true that the first mention of Moscow dates back to 1147, but by that time it had probably been around for a while and was big enough to be mentioned in the Russian chronicles. Still, it is convenient to use that date to celebrate Moscow’s anniversaries which we are doing this year – Moscow has turned 870, a respectable age for one of the biggest capitals in the world!

B. Throughout its history, Moscow has been visited by many English speakers. The first British people arrived in Moscow in 1553 by accident. In the age of great geographical discoveries, when Spanish and Portuguese navigators were

sailing the world in search of the shortest way to Asia, British merchants tried to find their own way – through the Arctic. When they were stopped by ice, they turned their ships south and ended up in Russia.

C. Ivan the Terrible was happy to meet the first English merchants and granted them privileges to make trade between Russia and Britain easy. This was how The Muscovy Company appeared in Britain. The Czar even granted them a house near the Kremlin. This solid brick building has survived all the fires of Moscow and can be visited today. In 1994, during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Moscow, it was turned into a museum – The Old English Court.

D. Mr Francis Pargiter was one of the merchants of The Muscovy Company and visited Moscow in the 1660s. He did not leave a written account of his trip, but his impressions of Moscow were recorded by his friend – Samuel Pepys, a

Member of Parliament who kept a diary. Mr Pargiter described Moscow as ‘a very great city’ but mostly with wooden houses and with very few people playing chess and ‘not a man that speaks Latin’!

E. In 1867, Moscow’s 720th anniversary, a trip to Moscow was undertaken by the author of “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carrol. He described Moscow as a ‘wonderful city, a city of white houses and green roofs, of conical towers that rise one out of another like a telescope; of bulging glided domes, in which you can see as in looking glass, distorted pictures of the city.’ It is believed that the idea of “Through the Looking Glass” came to the writer during his trip to Russia.

F. In 1917, during the restless days of the Revolution, when not many people even remembered Moscow’s 770th anniversary, Moscow was visited by the American journalist John Reed. Among the fires and destroyed buildings, he

was happy to see St. Basil’s Cathedral untouched: ‘Late at night we went through the empty streets to the great Red Square. The church of Vasili Blazheiny loomed fantastic, its bright-coloured cupolas vague in darkness’.

G. In 1947, the American writer John Steinbeck witnessed Moscow’s 800th anniversary celebration. ‘The walls of the Kremlin and its towers were outlined in electric lights. Every public building was floodlighted. In every public square dance stands had been put up, and in some of the squares little booths, made to look like Russian fairy-tale houses, had been erected for sale of sweets, and ice-cream, and souvenirs’, he wrote in his Russian Journal.

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1.  Moscow is not for sale

2.  The city of the future

3.  True to life

4.  The younger generation

5.  A new home

6.  One of many

7.  A team effort

8.  A hidden treasure

A. Hotel Ukraina is a remarkable building. It is located at the beginning of Kutuzovsky Avenue on the bank of the Moskva River. Built in 1957 and having a style of its own, it is worth seeing as an architectural sight. But if you go inside and walk all the way to the end of the lobby you will be rewarded with an even better sight, the existence of which is not widely known.

B. You will see there a diorama of the central part of Moscow as it looked back in 1977. This is a model of the center of Russia’s capital that was made by a large group of artists for the 1977 Soviet National Exhibition in the USA. This true work of art has a special illumination system, so Moscow can be seen during the daytime and at night when the sky turns dark and the windows of the buildings light up.

C. The model is 16 metres wide, 6 metres tall and 9.5 metres deep. On this model you can see the Kremlin and Red Square with tourist buses parked behind St Basil’s Cathedral, Rossiya Hotel, the Moskva River with river trams, the embankment with cars, New Arbat street, and even the high-rise of the Moscow State University and the Ostankino TV and radio Tower. The model is very detailed and accurate.

D. After its display in Deer Park in New York City in 1977, this unique model of Moscow travelled for several years all around the world and then back to Moscow. It won a gold medal at the Leipzig Fair and was called a masterpiece. The famous US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk the surface of the Moon, wanted to buy this model of Moscow for Disneyland. But the artists refused to sell it.

E. After its return to Moscow, the model was kept at VDNH, and then was purchased by Hotel Ukraina. Since then it’s been admired by the guests of this hotel. You can look at the model from two different levels  — the same level as the model itself, or an upper floor. The model is supplied with several pairs of headphones with an audio guide in English, Russian, French and German, explaining which part of Moscow you are looking at.

F. Even though so special and unique, this is not the only model of Moscow that exists in the city. A new architectural model of Moscow was built at VDNH in 2017. It is a lot bigger than the 1977 model and is more up to date. It occupies a special building and can be visited free of charge. The main difference is that even though equally accurate and even more detailed, the new model is just a model and not a piece of art.

G. Perhaps, the first model of a big city was created in 1940 in Los Angeles. Since then, there have been made many models of different cities around the world. One of the most impressive ones is the model of Jerusalem, Israel. It is a 1:50- scale model of how the city looked in the 1^st century AD. It occupies 2,000 square meters and is located outdoors, in the Billy Rose Sculpture garden of the Israel Museum.

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1.  Good for kings

2.  A picturesque location

3.  A northern influence

4.  Nights are for sleeping

5.  It worked!

6.  Unseen treasures

7.  Dance with the devil

8.  Hungry for in-person events

A. Every third Saturday in May, museums in many countries around the world remain open until midnight or even later, some of them until the early morning hours. This international cultural event is known as the Long Night of Museums or the Night of Museums and has already become a tradition. The main reason for the event is to attract more people to museums, especially young people, and to show what museums have to offer. This policy has proved effective: in 2021, almost 2 million people visited museums that night.

B. The first Long Night of Museums took place in Berlin in 1997. One of the inspirations for its creation was the annual White Nights Festival of classical music that is held every year in St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 12 to July 2  — the time when the northern skies of Russia’s «second capital» never reach complete darkness. The second place that took up the idea of the Long Night of Museums was Paris, where this cultural event first took place in 2002 and included performing arts.

C. The first Night of Museums in Russia was held in 2002 in Krasnoyarsk. St. Petersburg and Saratov joined the new tradition in 2006, while Moscow and Ekaterinburg joined it in 2007. Later, the event became very popular in Russia, and in addition to museums, some of the embassies in Moscow opened their doors for the visitors. Embassies in Moscow often occupy beautiful 19th century mansions that are famous for both their architecture and interior design. This was the first time they were open to the public.

D. In 2021, in addition to the Night of Museums, and perhaps, to make up for the year 2020, when only online tours were possible because of COVID, the City of Moscow held Days of Historic and Cultural Heritage from April 18 to May 31, when as many as 18 embassies welcomed tourists. Among these were the British and American Ambassador’s residences, the embassies of France, Italy, Norway and other countries. To be able to see these legendary buildings people had to sign up well in advance.

E. The British Ambassador’s residence is located across the Moskva River from the Kremlin, in Sofiyskaya Embankment. The building was built in the early 1890-s by Russia’s biggest sugar manufacturer Pavel Kharitonenko. The gothic interior design by architect Schechtel makes it one of the most beautiful buildings in Moscow. The building was given to the British Embassy in 1929. During their official visits to Moscow Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, Princess Diana in 1995 and Princess Royal Anne in 2014 stayed in this building.

F. Spaso House, the residence of the American Ambassador in Moscow, is located in Spasopeskovskaya Square near Arbat street, close to the location depicted in Vasily Polenov’s famous painting «Moscow Courtyard». The building was built in 1913 and until 1917 belonged to the textile industrialist Nikolay Vtorov. It has been the residence of the US Ambassador since 1933. Concerts and art exhibitions are often held at Spaso House, but none of them can compare with the Spring Festival of 1935.

G. In April, 1935, the US Ambassador Bullitt decided to throw an extraordinary party at his residence. Trees and flowers were ordered for the decorations, birds and animals were borrowed from the Moscow Zoo, including parakeets, pheasants, goats and even a baby bear! Soviet ministers and generals were among the 400 guests, as well as the writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The Spring Festival lasted all night, and later Bulgakov used this setting for the Spring Ball of the Full Moon, aka Satan’s Ball, in his novel The Master and Margarita.

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1.  A shop that inspired writers

2.  Country’s brave defenders

3.  A truly international place

4.  Governesses of rich children

5.  Birth of a popular sport

6.  Textile business links

7.  A nice-sounding building

8.  The initial steps of commerce

A. Moscow has always been a multicultural city. If we look back at its history, we will see that there were several foreign communities living in Moscow on a permanent basis. We all know about German people inhabiting the banks of the Yauza river, where little Peter, the future tsar of all Russia, ran around, made friends and got his first ideas of learning about ships and fleets. But what do we know about the British community of Moscow? Did it even exist?

B. The first ties between Russia and Britain were formed in the middle of the 16th century in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It was then that some wealthy British merchants founded the Muscovy Company which held a monopoly on trade between Britain and Russia until 1698. The building of its Moscow headquarters was granted to the company by the tsar in 1556 and can be still visited at 4, Varvarka Street, known to us now as The Old English Court.

C. Beginning from the time of Peter the Great, several talented British military men moved to Russia. Many of them served as army generals and navy admirals, defending Russian borders in different wars and battles. Among the most famous ones were Field Marshall James Bruce, Field Marshall Barclay de Tolly and Admiral Thomas Mackenzie, all of them of Scottish origin.

D. In the 18th century, British industrialists made themselves known in Russia. One of the most outstanding figures was Robert McGill, who lived in Moscow and served as an intermediary between Lancashire mill engineers and the Russian cotton industry, and built over 150 mills (cotton factories) in Russia. Robert McGill had a house in Spiridonovka Street and together with his wife Jane was a prominent member of the British community in Moscow.

E. If you talk to Moscow concert musicians who were active between the 1960s and the 1990s, they will tell you of the fantastic acoustics of the “Melodiya” recording studio at 8, Voznesensky Lane, which they lovingly called ‘kirche’, mistakenly thinking it was a German church. This building, designed in the English neo-gothic architectural style, was in fact built in 1885 by Robert McGill and is St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, which was used as a recording studio in Soviet times.

F. Another spectacular example of British architecture in Moscow is the old building of TsUM next to the Bolshoy and Maly theatres. Built in the early 1900s, it was back then the biggest department store in Moscow. It was owned by Scottish merchants Andrew Muir and Archie Mirrielees. Mayakovsky mentions Muir&Mirrielees in several of his poems, while Chekhov named his dogs after its two owners.

G. In 1887, two other cotton industrialists from Lancashire, Clement and Harry Charnock, moved to work at a cotton factory in Orekhovo-Zuevo, near Moscow. They were both great football fans and decided to introduce this game to the workers of the factory. This resulted in the first professional football team in Russia which after the Revolution became the core of Moscow Dynamo team.

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1.  A time for physical exercise

2.  It is worth it!

3.  Traditional winter drinks

4.  Not as bad as you may think!

5.  A unique cultural season

6.  Just know the right people!

7.  Too pretty to be real!

8.  Where old and new times meet

A. If you mention travelling to Moscow in the winter, most foreign tourists will think you are crazy. Many of them will imagine snow, freezing temperatures and having to wear big parkas and fur hats. They are missing out, though, because winter in Moscow is like a fairy tale, and one of the most beautiful times of the year to visit. There is so much to see and do that the chance to visit this beautiful city during the winter should not be missed.

B. The shocking truth is that the Russian capital at wintertime is not as cold as many people would imagine. While the weather can be unpredictable, most of the time the temperature is around –5 degrees Celsius with a moderate amount of snow. Compared to Siberia, it is very mild. The biggest problems are that you can slip and fall on the ice, and salt on the sidewalks which can destroy your boots.

C. Many famous places of interest in Moscow become magical in the winter. Red Square is one of the first places to go to. With the snow falling gently, Saint Basil’s Cathedral looks like a giant wedding cake covered in icing. Another place one should certainly visit is Novodevichy Convent with its lacelike towers and golden domes. When surrounded by snow, it resembles a fairy-tale castle of a beautiful princess.

D. Muscovites enjoy a wide variety of sports and activities in the wintertime. Cross-country skiing is a great way to both get fit and enjoy the winter beauty of the many public parks in Moscow. Another favorite pastime is ice skating. There is a giant skating rink every winter in Red Square and many smaller rinks throughout the city. There are many other winter sports that are popular such as snowboarding, sledding and ice fishing.

E. There are a lot of events in Moscow that can be experienced only in winter. The New Year holiday celebration is the most special time of the year and is like Christmas and New Year’s Eve combined into one big party. The Russian Winter festival features performances of traditional Russian song and dance, games, crafts and ice sculptures. Finally, those feeling brave can dive into an ice hole for the Epiphany holiday.

F. If you get too cold while walking around, you can always go into a shop to warm up. There are many modern shopping malls throughout Moscow, but if you want to experience the retro charm and nostalgia of days past, there is no better place than GUM on Red Square or Eliseevsky food store on Tverskaya. In addition, there are many cafes located throughout the city if you need a hot drink or something to eat.

If you make Russian friends, you may get invited to their dacha and see the beautiful winter countryside outside Moscow. Here the snow will be deeper and the temperatures lower, but you won’t be too cold as Russians have ways to stay warm. Best of all is the Russian Steam Bath. You can sit in the steam and when you find yourself hot and sweaty, you can do as the Russians do and jump in the snow outside to cool off.

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1.  The show must go on!

2.  A woman leads the way

3.  It’s only a figure of speech

4.  A good reward for a good job

5.  A long break

6.  Not built in a day

7.  The lucky few

8.  Top secret

A.When British people decide to change their place of residence, they sometimes use the expression ‘to move house’ and say something like “I’m moving house next week”. This idiom often baffles foreigners who realize that no houses referred to are going to change their location. It is a person who is moving, not the house! But then again, when it comes to idioms, logic rarely works. It’s only in real life that houses don’t move. Or… do they?

B. There have been several cases in history when houses were indeed moved to different locations. Perhaps the very first one to be moved was the 25-metertall bell tower of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bologna which was protruding in the middle of the street making it difficult for pedestrians to walk around it. In 1455, a young engineer Aristotle Fioravanti succeeded in moving the tower 13 meters and earned 50 gold ducats for that!

