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Read the text «Ten facts about… lotteries» and complete these sentences:
The English word “lottery” comes from the … word, which means “fate” |
Read the text «Ten facts about… lotteries» and complete these sentences:
The majority of modern lotteries are run by … who use the money for various projects |
Read the text «Ten facts about… lotteries» and complete these sentences:
The national lottery of Britain has created over … millionaires |
Read the text «Ten facts about… lotteries» and complete these sentences:
Lotteries exploit … people |
Read the text «Ten facts about… lotteries» and complete these sentences:
It`s generally believed that … is the world`s largest lottery |
Read the text «Aleixandre`s report on the financial situation of Brazil» and complete these sentences:
Brazil is … South American country |
Read the text «Aleixandre`s report on the financial situation of Brazil» and complete these sentences:
Until very recently, the inflation rate in Brazil was something about … |
Read the text «Aleixandre`s report on the financial situation of Brazil» and complete these sentences:
Brazil it the … largest country in the world in terms of area |
Read the text «Aleixandre`s report on the financial situation of Brazil» and complete these sentences:
The interest on a loan to buy a new … could be, on average, about 1,5% per month |
Read the text «Aleixandre`s report on the financial situation of Brazil» and complete these sentences:
Credit card charges are about … each month |
This book … |
My mother … this park |
The lawns … with sakura petals |
Our village … by many tourists |
The new café … next week |
Octoberfest … every autumn |
WWF … rare species of animals |
Our house … of bricks |
The festival … next Monday |
These poems … into Russian |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Robert Plummer is BBC … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: It`s now been two decades since the … plan, which changed the currency in Brazil |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … is the continuous increase in prices of goods and services |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The Brazilian economy has some of the highest real … in the world |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The Brazilian market is a … place |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Quick profit is … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The plural form for «real« is … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The picture of a parrot is imagined in the note of … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … is a small cup of Brazilian-style coffee |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The name of the Brazil currency is … |
Read the text «Puzzling questions and scientific reasons» and complete these sentences:
Snake venom is … |
Read the text «Puzzling questions and scientific reasons» and complete these sentences:
Whatever the type, the venom has to enter … to have an effect |
Read the text «Puzzling questions and scientific reasons» and complete these sentences:
There have been various accounts of people acquiring … to poison by repeated small doses |
Read the text «Puzzling questions and scientific reasons» and complete these sentences:
The … makes a noise |
Read the text «Puzzling questions and scientific reasons» and complete these sentences:
When cleaning with detergent and newspaper, the glass … |
Read the text «The appeal of rhyme» and complete these sentences:
Words rhyme when they end the same … |
Read the text «The appeal of rhyme» and complete these sentences:
In English tradition, the beginning of the words must be … |
Read the text «The appeal of rhyme» and complete these sentences:
The longer the rhyming sequence, the more … the rhyme. |
Read the text «The appeal of rhyme» and complete these sentences:
Rhymes are so effective in English, because … |
Read the text «The appeal of rhyme» and complete these sentences:
… is a language with a lot of inflections. |
He cooked … fragrant soup |
Her daughter is … pretty girl. |
The water was … cold, that we couldn`t swim. |
His son is not … brave as mine |
Why do you speak …quietly? |
Katy: “My son lives in Mexico”. Katy said, that her son … in Mexico |
Monica: “Are you a pupil or a student?” Monica asked if he … a pupil or a student |
Ann: «Jenny is at school». Ann said that Jenny … at home. |
Amy: «I will be absent tomorrow». Amy said, that she … absent tomorrow. |
Polly: “I`m going to the party”. Polly said that she … to the party |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: Dr Samuel Johnson’s greatest achievement was perhaps as a … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: The first comprehensive English dictionary was published in … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: Dr Johnson spent much of his life in … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: … started learning English at school at the age of 12. |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: Adrian uses a dictionary … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: The house where Dr Samuel Johnson wrote his celebrated dictionary is more than … years old. |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: The dictionary contains about … words and was published as two large books |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: The room where Samuel Johnson wrote the dictionary was … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: The process of writing the dictionary took nearly … |
Прослушайте аудиозапись и заполните пропуски: It`s false, that when good readers decide they do need to know the meaning of a word, they use such strategies, as … |
Read the text «A Dream within a Dream» and complete these sentences:
… means to assert or confess openly |
Read the text «A Dream within a Dream» and complete these sentences:
… is an experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition |
Read the text «A Dream within a Dream» and complete these sentences:
… means to seize and hold firmly |
Read the text «A Dream within a Dream» and complete these sentences:
… is a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Follow rules, not … (Margaret Hellerstain) |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Someone had to pay … (David Kuizenga) |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Young, skinny, ridiculed. Old, skinny, … (Phil Sweet) |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Never really finished anything, except ….(Carletta Perkins) |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Divorced …, lived happily ever after. (Susan Guyaux) |
Read the text «Reality check» and complete these sentences:
Dreamed of endless … Awoke alone. (Mohammad Fatayerji) |
If I …, I would have gone to university |
What … if you had been my sister? |
I … breakfast last morning |
What … if you were an actor? |
He wished he … this beautiful song again |
I wish I … English |
I wish I … so much lasagna for dinner – I had a stomach ache |
