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LISTENING
Task 1. Listen to a dialogue between a man and his would-be mother-in-law and decide
whether the statements are TRUE according to the text you hear (A), or FALSE (B),
or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text (C).
A В
1. The man comes from Dublin. О О
2. Thewoman thinks he is too young to get married. О О
3. The man lives in a house in Belgrave Square. О О
4. The man does not keep in touch with his relatives. О О
5. The woman thinks that it is more expensive to live
in the countryside. О О

6. The man thinks that trespassers take advantage

of the opportunity. О О
7. The woman says that fashion can be feminineor masculine. О О

8. The man experienced the death of his father. О О

9. The woman exercises the tight control over her daughter. О О

10. The man is rich enough to own two houses. О О

READING
Task 2. Read the text and decide whether the statements are TRUE according to the text (A),
or FALSE (B), or the information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text (C).
The Amur Tiger Programme
The Amur Tiger Programme aims to develop a scientific platform for the conservation
of the Amur tigers living in Russia’s Far East. The programme’s objective is to study the
distribution range of Amur tiger populations, the number and migration routes of these
big cats in Russia and the way they use the landscape. Also, scientists are researching
their reproductive biology, habitat, feeding patterns and food resources, the distribution
and dynamics of the populations of the main prey species, and the tigers’ relationships
with rival predators.
In order to gain a more detailed insight into the tigers’ ability to adapt to the ever­
changing conditions of the modern environment, scientists need to research their
habitat structure and analyse the long-term trends prevalent in Russia’s Far East forest
ecosystems. Scientists also need to simulate tiger habitats by using geo-information
technologies to predict the Amur tigers’ distribution ranges. The programme focuses on
the study of the structural and functional organisation of the populations of the main
prey species (wild boars, roe deer, Manchurian deer and sika deer) and those of the main
rival predators (brown bears, Asiatic black bears, and wolves); it also aims to research the
specifics and the implications of inter-population interaction between two species of big
cats, namely, the Amur tiger and the Far Eastern leopard.

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 Also, the issue of creating a state-run information centre to store all the information
obtained about the condition of tiger populations and other rare species of animals is being
considered now. The existing method of counting tiger populations needs to be revised.
In addition to research, the Amur Tiger Programme addresses popular science,
educational and social issues. The project aims not only to draw attention to the problem
of conserving Russia’s rare species of animals, such as the Amur tiger, snow leopard, Far
Eastern leopard or white whale, but also to raise awareness among the people living in
areas near these animals about the environment and the animals’ behaviour.
In March 2009, the attendees of the international conference “The Amur Tiger in
Northeast Asia: Conservation Problems in the 21st Century” adopted a new draft version
of the strategy to protect the Amur tiger in Russia which was prepared by a working group
set up for this purpose by the Russian Natural Resources Ministry.
Russia’s Far East is home to 95% of the global population of Amur tigers, and the
last census showed there were between 423 to 502 individuals. Organized by the Russian
government with the support of the Amur Tiger Centre and WWF, the current census
covered over 150,000 square kilometres of the endangered animal’s habitats. Over 2,000
specialists were involved in the field research, while the use of technology such as GPS,
satellite navigators and camera traps aided the count.
A в c
1. The majority of Amur tigers are left in the wild. □
2. The main aim of the programme is to research feeding
patterns and food resources of the tigers. □
3. One of the goals of the project is to collect the best
possible scientific information on tiger ecology for use
in conservation plans. □ □ □
4. It is necessary to analyse the tigers’ relationship with
other species. □ □
5. Approximately 80% of tiger mortality in Russia is caused
by humans. □ □ 1 1
6. Russian scientists tried to maximize opportunity for cultural,
linguistic, and scientific exchange. □ 1 1 □
7. The programme’s involvement in addressing tiger-human
conflicts resulted in improved capacity to alleviate problem
situations through aversive conditioning and translocation
of problem tigers, as well as in reduced human-caused
mortality and improved safety of local citizens. □ □
8. The relationship between the Amur tiger and the brown
and Himalayan bear is not being specifically studied. 1 □ 1 1
9. Tiger numbers are notoriously difficult to estimate. □
10. Red deer, wild boar and sika deer make up about 85% of
the tiger’s diet, so managing these species is vital to tiger
conservation. □ 1 1 □

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 USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.

1. Sergei Ivanov, Special Representative for Environmental PRESIDENT

Protection, Ecology and Transport, took part in the session “Challenges
Facing the Ecology.
2. Reforming the Waste Treatment Industry: Regulation, Experience,
Problems and” at the 3rd Yalta International Economic SOLVE
Forum.
3. Speaking at the forum Mr Ivanov voiced concern about waste
and processing issues ahead of the tourist season REMOVE
in Crimea.
4. According to him, the cost of liquidating------------------ dumpsites is LEGAL
fairly high.
5. For example, 1.4 billion rubles went to clear a dump that stood in the way
of building the third at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. RUN
6. Mr Ivanov believes that joining the GLONASS system with NAVIGATE
the Platon tolling system for trucks weighing over 12 tonnes will assist
in fighting illegal dumping.
7. A sensor operating both in Platon and navigation systems, when installed
in a truck, will let monitor garbage truck traffic. OPERATE
8. The Yalta Economic Forum is held from April 20 NATION
to April 22.
9. It brought together around 1,500 from 50 countries. PARTICIPATE

Task 4. Match the two columns. [BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS]

1. Benjamin Disraeli A. the only Prime Minister whose mother

2. Clement Attlee tongue was not English
3. David Lloyd George B. changed the world map by decolonising
4. Edward Heath sub-Saharan Africa
5. Harold Macmillan C. resigned due to ill health; died soon
6. Henry Campbell-Bannerman after leaving office
7. John Major D. won the Nobel Prize in Literature
8. Margaret Thatcher E. the last unmarried Prime Minister
9. Theresa May F. abolished the Department for Energy
10. Winston Churchill and Climate Change
G. the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth
H. the first female Prime Minister
I. the oldest living former Prime Minister (born 1943)
J. during his / her premiership British India
(India and Pakistan) became independent

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Task 5. Choose the correct answer. [COLOUR IDIOMS]

1. __ lie
green white black red blue
2. market
green white black red blue
3. get the_ ---------------light
W • (W
white green red blue black

4. caught handed
blue black green red white
5. —__ -eyed boy
blue black green red white
6. —__ off
blacked whitened browned greened grayed
p 7.
7. —__ as a skillet
green red white blue black
8. talk a__________ streak
green blue red black pink
9. —__ belt
green blue yellow black pink
10. see elenhants
blue pink green white yellow

Task 6. Choose the correct answer. [SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS]

1. Julius Caesar
A tragedy В history C comedy

2. Heitry V
A tragedy В history C comedy

3. Kin g Lear
A tragedy В history C comedy

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A tragedy В history C comedy

5. Ric aard II
A tragedy В history C comedy

6. Ma cbeth
A tragedy В history C comedy

7. As You Like It
A tragedy В history C comedy

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 8. Me asure for Measure
A tragedy В history C comedy

9. Rorneo and Juliet

A tragedy В history C comedy

10. Kin g John

A tragedy В history C comedy

11. Otflello
A tragedy В history C comedy

12. Mu ch Ado about Nothing

A tragedy В history C comedy

13. Heiuy VIII

A tragedy В history C comedy

14. Ric lard III

A tragedy В history C comedy

15. The Comedy of Errors

A tragedy В history C comedy

Task 7. Form plurals of the nouns.

