Вопросы
|
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
|