C. Moscow is one of the few cities in the world that can boast of a great number of moved buildings  — all in all, about 70! The very first relocation took place in 1897 during the expansion of the Nikolayevskaya Railway. In the way of the new railway stood a 2-storeyed house belonging to Jane McGill, a well-known British woman and an honoured citizen of Moscow. She agreed for the house to be moved 100 meters to the west and even paid for it herself.

D. In 1935, when a new Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow was adopted, it became clear that in order to make old streets wider and to build new ones, many old buildings had to be destroyed. This is what happened to many buildings in Gorky Street  — now Tverskaya. But not to all of them. The old Moscow Governor’s Palace  — the Mossoviet building, now the Mayor’s office  — survived, as did several others, because they were moved to make room!

E. “A House Has Moved!” is a famous children’s poem by the famous Soviet children’s writer Agnia Bartho. It features not only the fact of a building being moved, but also that it was being moved while everyone who lived in it… kept living in it. Soviet engineers took pride in their precise technology of moving buildings so smoothly that people who lived in them wouldn’t even notice it. It was usually done at night and the exact date was always unknown!

F. To achieve such a miracle, buildings had to be cut from their foundations, put on special rollers and placed on a bed of rails similar to those used on railroads. Engineers used flexible pipes and cables to ensure that the water system, sewerage, electricity, radio and telephone lines continued to work during the move. When an eye hospital was being moved in such a fashion, the doctors continued performing operations on their patients!

G. In 1983, part of the famous ‘MHAT’  — Moscow Academic Art Theatre  — building was moved to make the stage bigger. Since then, no buildings in Moscow had been moved until July 2020, when a 19th century water tower was moved 130 meters not far from Savelovsky railway station to make room for a new residential building. It’s great that the old technology has not been forgotten and is still used to save historic buildings from destruction.

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1.  Clever and misunderstood

2.  Similar constructions

3.  Street that changed history

4.  History set in stone

5.  The beloved characters

6.  Not completely gone!

7.  A poetic street

8.  Important visitors

A. There have always been cultural, political and commercial connections between Britain and Russia that can take us deep into the history of these two countries. Traces of some of them can be seen in the streets of their capitals  — be that the names of the streets themselves, the buildings standing on them or the monuments erected to outstanding representatives of these two nations, both real and fictional.

B. There are at least four streets in London that will remind you of Russia. Bayswater, one of the most beautiful areas of London, is home to Moscow Road and St. Petersburg Place  — two streets that commemorate Tsar Alexander I’s visit to England in 1814. Czar Street in Deptford is the area where Peter the Great stayed in 1698 during his Grand Embassy, to take a better look at the London shipyards; while Muscovy Street near the Tower of London marks the spot of Peter the Great’s favourite pub in London.

C. Neither Moscow, nor St. Petersburg can boast of a «London Street». However, a similar function is carried out by Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya  — English Embankment  — historically one of the most fashionable streets in St. Petersburg, where the British Embassy and the English church used to be located before the Revolution. And as for the Revolution, it was from the English Embankment that at 2 am on October 25, 1917, the gunshot from the Aurora sent a signal to storm the Winter Palace.

D. Still, Moscow also has a couple of streets with English names. Brusov Lane is named after a Scottish dynasty whose most famous representative  — James Bruce  — was Peter the Great’s close friend and advisor. It was James Bruce who accompanied Peter the Great on his Grand Embassy to England. A brilliant scholar and scientist, James Bruce was in charge of book printing in Russia, which led many illiterate people to believe he practiced black magic.

E. Another Moscow street with an English name is Gamsonovsky pereulok or Hampson Lane, located not far from the Danilovsky monastery. The Hampsons were a large British family that moved to Russia in the early 19^th century and founded a velvet factory on the Moskva River. Neither the Hampson family, not their factory can be found in Moscow today, but the street name still tells the story of the long-forgotten past.

F. One of the most recognizable sky-scrapers in modern London is the so called Gherkin  — a torpedo-shaped building in the City, London’s financial center, that opened in 2004 and immediately won the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Few people know that the architect’s inspiration for the steel structure of the skyscraper was Vladimir Shukhov’s diagrid system used in the Shukhov Radio Tower in Moscow.

G. Perhaps the only «English» statue in Moscow is a sculptural composition of Sherlock Holms and Dr. Watson which opened in 2007 next to the British Embassy for the 120^th anniversary since the publication of the first story about the great detective by Conan Doyle. «These heroes have long become the personification of Great Britain in the eyes of Russians and a recognized symbol of Russian-British friendship,» wrote the British Ambassador on its opening.

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1.  One kind of energy into another!

2.  Enough is enough!

3.  Always something to celebrate!

4.  Home again!

5.  Always right on trend!

6.  No need to study abroad!

7.  Spring is in the air!

8.  Not to forget the history!

A.In the 19^th and 20^th century, just like any other big industrial city, Moscow had many plants and factories. They provided Muscovites with jobs and industrial goods such as fabrics, clothes and cars. They also made their owners rich and famous. However, from the late 20^th century until now the number of plants and factories in Moscow has been subsiding, and here again, Moscow follows the general tendency that you can see all over the world.

B. Besides jobs and industrial goods, plants and factories bring pollution. Add the exhaust fumes from cars and you will get a city covered in smog. This has always been a problem, but by the mid 20^th century it reached the point when it became obvious that something had to be done. Big companies started closing their manufacturing facilities in cities and moving them elsewhere. But their buildings remained, and many of them got second lives.

C. Two of the most spectacular examples of this trend are the two former power stations in London: Bankside Power Station which was closed in 1981 and converted into Tate Modern Gallery in 1994; and Battersea Power Station which was closed in 1975 and is now in the process of being transformed into a modern facility which will house a unique blend of restaurants, shops, parks, cultural and office spaces, as well as residential accommodation.

D. Moscow has several similar projects. One of the first was transforming a silk factory once owned by a French merchant Claude-Marie Girot into a modern business block. The sturdy red-brick four-storied buildings, so typical of the late-19^th century factories, now house different businesses, among which is Yandex headquarters. The business block is called Red Rose 1875, commemorating the year the silk factory was opened and the fact that during the Soviet times it was named after Rosa Luxemburg.

E. Bolshevik Sweets Factory is famous primarily for it Yubileynoe cookies which were first produced in 1913 to celebrate the Romanov family 300^th Anniversary on the Russian throne. Today, besides many other things, its historic building in Moscow is home to the Russian Impressionism Museum whose owner collects paintings of late 19^th  — early 20^th century Russian artists. Many of the pictures were bought abroad and brought back to Russia.

F. Manometer Plant opened in 1886 as a foundry and during the Soviet times produced a lot of machinery for different industries. When its facilities were moved out of Moscow, the old buildings were turned into a center of art, architecture and design called Artplay. Several art galleries and architectural workshops, can be found here, as well as The British Higher School of Art and Design which has become quite popular with Russian art students.

G. One of the most popular creative spaces located in the old industrial sites is the former perfume factory well-known now as Flacon. This is the place enjoyed by Muscovites and tourists alike. In addition to cool cafes and restaurants, workshops and concerts, Flacon regularly holds all sorts of festivals  — Days of a particular country like Norway or France, Singapore or Japan, as well as festivals of creative industries and handmade crafts.

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1.  Never too late!

2.  True symbols

3.  The real thing

4.  Back to beauty

5.  The best for the best

6.  No borders or boundaries

7.  No place is too small for it!

8.  A successful beginning

A. Gothic Revival is an architectural style that became popular in Britain in the early 19^th century, right after the period of neo-classicism with its straight lines and noble columns. When English architects turned to the elegant tall towers and pointed narrow windows of medieval gothic castles, it was, in a way, a reaction to the machine production of the Industrial Revolution, as well as a desire to portray pre-industrial society as a golden age.

B. Present-day Britain is full of churches, universities, and other public buildings and private houses built in this style. However, the two most iconic and recognisable Gothic Revival constructions are the Houses of Parliament and the Tower Bridge in London. The Palace of Westminster that houses the British Parliament was built in the 1860s after the old building had burnt down, whereas the Tower Bridge was erected in 1894.

C. During the 19^th century, Gothic Revival quickly spread to other European countries and the USA. Several of the most prestigious American universities like Princeton or Yale adopted Gothic Revival style for their campuses and called it Collegiate Gothic. Gothic Revival style may not be as wellrepresented in Russia, but can be found there as well, if you know where to look  — sometimes in quite unexpected places!

D. The well-known Russian industrialist Alexei Khludov often went to London and Liverpool in the 1840s-1860s to learn about textile manufacturing and to buy equipment for his own cotton factories. Charmed by the brand new clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, he decided to build his own ‘Big Bens’ for his facilities in Egorievsk and Yartsevo, bringing Gothic Revival to these little places in Moscow and Smolensk regions.

E. Another Russian textile magnate Savva Morozov built a Gothic Revival mansion in central Moscow  — in Spiridonovka Street. It is not only from the outside that the mansion looks like a castle. Dark wooden Gothic interior, stained-glass windows and even thrones make you feel that you have been transported into the middle ages. Morozov’s mansion was the first big project of architect Fyodor Schechtel that brought him fame.

F. Perhaps the most unexpected place to find Gothic Revival interiors in Russia is Sandunov’s public baths  — the most luxurious public baths in Moscow. Sila Sandunov built his baths for aristocracy in the early 19^th century. But it was in the 1890s that the baths were rebuilt so that each room had its own architectural style. A heavy wooden ceiling, carved chairs and windows, as well as a beautiful mosaic make it look like an English castle.

G. There are many more buildings in Moscow that have been erected in Gothic Revival style by the most talented Russian architects in the 19^th century. But there is also one authentic English building  — designed by Richard Kneel Freeman, an architect from the town of Bolton near Manchester. It is the Anglican church of St Andrews in Voznesensky Lane, which makes the whole area around it look like a little part of Britain in central Moscow.

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A.  Bill and Peggy are planning their trip to Moscow.

B.  Bill and Peggy study together at the university.

C.  Peggy has never been to Moscow before.

D.  While in Moscow, Bill rode a bicycle.

E.  Bill is a vegetarian.

F.  Peggy speaks good Russian.

G.  Bill liked literary museums in Moscow.

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Bill: Hi Peggy! How’s it going?

Peggy: Hi Bill! I’m doing great! Guess what, I’m going to Moscow for my study abroad program next year. This is my first trip to Russia!

Bill: That’s fantastic, Peggy! I was there during my gap year. I can give you some advice about what to see and do there if you like.

Peggy: That would be great! I was hoping you’d be able to help me out.

Bill: Well, the nice thing about Moscow is that you won’t need a car. The public transportation system is one of the best in the world and the metro stations are very efficient and also beautiful. Tourists come from all over the world to see them.

Peggy: Oh! That’s good to hear. I was thinking about buying a bicycle to travel around Moscow. But I guess, it’s not necessary.

Bill: It’s true that Moscow is becoming more bicycle-friendly. There are special lanes for bikes and you can even rent them around the city for a small fee, but there’s still a lot of traffic and pedestrians to navigate through and it’s too cold and slippery in the winter for biking.

Peggy: Right! What about food? You know, I’m a vegetarian.

Bill: Well, being a vegetarian is not as common in Russia as it is in America, but it’s becoming more and more popular in Moscow, and you can find specialty stores that sell things like tofu and other products for vegetarians, as well as vegetarian cafes. In addition, there are a lot of great dairy products like kefir and cottage cheese that you will love that you can find in any supermarket.

Peggy: Cool! Another thing I was wondering about is where I can go to watch movies. I’m a really avid film-goer and I don’t like missing new releases. The problem is, my Russian isn’t so good and I heard that in Russia all foreign films are dubbed into Russian.

Bill: That’s true. Sometimes it’s really hard to find films shown in English. There are a few places though that show films in English with Russian subtitles. These are often artsy intellectual places for Russians who know English, and they don’t often sell popcorn there. You won’t be able to find blockbuster films there, either.

Peggy: That’s ok. I prefer watching more artistic films anyway. I also don’t care much for popcorn, so it’s not a big deal. What about places to see? I know about all the major attractions. But I’m sure there must be some less well-known sights that I shouldn’t miss.

Bill: Since you are into movies, you should check out Mosfilm studio. They have excursions there where you can see Russian film sets and props for classic Soviet films. It’s extremely fascinating. There are also a large number of lesser known museums that were actually the homes of famous Russian writers and artists that show how they really lived. I especially loved Tolstoy’s and Dostoyevsky’s museums.

Peggy: That sounds wonderful! Thank you, Bill for giving me such great advice! I’m really looking forward to my year abroad!

Bill: I’m sure you’re going to have an unforgettable experience. Please keep in touch and let me know how it goes.

Peggy: Sure! See you later!

Bill: Bye!

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A.  The tourist has never been to Russia.

B.  The tourist wants to see both Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

C.  The tourist loves evening excursions.

D.  The manager thinks Saint Basil’s Cathedral isn’t worth seeing.

E.  The tourist will have some time for shopping in Moscow.

F.  The tourist hopes to visit a show in the State Kremlin Palace.

G.  The tourist wants to buy a tour straight away.

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Consultant: Hello, how may I help you?

Tourist: Hello. You see, I would like to book a tour to Russia and I was just wondering if you could help me?

Consultant: And may I tell you that you have made an excellent choice! Russia is an amazing country with lots of exciting places to see. Is it going to be your first visit to Russia?

Tourist: Yes, it is.

Consultant: Well, for the first visit to Russia I would suggest starting with Moscow. You could spend about a week there and do all the sightseeing, plus visit the museums. If you are planning a longer trip, we can recommend going to Saint Petersburg next.

Tourist: I think I would like to see only Moscow this time. You see, I’m a theater lover, and I’ve read it on the Internet that Moscow is famous for it’s theatres.

Consultant: You are absolutely right! We can help you book the tickets to the famous Bolshoi Theatre, if you wish.

Tourist: That would be great! Could you please tell me more about the tour.

