Reading
VariantI
1.
Установите соответствие между заголовками 1–8
и текстами A–G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую
цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
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New rules to follow
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New perspectives
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Perfect for a quiet holiday
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Land of nature wonders
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A visit to the zoo
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Perfect for an active holiday
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Difficult start
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Bad for animals
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The mountains of Scotland (we call
them the Highlands) are а
wild and beautiful part of Europe. A golden eagle flies over the mountains.
A deer walks through the silence of the forest. Salmon and trout swim in
the clean, pure water of the rivers. Some say that not only fish swim in
the deep water of Loch Ness. Speak to the people living by the Loch. Each
person has a story of the monster, and some have photographs.
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Tresco is a beautiful island with no
cars, crowds or noise – just flowers, birds, long sandy beaches and the
Tresco Abbey Garden. John and Wendy Pyatt welcome you to the Island Hotel,
famous for delicious food, comfort and brilliant service. You will
appreciate superb accommodation, free saunas and the indoor swimming pool.
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The Camel and Wildlife Safari is a
unique mixture of the traditional and modern. Kenya’s countryside suits the
Safari purposes exceptionally well. Tourists will have a chance to explore
the bush country near Samburu, to travel on a camel back or to sleep out
under the stars. Modern safari vehicles are always available for those who
prefer comfort.
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Arrival can be the hardest part of a
trip. It is late, you are road-weary, and everything is new and strange.
You need an affordable place to sleep, something to eat and drink, and
probably a way to get around. But in general, it’s a wonderful trip, full
of wonderful and unusual places. Whether it is the first stop on a trip or
the fifth city visited, every traveller feels a little overwhelmed stepping
onto a new street in a new city.
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No zoo has enough money to provide
basic habitats or environments for all the species they keep. Most animals
are put in a totally artificial environment, isolated from everything they
would meet in their natural habitat. Many will agree that this isolation is
harmful to the most of zoo inhabitants, it can even amount to cruelty.
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A new London Zoo Project is a ten year
project to secure the future for the Zoo and for many endangered animals.
The plan has been devised by both animal and business experts to provide
world-leading accommodation for all our animals, to more fully engage and
inform people about conservation issues, to redesign certain aspects of Zoo
layout.
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Leave-no-trace camping is an
increasingly popular approach to travel in wilderness areas. As the term
suggests, the goal is for the camper to leave as little impact as possible
on the place he is visiting. One of its mottos is “Take nothing but
pictures. Leave nothing but footprints.” Its simplest and most fundamental
rule is: pack it in, pack it out, but it goes beyond that.
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2.
Прочитайте
текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений cоответствуют
содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют (False) и о чём
в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного,
ни отрицательного ответа (Not stated).
I
was at a dinner in London given in honour of one of the most celebrated English
military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I
will just call him Lieutenant General Lord Arthur Scoresby.
I
can not describe my excitement when I saw this great and famous man. There he
sat, all covered with medals. He seemed to show the true mark of greatness. His
fame had no effect on him. The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of so
many people did not seem to make any difference to him.
Next
to me sat an old friend of mine. During the first half of his life, he was a
teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in his eye
as he turned to me and whispered, 'Between you and me — he is a complete fool.'
He meant, of course, the hero of our dinner.
This
came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more
surprised if he had said the same thing about Napoleon, or Socrates, or
Solomon. But I was sure of two things about my friend. He always spoke the
truth. And his judgment of men was good.
Some
days later I got a chance to talk with him and he told me more. These are his
exact words:
'About
forty years ago, I was a teacher in the military academy at Woolwich, when
young Scoresby was given his first examination. I felt very sorry for him.
Everybody answered the questions well, intelligently, while he did not know
anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasant young man. It was painful to see
him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.'
'I
knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out. So, I
said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I
could.’
'I
took him aside and found he knew a little about Julius Caesar’s history. But he
did not know anything else. So I went to work and tested him and made him work
like a slave. I made him work, over and over again, on a few questions about
Caesar which I knew he would be asked.'
'Well,
he came through very well on the day of the examination. He got high praise,
too, while others, who knew a thousand times more than he, were sharply
criticized. By some strange, lucky accident, he was asked no questions but
those I made him study. Such an accident does not happen more than once in a
hundred years.’
