#6.

Bill Gates is a very important person in the (1) .................. industry. He (2) ................
been chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation for several years. He is
(3) .................. the richest person in the world. How did he do it?
He learned a lot (4) ................... his parents. While Bill was going to school, his
father went to college, got a degree, and (5) .................... a successful lawyer. From
this, Bill learned that you have to work hard (6) ........................ you want something.
His mother was a very busy teacher, but she enjoyed (7) ...................... to parties.
From this, he learned something else: (8) ................... you want to work hard and
play hard, you have to (9) ............... a schedule.
When Bill was young, he spent a lot of time alone. (10) ...................... most of his
friends were playing, Bill read all of the World Book Encyclopedia and
(11) ................ it when he was eight years old.
Bill’s childhood was not all work, (12) ...................... He (13) ................. to play a lot of
sports- swimming, water, skiing, tennis. He was very serious (14) ................ sports.
He loved winning and he hated (15) .................... When Bill got older he spent more
and more (16) .............. working- and playing- (17) ................... a computer.
Before he was twenty, Bill developed the world’s first computer
(18) .......................... for the personal computer. Once he was thinking about the
future, he realised something important. He thought that every home was
(19) .................... to have a computer, and every computer would (20) ........................
software- his software. He said, “I’m going to make my first million dollars on
software by the time I’m 25.” And he did.

#7.
People in the country enjoy some advantages that people in the city can not. The
(1)..................... has space for people to do things. They have space to
(2)................flowers and space to keep .(3)...................... It is easy for them to get
fresh (4)......................, fresh fruit and fresh milk at low (5).................. They are in
close contact with nature. They (6).......friends with trees and soil, cows and dogs.
They (7)...................... fresh air. They enjoy gentle breezes. They get a lot of (8)...........
when they work on the land. They can listen to the (9)............. of birds while
working. This contact with nature is (10)................ for health.

#8.
Six years ago when I was a student, I was (1) ......short.............. of money. So once a
week I (2) ........had.............. to go home to see my parents and get a decent meal.
Although I had a good relationship with my mother, I never got (3) ....on.......... well
with my father. I could never live up to his high expectations of me. One day I did
a (4) .......very........... terrible thing. I stole some money from him. I asked him if he
(5) ...could.............. lend me ten pounds. He refused saying he had
(6) .....already............. given me enough and it was (7) .....time.............. I became more
responsible with money. You know what it is like (8) .....being................ a student.
I'd run out of money and wanted to take a girl out. When he refused I
(9) ....................... him of being mean and we had a terrible row. He left the house
and I was (10) ......so............... angry that I stole ten pounds from his wallet.
When he (11) ....found out................. out that the money was gone, he
(12) ...knew........... who had (13) ....done................ it and banned me from the house.
(14) ...Since............ then I have returned but he has never really forgiven me and
still (15) ....looked.............. down on me for (16) ...what............... I did. My mother is
very upset and I really (17) .....try................. to work towards creating a happy
relationship with my father for (18) .......our................ own sakes. Half of me wants
to say: " Sorry, Dad" while (19) ....the............. other half still thinks he is ridiculous
(20) .....in............. having kept this attitude up for so long.

#9.
An important development of English outside Great Britain occurred (1) … the
colonization of North American. American English may be considered to (2)
…................ the English spoken in Canada, (3)…............... the Canadian variety retains
some features of British pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary . The most
distinguishing differences (4)…................. American English and British English are
in pronunciation and vocabulary. There are slighter (5)…............... in spelling,
pitch, and stress as well.
(6)….............. American English also has a tendency to be more rigid in matters of
grammar and syntax, but at the same (7)…............... appears to be more tolerant of
the use of neologisms. Despite these differences, it is often difficult to determine
– apart from context – (8)…............... serious literary works (9)…......... been written
in Great Britain or the U.S./Canada or, for that matter, in Australia, New Zealand,
(10)….......... South Africa.

#10. Dealing with waste plastic

Every year people throw away millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, boxes and
wrapping. These create huge mountains of waste that are extremely hard to get
(36) _______ of. Now a new recycling process promises to reduce this problem by
turning old plastic into (37) _____.
Scientists have (38) ______ a long time to develop their ideas because waste plastic
has always been a bigger problem than (39) ______ like waste paper. You can bury
plastic but it takes many years to break down. If you (40) ______ it, it just becomes
another form of pollution. A few products, for example bottles, can be reused, but
it is (41) _____ or difficult to do this with a lot of plastic products.
Now a group of companies has developed a new method of (42) _____ that could
save almost any plastic (43) __________. Nearly every type of waste plastic can be
used: it does
(44) ______ have to be sorted. In addition, labels and ink may be left on the
products. (45) ______ is simply mixed together and heated to more than 400
degrees centigrades so that it melts. It is then cooled, producing a waxy
substance that can be used to make new plastic products.