Consultant: Yes, of course. Here is the suggested itinerary. When you arrive in Moscow, you’ll check in the hotel and have some rest. In the evening, you can have a bus tour around the city, just to get a general impression. Moscow looks magnificent in the evening, so you’ll enjoy it. The next day you’ll be able to see Moscow’s sights in daylight.

Tourist: Sounds good to me! Are we going to see the Red Square?

Consultant: Of course! It’s impossible to imagine a trip to Moscow without seeing Red Square, as it’s the heart of the country. You’ll see Saint Basil’s Cathedral. It’s a gorgeous building. Make sure you go inside, as there are 8 tiny churches there, which look like fairy-tale houses.

Tourist: Thanks, I’ll remember that.

Consultant: You’ll also see GUM — Russia’s number one department store. You’ll have enough time to go shopping there, if you wish, or have lunch there in a café, with a view of Red Square.

Tourist: I always wanted to see the Kremlin. Will it be possible to get inside it?

Consultant: Yes! But make sure you do it before 4 pm, as the museums there close early. There you will see Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell and the State Kremlin Palace, initially known as the Palace of Congresses. It’s vast 6000 seat auditorium was originally used to hold the congresses of the communist party of the Soviet Union. Today, it holds large social forums, theatrical performances, New Year’s shows for children and student’s balls.

Tourist: It all sounds so exciting! I think I’ll order a tour right now.

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1.  A good investment

2.  How it all began

3.  Multi-purpose constructions

4.  All is well that ends well

5.  A vertical marathon

6.  Breathtaking athletic events

7.  21st century technology

8.  Once number one globally

A. Radio and television towers are tall structures designed to transmit radio or television signals. However, besides serving their main function they often become tourist attractions, as a lot of them are true architectural wonders. Among some of the most famous  — and tallest  — towers in the world are the Tokyo Skytree, the Canton Tower in China, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, and the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia.

B. The Ostankino Tower is 540 meters tall which makes it the tallest tower in Europe. When it was built in 1968, it was the tallest structure in the world, which it remained until 1975. The Ostankino Tower radio and television signal covers the area with the population of over 15 million people. The Tower also has an observation platform and a restaurant about 330 meters in the air which you can reach on one of the lifts in just 58 seconds.

C. The first Radio Tower in Moscow was built during the Civil War in 1922 by the outstanding Russian architect Vladimir Shukhov and is a hyperboloid structure. In fact, it was Shukhov who first invented the hyperboloid metal structure in the 1890s, inspired by the weaving of peasant baskets. Vladimir Lenin himself approved the construction of this tower which today is considered a historic and architectural monument of Soviet Constructivism.

D. Yet another use of television towers is holding sports events. Some of the most common ones are base-jumping, an extreme sport where participants jump off high structures with parachutes; and bungee jumping, where the jumpers are attached to a tall structure with a large elastic cord. Among the more traditional competitions is racing up the tower staircase, which was held in the Ostankino Tower up until 2000, when the tower was damaged by the fire.

E. The fire broke out at a height of 458 m on 27 August, 2000. It took over 300 firefighters, more than 24 hours and a lot of effort to stop it. Many people were afraid that the tower would not be able to survive and would collapse. Luckily it didn’t happen. But almost all TV channels and some radio channels stopped working for several days. The reconstruction of the tower that followed lasted until 2007. In 2009 the tower reopened its doors to tourists.

F. And not only to them. On July 21, 2018, Ostankino Tower was open again to 28 sportsmen from 12 countries who raced up its winding staircase. The staircase is very narrow, so the sportsmen had to run one by one with a 30 second interval between them. Only professional runners were allowed to participate. It was a German athlete Christian Riedl who made it to the top in just 9 minutes and 51 seconds, setting a new record.

G. It would be logical to assume that television towers are the tallest structures in the world. In fact, it had been true until 2009 when the Burj Khalifa, the tallest sky-scraper in the world, was built in Dubai. It cost about $1.5 billion to complete the construction of this building, but it paid off: office and apartment space pricing is over $40,000 per m2, and over 90% of all the apartments and offices are now occupied!

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You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Martin who writes:

… It is almost spring, but surprisingly, it snowed last Wednesday! This was the first snow we’d had in more than two years! Everyone got very excited. My brother and I made a snowman in the back yard. All the roads became very slippery, so school was cancelled, and many businesses like banks were closed for two days. In which weather conditions does school in Moscow get cancelled? What was the last time you experienced it, if ever? What is the weather like in Moscow now?

By the way, our snowman turned out so good, they even put its picture in the local newspaper! …

Write a letter to Martin.

In your letter

— answer his questions

— ask 3 questions about Martin’s snowman.

Write 100–140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

You have received an email message from your English-speaking pen-friend Martin:

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: Welcome

By the way, our snowman turned out so good, they even put its picture in the local newspaper! …

Write an email to Martin.

In your message

— answer his questions

— ask 3 questions about Martin’s snowman.

Write 100–140 words.

Remember the rules of email writing.

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You have received a letter from your New Zealand pen-friend Ann who writes:

…We are going to visit Moscow in September. What’s the weather like then? Do we need to bring our warm coats? My mum is a vegetarian, she eats lots of fruit. What sort of fruit will she find in Russia? My dad would like you to tell us what we could visit in a week.

By the way, yesterday I bought the necessary vegetables and cooked Russian borsch. Thank you for the recipe. Everyone liked it very much…

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A.  Lucy and Jack are university students.

B.  Jack is a football fan.

C.  During his summer trip to Russia Jack visited 2 cities.

D.  Lucy can speak Russian.

E.  It was difficult for Jack to get a Russian visa.

F.  Lucy will need to get a visa to go to Moscow in December.

G.  Jack and Lucy are planning to stay with Jack’s Russian friends.

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Lucy: Hi Jack! Good to see you! How did you spend your summer vacation?

Jack: Oh, I had a fantastic time! You know how much I like soccer…

Lucy: Don’t tell me you went to Moscow to the World Cup!

Jack: I sure did. And it was amazing!

Lucy: It must have cost you a fortune!

Jack: Well, the tickets were really expensive, but then everything else wasn’t that bad. And guess what! If you had a ticket to the game in another city, the train ride was free.

Lucy: Wow! What other cities did you go to?

Jack: Just St. Petersburg. But that was enough. I didn’t have time to see everything. That would have taken months. There’s just so much to see and explore there.

Lucy: How did you manage to get around? You don’t speak a word of Russian!

Jack: I didn’t need to. Everyone that I talked to spoke decent English. There were lots of English-speaking volunteers around to help out if you had any troubles. And there were fans from all over the world, and most of them spoke English too.

Lucy: That’s so cool! So what did you think of Russia? Did it turn out to be any different from what you had expected?

Jack: Yes, it was completely different. I didn’t know that Russia was so modern. And I didn’t expect the people to be so friendly. I had always heard that Russians were gloomy and depressed. But everyone was smiling and happy and curious about us foreigners.

Lucy: What about Russian food? Did you like it?

Jack: Absolutely! That was the best part. I especially enjoyed eating piroshky.

Lucy: What’s that?

Jack: They are these delicious stuffed pies filled with things like cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms or meat. They are a kind of street food that you can find sold everywhere. They can also be sweet.

Lucy: That sounds yummy! Did you have time to do anything besides eating and watching the games?

Jack: I did. I visited 2 museums: the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. I didn’t know anything about Russian art before, but now I understand I was missing out.

Lucy: I’m really envious. Isn’t it really hard to get a Russian visa?

Jack: Normally it is and can take a lot of time. But it was not required at all for those who wanted to visit the World Cup. All you had to get was a Fan ID, and that was incredibly fast and easy if you had a ticket to the games.

Lucy: No way!

Jack: I know, right? And guess what! I can visit Russia without a visa again till the end of this year using the same Fan ID card. In fact, I’m thinking about going to celebrate New Year’s Eve there. They say it’s the biggest holiday in Russia, even bigger than Christmas.

Lucy: That sounds like fun! But aren’t you afraid of the winter?

Jack: Not at all. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a white Christmas. In fact, I’ve made some Russian friends who promised to take me ice-skating and skiing.

Lucy: Hey, if I started now, I’m sure I could get a Russian visa by December. Could we go together?

Jack: That sounds like a great idea!

Lucy: Where would we stay?

Jack: There are a lot of small hotels which are not that expensive. We’ll check them out on the Internet. Prices should be cheaper than during the World Cup.

Lucy: Oh, I’m so excited!

Jack: Me too! It’s a plan then!

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A.  Giles loves classical music.

B.  Giles and Tony are going to Moscow in summer.

C.  Tchaikovsky is Tony’s favourite composer.

D.  Louise knows a lot about Van Cliburn.

E.  Giles and Louise live in Washington, D.C.

F.  Louise studies to be an artist.

G.  Giles has been to Paris before.

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Louise: Hi Giles! What’s up?

Giles: Hello Louise! Everything’s great. Can’t wait till summer vacation.

Louise: Do you have any special plans for the summer?

Giles: You bet! I’m going to Moscow!

Louise: Wow, Giles! I had no idea you were interested in Russia.

Giles: I’m not. I’m going to the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Louise: You amaze me! That’s an even bigger surprise. I had no idea you were into classical music!

Giles: I’m not. But my younger brother Tony is. He is a pianist. He goes to Juilliard School in New York and he is going to take part in the Tchaikovsky Competition. He was selected to go! Can you imagine?

Louise: That’s incredible!

Giles: I know, right? That was his childhood dream. He was always telling me about this Van Cliburn guy.

Louise: Who is Van Cliburn?

Giles: He was a Texan pianist who won the first prize at the very first Tchaikovsky Competition back in 1958. Tony knows every little thing about him.

Louise: It sounds like your brother is quite a fan. So, what are you going to do in Moscow while you are there besides going to the competition?

Giles: My main role, of course, is to help my brother and make sure he eats well, gets enough rest and provide him with moral support.

Louise: Oh, come on! I’m sure a university student can take care of himself. Isn’t there something in Moscow that you would like to see?

Giles: Actually, I’m very excited to see their air and space museum. It’s called the Museum of Cosmonautics.

Louise: That sounds cool!

Giles: I grew up in Washington, D.C., you see, and the National Air and Space Museum has always been my favorite out of all Smithsonian Institution museums. I spent all of my days off there.

Louise: I’ve never been to Washington, D.C. So what are you expecting to see in the air and space museum in Moscow?

Giles: I would love to see a replica of the Mir space station. I know you can actually go inside it and look around.

Louise: Sounds like you’ve got it all planned. Have you already got your visas and bought the tickets?

Giles: Oh, yes. We’re all ready to go. What are your plans for the summer?

Louise: As a matter of fact, I’m going to Paris. I’ve got a special grant for studying art in the Louvre.

Giles: That sounds fantastic! You are an art major, aren’t you, Louise?

Louise: That’s right. I’m learning book illustration and design. So, in Paris I will be focusing on 17th century book illustrations.

Giles: Wow! That’s so interesting! I guess, we’ll have something to talk about in September!

Louise: We sure will! Good luck to your brother! I hope he brings back a gold medal.

Giles: Thanks, Louise! Have a great trip!

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How many pianists from the Moscow Conservatory participated in the 16^th Tchaikovsky Competition?

1)  5

2)  6

3)  9

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Andrea needed courage to apply to Juilliard School because she realized that

1)  she would be competing with the very best.

2)  she would have to give up having fun in life.

3)  her friends would have to become her rivals.

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Which of the following qualities does Andrea NOT talk about, when she describes Juilliard applicants?

1)  discipline

2)  creativity

3)  will-power

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When Andrea says “It’s easy to be intimidated”, the word “intimidated” is closest in meaning to the word

1)  discouraged.

2)  distracted.

3)  disappointed.

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Andrea first started the blog because she wanted to

1)  find answers to her questions about the application process.

2)  save the best memories of her getting into Juilliard school.

3)  help students who wanted to be accepted at Juilliard School.

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Andrea compares the International Tchaikovsky Competition to the Olympic Games because

1)  both of them are well-known international contests.

2)  it is difficult to be selected to participate in them.

3)  she thinks that performing music is a kind of sport.

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What impressed Andrea most at the 16th Tchaikovsky Competition?

1)  listeners

2)  participants

3)  jury members

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Presenter: Hello and welcome back! Our guest today is Andrea Carrera, a music major at the Juilliard School of Music. In addition to being a professional pianist in training, Ms Carrera is a well-known music blogger whose subscribers have reached the number of 3 million last summer! Good morning, Andrea! Thank you for joining us today!

Andrea Carrera: Good morning! Thank you for inviting me.

Presenter: Could you tell us how a blog about classical music can be so popular?

Andrea Carrera: Well, I would say, that was a very gradual achievement. I first started my blog when I got enough courage to apply to the Juilliard School.

Presenter: Courage? I didn’t know music was such a dangerous trade that it would require courage!

Andrea Carrera: Oh, it can be! The world of musicians is very competitive from the time you start as a young child, and then apply to college, begin your career as a graduate — you name it! And while you won’t face any death threats or dangers of criminal kind, you will have to realize who you are competing against — people who devote their entire lives, their entire well-being and existence to the pursuit of music. These are people with a passion, people who would not be tempted by watching Netflix or playing a video game after a really hard day. They would not be hanging out with their friends over the weekend. Instead, they would put in those extra couple of hours of practice that they always need. And yes, it can be quite scary to realize that these are your rivals. It’s easy to be intimidated.

Presenter: Wow! That sounds like a different species! But sorry for having interrupted you. You were saying that you started your blog when you were applying for Juilliard.

Andrea Carrera: That’s right. There were so many questions that I had, so many worries and uncertainties, that I decided that no matter what the outcome, I would start a blog where I would document my whole application process, including auditions, to make it easier for others who apply to the best music school in America. And when I did get in, I continued describing all my experiences as a student.

Presenter: So, this is how your audience grew?

Andrea Carrera: Yes. After all, music students from all over the world are curious about Juilliard. It’s like Harvard or Yale in the world of performing art. Just in a year the number of my subscribers reached a stable 500 000 and stayed that way for quite a while.

Presenter: And then what happened?