1. singular — 16. shoe (shoes) —

2. barracks — 17. corrigendum —

3. nucleus — 18. datum —

4. syllabus — 19. radius —

5. focus — 20. cello —

6. fungus — 21. kniazhestvo —

7. cactus — 22. oblast —

8. thesis — 23. samurai —

9. phenomenon — 24. pizza —

10. criterion — 25. son-in-law —

11. aircraft — 26. man-child —

12. headquarters — 27. manservant —

13. moth — 28. people —

14. Cherokee — 29. canoe —

15. Apache — 30. polyhedron —

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Task 8. Complete the crossword. [ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE]

It was close upon four before the door opened, and a groom, ill-kempt and
side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and ... clothes, walked into the room. Across 1
With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five ... Down 6
tweed-suited and respectable, as of old.
“I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to be busier still this
evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want your ....” Down 7
“I shall be delighted.”
“You don’t mind breaking the law?”
“Not in the least.”
’’You must not interfere, come what may. You understand?”
“I am to be ...?” Across 2
“To do nothing whatever. ”
The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes’s succinct
..., but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. Down 8
One night — it was in June, ’89 — there came a ring to my bell, about the
hour when a man gives his first... and glances at the clock. I sat up in my Down 9
chair, and my wife laid her needle-work down in her lap and made a little
face of disappointment.
“A patient!” said she. “You’ll have to go out.”
I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day.
Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached by a ... flight of steps Across 3
leading down to a black gap like the mouth of a cave, I found the den of
which I was in search.
“Who is on ...?” asked Holmes. Down 10
“Inspector Bradstreet, sir.”
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 He quietly shot back a panel in the ... part of the door and glanced through. Across 4
“He certainly needs a wash,” remarked Holmes. “I had an idea that he might,
and I took the liberty of bringing the ... with me.” He opened the Gladstone Across 5
bag as he spoke, and took out, to my astonishment, a very large bath-sponge.

Task 9. Write one word in each gap.

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works, to “encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks”.
2. It was founded in 1971 Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
3. Most of the items in its collection the full texts of public-domain books.
4. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can
be used almost any computer.
5. As 3 October 2015, Project Gutenberg reached 50,000 items in its collection.
6. The releases are available in plain text but, wherever possible, other formats are included,
such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI,Plucker.
7. Most releases in the English language, but many non-English works are
also available.
8. There multiple affiliated projects that are providing additional content,
including regional and language-specific works.
9. Project Gutenberg is also closely affiliated Distributed Proofreaders, an
internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.

Task 10. Read the text below and choose the correct word A — D for each space.

An unknown male tiger was captured 1------------------- trail cameras at the Bastak Nature
Reserve in the Jewish Autonomous Region. The results of regular photo monitoring showed
that the adult tigress Zolushka and two males, Zavetny and Bastak, still live 2
the reserve. Zavetny seems to not mind that young Bastak lives in his territory, but it is yet
unknown if he would be as 3 to the new tiger.
Experts link the “inrush” of tigers into the reserve to Zolushka, who is ready to mate and
leaves markings that attract 4------------------- from neighbouring areas. This also caused a
fight between two tigers near the Sagdy-Bira River at the 5 of January. The
tracks showed that one of the tigers later left 6.the border of the Jewish
Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk Territory. Experts believe that the appearance of
a new male 7------------------- complicate the situation in the local population.

1. A of В with C by D at

2. A in В on C at D by

3. A good В tolerant C polite D cultured

4. A males В boys C men D fellows

5. A finish В conclusion C ruin D end

6. A off В to C at D for

7. A must В might C have to D could

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LISTENING
Task 1. Read the text carefully, and then listen to it. A word is missing in each of the
sentences below. Write the words down. [H. N. HUDSON]

1. The historical drama, then, grew up simultaneously with comedy and tragedy, and
established itself as a coordinate of the gothic drama in England.
2. Now this circumstance could not be without great influence in determining the whole
and character of the English drama in all its varieties.
3. The natural effect was to make them all more or------------------ historical in method and
grain.
4. For the process generated, and could not fail to generate, corresponding modes and habits
of thought in dramatic; and these would needs go with the writers into
whatever branch of the drama they might take in hand.
5. Because modes and habits of thought are not things that men can------------------ off and
on for different subjects and occasions.
6. What they learn to practise in one field of labour transfers itself with them,------------------
they will or no, to other fields.
7. Their way of viewing things, nay, their very faculties of vision, catch the temper and drift
of what they work in; which drift and temper cleave to them in spite of themselves, and
shape all their movements of thought; so that, change their matter as they
may, their mind still keeps the same.
8. The practical consequences of all this both manifold and strongly marked.
9. The drama thus cut itself loose and clean away from the narrow circle of
myths and legends, where the ancients had fixed it, and ranged at large in all the freedom
and variety of historical representation.
10. It took on all the compass, amplitude, and of the Homeric Epos.
11. The stereotyped and confinement of the Greek stage were necessarily
discarded, and the utmost breadth of matter and scope, compatible with clearness of
survey, became the recognized freehold of dramatic art.
12. So that, as I have before observed, the English drama was, in the largest sense, a national
_______ , and not the work of any individual.
13. Neither was it a sudden growth, as indeed nothing truly national ever can be: like the
English State, it was the slow,_______ , silent production of centuries,—the result
of the thoughts of many minds in many ages.
14. And where I like best to the Poet is, not in the isolation of those powers
which lift him so far above all others, but as having the mind of the nation, with its great
past and greater present, to back him up.
15. And it seems to me, his greatness consisted very much in that, as he had the gift, so he
surrendered himself to the high task, of reproducing in artistic the beatings
of old England’s mighty heart.

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 READING
Task 2. Read the passage below and choose which of the sentences A — G fit into the
numbered gaps in the text.

The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest
forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon
settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th
century with the Norman conquest of England. Early Modern English began in the late
15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James
Bible as well as the Great Vowel Shift.
1___________
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, from the 9th
century, that chronicle the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The poem Battle ofMaldon also
deals with history. This is a work of uncertain date, celebrating the Battle of Maldon of
991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion.
2___________
Epic poems were very popular, and some, including Beowulf, have survived to the
present day. Beowulf is the most famous work in Old English, and has achieved national
epic status in England, despite being set in Scandinavia. The only surviving manuscript
is the Nowell Codex, the precise date of which is debated, but most estimates place it
close to the year 1000.
3___________
Two Old English poems from the late 10th century are The Wanderer and The
Seafarer. Both have a religious theme, and Richard Marsden describes The Seafarer as “an
exhortatory and didactic poem, in which the miseries of winter seafaring are used as a
metaphor for the challenge faced by the committed Christian...”
4___________
The longest is King Alfred’s (849-99) 9th-century translation of Boethius’ “Consolation
of Philosophy”.
After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the written form of the Anglo-Saxon
language became less common. Under the influence of the new aristocracy, French became
the standard language of courts, parliament, and polite society.
5___________
From then until the 12th century Anglo-Saxon underwent a gradual transition into
Middle English. Political power was no longer in English hands, so that the West Saxon
literary language had no more influence than any other dialect and Middle English
literature was written in the many dialects that corresponded to the region, history,
culture, and background of individual writers.
6___________
At the end of the 12th century, Layamon in Brut adapted the Norman-French of Wace
to produce the first English-language work to present the legends of King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table. It was also the first historiography written in English since
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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 Middle English lasted until the 1470s, when the Chancery Standard, a London-based
form of English, became widespread and the printing press started to standardise the
language. Chaucer is best known today for “The Canterbury Tales”.
7___________
Chaucer is a significant figure in the development of the legitimacy of the vernacular,
Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were still
French and Latin.