#11.
There has been a revolution in the world of newspaper. Not many years (1)
____________ newspapers were still being produced using techniques unchanged
for (2) ____________ hundred years.
The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an editor,
who passed them on (3) ____________ the printer. The printer, who was a (4)
____________ skilled man, set up the type. (5) ____________ was then collected to make
the pages. When the pages were complete, the printing machines could be (6)
____________ .
Nowadays what (7) ____________ ? The journalists type their stories into a
computer. The (8) ____________ checks their spelling, plans the pages, shapes the
articles. When the pages are ready, another computer may control the printing.
(9) ____________ can be no doubt about it, producing a newspaper is an entirely
different (10) ____________ now.

#12. SUMMER IN ENGLAND

Summer in England is the best (1) .............. of all. The sky is clear and blue. The sun
shines (2) ..................... But it is not pleasant to go out at noon (3) .................. the sun
dazzles our eyes. The air is generally dry. It is very pleasant to (4) .................. a
walk in the morning, when the country is cool, or again in the evening,
(5) ................ the sunshine is so hot, and the moon (6) .................. above the horizon.
How beautiful a (7) ................... night in England is! It is really beautiful
(8) .................. the countryside. High in the sky, there is the moon (9) ..................
sheds its silver light together (10) ................... thousands of little stars twinkling
and twinkling.

#13.
This video is a true story. Yesterday I was walking with my friend Jay. This is Jay.
Accidentally, I ...dropped... one coin on the ...street..., and to be honest, I had no
interest in picking it up.
I hate ...(3)... these coins and it was only like 10 cents! Then I looked back only to
see Jay on the floor picking it up and saying "Thank you" and putting it in
his ...pocket
I was surprised not because he did that but because Jay is a ...millionaire... with
a $40.000.000 ...dollars..., yet he ...... to pick up my coins! Because according to
him: It's not about the money, it's about the attitude towards the money! And his
attitude is that not a ...street... coin should go to waste.
And this millionaire is not ...(9)... He spends money on his family, he spends
money on his friends and a lot of money on his business. But he doesn't waste
any money, not even the ...(10)...coins. And maybe, just maybe, his attitude is why
he's the millionaire and I am not!
#14.
Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all the way by which man
pollutes his surroundings. Man dirties the air (51)… gases and smoke, poisons
the water with chemicals and other substances, and damages the soil with (52)…
many fertilizers and pesticides. Man also pollutes his surroundings in various
(53)…ways. For examples, people ruin natural
Beauty by scattering junk and litter (54)…the land and in the water. They operate
machines and motor vehicles (55)…fill the air with disturbing noise.
Environmental pollution is (56)…of the most serious problems facing mankind
today. Air, water and soil are (57)…to the survival of all living things. Badly
polluted air can (58)…illness, and even death. Polluted water kills fish and other
marine life. Pollution of soil (59)…the amount of land that is available for
growing food. Environmental pollution (60)…brings the ugliness to man’s
naturally beautiful word.

#15.
Public transport in London is expensive. The fare (1)...........on the length of the
journey; you can not buy books of tickets in advance. Children (2)..........sixteen
pay half and those under five travel free, you usually(3).............bus tickets from a
conductor. But on some buses you pay the driver. Most London(4) ...........are
doubledeckers.
On the (5).........railway (or tube) you buy your ticket from a (6)...........or ticket
office, and give it up at the (7)..........of the journey. Not all trains from one
(8)............go to the same place, so watch the signs. The last train leaves at about
00.15.

#16.
Population growth is a serious (1)...........around the world. At the beginning of the
20th (2)...........,there were about 1.5 billion (3)........ in the world. In 1984 the world
population (4)..........4.8 billion people. By the year 2000, ...........(5) Will be about
6.1 billion. This growth in population is not happening (6).......... For example in
Europe the population is not growing at all .(7).........in these countries are smaller
now. Only about 2.1 (8).........are born for every woman.pollution

#17.
I'm a writer, and I work ............. home. It doesn't particulaly ............... where my
house is, as long as it is ............. nice house. But last year my wife ............. a job in a
different part of the country. So, we had to move. This was our first ..................
of ............. one house and selling another at the same time. I wouldn't like to do it
again. We quickly saw the house ................. we wanted. It was then that our
problems began: The people who wanted to buy our house couldn't sell .................
and the man ............. house we wanted couldn't find a house he liked. It ................. us
nine months to buy the house. Now, I'm not sure if I like it.