Andrea Carrera: Then I had an idea to go to Moscow for the 16th Tchaikovsky Competition.

Presenter: As a participant?

Andrea Carrera: No! No… I wish… You do have to be rather talented and hard-working and really lucky to get into Juilliard, but you have to be so much more to be selected to something like Tchaikovsky Competition. Competitions of that level are like the World Cup or the Olympics to us. No. I decided to go as a blogger and as a fan!

Presenter: A fan?

Andrea Carrera: Yes! Out of 25 pianists selected to participate, 6 were Juilliard alumni. I wanted to support them.

Presenter: Really? I thought there were only 2 participants from the United States, and only one of them went to Juilliard.

Andrea Carrera: That’s true. The other 5 were from different countries — Canada, South Korea, Spain and two from China. But they still went to Juilliard. In fact, the Juilliard School of Music and the Moscow Conservatory supplied 15 out of 25 participants, 6 and 9 respectively.

Presenter: Fascinating! How did you like the competition?

Andrea Carrera: I loved it! The legendary hall of the Moscow Conservatory, fantastic pianists, an impressive jury… But I especially liked the audience. They were so sincere in how they expressed their emotions, it was very touching. So I tried to write about it all in my blog, and I also conducted interviews with the participants and the jury members and videoed all that. And that’s when my audience grew to 3 million subscribers. So you see….

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The history of parachutes

B4	The history of parachutes is full of surprises. The first Text living thing to fall to earth with a parachute was a sheep.	ONE
B5	The animal, attached to a seven-foot-wide umbrella, was dropped from a tower in France.	DROP
B6	In 1797 a Frenchman named Andre Garnerin climbed into a basket attached to a hot-air balloon and rose into the air above Paris.	NAME
B7	When he reached an altitude of 2,230 feet, he cut the basket loose and fell toward the earth under an umbrella-like parachute. No one knew if a parachute would work from that height, but it did, and Garnerin went on to give many more parachute-jumping exhibitions.	DO

I need gloves !

B8	I’ve got a two-year-old brother, Jeremy. He doesn’t like/ does not like to eat with a spoon or a fork, he prefers to eat with his hands.	NOT LIKE
B9	Yesterday, my dad gave him a dish of ice cream, which was new to him.	GIVE
B10	Jeremy started eating/ to eat in with his hands. My mom was in the next room when he yelled, «Mommy, my hands are cold!» «Well, then, use your spoon,» she replied. «No, no, Mommy,» he yelled back, «I need gloves!»	EAT

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Задание 1

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Speaker A

Monarchy sounds pretty cool… a King, Queen, Prince or Princess, royal ceremonies and weddings. But when it comes to making important decisions, the fate of the country is left to chance. Monarchy is having one person with absolute power and that person can overrule any decision! Is it fair if your family has worked hard for three generations and then someone comes in and takes away everything you have? If you have a bad king or queen, you are in big trouble for a long time because you can’t vote out a monarch.

Speaker B

Who needs democracy nowadays? The politicians misuse the rights given to them. On the contrary, monarchy, if used right, could be very effective. It works very well because the monarch can really get things done as he has no congress or parliament to convince to do things his way. The monarch acts like a president, but he has years of experience to add to the role of government adviser, having worked with many political parties over the years. My country is ruled by the monarchy. The Prince and Princess are nice people and they’ve done a lot for our country.

Speaker C

In reality, there are a lot of people who feel that monarchy is an expensive anachronism. In the UK, the monarchy is not nearly as costly to the taxpayers as some people think it is. They make far more money for Great Britain than they receive. The tourist trade became huge in the last century; much of it made from the Royalty. The Royals also raise enormous amounts of money for charities by being patrons of them. Besides, we do not have to elect a president, and this alone saves a lot of money. I’m sure Britain would be far less well-off as a republic.

Speaker D

The monarchy is thousands of years old and it is steeped in tradition. One can say that monarchy is a bit outdated but it does have lots of advantages. Firstly, it attracts plenty of tourists, who love visiting Britain because of its rich cultural and historic heritage, which is mostly due to the Royals. Everyone loves the Royals and they want to see Buckingham palace. Did you see how many people were present at the wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate? Abolishing the monarchy would be the same as knocking down the Tower of London.

Speaker E

The most well organized nations in Europe are all monarchies. I don’t think this is a coincidence. I think having a neutral monarch provides strength and unity in the country. The monarch provides a sense of continuity in times of political and social change. While political parties change constantly, the sovereign continues as Head of State, providing a stable framework within which a government can introduce wide-ranging reforms. And at least one part of the government is always there. Elected parties come and go, but the monarch is always there to ensure that the elected government is put in place.

Speaker F

I would say most of us are a bit indifferent in our opinions on monarchy. Having never lived under a monarchy, we mostly don’t have sufficient experience to really know what it’s like to be under a monarch. However, I can’t see any significant difference between a monarchy and a republic. Most of the western European republics are almost no different in constitution from monarchy, except that they have a president instead of a king or queen to do formal stuff like summoning and dissolving Parliament, calling elections, and appointing the Prime Minister. So from a governmental point of view, there’s absolutely no benefit.

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1. Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A-F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1-7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.

1) Stability is one of the biggest advantages of monarchy.
2) What the world requires today is monarchy.
3) Monarchy has no real advantage at all.
4) The monarchy more than pays for itself.
5) Monarchy may be the worst form of government!
6) Monarchy is an expensive anachronism.
7) The monarchy gives people a sense of history and heritage.

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Kate: Hi, Pete — I just wondered if you fancied coming out for a coffee.
Pete: Oh, I was just writing a letter.
Kate: Writing a letter! Is your phone out of order?
Pete: No… well, not exactly a letter. Ben’s applied for a job at a children’s summer camp, and they’ve asked me for a character reference. He must have put me down as one of his referees.
Kate: Oh dear — you’re not going to tell them the truth, are you?
Pete: What do you mean?
Kate: Well, that he’s a big-headed show-off who goes out every night and never does a day’s work.
Pete: Oh, come on, he’s not that bad — I mean, kids love him. Do you remember the birthday party that he arranged for his little brother last month? It was really fantastic! And he always entertains his brother’s friends with his magic tricks and silly jokes.
Kate: Oh yes, he’s great with children — but he’s a big kid himself, isn’t he?
Pete: Yes, I suppose he is a bit immature. You never know what he is up to.
Kate: And I hope they don’t expect him to work before four o’clock in the afternoon. You know what he’s like — he needs a bomb under him to get him up in the morning.
Pete: That’s right. He’s always late in the morning.
Kate: Also, he hates taking orders from anybody. Do you remember that job he had last summer in a restaurant? He ended up throwing a bucket of water over the chef when she asked him to wash the kitchen floor.
Pete: Oh no, don’t remind me. He won’t do anything he doesn’t enjoy, will he? Mind you, he did run that restaurant single-handed when the chef and two of the waiters were off sick with food poisoning.
Kate: That’s true. He’s good in a crisis. But having said that, he’s good at causing a crisis as well I mean, you know the food poisoning was his fault, don’t you?
Pete: Oh, yes — oh dear, this isn’t helping. Yet I think he could…
Kate: Hey, do you think he’s still got blue hair?
Pete: Well, his appearance is rather strange but kids find it rather attractive, Come on. Let’s go and get that coffee.

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2. Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений A-G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — True), какие не соответствуют (2 — False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.

A Ben has already worked at a children’s summer camp.
B Ben is self-assured, outgoing and extremely sociable.
C Ben is good at entertaining children.
D Ben is a mature person.
E Ben is best suited to early morning tasks.
F Ben shows great initiative and responds well to a challenge.
G Ben is a bit of a trouble-maker.

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Задание 3

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Question: Doctor Dibb, what is ARCTAS?

Answer: ARCTAS stands for the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites. It is part of the activities that are going on under the umbrella of the International Polar Year about every 40 or 50 years. 2008 and 2009 are two of those years when this is occurring after the last ones were in the 50’s. This is the time when the international community comes together and focuses on polar aspects.

Question: Why should we study the Arctic?

Answer: It’s generally a very clean region because nobody or very few people actually live there, but there’s a lot of pollution that is imported into those areas and transported there. So our main goal is to see how it is getting transported, where it is coming from and what impact it might have on the regional climate in the arctic region.

Question: Why don’t you use satellites to get this data?

Answer: The satellites do a good job of staying there for several years so they do provide us a longterm view of things. They also cover a lot of territory so they are more global in nature, but they don’t do a very good job in terms of the details. They don’t measure a lot of things that we need to know in order to understand the system, in order to be able to model it and to forecast or predict the changes in the future. So a lot of detailed observations we will be doing using airborne platforms are really not possible from satellites. But there is a second aspect. Things that are measurable from satellites require a lot of validation, because a satellite is really an indirect measure of things.

Question: How does this study relate to climate change?

Answer: Given the recent loss of Arctic ice in 2007, which was unprecedented, this is a fortuitous time for us to be here looking at climate change in the Arctic. We’re particularly interested in the atmospheric contribution to that so in the spring we’re looking at what is traditionally been described as Arctic haze. Besides, this Arctic haze has components that come from pollution transport from mid-latitude locations such as North America, Europe and Siberia.

Question: So, are you looking at how carbon dioxide is related to climate change?

Answer: We’re not only looking at carbon dioxide, which is the most recognizable greenhouse gas, but also at methane, and CFC’s and ozone, even more importantly. Ozone is a greenhouse gas that’s not emitted by pollution but is created by the chemistry of pollutants as they’re transported to the Arctic. Trying to understand those things is an important part of this campaign.

Question: What recent changes in the Arctic have made the ARCTAS mission really important?

Answer: One of the things that has been of great interest in the last few years is why the snow and ice are now. melting earlier in the year and freezing up later and, clearly, the air is a little warmer. There’s also speculation that the dirt and the black carbon that is in the Arctic haze that’s deposited just as the sun is coming up may actually change the reflection of the snow and hasten the melt season. So where is this black carbon coming from? Is it increasing or decreasing over time? And does it have a measurable effect on the reflection of the white surface as we come out of the winter in the Arctic? These questions are a major motivation behind ARCTAS.

Question: What is your field of study and how does it relate to the ARCTAS mission?

Answer: We have a lot of similar issues, like where the air comes from that gets to a place like Greenland and how it gets out of the atmosphere, and onto the ground. Recently we’ve discovered that there’s very active processing of the snow. When the sun shines on the snow, a lot of complicated chemistry happens that nobody knew about 10 years ago. I’m actually studying snow and air samples in Greenland to better understand ice core analyses that have been done by other folks in our group and in other areas of the world.

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Вы услышите интервью с учёным. В заданиях 3-9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

3. What is the International Polar Year?

1. It happens every 50 years.2. It lasts for about a year.3. It is a programme of scientific research.

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4. Why do scientists study the Arctic?

1. It is a rather polluted region.2. This region is getting polluted nowadays.3. It is a very clean region.

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5. Why do scientists not use satellites to get necessary data?

1. The satellites can’t carry out detailed observations.2. They only provide a long-term view of things.3. They don’t measure things.

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6. Why are scientists going to look at the Arctic haze?

1. They want to study components that come from pollution.2. They are interested in atmospheric contribution to climate change.3. They are worried about an unprecedented loss of Arctic ice.

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7. Why is ozone so important for studying climate change?

1. It is created by the chemistry of pollutants.2. It is the most recognizable greenhouse gas.3. It is emitted by pollution.

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8. What makes the ARCTAS mission really important?

1. The necessity to study the black carbon.2. The interest why the snow and ice are melting.3. The fact that the black carbon hastens the melt season.

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9. What is Doctor Dibb’s field of study?

1. He examines snow and air samples.2. He studies how the air comes to Greenland.3. He carries out ice core analyses.

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10. 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.

1) Foreign Food
2) Diet Dangers
3) Changing Habits
4) Eating Out

5) Plan Your Diet Carefully
6) Popular but Useless
7) Food Safety
Eating Together

A. A quick look at junk food facts tells us junk food and diets do not go hand in hand. Junk foods are also called ‘empty calorie’ foods and have no nutritional value. Nevertheless, they are enjoyed by lots of people because of their simplicity to manufacture, consume and, of course, their taste. Chocolates, burgers, pizzas, potato wafers and fries will surely find their way into everyone’s heart.

B. Thai cuisine is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. In fact, several Thai dishes, such as Tom Yum Soup, are currently under scientific study for their incredible health benefits. Of course, it’s already known that many of the fresh herbs and spices used in Thai cooking — such as turmeric, galangal, coriander, lemongrass, and fresh chillies have immune-boosting and disease-fighting power.

C. Vegetarian diets can be very healthy, but eating a balanced diet when you are vegetarian usually requires a little extra attention. Because vegetarians eliminate certain foods from their diets, they often need to work to add foods into their diet that will provide the nutrients found in meat products. If properly planned, vegetarian diets can provide all the nutrients you need.

D. It’s actually easy to make good choices at a fast-food restaurant or the cafeteria. Most cafeterias and fast-food places offer healthy choices that are also tasty, like grilled chicken or salads. Be mindful of portion sizes and high fat add-ons, like dressings, sauces or cheese. Most restaurant portions are larger than the average serving of food at home. Ask for half portions or take half of your dish home.

E. Family meals are making a comeback. Shared family meals are more likely to be nutritious, and kids who eat regularly with their families are less likely to snack on unhealthy foods and more likely to eat fruits and vegetables. Teens who take part in regular family meals are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol, or use drugs. Beyond health and nutrition, family meals provide a valuable opportunity to reconnect.

F. Families are cooking more meals at home, cutting back on take away in the face of the economic downturn. In addition to cutting back on take away and eating out, families have begun cooking more vegetarian meals and are adding vegetables, lentils and baked beans to allow them to cut back on meat quantity. Consumers also indicate that they are likely to prepare meals that can be spread across more than one mealtime.

G. In recent years it has become common practice for celebrities and stars to publicize food products. Businesses take advantage of consumers’ mentality of ‘following the stars’ and invite celebrities and stars to perform ‘false advertising’ so as to mislead or even deceive consumers. The law stipulates that those who publicize ‘faulty food products’ will share responsibility with food producers and sellers.