A. As the invaders integrated, their language and literature mingled with that of the
natives, and the Norman dialects of the ruling classes became Anglo-Norman.
B. Beowulf is the conventional title, and its composition is dated between the 8th
and the early 11th century.
C. Classical antiquity was not forgotten in Anglo-Saxon England, and several Old English
poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts.
D. In this period religious literature continued to enjoy popularity and hagiographies
were written, adapted and translated: for example, “The Life of Saint Audrey”.
E. Oral tradition was very strong in early English culture and most literary works were
written to be performed.
F. This is a collection of stories written in Middle English (mostly in verse although
some are in prose), that are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of
pilgrims as they travel together from Southwark to the shrine of St Thomas Becket at
Canterbury Cathedral.
G. Through the influence of the British Empire, the English language has spread around
the world since the 17th century.

USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3. Match the two columns. [COLLECTIVE NOUNS]

1. sounder A. of oysters
2. bed B. of rabbits
3. murder C. of ferrets
4. business D. of frogs
5. family E. of jays
6. army F. of boars
7. cloud G. of beavers
8. party H. of emus
9. colony I. of crows
10. memory J. of snakes
11. mob K. of grasshoppers
12. knot L. of rattlesnakes
13. flutter M. of sardines
14. rhumba N. of butterflies
15. warren 0. of elephants

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Task 4. Match the names of famous people with their occupation and their nationality.

1. Abraham Lincoln A. astronaut a. American

2. Oliver Cromwell B. scientist b. British
3. Ivan the Terrible C. president c. Russian
4. Charles Darwin D. pianist a. American
5. Elvis Presley E. novelist b. British
6. Igor Stravinsky F. tsar c. Russian
7. Neil Armstrong G. physicist a. American
8. Andrei Sakharov H. singer b. British
9. Emily Bronte I. lord protector c. Russian

Task 5. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.
[JEROME K. JEROME]

1. We wanted that supper. For five-and-thirty minutes not a sound was

heard throughout the length and of that boat, save the BROAD
clank of cutlery and crockery, and the steady grinding of four sets of
molars.
2. At the end of five-and-thirty minutes, Harris said, “Ah!” and took his
left leg out from under him and put his right there FIRST
instead.
3. Five minutes afterwards, George said, “Ah!” too, and threw his plate
out on the bank; and, three minutes later than that, Montmorency gave
the first sign of he had exhibited since we had started, CONTENT
and rolled over on his side, and spread his legs out; and then I said,
“Ah!” and bent my head back, and bumped it against one of the hoops,
but I did not mind it. I did not even swear.
4. How good one feels when one is full — how satisfied with WE
and with the world!
5. People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you
very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the BUSY
quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
6. One feels so forgiving and generous after a and well- SUBSTANCE
digested meal — so noble-minded, so kindly-hearted.
7. It is very strange, this of our intellect by our digestive DOMINATE
organs.
8. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It
dictates to us our emotions, our PASSIONATE
9. After eggs and bacon, it says, “Work!” After beefsteak and porter, it
says, “Sleep!” After a cup of tea (two for each cup, and SPOON
don’t let it stand more than three minutes), it says to the brain, “Now,
rise, and show your strength.
10. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature
and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar,
a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long
lanes of flaming stars to the gates of!” ETERNAL

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11. After hot muffins, it says, “Be dull and, like a beast of the SOUL
field — a brainless animal, with listless eye, unlit by any ray of fancy,
or of hope, or fear, or love, or life.”
12. And after brandy, taken in sufficient quantity, it says, “Now, come, fool,
grin and tumble, that your fellow-men may laugh — drivel in folly, and
splutter in sounds, and show what a helpless ninny is SENSE
poor man whose wit and will are drowned, like kittens, side by side, in
half an inch of alcohol.”
13. We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after
morality and my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, RIGHTEOUS
and diet it with care and judgment.
14. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart,
by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, SEEK
a loving husband, and a tender father — a noble, pious man.
15. Before our supper, Harris and George and I were and QUARREL
snappy and ill-tempered; after our supper, we sat and beamed on one
another, and we beamed upon the dog, too. We loved each other, we
loved everybody.
16. Harris, in moving about, trod on George’s corn. Had this happened
before supper, George would have expressed wishes and desires
concerning Harris’s fate in this world and the next that would have
made a man shudder. As it was, he said: “Steady, old THINK
man; ’ware wheat.”

Task 6. Choose the correct answer from the box.

BIRTHDAY BLOG BRASS CHAMPION CHANCELLOR DID DUKES

EASTERN FUNERAL GEORGE HEADMASTER HISTORIAN IRON JACK JOHN
KNIGHTS LEONARD LIBERAL PLACE POET PRIME RADIO REPUBLICAN
SAXON SENIOR SERVED SUDAN VICTORY WESTERN WORLD

Sir Winston 1.------------------ Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965)

was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940
to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a
non-academic 2------------------- , and a writer (as Winston S. Churchill). He won the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first
of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the family of the 3 of Marlborough, a branch of
the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician
who 4.------------------ as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an
American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Anglo-
5.------------------ War, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent
and wrote books about his campaigns.

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At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions.
Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary,
and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith’s 6. government.
During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli
Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army
service on the 7.Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal
Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under Lloyd 8.as Minister of
Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State
for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as 9 of the
Exchequer in Baldwin’s Conservative government of 1924-1929, controversially returning
the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen
as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Out of office and politically “in the wilderness” during the 1930s because of his opposition to
increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII,
Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for
rearmament. At the outbreak of the Second 10 War, he was again appointed
First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May
1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His speeches and 11.broadcasts
helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940-41 when
the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to
Adolf Hitler. He led Britain as Prime Minister until 12 over Nazi Germany
had been secured.
After the Conservative Party suffered an unexpected defeat in the 1945 general election,
he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. He publicly warned of an
“13------------------- Curtain” of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity.
After winning the 1951 election, Churchill again became 14.Minister.
His second term was preoccupied by foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency,
Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War, and a UK-backed coup d’etat in Iran. Domestically his
government laid great emphasis on house-building. Churchill suffered a serious stroke in
1953 and retired as Prime Minister in 1955, although he remained a Member of Parliament
until 1964. Upon his death aged ninety in 1965, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of
a state 15.------------------ , which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen
in history.
Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being
among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in opinion
polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. His highly complex legacy continues to
stimulate intense debate amongst writers and historians.

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Task 7. Choose the correct answer.

1. sham— симулировать симптомы болезненного состояния тела

ABRAHAM JOHN JACK JILL HARRY

2. astonish the— бросать вызов стереотипам

HORNERS SHAKESPEARES BROWNS SMITHS IVANOVS

3. Mother— предсказательница

LUNCH MUNCH BUNCH DUNCH WUNCH

4. go to Davy Jones’s— погибнуть из-за недостатка определенных

навыков

HOUSE SHELF BOAT SIDEBOARD LOCKER

5. Jack of— отпугивающий субъект, призванный повысить урожайность

LEEDS BOSTON LENT LONDON GLASGOW

6. Jack— человек с лицензией на убийство

GETCH SWETCH METCH KETCH FETCH

7. all shall be well,-------------------shall have Jill — будущее полно оптимизма

JOHNNY GEORGE JACK WILL JOHN

8. Tom and------------------ shop — питейное заведение co слабым фейс-контролем

JERRY HARRY JACK MIKE TOM

9. ------------------ Anne — человек, разделяющий порывы души в минуты горести

и счастья

LITTLE AUNTIE DEAR MOTHER SISTER

Task 8. Match the two columns. [COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS]

1. bare A. to cany
2. bear B. to uncover
3. bazaar A. a Middle Eastern market
4. bizarre B. strange
5. berth A. a bunk in a ship
6. birth B. the beginning of something
7. born A. carried
8. borne B. having started life
9. bough A. a branch of a tree
10. bow B. the front of a ship
11. brake A. to stop a vehicle
12. break B. to separate into pieces

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13. breach A. the lower part of anything
14. breech B. to break through
15. broach A. to raise a subject for discussion
16. brooch B. a piece of jewellery
17. canvas A. to seek people’s votes
18. canvass B. a type of strong cloth
19. censure A. to criticize strongly
20. censor B. to ban parts of a book

Task 9. Match the names of US states with the dates of their admission to the Union.

