Вариант - 1
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This text deals with …
1. Tomorrow’s vegetables.
2. Environment in danger.
3. Additions to your food.
4. Genetically modified food.
5. Fast food.
6. Unhealthy eating habits.
A. Fast food and packaging come together. When you have eaten the beef burger, you throw away the packaging and somebody will then burn or bury it. This is clearly a problem. Fast food also contributes to global warming. In Brazil, 12 million acres of forest were cut down to build farms. Farmers use this land to grow soya beans and soya is given to the cows that become the beef in your beefburger. Fewer forests mean more global warming.
B Traditional methods of cooking and eating are disappearing, and are being replaced by fast food and ready-prepared meals. As a result, people today (especially children) have too much sugar, too many sweet drinks, too much white bread. This makes people’s level of blood glucose go up, causing tiredness, nervousness and headaches. Among schoolchildren it can also cause low concentration and bad behaviour.
C. A lot of fast food contains ingredients that have been changed by scientists to be different: the tomatoes in the tomato sauce, the flour in the bread. How is it possible that you can buy a bright red tomato in Moscow, that comes from Cyprus, that is still fresh after four weeks? But the changes are not always bad. Some plants can be modified to provide more vitamin C, for example.
D. Not many children like vegetables. It has been proved that eating vegetables in childhood helps to protect you against serious illness in later life. So yesterday chocolate-flavoured carrots went on sale in Britain as part of a campaign to encourage children to eat vegetables. The range of products also includes cheese-and-onion flavoured cauliflower, pizza-flavoured sweeetcorn, and peas that taste like chewing-gum.
E. You should expect to find a lot of chemical ingredients in fast food. None of them are good for your health, but not all of them are bad. Chlorine is used to make bread white. Cochineal (made from dried insects) is used to make things red. However, more research is needed to find out exactly how these chemicals will affect our health in years to come.
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The Pig and the Pencil
Pig was looking at A____ on the ground. Turtle came by. “What did you find, Pig?” she said. “What is that thing on the ground?” “Don’t you know?” said Pig. “I’ll show you what it is!” Pig put the pencil on his hat. “Oh, now I see!” said Turtle. “It looks B____ on your hat. You are so smart, Pig.” “I know, I know,” said Pig. Frog came by just then. “Oh, Frog! Look what Pig put on his hat,” said Turtle. “I see,” said Frog. “That C____ your hat look good, Pig. What a smart thing to do!” “Being smart is what I do best,” D____ Pig. “Now I’ll show you something more!” Pig put the pencil on E____ nose. “What a good place for it!” said Frog. “I think that’s the best place,” said Turtle. “You are so smart, Pig.”
A 1) anything 2) something 3) nothing 4) anywhere
B 1) better 2) the best 3) best 4) good
C 1) making 2) maked 3) makes 4) make
D 1) said 2) say 3) says 4) is saying
E 1) himself 2) him 3) he 4) his
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Castles
There (A)____ hundreds of castles in the British Isles. Some of them are ruins, but (B)____ are in very good condition. Some castles are homes for (C)____ people like the Queen of (D)____ ! Many of them are very, very old, and have got a (E)____ history. Castles are big, strong buildings. People built castles in the past to protect everyone inside the castle from attack. Many castles have legends.
1. buildings; 2. famous; 3. England; 4. fascinating; 5. are; 6. people; 7. others.
Вариант – 2
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This text deals with …
1. World’s strangest name.
2. Famous people’s names.
3. The name of the computer.
4. The names children dislike.
5. Unusual names.
6. The importance of names.
A. Your name is extremely significant. It’s how you identify yourself. It’s how other people identify you. Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Can you imagine someone famous with a name like that? He had to change it. Marilyn Monroe sounds so much more glamorous than Norma Jean Baker.
So parents make one of the most important decisions in the lives of their children - giving them a name.
B. Some people choose names because they are fashionable. Other parents do the opposite and call their children strange names, or they even invent names. People who choose strange names for their children want to show how special they are. However, the children are not always happy with their parents’ choice. David Bowie’s son found the name Zowie so embarrassing that he changed it to Joe.
C. These days it’s fashionable to give your child the name of a place that is important to you: Victoria and David Beckham decided to call their son Brooklyn because they were in New York when they discovered that Victoria was going to have a baby. Madonna named her daughter Lourdes after the town in France, the ex-US-President Bill Clinton named his daughter Chelsea after a part of London that he and his wife liked.
D. A woman, Mrs Bennet, was in hospital after the birth of her son. She was trying to decide what to call her son, when she walked past a door. It had the name ‘KING’ on it. That’s a good name, she thought. A little later, she walked past another door, and this time she saw the name ‘NOSMO’. Interesting, she thought. But she liked it, too, and so her son was named Nosmo King Bennet. It was only six months later that she discovered her terrible mistake.
E. A.L.I.C.E. is an award-winning chat robot at www.alicebot.org. She’s intelligent and funny and has won prizes for being the most human-like computer. She was created by Dr Richard S. Wallace. Six thousand people a month chat to A.L.I.C.E. Some people spend up to four and a half hours a day chatting online with her, and some have even said they prefer her to their own girlfriends.
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Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary hero who lived in Sherwood Forest, in Nottingham, with his band of followers. Stories about A____ and his adventures began to appear in the fourteenth century.
Everyone knows that Robin Hood robbed the rich to give to the poor. He chose to be an outlaw, that is, someone who lives “outside the law”, but he had his own ideas of right and wrong. He B____ against injustice, and tried to give ordinary
people a share of the riches owned by people in authority and the Church. He had many qualities — he C____ a great sportsman, a brave fighter, and was very D____ with his bow and arrow.
He dressed in green, lived in the forest with his wife, Maid Mary, and his men. For food, they killed the King’s deer, and many days were spent eating, drinking, and playing games. He robbed the rich by capturing them as they travelled through the forest and inviting them to eat with him. During the supper, someone looked in their bags to see how E____ money they had. When it was finished, Robin asked them to pay for the meal, and of course, he knew how much to ask for! His main enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham, who was always trying to capture Robin but never managed to do it. Some stories say that he probably killed Robin by poisoning him. In his dying moments, he shot a final arrow from his famous bow, and asked his men to bury him where the arrow landed.
A 1) he 2) his 3) himself 4) him
B 1) fights 2) fought 3) is fighting 4) has fought
C 1) was 2) were 3) is 4) are
D 1) better 2) best 3) good 4) the best
E 1) many 2) more 3) most 4) much
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Interview with Michael
Interviewer: So, Michael, what have you been doing (A)____ ?
Michael: Well, Peter, the band and I’ve been travelling (B)____ Europe on our latest concert tour.
Interviewer: Really? Tell me, have your (C)____ been buying lots of tickets for the concerts?
Michael: You can say that again! They`ve been booking (D)____ since they went on sale six months ago.
Interviewer: You must be (E) !
1. arrangements; 2. recently; 3. tickets; 4. around; 5. fans; 6. concerts; 7. thrilled.
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