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

When you mention the name ‘Hovercraft’ most people think of a helicopter. If someone sees one from the river bank, the term ‘airboat’ comes to their mind because most people are not quite sure A___________. Few people know of the personal sized hovercraft B___________.

A hovercraft is a vehicle, designed to travel over any smooth surface. Hovercraft are unique among all forms of transportation in their ability to travel equally well over land, ice, and water C___________. That is why they are used throughout the world as a means of specialized transport D___________. Hovercraft can be powered by one or more engines. The engine drives the fan, which is responsible for creating high pressure air. The air inflates the ‘skirt’ under the vehicle, causing it to rise above the ground.

The Hovercraft Museum, located in Hampshire, houses the world’s largest library of documents, publications, photographs and drawings on hovercraft, E___________. The museum also contains a large collection of original manufacturer’s hovercraft models including the world’s first working hovercraft model built by Christopher Cockerell.

Cockerell’s idea was to build a vehicle floating on a layer of air, F___________. To test his hypothesis, he put one smaller can inside a larger can and used a hairdryer to blow air into them. Christopher Cockerell was knighted for his achievement in 1969.

Hovercraft have now become much larger, more efficient and are in widespread use all over the world.

1) what they are looking at
2) which would reduce friction between the water and vehicle
3) all of which are available for research
4) where there is the need to travel over multiple types of surfaces
5) that are used worldwide for recreation, racing and rescue
6) so as to entertain the general public
7) because they are supported by a cushion of air

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Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 12-18. В каждом задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

As Andrea turned off the motorway onto the road to Brockbourne, the small village in which she lived, it was four o’clock in the afternoon, but already the sun was falling behind the hills. At this time in December, it would be completely dark by five o’clock.

Andrea shivered. The interior of the car was not cold, but the trees bending in the harsh wind and the patches of yesterday’s snow still heaped in the fields made her feel chilly inside. It was another ten miles to the cottage where she lived with her husband Michael, and the dim light and wintry weather made her feel a little lonely.

She was just coming out of the little village of Mickley when she saw an old lady, standing by the road, with a crude hand-written sign saying ‘Brockbourne’ in her hand.

Andrea was surprised. She had never seen an old lady hitchhiking before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady, waiting hopefully on a country road like this with little traffic. Normally, Andrea would never pick up a hitchhiker when she was alone, thinking it was too dangerous, but what was the harm in doing a favor for a little old lady like this? Andrea pulled up a little way down the road, and the lady, holding a big shopping bag, hurried over to climb in the door which Andrea had opened for her.

When she did get in, Andrea could see that she was not, in fact, so little. Broad and fat, the old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, with her big bag, and when she had got in, she more than filled the seat next to Andrea. She wore a long, shabby old dress, and she had a yellow hat pulled down low over her eyes. Panting noisily from her effort, she pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet, and said in a voice which was almost a whisper, ‘Thank you dearie. I’m just going to Brockbourne.’

‘Do you live there?’ asked Andrea, thinking that she had never seen the old lady in the village in the four years she had lived there herself. ‘No, dearie, ’ answered the passenger, in her soft voice, ‘I’m just going to visit a friend. He was supposed to meet me back there at Mickley, but his car won’t start, so I decided to hitchhike. I knew some kind soul would give me a lift.’

Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, but stared continuously into the darkness ahead from under her old yellow hat, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something … dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd. Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs… Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andrea’s blood froze. This wasn’t a woman. It was a man.

At first, she didn’t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid, and brought it toa halt. ‘My God!’ she shouted, ‘A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!’ The ‘old lady’ was clearly shaken by the sudden skid. ‘I didn’t see anything dearie, ’ she said. ‘I don’t think you hit anything.’ ‘I’m sure it was a child!’ insisted Andrea. ‘Could you just get out and have a look? Just see if there’s anything on the road?’ She held her breath. Would her plan work?

It did. The passenger slowly opened the car door, leaving her bag inside, and climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker.

It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her.Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity of the old woman who was actually not an old woman. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea lifted the heavy bag onto her lap and opened it curiously. It contained only one item — a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe, and the inside of the bag, were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream.

(Adapted from ‘The Hitchhiker’, a common urban legend)

12. Andrea shivered because

1. it was chilly inside the car.2. it was snowing outside.3. the weather was wintry.4. the sun was falling behind the hills.

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13. Andrea decided to give the old woman a lift because

1. she was alone.2. had never seen an old lady hitchhiking before.3. she didn’t think it was dangerous.4. she normally picked up hitchhikers.

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14. The old lady seemed strange to Andrea since

1. she didn’t take off her yellow hat.2. she had a big shopping bag.3. her behaviour was unnatural.4. she wore old shabby clothes.

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15. Andrea suddenly stopped her car because

1. she wanted to make the passenger get out of the car.2. she intended to frighten her passenger.3. she thought she had hit a child.4. the car skidded as there was ice on the road.

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16. Andrea opened the bag because

1. she intended to throw her things away.2. she wanted to find out who the passenger was.3. she would like to use her things.4. she was going to find the address of ‘the old lady’.

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17. Andrea felt terrified because the hitchhiker turned out to be

1. a woodcutter.2. a murderer.3. a smuggler.4. a thief.

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18. According to the story, Andrea was

1. persistent.2. cold-hearted.3. suspicious.4. resourceful.

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Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика.

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст, предложения которого распределены по заданиям 19-25. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текстов. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.

19. My Friend

My friend Mark hates sport. He isn’t very good at running and he ____________(NOT CAN) catch a ball.

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20. Mark likes computers. So he is much more interested in ____________(USE) a computer which is in our classroom.

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21. Every Monday we have to go swimming but last week Mark ____________(NOT BRING) his swimming things to school.

Верный ответ: Didnotbring

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22. Our teacher asked, ‘____________(BRING) (you) your swimming costume today, Mark?’

Верный ответ: Haveyoubrought

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23. Mark ____________(SHAKE) his head. He looked miserable.

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24. The teacher got angry and said, ‘Then you ____________(STAY) at school until we come back. Wait for us in the classroom.’

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25. Mark ____________(PUNISH) but he was very happy because he could play computer PUNISH games.

Верный ответ: Waspunished

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Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст, распределенный по заданиям 26-31. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами, однокоренные слова так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами.

26. Florida

When the famous explorer, Columbus claimed Florida for Spain in 1492, he had never laid eyes on it. The area’s most important early ____________(VISIT) thus set a pattern that has continued for centuries.

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27. There is a general belief amongst people, apparently quite ____________(CONNECT) with whether or not they’ve been there themselves, that Florida is a good place to go.

Верный ответ: Unconnected

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28. In fact, it is almost impossible not to enjoy yourself in Florida today, given the wonderful ____________(SELECT) of facilities available to tourists.

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29. Some of the world’s most popular tourist attractions are located in the state whose ____________(SAND) beaches welcome 40 million people each year.

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30. These days it seems ____________(POINT) to describe Florida’s geography and climate.

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31. After all, few people would have ____________(DIFFICULT) in finding it on a map and most would know what weather to expect there.

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Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 32-38. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 32-38, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов вместе с предложениями из текста ниже.

The Phoenix Legend

This magical, mythical bird has long been a part of legends, dating 32___________ to ancient civilizations. In today’s culture, the phoenix’s legend is still going 33___________, with a major city in the United States named after the resurrecting beast and popular books and movies, including the phenomenally successful ‘Harry Potter’ series encompassing the bird into characters and plots.

Since the story has come 34___________ to us through the oral tradition, there is no single version of it. It varies from teller to teller-each adding something of their own and changing tiny aspects of it. 35___________ , the main facts of the legend of the Phoenix remain intact, even though the myth has been adulterated.

According to the legend, the Phoenix is a supernatural creature that has an incredibly long 36___________, stretching to at least a thousand years. It cannot fall sick or get injured at any point in its lifetime. However, some believe that it does get affected by disease or drought, which leads it to prematurely enter the next phase of its life.

Once that time is over, the bird builds its own funeral pyre. The traditional story goes that the phoenix ignites himself, burns to ash, and then rises again from the ashes to live another thousand years. This triumph over adversity has caused the bird to become the 37___________ or symbol of many groups and organizations. Once the bird is born from ashes, the cycle begins anew.

Another version of the story is that before the fire consumes the bird, it lays an egg, which hatches a new phoenix. This phoenix will live to be a thousand years old before having an 38___________ in the same method. There is no way of ascertaining which version of the story is true, but all of them express the same theme: the triumph over adversity.

32. Выберите пропущенное слово

This magical, mythical bird has long been a part of legends, dating 32___________ to ancient civilizations.

1. through2. away3. back4. from

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33. Выберите пропущенное слово

In today’s culture, the phoenix’s legend is still going 33___________, with a major city in the United States named after the resurrecting beast and popular books and movies, including the phenomenally successful ‘Harry Potter’ series encompassing the bird into characters and plots.

1. strong2. alive3. fine4. healthy

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34. Выберите пропущенное слово

Since the story has come 34___________ to us through the oral tradition, there is no single version of it.

1. down2. forward3. round4. back

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35. Выберите пропущенное слово

It varies from teller to teller-each adding something of their own and changing tiny aspects of it. 35___________ , the main facts of the legend of the Phoenix remain intact, even though the myth has been adulterated.

1. Regardless2. Nonetheless3. Therefore4. As a result

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36. Выберите пропущенное слово

According to the legend, the Phoenix is a supernatural creature that has an incredibly long 36___________, stretching to at least a thousand years.

1. lifescan2. lifespan3. lifespam4. lifespin

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37. Выберите пропущенное слово

This triumph over adversity has caused the bird to become the 37___________ or symbol of many groups and organizations.

1. anthem2. amulet3. pendant4. mascot

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38. Выберите пропущенное слово

This phoenix will live to be a thousand years old before having an 38___________ in the same method.

1. offcut2. predecessor3. offspring4. ancestor

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Обратите внимание на необходимость соблюдения указанного объёма текста. Тексты недостаточного объёма, а также часть текста, превышающая требуемый объём, не оцениваются. Запишите сначала номер задания (39, 40), а затем ответ на него.

39. You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Harry who writes:

I’m fine but I’ve got a very busy week ahead. I’m a member of the school team and we are preparing for an important match in the City Championship. Are you fond of football? Do you watch football matches on TV? What other sports do you enjoy?

Well, I’d better go now. I’ve got to do some more training — I don’t want to lose this match.

Write back to Harry.
In your letter

— answer his questions

— ask 3 questions about his preparation for the match

Write 100 — 140 words.
Remember the rules of letter writing.

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40. Comment on the following statement.

Human cloning experiments should not be controlled by the government.

What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement?

Write 200 — 250 words.
Use the following plan:

— make an introduction (state the problem paraphrasing the given statement)

— express your personal opinion and give 2-3 reasons for your opinion

— express an opposing opinion and give 1-2 reasons for this opposing opinion

— explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion

— make a conclusion restating your position

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The Kremlin in Izmaylovo District

Izmaylovo District (Russian: райо́н Изма́йлово) is a district in the Eastern Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 102,837 (2010 Census);^[1] 110,099 (2002 Census).^[4]

It is a historical part of Moscow, the ancestral land of the Romanov noble family.

History[edit]

Izmaylovo, painted by K. Bodri, mid-19th century

The history of the village of Izmaylovo goes back to 1389. Since the days of Ivan the Terrible it was an estate of boyars in the Romanov family. In 1654, it was inherited by Alexis of Russia, who built a château on an artificial island around 1664—1690. At about the same time, in 1671—1679, a medieval church was rebuilt into Church of Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. The château was later expanded by architects Konstantin Thon and Mikhail Bykovsky into Izmaylovo Estate. It survived the fire of 1812, and is now an outdoor tourist destination.

Peter the Great grew up in Izmaylovo and had been known for sailing a small boat which he discovered in the storage of his great grandfather Nikita Romanov. This boat is now in Central Naval Museum in St. Petersburg, and is credited as the «grandfather of the Russian Navy».

A building designed especially for weddings in Old Russian stone house architectural style in Izmailovo Kremlin

Church of Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos

According to the Russian population audit of 1800, the population of Izmaylovo was 121 homesteads comprising 753 people. The village continued to grow slowly until the October Revolution, when the buildings were confiscated and given to laborers. In 1924, a part of Izmaylovo became known as Bauman township, named after the Russian revolutionary Nikolay Bauman. Other objects named after him are the Baumanskaya metro station and Bauman University, both are located outside of Izmaylovo.

Geography[edit]

Izmaylovo borders Preobrazhenskoye and Sokolinaya gora Districts in the west, Perovo District in the south, Ivanovskoye District and MKAD in the east, and Golyanovo District in the north. Almost a half of its territory is occupied by Izmaylovsky Park, which, with an area of 12 square kilometers (4.6 sq mi), is one of the largest urban parks in the world and is about 3.5 times the size of the Central Park in New York City. Serebryanka River, which flows through the park, is the main river in the district.

Izmaylovo Kremlin[edit]

The Kremlin in Izmaylovo is a unique center of culture and entertainment, based at the famous Izmaylovo Vernissage. It is built in a architecture style of Old Muscovite Russia which consists of colorful ornament and wooden architecture in the Russian style. It is an imitation of Moscow based on sketches from the 14th-17th centuries.^[5] It is supposed to depict many elements of Old Russian architecture as it looked like in pre-Petrine times. It is also inspired by drawings of Russian fairy tales.^[6] This complex is used for civil weddings as it has a wedding palace, a restaurant and bars. However, it is also used as an amusement park/open-air museum for children on the theme of ‘Old Russia’. There is a reconstruction of a wooden Russian church that used to dot the Russian countryside before the Russian Revolution but it is not used for weddings. There is also a big market that sells souvenirs amongst other things.

Izmaylovo Market[edit]

Next to the Kremlin there is a large open flea market where people sell various Russian crafts and souvenirs. Goods from Central Asia are offered too. Dishes from different regions of Russia are also sold as well as from other former countries of the Soviet Union.^[7] Izmaylovo became a market already in the 17th century.^[8]

Izmailovo Hotel[edit]

Izmailovo Hotel was the largest hotel in Europe largest hotel in the world from 1980 until 1993. It consists of four high-rise buildings and has 5,000 rooms. It is located in Izmaylovo District near the Partizanskaya subway station of Moscow Metro.