1. Delaware A. 1816
2. Maryland B. 1890
3. Indiana C. 1792
4. Maine D. 1876
5. Kentucky E. 1787
6. Idaho F. 1863
7. Hawaii G. 1788
8. Colorado H. 1959
9. West Virginia I. 1816
10. Indiana J. 1820

Task 10. Match the two columns.

1. Canterbury Cathedral Buckinghamshire

2. Chartwell Cambridgeshire
3. Chester Zoo Cheshire
4. Corfe Castle Cornwall
5. Drayton Manor Cumbria
6. Eden Project Devon
7. Lake District National Park Dorset
8. Stonehenge Essex
9. Stratford-upon-Avon Kent
10. University of Cambridge Leicestershire
Staffordshire
Warwickshire
Wiltshire

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Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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LISTENING
Task 1. Read the text carefully, and then listen to it. According to the record, some of the
words in the text are incorrect and should be changed. Write down both correct and
incorrect words. [H. N. HUDSON]
There can be little doubt, though we have no certain idea on the point, that by this time
the Poet’s genius had sweetened itself into the good graces of Queen Elisabeth; as the
irresistible compliment paid her in A Midsummer-Night’s Dream could hardly have been
of a later date. It would be gratifying to discover by what play he made his first conquest
of the Queen. That he did captivate her, is told us in Ben Jonson’s sonnet just quoted:
“Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it there
To see thee in our waters yet appear;
And make those flights upon the banks of Thames
That so did take Eliza and our friend!”
King John, King Richard the First, King Richard the Third, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream,
and the original form of All’s Well that Ends Well, were, no doubt, all written before the
spring of 1586. So that these five plays, and perhaps one or two others, in addition to the
ten mentioned before, may by that time have been performed in her Majesty’s hearing,
“as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure”.
Aubrey tells us that Shakespeare “was wont to go to his native country once a decade”.
We now have better authority than Aubrey for believing that the Poet’s heart was in
“his native country” all the while. No sooner is he well established in London, and in
receipt of funds to spare from the demands of business, than we find him making liberal
investments amidst the scenes of his youth. Some years before, Mr Halliwell discovered
in the Chapter-House, Westminster, a document that ascertains that in the spring of 1597
Shakespeare bought of William Underbill, for the sum of £60, the establishment called
“New Place,” described as consisting of “one messuage, two barns, and two gardens,
with their appurtenances”. This was one of the best dwelling-houses in London, and was
situated in one of the best parts of the town. Early in the sixteenth century it was owned
by the Cloptons, and called “the great house”. It was in one of the gardens belonging to
this house that the Poet was seen to have planted a mulberry-tree. New Place remained
in the hands of Shakespeare and his heirs till the Restoration, when it was repurchased by
the Clopton family. In the spring of 1742, Garrick, Macklin, and Delane were entertained
there by Mr Hugh Clopton, under the Poet’s mulberry-tree. About 1752, the house was
sold to the Rev. Francis Gastrell, who, falling out with the Stratford authorities in some
matter of rates, demolished the house, and cut down the tree; for which his memory has
been visited with exemplary retribution.
We have other tokens of the Poet’s thrift about that time. One of these is a curious
letter, dated January 24, 1598, and written by Abraham Sturley, an aiderman of Stratford,
to his father-in-law, Richard Quiney, who was then in London on business for himself
and others. Sturley, it seems, has learned that “our countryman, Mr Shakespeare,” had
money to invest, and so was for having him urged to buy up certain tithes at Stratford,
on the ground that such a purchase “would advance him indeed, and would do us much
good”; the meaning of which is, that the Stratford people were in pursue of money, and
were looking to Shakespeare for a supply.

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 INCORRECT CORRECT

1. ___________________
2. _____________________ ___________________
3. _____________________ ___________________
4. _____________________ ___________________
5. _____________________ ___________________
6. _____________________ ___________________
7. ___________________
8. _____________________ ___________________
9. _____________________ ___________________
10. _____________________ ___________________
11. _____________________ ___________________
12. _____________________ ___________________
13. _____________________ ___________________
14. _____________________ ___________________
15. _____________________ ___________________
16. _____________________ ___________________
17. _____________________ ___________________
18. _____________________ ___________________

READING
Task 2. Read the text below and complete the story with the phrases A—G.

Every afternoon, 1, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.
It was a large lovely garden, 2 Here and there over the grass stood
beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach trees that in the springtime broke
out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn 3 The
birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in
order 4--------------------- “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other.
One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and
had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that
he had to say, 5-------------------- , and he determined to return to his own castle. When he
arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.
“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff voice, 6
“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “any one can understand that,
7-------------------- nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all round it, and
put up a notice-board.

A. for his conversation was limited E. and I will allow

B. bore rich fruit F. and the children ran away
C. to listen to them G. with soft green grass
D. as they were coming from school

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 USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3. Match the two columns. [IDIOMS]

1. a dead wood А. большие деньги

2. an Indian summer В. бежать впереди паровоза
3. big bucks С. бесшабашный
4. burst at the seams D. главарь
5. devil-may-care Е. оригинальный, настоящий
6. disappear into the blue F. быть заполненным до отказа
7. eke out a living G. с трудом зарабатывать на жизнь
8. fight tooth and nail Н. бесполезный человек
9. jump the gun I. блудный сын
10. Mr Big J. бить баклуши
11. the prodigal son К. бабье лето
12. the real McCoy L. без прикрас, как есть
13. twiddle one’s thumbs М. исчезнуть без следа
14. warts and all N. как по маслу, с успехом
15. without a hitch О. сопротивляться до конца

Task 4. Correct the spelling mistakes if needed. Tick (e/) the sentences that are correct.
[JOSEPH CONRAD]

1. To the newest genaration of adult readers the dawn of a literary light

is a rare experience.
2. It is as if the courses of our literature were Arctic in their slouwness, as
if the day came at long intervals, and then without warmth or brilliance.
3. Our fathers knew the joy of welcoming the latest novel of Dickens or a
new volume of esays by Carlyle.
4. The only great day whose beginning young men have witnessed is the
day of Kipling; his light mounted rappidly to a high noon, and if the
afternoon shadows have begun to deepen prematurely, that sun is still
beautiful and strong.
5. Other lights have kindled in the last fifteen years, and have gone out
before they had faerly dislodged the darkness, or have continued to
burn dimly. ___________
6. Eyes accustomed only to darkness and uncertain lights are in condition
to be deluded by the phantoms of false dawn; it is therefore unwise to
greet with too much enthusiasm the arrival of Mr Joseph Conrad.
7. Even if the dawn is real, it is certainly overcast with heavy clouds, and
it has not proved bright enough to startle the world.
8. Nevertheless, his light is of unique beauty in contemporary literature,
and the story of its kindling makes interesting biography.
9. His ten books are for the most part concerned with the waters of the
earth, and the men that sail on the face of the waters, and with lands, far
from English readers, to be reached only by long joureneying in ships.

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10. Conrad’s subject-matter, the secrettion of experience, is rich enough and
of sufficiently strange and romantic quality to endow a writer of popular
fiction; and his style, — that is, the use of words for their melody, power,
and charm, — is fit for a king of literature.