Don`t you wish you … the book before? |
I wish I … to wash the dishes every day |
I wish I … you again next winter |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … means not getting enough sleep |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Lack of sleep can have negative effect on our ability … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Researchers from … have found the lack of sleep is a significant factor in lowering the achievement of school pupils |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Sleep deprivation is more a problem in … countries |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The survey found … of 13 and 14-year-olds in the US were identified by their teachers as being affected by lack of sleep |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: William Myers is … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: If teachers didn`t make their classes …, they would see a decline in their performance |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The research found children with more sleep achieve … test results in reading |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Mood swings means … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Randy Gardner stayed awake for … |
Read the text «Higher and higher: the rise and rise of the world`s tallest buildings» and complete these sentences:
Buri Khalifa is the tallest building in … |
Read the text «Higher and higher: the rise and rise of the world`s tallest buildings» and complete these sentences:
In fewer than …, Dubai has transformed itself from a regional centre to a global one |
Read the text «Higher and higher: the rise and rise of the world`s tallest buildings» and complete these sentences:
Defining the Toronto skyline at …, the CN Tower is the World`s Tallest Tower |
Read the text «Higher and higher: the rise and rise of the world`s tallest buildings» and complete these sentences:
Besides serving as a telecommunications hub, the CN Tower provides … |
Read the text «Ten ways to fall» and complete these sentences:
Many historians believed that the Roman Empire – particularly the military – declined as a result of a rise in … |
Read the text «Ten ways to fall» and complete these sentences:
Some historians report that around half of the population was killed by … |
Read the text «Ten ways to fall» and complete these sentences:
There is another theory that the Romans, as they became richer and more powerful, became … |
Read the text «Ten ways to fall» and complete these sentences:
One of the theories says that human activity caused fertile land to become … |
Read the text «Ten ways to fall» and complete these sentences:
The economy of the Romans was in part based on … labor |
Put your gun and give …! |
If you sleep 5 hours a day, you will break … |
Please, return me my pen, I can`t go … it |
We are run … flour, I can’t cook pancakes |
Look …, it`s a very dangerous place! |
After a long period of depression Mike made … himself |
I forget … flowers, please, do it yourself |
Stop …, it sounds terrible! |
Don`t warry, I really enjoy … |
Ann decided … to university |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Rob buys his music … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Steaming means … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Spotify is one of the several … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Spotify has been in the news this week because it is now expanding its business into … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Jim Butcher is a Spotify … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The most popular Rolling Stones song on Spotify — … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … is an individual song or part of a recording |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Streaming sites make money from … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … is illegally copying and selling music, or movies or software |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: The most streamed song of 2012 in the UK, according to the music streaming service Spotify, is … |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… is a very visual comedy with lots of physical action |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… is an ancient oral art which has been practiced throughout history all over the world |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… is performed by one person, usually without any props apart from a microphone |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… is a traditional Japanese art of comic storytelling |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… is characterized by a conversational storytelling style and usually comprises a series of humorous stories based on everyday observation or political events |
Read the text «Comedy performances around the world» and complete these sentences:
… goes back to the end of the 17th century and about 300 classic stories are still performed today, along with new stories by contemporary artists |
Read the text «Miriam`s entry for the competition» and complete these sentences:
Matthew is good at … |
Read the text «Miriam`s entry for the competition» and complete these sentences:
One of Matthew`s strengths is that he gives very … explanations |
Read the text «Miriam`s entry for the competition» and complete these sentences:
The most important quality is Matthew`s ability to make lessons … |
Read the text «Miriam`s entry for the competition» and complete these sentences:
Matthew never … |
The lady … soup was oversalted has called for the chef |
My bag … I left in my car has disappeared |
The house … my parents live is in Samara |
I saw the Eiffel Tower, … always attracts many tourists |
Emily … grew up in Greece knows everything about this country |
He looks …. Did he pass the exam? |
The dog … at my sister is the dog of our neighbors |
She was singing with the water … |
When I called her, I found her … her homework |
I heard a woman … for help and decided to go faster |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: An organization of eye scientists, called …, did some research about male crying habits |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: If the music reminds Finn of something, he can become … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … cried at the end of the final football match of his career |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: A … is the ceremony people go to when someone has died |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: George Osborne is the … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: If something is moving, it means that it makes you … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: When something is … it makes you feel so emotional, you can`t cope! |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Neil welled up when … |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: … means to have tears in your eyes |
Прослушайте запись и заполните пропуски: Men cry … every year |