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
^ «26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года». Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
^ «Об исчислении времени». Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
^ Sinelschikova, Yekaterina (November 17, 2018). «Souvenirs, a fake Kremlin, craft food: Your ultimate guide to Izmailovo Market». www.rbth.com. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
^ «Moscow’s Other, Lesser Known Kremlin». Atlas Obscura. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
^ «Izmailovo tour in Moscow flea market & Kremlin». Moscow Free Tour — historically first and probably the best Free tour in Moscow as well as Kremlin tour, Moscow metro tour, Moscow guided tour, one of the best Moscow city tours, Moscow travel, all of Moscow day tours in Moscow Russia, even Monino air museum and air defense museum, see Moscow sights with best Moscow tour guide. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
^ «Flea Market in Izmailovo». My Guide Moscow. Retrieved August 25, 2019.

Sources[edit]

Izmaylovo in Moscow Encyclopedia (in Russian)

External links[edit]

The kremlin in Izmaylovo

For everyone who enjoys the festivities of the Maslenitsa (Pancake week), hotel “Izmailovo” (“Gamma”, “Delta”) has prepared the special offer — “Wide Maslenitsa (Pancake Days)” that includes not only accommodation in cozy and comfortable rooms but also “Buffet” breakfast. Besides, guests can take advantage of 10% discount for the entire menu in “Mikhail Svetlov” Restaurant and “Vienna” café.

During all the week, from March 7 to 13, there will be served a special festive dishes for Buffet breakfast – crepes and traditional Russian yeast blinis, stuffed pancakes, all served with different dressings: sour cream, condensed milk, jam, honey. You can enjoy the variety of stuffed pancakes every day: on Monday try our cheese pancakes; on Tuesday – buckwheat ones; on Wednesday – with raisins; on Thursday – with apples; on Friday – with onions and eggs; on Saturday – with fried mushrooms; on Sunday – “lacy” festive thin crepes. Want to try them all? Come and stay with us during the whole week!

In “Vienna” café you can make a feast of the traditional Russian blinis (pancakes) served with red caviar, salmon, sour cream, condensed milk, honey, caramel sauce, raspberry, cherry and strawberry jams.

Staying in “Izmailovo” («Gamma», «Delta») you can visit and take part in the festivities in Izmailovo Kremlin, Izmailovo Park and in the museum-estate “Izmailovo”. To find out about all the events during the Pancake week, but not limited to them, please visit our official web-site www.izmailovo.ru, “Top-10 cultural events in Moscow” page.

Wide Pancake week to you!

Yours ever,

Tourist Hotel Complex «Izmailovo»

(«Gamma», «Delta»)

For any person who has not been in contact with the modern life in Russia in general, and Moscow in particular, during the last 25 years or so, the shopping experience might still be portrayed as a rather negative experience, especially for the lower class. But, that life has disappeared, and, once the political regime has changed, the shopping in Moscow experience changed as well.

Today, even on the smallest streets, you can find a place that gives you the opportunity to buy either a small souvenir to remind you forever of your Moscow experience, or anything else that you need and want. And the best thing is that it is not even that expensive; with the perfect guidance and documentation, you will have a relaxing time, buy some fabulous items, and even save money at the same time for more fascinating Moscow private tours. Credit cards are generally accepted, and store personell, especially at Craft Markets and Souvenir shops, will speak your language.

Upscale Malls and Department Stores

GUM

The GUM Department Store in Moscow occupies a large part of the Red Square’s eastern side, and tells the story of more that one century of history. The mall has the aspect of a royal palace, preserving the 19th century architectural style, and it is structured on three stylish floors that are connected by bridges and topped with a glass roof. Besides the elegant design, the GUM Moscow also welcomes its customers with stores displaying articles of some of the world’s most famous brands, retail outlets, but also with leisure and cultural activities, and numerous restaurants and cafés. The most beautiful Moscow shopping mall, GUM is also considered to be one of the best-looking malls in the world.

Address: 3, Red Square, Moscow

Opening hours: 10 am – 10 pm, daily

TSUM

Located on Petrovka Street, the TSUM Department Store is placed within walking distance from the Red Square, Bolshoy Theatre, the History Museum and other important Moscow tourist attractions. Similar to the other royal-like malls, TSUM Moscow is considered by many as one of the most attractive shopping places because it includes no less than one thousand famous brands of clothing, shoes, accessories and cosmetics. Besides the opportunity to spend your money in a smart way, the TSUM Department Store is also the perfect place to observe the classic Russian architectural design and to relax in an amazing environment.

Address: 2, ul. Petrovka, Moscow. It is located across the street from the Bolshoy Theatre.

Opening hours: Monday – Friday: 10 am – 10 pm | Sunday: 11 am — 10 pm

Petrovsky Passage

Dating back to 1906, the Petrovsky Passage in Moscow is definitely one of the most expensive, elite-oriented department stores. Situated on the street with the same name, this shopping center is within walking distance from the Red Square, thus readily available for anyone visiting the city. Even though the unique articles that can be found there may not always be available in what concerns the prices, Petrovsky Passage is a good opportunity for you to spend a day in a fabulous place that gives you the chance to feel – even if only for a few hours – as being part of the ancient royal families.

Address: 10, ul. Petrovka, Moscow. 10 minute walk from Red Square. It’s moments away from Boslhoy Theatre and TSUM.

Opening hours: daily, 10 am — 10 pm

Moscow malls are full of coffee shops. where coffee fans can have a cup. Which of them to choose?Top 8 Moscow Coffee Shops

Malls: from Class to Mass

European Mall (Evropeisky Shopping Center)

Situated on Ploshad Kievskogo Vokzala Street, within walking distance from the famous Old Arbat Street and from the Victory Park, the European Mall Moscow is one of the most modern shopping centers in the Russian capital. The name of the shopping center makes reference to the fact that five of the most important sections are named after European capital cities (Berlin, London, Moscow, Paris and Rome). The European Shopping Center is famous not only for the fact that it is one of the largest shopping centers in Moscow, but also for the hundreds of stores that represent some of the most popular brands in the world, thus not letting anyone leave until finding exactly what they need.

Address: 2, Kiyevsky Station square, Moscow. The nearest metro station: Kievskaya.

Opening hours: Monday – Thursday, Sunday: 10 am — 10 pm | Friday – Saturday: 10 am — 11 pm

Okhotny Ryad («Hunting Row») Shopping Center

Okhotny Ryad Shopping Center is one of the largest and most popular shopping malls in Moscow. The Legend says that if you can find your way in this enormous space, then you have earned your place as a true Moscow person. Besides the numerous brands of clothing, accessories and cosmetics that meet every possible taste, this Mall also gives their customers the chance to spend a beautiful and relaxing day in one of the varied restaurants and cafes.

Address: Manege Square, 1, Moscow. It’s main entrance is shown on the picture below and right in front of the Four Seasons Hotel.

Opening hours: daily, 10 am — 10 pm

Aviapark

Aviapark Mall, the recently opened shopping center, is situated in the northern part of Moscow (in the Sokol district) and is definitely the biggest mall in Moscow and even Europe. The modern department store has the capacity of 80 restaurants, almost twenty cinemas and hundreds and hundreds of different shops. The tropical aquarium, the elegant design and the extraordinary shopping items were combined into the making of one of the most modern and opulent shopping malls in the whole world. Even though some of the articles may be a little too expensive for the average middle class person, Aviapark is still a great place to spend a pleasant time with your friends.

Address: ul. Aviakonstruktora Mikoyana, 10, Moscow. Nearest metro staions: Aeroport and Dinamo.

Opening hours: Monday – Thursday, Sunday: 10 am — 10 pm | Friday – Saturday: 10 am — 11 pm

Souvenir Shopping and Russian Art

Arbat Street

Situated in the historical centre of Moscow, Arbat Street (or Old Arbat Street) is one of the city’s most famous streets. The Arbat Shopping Street is a defining aspect of Moscow’s identity as much for the fact that it is one of the oldest streets of the city that are still used today, as for the numerous shopping possibilities that it offers. From cheap souvenirs that you can find in street kiosks to elegant and imposing stores of various kinds, you are sure to find at least one item that is perfect for your needs and taste.

Address: Old Arbat Street, 10 min walk from the Kremlin Main Entrance (Kutafia Tower – the only white tower of the Kremlin)

Opening hours: shops and shouvenir stores are open daily, 10 am – 9 pm or 10 pm. Some shops may start eralier and finish later.

There is an easy option to visit Arbat Street on your own after one of our toursFlexible & Private 3-Hour Moscow Walking Tour

Izmailovo Craft, Flea, Art and Antiquity Market

Located very close to Partizanskaya metro station, Izmailovo Market should be on anyone’s list of places to visit in Moscow since there is no other place where you can get to know better the aspects of the genuine life in this city. Old-fashioned vessels and different strange articles, paintings, icons, hand-made items, books, coins, clothing articles, purses, furniture and so many other unusual objects – all can be purchased in this amazing place. If you also arrive there during the recommended hours, then you are sure to find exactly what you want and for the best price in the Izmailovo Market.

Address: 73, Izmailovskoye sh, Moscow. Nearest metro station: Partizanskaya (Dark Blue Line). It’s very easy to get there, only 5 stops from Ploshad Revolutsii (Revolutionary Square) metro station and then a 10 min walk from the metro. The Market is localted on the territory of the Izmailovo Kremlin.

Opening hours – Izmailovo Craft Market:

Daily. A greater choice is during weekends. Wednesday – wholesale day, private customers can shop that day too. It is officially open from 9 am to 6 pm, though some sellers may start later and finish earlier. As a general rule, if you wish to have a better choice try to be there between 10 am to 3 pm.

Opening hours – Izmailovo Flea, Art and Antiquity Market:

Saturday – Sunday: 9 am – 5 pm. A greater choice is between 10 am to 3 pm.

Art Markets next to the Central House of Artist

There are two art markets situated near Oktyabrksaya metro station: one set on the Moskva River Embankment and the other in the underpass between Gorky Park and the Central House of Artist. In both of these art markets, which are usually open 7 days a week, traditional and peculiar art objects can be bought by any visitor that wants something different to remind him / her of Moscow.

Address: 10, Krimsky Val, Moscow. Nearest metro stations: Oktyabrskaya or Park Kiltury.

Opening hours: daily, between about 10 am and 6 or 7 pm. During summer both markets may be open till later hours.

We invite you to visit one or several of these great places with us, on our Moscow private tours!

Раздел 1. АУДИРОВАНИЕ

Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A—F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1—7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.

Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А—G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — True), какие не соответствуют (2 — False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.

A The Armoury is situated near the Kremlin.

B Originally the Kremlin was wooden.

C New walls and towers of red brick were built in the 15th century.

D The Trinity Gate leads to Red Square.

E The monument to Minin and Pozharsky is the oldest in Moscow.

F The monument to Alexander Pushkin is not far from the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky.

G You can watch ballets in the Maly Theatre.

Утверждение

Соответствие диалогу

Вы услышите интервью с автором детективных романов. В заданиях 3—9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

Which benefit of trees has not been mentioned by the speaker?
1) Protection from flooding.
2) Protection from the sun’s rays.
3) Protection from precipitation.
Ответ: .

The smell of pines in the forest is the result of trees releasing

1) oxygen.

2) carbon dioxide.

3) other gasses.

Ответ: .

Scientists want to study how
1) gasses are released by trees into the atmosphere.
2) organic compounds form tiny particles.
3) these particles influence the climate.
Ответ: .

Cloud droplets are unable to

1) absorb solar radiation.

2) reflect solar radiation.

3) scatter solar radiation.

Ответ: .

According to scientists, cloud droplets influence

1) the size of the cloud.

2) the colour of the cloud.

3) the movement of the cloud.

Ответ: .

The actual formation of the clouds is governed
1) only by the formation of cloud droplets.
2) primarily by the formation of cloud droplets.
3) by several different processes.
Ответ: .

A new way of addressing the problem of global warming is by reducing the amount of
1) greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
2) the sun’s radiation getting through the atmosphere.
3) the sun’s radiation reflected by the clouds.
Ответ: .

Раздел 2. ЧТЕНИЕ

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.

1. Exotic Pets
2. Going Back in Time
3. Small Screen Addiction
4. Body Language

5. Massive Destruction
6. Buried Treasure
7. Reason for Extinction
8. Intelligent Enemies

A. The VLT (Very Large Telescope) is the world’s largest telescope and it is taking scientists further back to the Big Bang than they ever thought possible. In other words, the VLT is a kind of a time machine, giving astronomers detailed views of events that took place in the earliest days of the cosmos. One day, we will have a much clearer picture of how our planet was born.

B. The latest development in the debate amongst scientists about what killed the prehistoric dinosaurs is the suggestion that acid rain was the cause. Some geologists suggest that a large meteor hitting the earth at 65 kilometres per second would have led to strongly acidic rain falling all over the world. This idea is fascinating but it would mean the dinosaurs would all have died within a very short time.

C. In 1948, a British farmer discovered an interesting lump of metal while ploughing his field. At first he thought the metal bits were parts of an old bed. Then more ‘parts of old beds’ turned up and the farmer took them to the local museum. ‘But these bits are priceless!’ exclaimed the keeper of the museum. ‘They are Iron Age jewellery and coins!’ Over the next 40 years, more and more items were found in the same field.

D. Rats may have had a bit of a hard time over the years but these days lots of people are forgetting about guinea-pigs and hamsters and are buying rats instead. Domestic rats aren’t the same as the ones that run around rubbish bins — they’re actually quite cute. They are very intelligent and can be trained like dogs. They come in different colours and — a big bonus — they will eat anything!

E. In Western cultures, people look each other in the eye during a conversation to show interest and trust, but in many Asian countries, it’s rude to look people in the eye, especially a superior such as a teacher. One of the most basic and powerful signals is when a person crosses his or her arms across the chest. This can indicate that a person is putting up an unconscious barrier between themselves and others.