'Well,
all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a
disabled child. And he always saved himself, by some miracle. 1 thought that
what in the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination. I
decided to make his end as painless as possible. So, I pushed facts into his
stupid head for hours. Finally, I let him go to the examination to experience
what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, try to imagine the
result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the
highest praise.’
I
felt guilty day and night — what I was doing was not right. But I only wanted
to make his dismissal a little less painful for him. I never dreamed it would
lead to such strange, laughable results.'
1.
The
author was invited to the dinner by his friend.
2.
The
author was very surprised when his friend called the Lieutenant General a fool.
3.
There
were lots of people admiring the Lieutenant General.
4.
The
author had no reason to distrust his friend’s opinion.
5.
Being
a student, young Scoresby often missed the lectures.
6.
The
author’s friend didn’t expect Scoresby to pass the exams successfully.
7.
The
author’s friend was happy when Scoresby took the first prize in Mathematics.
Reading
Variant II
1.Установите соответствие между
заголовками 1–8 и текстами A–G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок
лишний.
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Earth is not
enough
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The word came
first
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Challenging the
skilful
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Coloured stereotype
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Taste of culture
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6.
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Not only exercising
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7.
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Top reserve an
drespect
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Follow the idol
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A.
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Entering the English language in the
late nineteenth century, the word safari meant a trip to Africa for
a big-game hunt. Today the term refers to a trip taken not to hunt, but to
observe and photograph the animals and other wildlife. This activity had
become so popular that it has originated a certain style of fashion. It
includes khaki clothing, belted bush jackets, helmets and animal skin
prints, like leopard's skin, for example.
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The purpose of ecological tourism is
to educate the traveler, provide funds for conservation and promote respect
for different cultures and human rights. The participants of ecotourism
want the environment to stay relatively untouched by human intervention, so
that coming generations can experience it fully. That is why ecotourism
appeals to ecologically and socially conscious individuals, who don’t mind
volunteering.
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People who like seeing dangerous
places, such as mountains, jungles and deserts, participating in dangerous
events, and experiencing extreme sport definitely appreciate extreme
tourism or shock tourism. This type of tourism is based on two key factors.
The first one is an addiction to adrenaline caused by an element of risk.
And another one is the opportunity to show a high degree of engagement and
professionalism.
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Culinary tourism is something you can
enjoy if you like good food and want each of your dishes to be a unique and
memorable experience. But culinary tourism also considers food to be a
vital component of traditions and history of any country, region or city.
The tourists believe that by experiencing each other’s foods people can
learn something new about each other’s lives.
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Space tourism used to mean ordinary
members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back. That is
why many people find this idea revolutionary. But over the past few years a
growing volume of work has been done on the subject, and it's clear that
commercial space tourism is a realistic target for business today. Market
research has shown that many people in the developed countries would like
to take a trip to space if it were possible.
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The sports tourism industry has earned
an international reputation because it is open to everyone: amateurs, fans,
and professional athletes with their trainers and coaches who come for a
range of activities from training camps through friendship games to
international championship competitions. Sport tourism combines the
opportunity for athletes and sportspeople to benefit from sports activities
with a relaxing and enjoyable vacation.
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To go to Tunisia to explore the place
where the film Star Wars was made or to New Zealand after The
Lord of the Rings is very easy for those who practice pop-culture
tourism and like to travel to locations featured in literature, films,
music, or any other form of popular entertainment. But pop-culture tourism
is not only about going to popular destinations. In some respects it is
very similar to a pilgrimage, only the places are new, for example Elvis
Presley's Graceland.
2.Прочитайте
текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений cоответствуют
содержанию текста (True), какие не соответствуют (False) и о
чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни
положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Notstated).
Several years passed. London was
fifteen hundred years old and was a great town — for that time. A hundred
thousand people lived in it. The streets were narrow and dirty, especially
in the part where the Canty family lived, which was not far from London
Bridge.
Tom spent his early years in a very
old and dirty house. It was made of wood like all the other houses in that
street, and like all the other houses it had small and dirty windows. The
street was called Offal Court. The house was full of poor families. Tom's
family had one room on the third floor.