Task 5. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.
[JEROME K. JEROME]

1. Shakespeare and Milton may have done their little best to spread
with the English tongue among the less favoured ACQUAINT
inhabitants of Europe.
2. Newton and Darwin may have rendered their language a necessity
among educated and foreigners. THINK
3. Dickens and Ouida (for your folk who imagine that the literary world is
bounded by the of New Grub Street, would be surprised JUDGE
and grieved at the position occupied abroad by this at-home-sneered-at
lady) may have helped still further to popularise it.
4. But the man who has spread the knowledge of English from Cape
St Vincent to the Ural Mountains is the Englishman who, unable or
to learn a single word of any language but his own, travels WILL
purse in hand into every corner of the Continent.
5. One may be shocked at his ignorance, annoyed at his, STUPID
angry at his presumption.
6. But the------------------ fact remains; he it is that is anglicising Europe. PRACTICE
7. For him the------------------ peasant tramps through the snow on winter SWITZERLAND
evenings to attend the English class open in every village.
8. For him the coachman and the guard, the chambermaid and the
laundress, pore over their English grammars and phrase COLLOQUIALISM
books.
9. For him it is that every foreign hotel- and restaurant-keeper adds to his
------------- : “Only those with fair knowledge of English need apply.” ADVERTISE
10. Did the English-speaking races make it their rule to speak anything
else than English, the ------------ progress of the English tongue MARVEL
throughout the world would stop.
11. The English-speaking man stands amid the strangers and jingles his
GOLDEN
12. “Here,” he cries, “is------------------ for all such as can speak English.” PAY
13. He it is who is the great EDUCATION
14. ------------------ we may scold him; practically we should take our hats THEORY
off to him.
15. He is the of the English tongue. MISSION

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Task 6. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct,
and some have an extra word. Tick (✓) the sentences that are correct. If a line has
a word which should not be there, write the word down. [OSCAR WILDE]

1. Yet it had to be done. He realised that, and when he had locked the door
of his library, he opened out the secret press into which he had thrust
Basil Hallward’s coat and bag.
2. A huge fire was blazing. He piled at another log on it. The smell of the
singeing clothes and burning leather was horrible.
3. It took him three-quarters of for an hour to consume everything. At
the end he felt faint and sick, and having lit some Algerian pastilles in
a pierced copper brazier, he bathed his hands and forehead with a cool
musk-scented vinegar.
4. Suddenly he started. His eyes grew strangely bright away, and he gnawed
nervously at his under-lip. Between two of the windows stood a large
Florentine cabinet, made out of ebony, and inlaid with ivory and blue
lapis. _______
5. He watched it as though as it were a thing that could fascinate and
make afraid, as though it held something that he longed for and yet
almost loathed.
6. His breath quickened. A mad craving came over onto him. His eyelids
drooped till the long fringed lashes almost touched his cheek.
7. But he still watched around the cabinet. At last he got up from the sofa
on which he had been lying, went over to it, and, having unlocked it,
touched some hidden spring. A triangular drawer passed slowly out.
8. His fingers moved instinctively towards it, dipped in, and closed on
something. It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer,
elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the
silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal
threads. _______
9. He hesitated for some moments, with a strangely immobile smile upon
his face. Then shivering, though the atmosphere of the room was terribly
hot, he drew himself up, and glanced at the clock.
10. It was twenty minutes to twelve. He put the box back, shutting the
cabinet doors as he did so, and went into his bedroom with.
11. As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray
dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept
quietly out of the house.
12. In Bond Street he found a hansom one with a good horse. He hailed it,
and in a low voice gave the driver an address.

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Task 7. Complete the crossword. [PHRASAL VERBS]

Across Down
1. back sth up 1. back sb up
2. blow up 2. break in
3. break out 3. come apart
4. bring sth up 4. find out
5. do away with 5. look over
6. do sth up 6. look up
7. look into 7. put down
8. pass away 8. make up
9. pick out 9. pass out
10. put off
11. go against

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Task 8. Write one word in each gap. [OSCAR WILDE]

1. Yet each man kills the ... he loves

2. By each let this ... heard,

3. Some do it with a ... look,

4. Some with a ... word,

5. The coward does it with a ...,

6. The brave man with a ... !

7. Some kill their love ... they are young,

8. And some when they are ... ;

9. Some ... with the hands of Lust,

10. Some with the hands of... :

11. The ... use a knife, because

12. The dead so soon grow ....

13. Some love too ..., some too long,

14. Some sell, and others ... ;

15. Some do the deed with many ...,

16. And some without a ... :

17. For ... man kills the thing he loves,

18. Yet each man does not....

Task 9. Match the three columns.

DEMONYM CITY COUNTRY

1. Carioca A. Moscow a. Scotland
2. Dundonian B. Beijing b. China
3. Muscovite C. Rio de Janeiro c. Russia
4. Pekinese D. Chelmsford d. Australia
5. Canberran E. Hamburg e. Brazil
6. Chelmsfordian F. Dundee f. Germany
7. Hamburger G. Canberra g. England

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Task 10. Write one word in each gap. [BUSINESS ABBREVIATIONS]

(7-
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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LISTENING
Task 1. Listen to the biography of Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson and decide whether
the statements are TRUE according to the text you hear (A), or FALSE (B), or the
information on the statement is NOT STATED in the text (C).
A в c
1. Alexander Ferguson started his career in Scotland
as a goalkeeper. □ □ □
2. He started playing for the Scottish national team in 1965. □ □
3. He was sacked at the end of the 2012-2013 season. □1 □ □
4. It was with Aberdeen that Ferguson earned his reputation
as a top manager.
5. Ferguson became the first British manager to win the treble:
□1 □ □
the Premier League championship, the FA Cup and the
European Cup, in the 1998-99 season.
6. In December 2010, he surpassed the record of Sir Matt Busby
□ □
to become the longest-serving manager in United’s history. □ □ □
7. He was replaced by Jose Mourinho. □1 □ □
8. Alexander Ferguson was awarded knighthood. □ □
9. After taking over from Jock Stein Alexander Ferguson went
on to lead the Scottish national team to win their first-ever
World Cup in 1986. □ □ □
10. Upon his death, he was granted the honour of a state funeral. □ □ □
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 READING
Task 2. Read the text and number the paragraphs in the right order. [OSCAR WILDE]
I I A. Her long ermine cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of
silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived.
So pale was she that as she drove through the streets all the people wondered. “She is
like a white rose!” they cried, and they threw down flowers on her from the balconies.
□ B. When the three days were over the marriage was celebrated. It was a magnificent
ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of
purple velvet embroidered with little pearls. Then there was a State Banquet, which
lasted for five hours.
О C. After the banquet there was to be a Ball. The bride and bridegroom were to dance
the Rose-dance together, and the King had promised to play the flute. He played very
badly, but no one had ever dared to tell him so, because he was the King. Indeed,
he knew only two airs, and was never quite certain which one he was playing; but it
made no matter, for, whatever he did, everybody cried out, “Charming! Charming!”
I I D. The King’s son was going to be married, so there were general rejoicings. He had
waited a whole year for his bride, and at last she had arrived. She was a Russian
Princess, and had driven all the way from Finland in a sledge drawn by six reindeer.
The sledge was shaped like a great golden swan, and between the swan’s wings laid
the little Princess herself.
□ E. The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup
of clear crystal. Only true lovers could drink out of this cup, for if false lips touched
it, it grew grey and dull and cloudy.
О F. For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red
rose, White rose”; and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled.
As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered
a great honour, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.

USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.
[JEROME K. JEROME]

1. Slowly the golden memory of the sun fades from the hearts DEATH
of the cold, sad clouds.
2. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have ceased their, SING
and only the moorhen’s plaintive cry and the harsh croak of the corncrake
stirs the awed hush around the couch of waters, where the dying day
breathes out her last.
3. From the dim woods on either bank, Night’s ghostly army, the grey
shadows, creep out with tread to chase away the lingering NOISE
rear-guard of the light, and pass, with noiseless, unseen feet, above the
waving river-grass, and through the sighing rushes;
4. and Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the
darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars,
reigns in_Then we run our little boat into some quiet STILL
nook, and the tent is pitched, and the frugal supper cooked and eaten.