F. Earthquakes happen all the time in all parts of the world but we don’t notice most of them because they are small. However, big earthquakes are really dangerous. They can make buildings fall down, set off landslides and do other deadly things. The highest death toll caused by an earthquake was in China in 1556, when at least 830,000 people died.

G. According to scientists, Americans watch more TV on average than any other nationality. In fact, many people, particularly children, sit for 35 hours or more per week glued to the box. What’s wrong with watching all that TV? Studies have linked it to everything from obesity to aggression in children not to mention that it puts your mind into a sort of sedated state. Habitual television watching, over long periods of time, has been known to cause depression, and anger.

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

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded every year for the best original full-length novel written by a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It aims to represent the greatest in contemporary literature and promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the best book of the year. The prize was originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize, A ____________. However, it was better-known as simply the ‘Booker Prize’. In 2002, the Man Group became the sponsor and they chose the new name, keeping ‘Booker’.

Publishers can submit books for consideration for the prize, but the judges can also ask for books to be submitted B ____________. Firstly, the Advisory Committee gives advice if there have been any changes to the rules for the prize. Then it selects the people C ____________. The judging panel changes every year and usually a person is only a judge once.

Great efforts are made to ensure that the judging panel is balanced in terms of gender and professions within the industry. A writer, a critic, an editor and an academic are chosen along with a well-known person from wider society. However, when the panel of judges has been finalized, they are left to make their own decisions D ____________. The Man Booker judges include critics, writers and academics E ____________. The influence of the prize is so great that the winner will almost certainly see the considerable sales increase, in addition to the £50,000 F ____________. In 1992, a Booker Russian Novel Prize was introduced.

without any further interference from the prize sponsor
so as to maintain the consistent quality of the prize
who will judge the books
so as to sell them
which was the name of the company that sponsored it
that comes with the prize
they think should be included

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания 12—18. В каждом задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

‘Have you written a letter to the Froplinsons?’ asked Egbert.

‘No,’ said Janetta, with a note of tired defiance in her voice; ‘I’ve written eleven letters today expressing surprise and gratitude for sundry unmerited gifts, but I haven’t written to the Froplinsons yet.’

‘Someone will have to do it,’ said Egbert.

‘I don’t dispute the necessity, but I don’t think that someone should be me,’ said Janetta. ‘I wouldn’t mind writing a letter of angry recrimination or heartless satire to some suitable recipient. In fact, I should rather enjoy it, but I’ve come to the end of my capacity for expressing servile amiability. Eleven letters today and nine yesterday, all couched in the same strain of ecstatic thankfulness: really, you can’t expect me to sit down to another. There is such a thing as writing oneself out.’

‘I’ve written nearly as many,’ said Egbert, ‘and I’ve had my usual business correspondence to get through, too. Besides, I don’t know what it was that the Froplinsons sent us.’ ‘A William the Conqueror calendar,’ said Janetta, ‘with a quotation of one of his great thoughts for every day in the year.’

‘Impossible,’ said Egbert; ‘he didn’t have three hundred and sixty-five thoughts in the whole of his life, or, if he did, he kept them to himself.’

‘Well, it was William Wordsworth, then,’ said Janetta; ‘I know William came into it somewhere.’

‘That sounds more probable,’ said Egbert; ‘well, let’s collaborate on this letter and get it done. I’ll dictate, and you can scribble it down. ‘Dear Mrs. Froplinson, thank you and your husband so much for the very pretty calendar you sent us. It was very good of you to think of us.’ ’

‘You can’t possibly say that,’ said Janetta, laying down her pen. ‘We sent them something on the twenty-second,’ said Janetta, ‘so they simply had to think of us. There was no getting away from it.’

‘What did we send them?’ asked Egbert gloomily.

‘Bridge-markers,’ said Janetta, ‘in a cardboard case, with some inanity about ‘digging for fortune with a royal spade’ emblazoned on the cover. The moment I saw it in the shop I said to myself ‘Froplinsons’ and to the attendant ‘How much?’ When he said ‘Ninepence,’ I gave him their address, jabbed our card in, paid tenpence or elevenpence to cover the postage, and thanked heaven. With less sincerity and infinitely more trouble they eventually thanked me.’

‘The Froplinsons don’t play bridge,’ said Egbert.

‘One is not supposed to notice social deformities of that sort,’ said Janetta; ‘it wouldn’t be polite. Besides, what trouble did they take to find out whether we read Wordsworth with gladness? For all they knew or cared we might be frantically embedded in the belief that all poetry begins and ends with John Masefield, and it might infuriate or depress us to have a daily sample of Wordsworthian products flung at us.’

‘Well, let’s get on with the letter,’ said Egbert. ‘How clever of you to guess that Wordsworth is our favourite poet.’

Again Janetta laid down her pen.

‘Do you realise what that means?’ she asked; ‘a Wordsworth booklet next Christmas, and another calendar the Christmas after, with the same problem of having to write suitable letters of thankfulness. No, the best thing to do is to drop all further allusion to the calendar and switch off on to some other topic.’

‘But what other topic?’

‘Oh, something like this: ‘What do you think of the New Year Honours List? A friend of ours made such a clever remark when he read it.’ Then you can stick in any remark that comes into your head; it needn’t be clever. The Froplinsons won’t know whether it is or isn’t.’

‘We don’t even know on which side they are in politics,’ objected Egbert; ‘and anyhow you can’t suddenly dismiss the subject of the calendar. Surely there must be some intelligent remark that can be made about it.’

‘Well, we can’t think of one,’ said Janetta wearily; ‘the fact is, we’ve both written ourselves out.’

There was a long silence, the forlorn silence of those who are bereft of hope and have almost ceased to care. Then Egbert started from his seat with an air of resolution. The light of battle was in his eyes.

‘Let me come to the writing-table,’ he exclaimed; ‘I’m going to write to the editor of every enlightened and influential newspaper in the Kingdom, I’m going to suggest that there should be a sort of epistolary Truce of God during the festivities of Christmas and New Year. From the twenty-fourth of December to the third or fourth of January it shall be considered an offence against good sense and good feeling to write or expect any letter or communication that does not deal with the necessary events of the moment. Answers to invitations, arrangements about trains, renewal of club subscriptions, and, of course, all the ordinary everyday affairs of business, sickness, engaging new cooks, and so forth, these will be dealt with in the usual manner as something inevitable. But all the devastating accretions of correspondence, incident to the festive season, these should be swept away to give the season a chance of being really festive.’

‘But you would have to make some acknowledgment of presents received,’ objected Janetta; ‘otherwise people would never know whether they had arrived safely.’

‘Of course, I have thought of that,’ said Egbert; ‘every present that was sent off would be accompanied by a ticket bearing the date of dispatch and the signature of the sender, and some conventional hieroglyphic to show that it was intended to be a Christmas or New Year gift; there would be a counterfoil with space for the recipient’s name and the date of arrival, and all you would have to do would be to sign and date the counterfoil, add a conventional hieroglyphic indicating heartfelt thanks and gratified surprise, put the thing into an envelope and post it.’

‘It sounds delightfully simple,’ said Janetta wistfully, ‘but people would consider it too perfunctory.’

‘It is not a bit more perfunctory than the present system,’ said Egbert; ‘I have only the same conventional language of gratitude at my disposal with which to thank dear old Colonel Chuttle for his perfectly delicious Stilton, which we shall devour to the last morsel, and the Froplinsons for their calendar, which we shall never look at. So you see the present system of acknowledgment is just as perfunctory and conventional as the counterfoil business would be, only ten times more tiresome and brain-racking.’

‘Your plan would certainly bring the idea of a Happy Christmas a step nearer realisation,’ said Janetta. ‘Meanwhile, what am I to say to the Froplinsons?’

(Adapted from ‘Down Pens’ by H. H. Munro)

Egbert and Janetta were writing

1) application letters.
2) thank-you letters.

3) letters of recrimination.
4) letters of complaint.

Ответ: .

Egbert and Janetta didn’t want to write a letter to the Froplinsons because they
1) had both written themselves out.
2) didn’t like this couple.
3) didn’t know what the Froplinsons had sent them.
4) had a lot of work to do.
Ответ: .

Janetta liked her present to the Froplinsons because it was

1) expensive and useless.
2) cheap and useless.

3) expensive and useful.
4) cheap and useful.

Ответ: .

Janetta didn’t want to mention that Wordsworth was their favourite poet because
1) she actually didn’t like his poems.
2) her favourite poet was John Masefield.
3) the Froplinsons would send them new Wordsworth-related presents.
4) she didn’t want the Froplinsons to know the truth.
Ответ: .

Janetta considered the Froplisons to be

1) stupid.

2) clever.

3) kind.

4) mean.

Ответ: .

Egbert suggested that at Christmas people should
1) stop writing letters at all.
2) put off all the everyday affairs of business.
3) not make any acknowledgment of received presents.
4) send counterfoils instead of thank-you letters.
Ответ: .

Janetta considered a new system

1) absolutely impossible.
2) too perfunctory.

3) easy to implement.
4) totally unacceptable.

Ответ: .

Раздел 3. ГРАММАТИКА И ЛЕКСИКА

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 19—25, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текстов. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 19—25.

Обратите внимание, что по правилам ЕГЭ ответы нужно писать без пробелов и других знаков, например, правильный ответ ‘have done’ нужно будет записать как ‘havedone’, иначе ваш ответ не засчитается.

Swimming Pools

The first heated swimming pool by Gaius Maecenas of Rome in the first century BC.

CON-
STRUCT

Swimming pools became popular in Britain in the beginning of the 19th century. By 1837, London authorities six indoor pools with diving boards.

BUILD

The surviving swimming club in the world is the Arlington Baths Club in Glasgow. It is still an active club and continues to own its original Victorian building with a large pool.

OLD

After the start of modern Olympic Games in 1896, the popularity of swimming pools off. Nowadays there are lots of different swimming pools, both public and private.

TAKE

Most enjoy swimming and swimming pools with their wave-making machines, water slides and tropical vegetation are something unique for them.

CHILD

If they could, kids to spend their entire summer in the swimming pool.

CHOOSE

However, not everyone their own backyard pool.

HAVE

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 26—31, однокоренные слова так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 26—31.

Waste Management

Waste affects our environment — everything that surrounds us including the air, water, land, plants, and man-made things. We need a healthy environment for our own health and .

HAPPY

The waste we create has to be controlled to be sure that it does not harm our environment and our health.

CAREFUL

So waste management is very important.

EFFECT

Waste reduction and recycling have a wide range of environmental benefits and promote public awareness and personal for the waste we create.

RESPON-
SIBLE

The best place to start making a is our home. Learn how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle materials to decrease household waste.

DIFFER

If we recycle what we can’t use any more, we save resources because the materials replace some of the natural resources including water and energy, which we use to make new products.

RECYCLE

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 32—38. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 32—38, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

Globalization and Communication Growth

The 21st century has 32____ in a new era in man’s ongoing quest for a better life and a better world. For the first time in history, we can now claim to live in ‘One World.’ Globalization has removed many of the gaps that have existed between and among nations. While the physical divide is still present, the 33____ of the Information Highway on how we communicate and live in the present day is simply staggering. Rapid improvements in information technology have allowed us to exchange information and communicate almost everywhere, anywhere, and anytime.

Globalization, as a general term, is best understood as the spread of ideas about the environment, democracy, human rights, and less complicated issues like fashion and fads. Global exchange is now taking place as the market of ideas, culture, and beliefs expand through the use of technology. The nature of business and how it is done has also improved by 34____ and bounds because of globalization.

An example of the remarkable effects of globalization is the invention of the telephone and the television. Television has enabled young people and adults to have the ability to share cultural and ethnic experiences with others. Telephones have also greatly improved communication. Gone are the weeks and even months of waiting for a letter. Anybody can talk to anyone who has another phone 35____ of distance or location on the planet. With the aid of satellites, 3rd generation phones allow us to make a phone call, send a video, or even receive an e-mail. These 36____ in communication have revolutionized business, commerce, and even the personal lives and relationships of millions of people.

Because of the electronic media, vast amounts of important information can reach any parts of the globe in 37____ time. Business establishments, whether big or small, are using the Internet in many ways to build or expand their company’s growth. With the ever improving technology come new markets, high 38____ for products, and also greater competition. Making investments in information and communication technology is now a must for any business enterprise.

1) started

2) began

3) ushered

4) launched

Ответ: .

1) cause

2) impact

3) consequences

4) result

Ответ: .

1) bonds

2) gaps

3) jumps

4) leaps

Ответ: .

1) regardless

2) despite

3) notwithstanding

4) because

Ответ: .

1) breakbeats

2) breakdowns

3) breakouts

4) breakthroughs

Ответ: .

1) any

2) no

3) none of

4) some

Ответ: .

1) access

2) claim

3) demand

4) rise

Ответ: .

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Раздел 4. ПИСЬМО

Для ответов на задания 39 и 40 используйте бланк ответов № 2. Черновые пометки можно делать прямо на листе с заданиями, или можно использовать отдельный черновик. При выполнении заданий 39 и 40 особое внимание обратите на то, что Ваши ответы будут оцениваться только по записям, сделанным в БЛАНКЕ ОТВЕТОВ № 2. Никакие записи черновика не будут учитываться экспертом. Обратите внимание также на необходимость соблюдения указанного объёма текста. Тексты недостаточного объёма, а также часть текста, превышающая требуемый объём, не оцениваются. Запишите сначала номер задания (39, 40), а затем ответ на него. Если одной стороны бланка недостаточно, Вы можете использовать другую его сторону.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Jessica who writes:

… By the way, we are doing a project at college on the fashion industry in different countries. It would be nice if you could tell me what clothes are popular with teenagers in Russia. Do you have any special fashion for teens? What kind of clothes do you prefer? Why?

As for me, I bought a new dress yesterday …

Write a letter to Jessica.
In your letter
— answer her questions
— ask 3 questions about her tastes in clothes
Write 100 — 140 words.
Remember the rules of letter writing.

За это задание вы можете получить 6 баллов максимум.