Tom's parents had a bed but Tom, his
grandmother who lived with them and his two sisters slept on the floor. At
night they lay down on rags and covered themselves with rags.Tom's sisters
were twins. They were fifteen years old, and their names were Bet and Nan.
They wore dirty clothes and their faces and hands were always dirty too.
But they were good-hearted girls.
Their mother was a nice woman who loved her children very much. But Tom's
father and the grandmother were not nice people, they were very, very bad.
They often drank, and when they were drunk they fought each other and beat
the children.
Tom’s father, John Canty, was a thief
and Tom's grandmother was a beggar. They made beggars of the children but
they could not make thieves of them.
Among the thieves and beggars who
lived in the house there was a man who was neither a thief nor a beggar. He
was a good old man, a priest, who lived on a small pension of a few
farthings. He loved children and was always ready to help them. His name
was Father Andrew. The good old priest taught Tom how to read and write. He
also taught him a little Latin.
He told Tom many wonderful stories and
legends about kings and princes. He also gave Tom books to read. Tom liked
to listen to Father Andrew's stories and read the books which the old man
gave him. The stories Tom heard and the books he read made some changes in
his speech and his manners. Not only the children of Offal Court talked
about Tom's correct speech and his good manners. Their parents began to
talk about Tom as the cleverest boy who could explain them many things that
they did not understand. He really knew so much.
Soon
Tom organized a royal court! When the children played, Tom always was the
prince, his comrades were lords and ladies and the royal family. After the
game was over Tom went out to beg a few farthings, and if he came home
without any money his father gave him a hard beating and sent him to bed
hungry.
1. The Canty
family lived in one of the dirtiest parts of London.
2. Tom’s sisters
were very much alike.
3. Tom’s family
lived on the ground floor.
4. Tom’s parents
were very kind to their children.
5. Tom’s mother
taught her children to read and write.
6. Tom differed
from the children of Offal Court.
7. If he came
home without any money his father punished him.
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Reading
Variant III
1.Установите соответствие между
заголовками 1–8 и текстами A–G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок
лишний.
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1.The best
view points
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2. Plan
beforehand
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3. Carnival
roots
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4.The time
to attend the Carnival
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Carnival’s music
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Styles of dancing
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A music group for a street
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The time for
pleasure
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Carnival is the most famous holiday in
Brazil and has become a world-famous annual celebration. It is celebrated
in towns and villages throughout Brazil for almost a week 40 days before
Easter, which is usually in February, the hottest month in the Southern
Hemisphere. Officially, it starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday
with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, during which some Christians
give up something that they enjoy.
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The most colourful events take place
in the Carnival World Capital, Rio de Janeiro. It was the original place
where, in 1723, Portuguese immigrants went out onto the streets soaking
each other with buckets of water and throwing mud and food, often ending up
in street brawls and riots. The concept kept changing throughout the 1800s
with more organized parades, where the Emperor with a group of aristocrats
joined in masks with luxurious costumes and music.
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Now the parade varies from state to
state. It is a mixture of arts. The music played during Rio Carnival is
samba – a unique Brazilian music originating from Rio. It’s also a
dance form that was invented by the poor Afro-Brazilians as a type of
ritual music. The word “samba” meant to pray to the spirits of the
ancestors and the gods of the African Pantheon. As a noun, it could mean a
complaint or a cry.
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Even today, the most involved groups in
Rio Carnival are the poorest, the so-called “favelas”, where houses are
made of cardboard or other metal remains, and there is often no water,
electricity or sewage system. However, the favelas’ residents always join
in the festivities and actually make the Carnival, which really means a lot
to them. Because, for once during the year, they get to go out and have as
much fun as they can.
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Residents of the favelas are often
members of local samba schools and are deeply involved with the performance
and costumes of their groups. Each neighborhood in Rio has its favorite
Carnival street band. There are more than 300 of them in Rio nowadays, and
each year this number increases. Each band has its place or street for its
parade and the big ones usually close the streets to the traffic.