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 5. And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops
down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and throws her silver arms around it
------------------ ; and we watch it as it flows, ever singing, ever whispering, CLING
out to meet its king, the sea — till our voices die away in silence, and the
pipes go out — till we, common-place, everyday young men enough,
6. feel strangely full of__________ , half sad, half sweet, and do not care THINK
or want to speak — till we laugh, and, rising, knock the ashes from our
burnt-out pipes, and say “Good-night,” and, lulled by the lapping water
and the rustling trees, we fall asleep beneath the great, still stars, and
dream that the world is young again — young and sweet as she used to
be ere the centuries of fret and care had furrowed her fair face,
7. ere her children’s sins and follies had made old her loving heart — sweet
as she was in those__________ days when, a new-made mother, she GO
nursed us, her children, upon her own deep breast — ere the wiles of
painted civilization had lured us away from her fond arms,
8. and the poisoned sneers of__________ had made us ashamed of the ARTIFICIAL
simple life we led with her, and the simple, stately home where mankind
was born so many thousands years ago.

Task 4. Match the two columns. [IDIOMS]

1. a bed of roses A. a tiny portion

2. jot or tittle
3. jump the gun
4. on pins and needles
5. on the same page
6. out on the town
7. pedal to the metal
8. ring a bell
9. young Turk
10. zenith of career
B. to go out for entertainment
C. to be anxious
D. at full speed
E. thinking in the same way
F. a young person who has a lot of new ideas
G. when everything is easy
H. to remind one of something
I. the highest pinnacle of a person’s life
J. to do something before it should be done

Task 5. Make sentences from the words.

1. We / forbidding / questionable / reached / indeed / had / a / and / neighbourhood.

2. Long / of / coarse / relieved / houses / lines / only / dull / brick / by / were /
the / glare.
3. None / other / of / the / were / houses / inhabited.
4. There / was / Oriental / incongruous / something / figure / commonplace / strangely /
in / this / framed / in / the / doorway.
5. We / the / common / worse / sordid / Indian / down / a / and / passage, / ill-lit / and /
followed / furnished.

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Task 6. One word in each line is incorrect. Write the correct word. There can be different
types of mistakes.
WRONG RIGHT
1. The Charles Bridge is an historic bridge that crosses
the Vltava River in Pragye, Czech Republic.
2. It’s construction started in 1357 under the auspices
of King Charles IV, and finished in the beginning
of the 15th century.
3. The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge build in
1158-1172 that had been badly damaged by a flood
in 1342. __________ ________
4. This new bridge was originally called the Stone
Bridge but has been the Charles Bridge after 1870.
5. As the only mean of crossing the river Vltava until
1841, the Charles Bridge was the most important
connection between the city’s Old Town and
adjacent areas.
6. The bridge is 621 metres (2,037 ft) long and nearly
10 metres (33 ft) wide, it was built as a bow bridge
with 16 archs shielded by ice guards.
7. It is protected by three bridge towels, two of them
on the Lesser Quarter side and the third one on the
Old Town side.
8. The bridge is decorated by a continuous alley of
30 statues and statuaries, most of them barroque-
style, originally erected around 1700 but now all
replaced by replicas.
9. Throughout its history, the Charles Bridge suffered
several disasters but witnessed many historic events.
10. Czech legend has of that construction began on
Charles Bridge at 5:31 am on 9 July 1357 with the
first stone being laid by Charles IV himself.

Task 7. Match the two columns. [COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS]

1. council A. a flow of water

2. counsel B. to spread over a wide area
3. currant C. a fight or contest between two people
4. current D. to advise
5. defuse E. having two parts
6. diffuse F. careful not to attract attention
7. discreet G. a group of people who manage or advise
8. discrete H. distinct
9. dual I. to make a situation less tense
10. duel J. a dried grape

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Task 8. Complete the crossword. [FOOTBALL]

Across Hint
1. ...time a period of time added to the end of a sports game
2. ... goal a goal that is awarded even though the ball does not
completely cross the goal line
3. ... a player
4. ... a substitute who rarely plays
5. ... a practice game
6. ... final stages of any activity

Down Hint
1. ... official an extra official who helps the referee but is not on the pitch
2. ... a pass which helps to score a goal
3. ... a defending player
4. ... a player whose position is at the side of the field
5. ... an occupation requiring special training
6. ... club a football club that is created after an existing club has
stopped operating

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Task 9. Find the extra word in each line (some of the lines don’t have extra words).
Tick (*/) the sentences that are correct. [WILLIAM JAMES]

1. It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take off my place behind

this desk, and face this learned audience.
2. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living
voice, as well as from the books, as of European scholars, is very familiar.
3. At my own University of Harvard, not a winter passes without its
harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scottish, English, French, or
German representatives of the science or literature of their respective
countries whom we have either induced to cross the ocean to address
us, or captured on the wing as they were visiting our land.
4. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk up.
5. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen, we have not
yet been acquired; and in him who first makes the adventure it begets
a certain sense of apology being due for so presumptuous an act.
6. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American
imagination as that of Edinburgh.
7. The glories of the philosophic chair of this university were deeply
impressed on my imagination in boyhood.
8. Professor Fraser’s Essays in Philosophy, then just published, was the
first philosophic book I ever looked into, and I well remember the awe­
struck feeling I received from the account of Sir William Hamilton’s
classroom therein contained.
9. Hamilton’s own lectures were the first philosophic writings with I ever
forced myself to study, and after that I was immersed in Dugald Stewart
and Thomas Brown.
10. Such juvenile emotions of reverence never get outgrown; and I have
confess that to find my humble self promoted from my native wilderness
to be actually for the time an official here, and transmuted into a
colleague of these illustrious names, carries with it a sense of dreamland
quite as much as of reality.
11. But since then I have received the honor of this appointment I have felt
that it would never do to decline.
12. The academic career also has its heroic obligations, so far I stand here
without further deprecatory words.
13. Let me say the only this, that now that the current, here and at Aberdeen,
has begun to run from west to east, I hope it may continue to do so.
14. As the years go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked
to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen
lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in
all these higher matters even as one people off; and that the peculiar
philosophic temperament, as well as the peculiar political temperament,
that goes out with our English speech may more and more pervade and
influence the world.

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Task 10. Write one word in each line. The first and last letters of each word are given
as an additional clue. [L. FRANK BAUM]

1. But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to H

Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children
happy.
2. “I’m really getting lonesome,” said the Daemon of Selfishness. “For Santa
Claus distributes so many pretty Christmas to all the children G
that they become happy and generous, through his example, and keep away
from my cave.”
3. “I’m having the same trouble,” rejoined the Daemon of Envy. “The little
ones seem quite content with Santa Claus, and there are few, indeed, that
I can to become envious.” C X
4. “And all because of this they call Santa Claus!” exclaimed the P N
Daemon of Envy. “He is simply ruining our business, and something must
be done at once.”
5. So the next day, while Santa Claus was busily at work, V Y
surrounded by his little band of assistants, the Daemon of Selfishness
came to him.
6. “I can supply the little ones but a year — on Christmas Eve,” О E
he answered.
7. Bad is something that should be kept secret and never told. N S
8. “But I don’t hate ’em!” exclaimed Santa Claus positively. “Such people do me
real harm, but merely render themselves and their children N О
unhappy. Poor things! I’d much rather help them any day than injure them.”
9. It was well known that no harm can come to Santa Claus while he is in the
Laughing Valley, for the fairies, and ryls, and knooks all him. P T
10. But on Christmas Eve he drives his reindeer out into the big world, carrying
a sleighload of toys and pretty gifts to the children; and this was the time
and the occasion when his had the best chance to injure him. E s