Comment on the following statement.

Lots of people enjoy celebrating holidays. However, for some people a holiday is just a day off.

What is your attitude to celebrations? Which way of celebrating holidays do you find more enjoyable?

Write 200 — 250 words.

— make an introduction (state the problem)
— express your personal opinion and give 2—3 reasons for your opinion
— express an opposing opinion and give 1—2 reasons for this opposing opinion
— explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion
— make a conclusion restating your position

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Раздел 5. ГОВОРЕНИЕ

— За 1,5 минуты нужно подготовиться и в следующие 1,5 минуты выразительно прочитать текст вслух — 1 балл.
— Составление 5 вопросов на основе ключевых слов. На подготовку отводится 1,5 минуты, затем каждый вопрос надо сформулировать в течение 20 секунд — 5 баллов.
— 3 фотографии. Нужно выбрать 1 и описать ее по предложенному тут же в задании плану за 3,5 минуты — 7 баллов.
— 2 картинки. Нужно сравнить их, описать сходства и различия, объяснить, почему выбранная тематика близка выпускнику, за 3,5 минуты — 7 баллов.

Источник

1) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

GUM department stores

GUM is the name of the large department store in Moscow that faces Red Square. It used to be a chain of shops in the former republics of the Soviet Union, at which time these shops ___ (KNOW) as State Department Store, although GUM now stands for Main Department Store.

2) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

The structure on Red Square where GUM is located has been there since the early 1890s. It’s one of the ___ (FAMOUS) buildings in the city of Moscow.

3) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

The building is nearly a quarter of a kilometre long. Shops inside the building are situated on a long corridor with a glass roof, and each shop sits inside an archway, creating a luxurious shopping experience. The building ___ (IT) is a work of art.

4) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Identical twins

Beth and Mary are identical twins. They look exactly alike, and when they were ___ (CHILD), their teachers didn’t know which twin was which.

5) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

People called them by the wrong name all the time! Although the girls ___ (HAVE) plenty of opportunities to play tricks, they never did.

6) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

As adults, however, they once took a job on a practical joke show, where they ___ (PRETEND) they were in a bathroom looking into a mirror. The mirror was actually glass, with Beth on one side and Mary on the other.

7) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

A woman came into the bathroom. She looked in the mirror’ and saw Beth and her ‘reflection, but she couldn’t see anything on her side. ___ (FEEL) confused, the woman asked, Ts there something wrong with this mirror, or is it just me?!’

Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney is more than just the daughter of music legend Paul McCartney of the Beatles. She is famous in her own right as a fashion ___ (DESIGN).

9) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Born in London in 1971, McCartney studied at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Alexander McQueen, another ___ (GLOBE) icon of the fashion world, studied there as well.

10) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Despite her well-known last name, not everyone was sure that she would be ___ (SUCCESS) in the fashion industry, but she worked hard to create eye-catching clothing and won early awards for her sharp, confident style.

11) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Of course, she was well-connected to the rich and famous before she made a name for herself in fashion. During her ___ (GRADUATE) famous supermodels including Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss wore her clothes for the college’s runway show.

12) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Her clothes are popular and sell well. Her 2005 collection for H&M clothing shops was designed to offer her fans a more affordable range, and sold out almost ___ (IMMEDIATE).

13) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Aside from day and evening wear, she has designed clothing for events, including the uniforms for the British ___ (COMPETE) to wear in the 2012 London Olympics. She has also designed underwear, a range of skincare products and her own perfume.

14) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

Great-grandmother

Му great-grandmother Lola never ceases to amaze me. She’s 95 years old but she’s still alive and kicking. Not only does she take care of herself without any help, she ___ a boarding house in the Philippines basically all on her own.

1) controls
2) succeeds
3) manages
4) achieves

15) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

How is that possible, you ask? That’s an excellent question. My family and I make it back to the Philippines once a year. We always ___ up the subject of retirement with her.

1) pass
2) speak
3) take
4) bring

16) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

My mum says, ‘Why don’t you let someone else run the place, Lola? You know, sit back, relax and put your ___ up more often.

1) feet
2) hands
3) arms
4) legs

17) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

‘No, that would spell the end of me,5 she replies. ‘I don’t take a day off work even if I come ___ with the flu. Staying busy is the secret to longevity.

1) up
2) over
3) down
4) in

18) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

She doesn’t do all the chores round the boarding house, mind you. She has employees who handle a lot of the heavy lifting, such as washing bed sheets and cleaning rooms. Shes more or less in ___ of the money and she makes sure everyone gets paid. She knows whats been done and what hasn’t. Her mind is still as sharp as a nail.

1) force
2) right
3) power
4) charge

19) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

So, retiring is completely out of the ___ for Lola. My last day of work will be the last day of my life, she says.

1) question
2) issue
3) subject
4) matter

20) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

I hope I can ___ up with that fast pace when I reach her age.

1) stay
2) keep
3) hold
4) own

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1.
As far back as the twelfth century Moscow was known as a small estate
of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky; in 1147 it became a town on the bank of the
Moskva River, then an important trade route. Its economic and
political development was largely due to its favourable geographical
position.

2.
The city was razed in the thirteenth century during the Tatar
invasion, and for many years paid tribute to the Tatar khans, but
toward the end of the fourteenth century it rose against these
rulers, sometimes fighting, sometimes paying ransom. It gradually
grew stronger and became the capital of the new state of Moscow.

3.
By the end of the sixteenth century, during the reign of Boris
Godunov, Moscow had three walls with towers and moats surrounding
respectively the Kremlin, the Kitai-Gorod and the White City. From
the Kremlin and the Red Square, then the centre, streets radiated to
the outskirts whence they continued as trade roads. Foreigners who
visited Moscow in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as trade
representatives or entered the service of the tsars, as architects or
military and industrial advises usually expressed their delight with
the picturesqueness of the city but noted the dirty streets and
wooden houses that they found on closer inspection.

4.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century Peter the Great moved the
capital to St. Petersburg which was founded by him, but Moscow
continued to grow as a trading city. It remained too, the favourite
city of the Russian nobility who liked to spend the winter in their
Moscow mansions. With the invasion of Napoleon in 1812, four-fifth of
Moscow was destroyed by fire, but it was soon rebuilt and trade and
industry developed again. The city was at its height by the middle of
the nineteenth century.

6.
Ответьте
на
вопросы.

а)
Who was Moscow founded by?

б)
When was it founded?

в)
Was the city at its height by the middle of the nineteenth century?

г)
Is Moscow the capital of Russia at present?

7.
Составьте два общих вопроса по тексту.

5.
Найдите в седьмом абзаце текста
усилительный оборот, переведите
предложение.

6.
Найдите во втором абзаце текста заменитель
модального глагола can,
переведите предложение.

7.
Определите, какое вышеупомянутое
существительное заменяет в пятом абзаце
текста выражение that
of.

8.
Переведите текст на русский язык (Л. Н.
Андрианова и др. Английский язык. – М.:
1988, с. 224-225).

9.
Составьте два общих вопроса по тексту.

10.
Составьте по-английски план пересказа
текста.

ВАРИАНТ
14

Задание:

1.
Переведите однокоренные слова, обращая
внимание на словообразовательные
элементы:

а)
compute, computer, computation, computerization;

б)
compare, comparative, comparatively;

в)
significant, significantly, different, differently, fantastic,
fantastically.

2.
Найдите в первом абзаце текста независимый
причастный оборот, переведите предложение.

3.
Определите, какое вышеупомянутое
существительное заменяет в первом
абзаце текста слово one.

4.
Найдите в первом абзаце текста
прилагательное в сравнительной степени,
переведите предложение.

5.
Переведите,
обращая
внимание
на
подчеркнутые
слова:
the text to
be translated,
the process to
be described,
the problem to
be solved,
the speed to
be developed.

6.
Найдите в шестом абзаце текста усилительный
оборот, переведите предложение.

7.
Переведите текст на русский язык (Л. Н.
Андрианова и др. Английский язык. – М.:
1988, с. 214-215).

8.
Ответьте на вопросы:

а)
What is this text about?

б)
Where can peaceful atom be used?

в)
What element plays the decisive part in fusion process?

9.
Составьте два общих вопроса по тексту.

10.
Составьте по-английски план пересказа
текста.

ВАРИАНТ
13

Задание:

1.
Переведите однокоренные слова, обращая
внимание на словообразовательные
элементы:

а)
science, scientific, scientifically, scientist;

б)
long, length, lengthen;

в)
direct, directly, director, direction;

г)
reflect, reflector, reflection.

2.
Образуйте
прилагательные
от
следующих
существительных:
wind, success, electron, wonder, universe, help

3.
Переведите, обращая внимание на
подчеркнутые слова:

а)
Using
a laser beam scientists can obtain accurate calculations of planet
temperature.

б)
Having
used
a laser beam scientists obtained accurate calculations of planet
temperature.

в)
Being
used
for measuring temperature a laser beam gave much more accurate data.

4.
Найдите в четвертом абзаце текста
независимый причастный оборот, переведите
предложение.

8.
Составьте два специальных вопроса по
тексту.

9.
Образуйте
три
формы
от
следующих
глаголов:
to know, to grow, to find, to destroy.

10.
Образуйте три степени сравнения от
следующих прилагательных: favourable,
small,
strong,
close.

ВАРИАНТ
5

Задания:

1.
Найдите эквиваленты (задание выполняется
по образцу, приведенному в варианте 1).

А. Независимость	1. independent
	2. independence
	3. independently

Б. Невидимый	1. invisible
	2. invisibly
	3. invisibility

В. Население	1. populate
	2. populated
	3. population

Г. Производитель (поставщик)	1. produce
	2. producer
	3. production

Д. Первоначальный	1. original
	2. originally
	3. origin

Е. Rediscover	1. открывать
	2. не открывать
	3. открывать вновь
16
Ж. Approximately	1. приблизительный
	2. приблизительно
	3. приближаясь

З. Parliamentary	1. парламентарный
	2. парламентарий
	3. парламент

2.
Найдите во втором абзаце текста субъектный
инфинитивный оборот, переведите
предложение.

3.
Спишите предложения, подчеркните в них
сказуемое.

а)
The official language of Great Britain is English.

б)
In 1492 the Italian Christopher Columbus rediscovered America.

в)
As you know the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland is London.

4.
Образуйте множественное число от
следующих существительных: country,
kingdom,
monarchy,
partner,
colony,
state.

5.
Переведите текст на русский язык.

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Упражнение 49 для подготовки к ЕГЭ по английскому языку.

Определите, в какие пропуски подходят данные под текстом фразы. Одна фраза лишняя.

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Moscow University is one of the oldest Russian institutions of higher education. It was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov, A _____ .

Mikhail Lomonosov was a person of formidable willpower and keen scientific mind, B _____ . Lomonosov’s interests ranged from history, art and poetry to mechanics and chemistry. His activity was a manifestation of the enormous potential of Russia, C _____ .

Peter I the Great had reformed Russia, D _____ .

Great importance was placed on education. In 1724, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences established a university and a grammar school to educate intellectuals and researchers the country needed.

However, these educational establishments did not fulfill the task they had taken on. It was Michail Lomonosov who suggested the idea of establishing a university in Moscow. According to Lomonosov’s plan, there were originally three faculties. First, all the students acquired a comprehensive knowledge in the field of Science and humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy. Then they could specialize and continue at the Faculty of Philosophy or join either the Law Faculty or the Faculty of Medicine. The best students were sent to continue their education abroad, establishing contacts with the international scientific community.

From the very beginning elitism was alien to the very spirit of the University community, E _____ . The Decree stated that the university was to educate commoners. Originally tuition at Moscow University was free for all stu-dents; later only poor students were exempt from tuition fees. The state funding did not cover all the University expenses and it was partly funded by its patrons, F _____ .

University alumni supported their alma mater through hard times raising money by public subscriptions.

Moscow University played an outstanding role in popularizing Science and learning in Russia. Professors of Moscow University greatly contributed to establishing new cultural centres in Moscow and Russia.

1. that was highly respected by foreign scientists
2. which determined long-standing democratic tradition
3. which allowed the country to reach high Standards in many spheres
4. whose scientists occupied the leading positions in the world
5. whose lifelong passion was learning
6. who donated equipment and established scholarships for University students
7. who greatly contributed to its establishment

A – 7; B – 5; C – 4; D – 3; E – 2; F – 6

Moscow University is one of the oldest Russian institutions of higher education. It was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov, who greatly contributed to its establishment .

Mikhail Lomonosov was a person of formidable willpower and keen scientific mind, whose lifelong passion was learning . Lomonosov’s interests ranged from history, art and poetry to mechanics and chemistry. His activity was a manifestation of the enor-mous potential of Russia, whose scientists occupied the leading positions in the world .

Peter I the Great had reformed Russia, which allowed the country to reach high Standards in many spheres .

Great importance was placed on education. In 1724, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences established a university and a grammar school to educate intellectuals and researchers the country needed.

However, these educational establishments did not fulfill the task they had taken on. It was Michail Lomonosov who suggested the idea of establishing a university in Moscow. According to Lomonosov’s plan, there were originally three faculties. First, all the students acquired a comprehensive knowledge in the field of Science and humanities at the Fac-ulty of Philosophy. Then they could specialize and continue at the Faculty of Philosophy or join either the Law Faculty or the Faculty of Medicine. The best students were sent to continue their education abroad, establishing contacts with the international scientific community.

From the very beginning elitism was alien to the very spirit of the University community, which determined long-standing democratic tradition . The Decree stated that the university was to educate commoners. Originally tuition at Moscow University was free for all stu-dents; later only poor students were exempt from tuition fees. The state funding did not cover all the University expenses and it was partly funded by its patrons, who donated equipment and established scholarships for University students .

University alumni supported their alma mater through hard times raising money by public subscriptions.

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Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика.

History[edit]

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Izmaylovo Kremlin[edit]

Izmaylovo Market[edit]

Izmailovo Hotel[edit]

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

Sources[edit]

External links[edit]

Upscale Malls and Department Stores

GUM

TSUM

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European Mall (Evropeisky Shopping Center)

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