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Rio de Janeiro is usually divided into
three zones. The so-called ZonaSul is by far the most pleasant place to
stay in Rio, as it is by the sea and is the most civilized part of the
city. Districts Copacabana and Ipanema together form a big stage offering a
carnival happening at every corner. Leblon, being a bit more upscale, is
also an excellent location.
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Except the industries, malls and the
carnival-related workers, the country stops completely for almost a week
and festivities are intense, day and night. If you plan to go to watch the
Carnival, you should organize your trip well in advance. The best hotels,
especially in the ZonaSul, are booked up early, so it’s a good idea to make
a reservation at least 3 or 4 months in advance.
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2.Прочитайте текст. Определите,
какие из приведённых утверждений cоответствуют содержанию текста (True),
какие не соответствуют (False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на
основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Notstated).
THE
BIG PARTY
Harriet Reeves was a famous actress but
her great success made her very selfish and unkind to people. On the stage she
always tried to attract the attention of the public only to herself, and after
the performance she took no notice of her fellow actors. She always made
promises but never kept them.
When she grew older she began to have
heart attacks and had to retire.Harriet had a lot of money and could afford to
live quite comfortably, but by this time everybody in the theatre hated her and
she felt quite lonely.
A year later on her birthday she did not
receive a single flower or a telephone call. She was so upset that she had a
bad heart attack. The doctor who examined her told her frankly that her chance
of living was not too good and insisted that she should stay in bed as much as
possible.
Harriet took the news bravely and for a
couple of weeks followed the doctor’s instructions. But one day she could no
longer be alone and called in her butler (= agent) to talk over a plan.
'I want to give a big party next Saturday
night,' she said. 'I shall invite all people with whom 1 worked at the theatre.
I don’t doubt that they will come, as my parties with good food, drinks and
music were always a success. Now I want you to make all the arrangements.'
Knowing how ill she was the butler tried
to persuade her not to do it but she wouldn’t listen to him. The same evening the
old actress wrote invitations to the theatre people. She thought she would get
them together and apologize for her behavior in the past. 'No doubt, I’ll make
friends with some of them and my life will be different in future,' she went on
thinking.
At 10 o’clock on Saturday night none of
the guests turned up. When Harriet realized that nobody would come to the party
she suddenly felt weak and tired.'I can’t blame them for not coming. I myself
used to break a lot of appointments,' she said to the butler and started for
her bedroom.
In a moment he heard a heavy fall. When he
opened the door of her bedroom he saw Harriet Reeves lying on the floor. She
was dead.
A few days later, when the butler was
looking through the papers in her desk he discovered a pack of invitations
Harriet had forgotten to post.
1. Harriet used to be a well-known
actress.
2. Her doctor concealed her health
problems.
3. Harriet was rather wealthy woman.
4. Harriet decided to organize a party
thinking only about herself.
5. All the guests refused to come to the
party.
6. Her butler
tried to calm her down.
7. The butler discovered the real reason
of the tragedy.
Reading
Variant IV
1. Установите
соответствие между заголовками 1–8 и текстами A–G. Занесите свои
ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании
один заголовок лишний.
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Back from the seas
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A museum of popular drinks
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Magic as attraction
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One tool museum
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Not a bank but …
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Still moving
along
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7.
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A brand new shore museum
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To play any tune
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The Salem Witch Museum brings you back
to Salem of 1692 for a dramatic overview of the Witch Trials, including
stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration. There is also
a possibility to go on a candlelight tour to four selected homes. The
museum is open all year round and closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year’s Day. Salem is also famous for its Haunted Happenings, a 24-day
Halloween festival.
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The Discover Sea Shipwreck Museum
opened its doors in 1995, and has one of the largest collections of
shipwreck and recovered artifacts in the Mid-Atlantic. It contains about
10,000 artifacts from local and worldwide locations, including an intact
blown-glass hourglass from a 200-year-old shipwreck, which is also the
world's deepest wooden wreck at the heart of the Bermuda Triangle.
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The Seashore Trolley Museum is the
oldest and largest electric railway museum in the world. It was founded in
1939 with one open trolley car, No. 31 from the Biddeford & Saco
Railroad Company. The Seashore Trolley Museum contains over 250 transit
vehicles, mostly trolleys, from the United States, Canada and abroad.