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TEST I. Listening. Task 1

Ответ Комментарий Цитата из скрипта (если есть)
1. 0 В тексте не упоминается происхождение
мужчины или откуда он приехал.
2. [в] Женщина одобряет его возраст. a very good age to be married at
3. Мужчина говорит, что владеет домом, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it
но не живет там. is let by the year to Lady Bloxham.
4. И Мужчина говорит, что он был найден, I don’t actually know who I am by birth.
соответственно, он не знает своих родствен­ I was ... well, I was found.
ников. В оригинале пьесы Уальда позже
обнаруживается, что у мужчины все-таки есть
родственники, но учащиеся должны черпать
информацию только из задания.
Женщина упоминает, что не хотела бы
для своей дочери проживания в сельской
местности, но никак не связывает это
с дороговизной жизни.
6. 0 Мужчина говорит, что браконьеры извлекают the poachers are the only people who
выгоду из его угодий. Хотя слова trespassers и make anything out of it
poachers не являются синонимами, речь идет
о незаконном проникновении на его земли
и нанесении ему материального ущерба.
7. 0 Женщина говорит про моду в целом довольно
парадоксально. В стиле Уальда. Но о разделе­
нии моды на мужскую и женскую речь
не ведется.
8- S Мужчина говорит, что он был найден, соответ­ I don’t actually know who I am by birth.
ственно, он не мог переживать смерть отца,
так как ничего не знает о своих родителях.
9- 0 В тексте задания упоминается, что это диалог
жениха и матери невесты. Из диалога стано­
вится очевидным, что женщина интересуется
всеми мелочами и деталями, следовательно,
можно сделать вывод о чрезмерной опеке
над дочерью.
10. 0 Мужчина упоминает, что у него два дома - I have a country house with some land
один в городе, другой в сельской местности. I own a house in Belgrave Square

TEST I. Reading. Task 2

Ответ Комментарий Цитата из скрипта (если есть)
1. [а] В тексте говорится, что около 95% популяции Russia’s Far East is home to 95% of the
тигров находятся в России, при этом из текста global population of Amur tigers
в целом мы понимаем, что речь идет о диких
животных, а не находящихся в зоопарках или
питомниках.
2. [в~| В тексте указывается цель программы — раз­ The Amur Tiger Programme aims to
вернуть научную платформу для сохранения develop a scientific platform for the
популяции тигров. conservation of the Amur tigers

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3. s

5- 0
Одной из задач программы является сбор
научных данных, подтверждение чему мы
видим по всему тексту.
В тексте указывается на необходимость
изучения и других животных в рамках
единой экосистемы.

В тексте не анализируется взаимодействие

Also, scientists are researching their
reproductive biology, habitat, feeding
patterns and food resources
the distribution and dynamics of the
populations of the main prey species,
and the tigers’ relationships with rival
predators

человека и животных.
6. Ш Пример проведенной конференции the attendees of the international
указывает на взаимодействие российских conference “The Amur Tiger in Northeast
ученых с другими учеными на международ­ Asia: Conservation Problems in the
ной арене. 21st Century” adopted a new draft version
7. [с] В тексте не анализируется взаимодействие
человека и животных.
8. [В] В тексте говорится о необходимости those of the main rival predators (brown
изучения данного аспекта. bears, Asiatic black bears, and wolves)
9- 0 В тексте дается весьма приблизительное the last census showed there were
число тигров, что говорит о сложности between 423 to 502 individuals
точного подсчета популяции.
10. 0 В тексте указываются виды животных, the populations of the main prey species
которые являются основной добычей (wild boars, roe deer, Manchurian deer
тигров, но не указывается точный процент and sika deer)
их потребления.

TEST I. Use of English. Task 3 TEST I. Use of English. Task 8

1. Presidential; 2. Solutions; 3. removal; Across Down
4. illegal; 5. runway; 6. navigation; 1. disreputable 6. minutes
7. operators; 8. International; 2. neutral 7. cooperation
9. participants 3. steep 8. description
4. upper 9. yawn
TEST I. Use of English. Task 4 5. tools 10. duty
l.G; 2. J; 3. A; 4. E; 5.B; 6. C; 7.1; 8. H;
9.F; 10. D TEST I. Use of English. Task 9
1. to; 2. by; 3. are; 4. on; 5. of; 6. and;
TEST I. Use of English. Task 5 7. are; 8. are; 9. with
1. white; 2. black; 3. green; 4. red; 5. blue;
6. browned; 7. black; 8. blue; 9. green; TEST I. Use of English. Task 10
10. pink l.C; 2. A; 3. B; 4. A; 5. D; 6. D; 7. В
TEST I. Use of English. Task 6 TEST II. Listening. Task 1
l .A; 2.B; 3. A; 4. C; 5. B; 6. A; 7. C; 8. C; 1. branch; 2. scope; 3. less; 4. composition;
9. A; 10. B; 11. A; 12. C; 13. B; 14. В; 15. C 5. put; 6. whether; 7. unconsciously; 8. were;
9. swung; 10. expansiveness; 11. sameness;
TEST I. Use of English. Task 7 12. growth; 13. gradual; 14. contemplate;
1. plural; 2. barracks; 3. nuclei; 4. syllabi; 15. immortality
5. foci; 6. fungi; 7. cacti (cactuses);
8. theses; 9. phenomena; 10. criteria; TEST II. Reading. Task 2
11. aircraft; 12. headquarters; 13. moths; l .G; 2. E; 3. B; 4. C; S.A; 6. D; 7. F
14. Cherokee; 15. Apaches; 16. shoon;
17. corrigenda; 18. data; 19. radii; TEST II. Use of English. Task 3
20. celli; 21. kniazhestva / kniazhestvos; l.F; 2. A; 3.1; 4. C; 5. M; 6. D; 7. K; 8. E;
22. oblasti / oblasts; 23. samurai; 9. G; 10.0; 11. H; 12.1; 13. N; 14. L; 15. В
24. pizzas; 25. sons-in-law; 26. men-children;
27. menservants; 28. peoples; 29. canoes;
30. polyhedra