Visitors can even take a trip along the Maine countryside aboard a restored
early-1900s electric streetcar.
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American Hop Museum is dedicated to
the brewing industry and located in the heart of the Yakima Valley's hop
fields, which gather the best harvest for producing beer. It chronicles the
American hop industry from the New England colonies to its expansion into
California and the Pacific Northwest, and includes historical equipment,
photos and artifacts that pay tribute to hop, the everlasting vine that is
still an integral part of the brewing industry.
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The Money Museum in Colorado Springs
is America's largest museum dedicated to numismatics (the study of
collecting coins and metals). The collection contains over 250,000 items
from the earliest invention of money to modern day, with items including
paper money, coins, tokens, medals, and traditional money from all over the
world. Highlights include the 1804 dollar, the 1913 V Nickel, the 1866 no
motto series, a comprehensive collection of American gold coins, and
experimental pattern coins and paper money.
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The Kenneth G. Fiske Museum of Musical
Instruments in California has one of the most diverse collections of
musical instruments in the United States. This museum is home to over 1,400
American, European and ethnic instruments from the 17th–20th centuries.
Selections from all parts of the world also include keyboards, brass,
woodwind, stringed, percussion, mechanical and electronic instruments.
Other highlights are rare pieces from the violin and viola families, reed
organs and instruments from the Orient and Tibet.
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G.
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The Hammer Museum in Alaska is the
world’s first museum dedicated to hammers. The Museum provides a view of
the past through the use of man’s first tool. You will find over 1500
hammers on display, ranging from ancient times to the present. The museum
does not have any paid staff, and it is run by volunteers. This quaint and
quirky museum is an interesting and informative stop for the whole family.
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2.Прочитайте текст. Определите,
какие из приведённых утверждений cоответствуют содержанию текста (True),
какие не соответствуют (False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на
основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (Notstated).
LOOKING
FOR A JOB
(afterМ. Gold)
When I was twelve I was one of the best
pupils in my class at public school, and left it a year earlier than most boys.
My parents were proud of me, of course. They wanted me to go to high school.
But even then I realized that education was for the rich. I refused to go to
high school. I knew that most of the boys in my class were going to work. And I
decided to be one of them.
I told my parents that I needed to spend
four years at high school, then six years at college before I could become a
doctor. Ten years of study! Where could I get thousands of dollars for books,
tuition and everything else? There were four children in my family. My mother
could not work. Could my father get the money for all of us, and besides pay
for my education? Of course, not. Miss Barry, an English teacher, tried to get
me to go to high school, too. She said that she could hardly imagine that I
would work in a factory. Tve never seen better compositions than yours,
Michael,' she said. But I told her that my father was unable to support me, and
that I would have to work. She asked me to promise her to study at night. I told
her that I would, though I knew it was a lie. But I loved books, I was carried
away by many books; I wanted very much to go to high school and college. Miss
Barry presented me with a book. I thanked her for it and threw it under the bed
when I returned home. I never read a page in it, or in any other book for the
next five years. I told myself that I hated books, that they were lies and were
different from life.
It was not easy to find my first job. I
looked for it for months. Every morning I bought a newspaper and looked through
the Want Ads. At last I found work. It was in a factory. The place was dark and
hot; air was poisoned. The boys and girls working at the long table were wet,
their faces were white and angry. There was no time for anything but work. I
forgot my college hopes, I could not sleep at night. My mother saw that I was
losing my health and she made me leave the job. Then a job in a shop, at a
chemist’s.Jobs.Jobs. I went from one to another without plan, without hope. I
was at a loss what to do. One day I stopped to listen to a man who was speaking
about the struggle for a better life. The words brought hope to me and made me
think, struggle and live. It was the great beginning for me.
1. The author dreamed to continue the
education.
2. The author refused to read the books
because he didn’t like reading.
3. His teacher wanted him to get a good
job.
4. The author worked in the miserable
conditions.
5. The author gave up the job because of a
terrible cold.
6. The author wanted to gain experience in
his jobs.
7. An unexpected meeting changed all his
life.
Keys
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