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TEST II. Use of English. Task 4 TEST III. Reading. Task 2
1. C. a; 2.1, b; 3. F. c; 4. B. b; 5. H. a; l.D; 2. G; 3. B; 4. C; 5. A; 6. F; 7. E
6. D. c; 7. A. a; 8. G. c; 9. E. b
TEST III. Use of English. Task 3
TEST II. Use of English. Task 5 l.H; 2. K; 3. A; 4. F; 5. C; 6. M; 7. G; 8.O;
1. breadth; 2. one; 3. contentment; 9. B; 10. D; 11.1; 12. E; 13. J; 14. L; 15. N
4. ourselves; 5. business; 6. substantial;
7. domination; 8. passions; 9. spoonsful/ TEST III. Use of English. Task 4
spoonful / spoonfuls; 10. eternity; 11. soulless; 1. generation; 2. slowness; 3. essays;
12. senseless; 13. righteousness; 14. unsought; 4. rapidly; 5. fairly; 6. enthusiasm; 7. /;
15. quarrelsome; 16. thoughtful 8. contemporary; 9. journeying; 10. secretion
TEST II. Use of English. Task 6 TEST III. Use of English. Task 5
1. Leonard; 2. historian; 3. Dukes; 4. served; 1. acquaintance; 2. thoughtful; 3. prejudices/
5. Sudan; 6. Liberal; 7. Western; 8. George; prejudice; 4. unwilling; 5. stupidity;
9. Chancellor; 10. World; 11. radio; 12. victory; 6. practical; 7. Swiss; 8. colloquial;
13. Iron; 14. Prime; 15. funeral 9. advertisement; 10. marvelous / marvellous;
11. gold; 12. payment; 13. educator;
TEST II. Use of English. Task 7 14. theoretically; 15. missionary
1. Abraham; 2. Browns; 3. Bunch; 4. locker;
5. Lent; 6. Ketch; 7. Jack; 8. Jerry; 9. Sister TEST III. Use of English. Task 6
l.out; 2. at; 3. for; 4. away; 5. as; 6. onto;
TEST II. Use of English. Task 8 7. around; 8./; 9./; 10. with; 11./; 12. one
l.B; 2. A; 3.A; 4. B; 5. A; 6. B; 7. B; 8. A;
9. A; 10. B; 11. A; 12. B; 13. B; 14. A; 15. A; TEST Ш. Use of English. Task 7
16. B; 17. B; 18. A; 19. A; 20. В Across Down
1. reverse 1. support
TEST II. Use of English. Task 9 2. explode 2. interrupt
l.E; 2. G; 3.A; 4. J; 5. C; 6. B; 7. H; 8. D; 3. escape 3. separate
9. F; 10.1 4. vomit 4. discover
5. discard 5. examine
TEST II. Use of English. Task 10
6. fasten 6. search
1. Kent; 2. Kent; 3. Cheshire; 4. Dorset; 7. investigate 7. insult
5. Staffordshire; 6. Cornwall; 7. Cumbria; 8. die 8. forgive
8. Wiltshire; 9. Warwickshire; 9. choose 9. faint
10. Cambridgeshire 10. postpone
11. oppose
TEST III. Listening. Task 1
INCORRECT CORRECT TEST III. Use of English. Task 8
1. idea knowledge 1. thing; 2. be; 3. bitter; 4. flattering; 5. kiss;
2. discover know 6. sword; 7. when; 8. old; 9. strangle; 10. gold;
3. sonnet poem 11. kindest; 12. cold; 13. little; 14. buy;
4. there were 15. tears; 16. sigh; 17. each; 18. die
5. friend James
6. First Second TEST III. Use of English. Task 9
7. 1586 1596 l.C. e; 2. F.a; 3.A. c; 4. B. b; 5. G. d;
8. decade year 6. D. g; 7. E. f
9. before ago
10. that which TEST III. Use of English. Task 10
11. London Stratford 1. mark; 2. trademark; 3. party; 4. consumer;
12. seen believed 5. export; 6. based; 7. consumer; 8. Chief;
13. Mr Sir 9. arrival; 10. limited
14. house place
15. that this
16. father brother
17. has had
18. pursue want

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TEST IV. Listening. Task 1
Ответ Комментарий
1- 0 В тексте указано, что он много забивал,
то есть не был вратарем.
2. [c] В тексте не упоминается его карьера
в сборной Шотландии как игрока.
3. В тексте указывается, что он ушел
на пенсию, выиграв титул в последний
сезон. Слово sack предполагает увольне- I
ние за отсутствие результата.
4. и Именно в „Абердине" он впервые
достигает отличных результатов как
тренер.
5. 0 В тексте не упоминается про данный факт.
6. s В тексте говорится о его рекорде.
7. 0 В тексте не упоминается, кто стал его
преемником.
8. 0 В тексте есть упоминание данного
факта.
9. В В тексте говорится, что Фергюсон
вывел сборную на Кубок мира
в 1986 году, но не победил в нем.
10. 0 При упоминании лет жизни в тексте
говорится только о дате рождения,
значит, он все еще жив.
Цитата из скрипта (если есть)
he was the top goalscorer in the Scottish
league
He retired from management at the end
of the 2012-2013 season, having won
the Premier League in his final season.
then enjoyed a highly successful period as
manager of Aberdeen
Ferguson is the longest serving manager
of Manchester United, having overtaken
Sir Matt Busby’s record on 19 December 2010.
He was knighted in the 1999 Queen’s Birthday
Honours list, for his services to the game.
He briefly managed Scotland following the
death of Jock Stein, taking the team to the
1986 World Cup.
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson
(born 31 December 1941)

TEST IV. Reading. Task 2 5. mean means

A. 2; B.4; C. 6; D. 1; E. 5; F. 3 6. archs arches
7. towels towers
TEST IV. Use of English. Task 3 8. barroque baroque
1. dead; 2. song; 3. noiseless; 4. stillness; 9. but and
S.clingingly; 6.thoughts; 7.bygone; 8.artificiality 10. of it

TEST IV. Use of English. Task 4 TEST IV. Use of English. Task 7
l.G; 2. A; 3. J; 4. C; 5. E; 6. B; 7. D; 8. H; l.G; 2.D; 3. J; 4. A; 5.1; 6. B; 7. F; 8. H;
9. F; 10.1 9. E; 10. C

TEST IV. Use of English. Task 5 TEST IV. Use of English. Task 8
1. We had indeed reached a questionable and Across Down
forbidding neighbourhood. 1. stoppage fourth
2. Long lines of dull brick houses were only 2. ghost assist
relieved by the coarse glare. 3. footballer fullback
3. None of the other houses were inhabited. 4. benchwarmer winger
4. There was something strangely incongruous 5. scrimmage career
in this Oriental figure framed in the 6. endgame phoenix
commonplace doorway.
5. We followed the Indian down a sordid and TEST IV. Use of English. Task 9
common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished. l.off; 2. as; 3. Z; 4. up; 5. been; 6. Z; 7. Z;
8. Z; 9. with; 10. have; 11. then; 12. far;
TEST IV. Use of English. Task 6 13. the; 14. out
WRONG RIGHT
TEST IV. Use of English. Task 10
1. Pragye Prague
2. It’s Its l.hate; 2. gifts; 3. coax; 4. person; 5. very;
3. build built 6. once; 7. news; 8. no; 9. protect; 10. enemies
4. after since
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TEST I. Listening
Woman: How old are you?
Man: Twenty-nine.
Woman: A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man
who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Which do you know?
Man: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Woman: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural
ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is
gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. What is
your income?
Man: Between seven and eight thousand a year.
Woman: In land, or in investments?
Man: In investments, chiefly.
Woman: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during one’s
lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased
to be either a profit or a pleasure.
Man: I have a country house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen
hundred acres, I believe; but I don’t depend on that for my real income.
In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make
anything out of it.
Woman: You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature,
like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.
Man: Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year
to Lady Bloxham.
Woman: What number in Belgrave Square?
Man: 149.
Woman: The unfashionable side. I thought there was something. However, that could
easily be altered.
Man: Do you mean the fashion, or the side?
Woman: Both, if necessary, I presume. What are your politics?
Man: Well, I am afraid I really have none. I am a Liberal Unionist.
Woman: Oh, they count as Tories. They dine with us. Or come in the evening, at any rate.
Now to minor matters. Are your parents living?
Man: I have lost both my parents.
Woman: To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose
both looks like carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man
of some wealth.
Man: I am afraid I really don’t know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my
parents. It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents seem to have lost
me ... I don’t actually know who I am by birth. I was ... well, I was found.

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 TEST II. Listening

1 The historical drama, then, grew up simultaneously with comedy and tragedy, and
established itself as a coordinate branch of the gothic drama in England.
2 Now this circumstance could not be without great influence in determining the whole
scope and character of the English drama in all its varieties.
3 The natural effect was to make them all more or less historical in method and grain.
4 For the process generated, and could not fail to generate, corresponding modes and habits
of thought in dramatic composition; and these would needs go with the writers into
whatever branch of the drama they might take in hand.
5 Because modes and habits of thought are not things that men can put off and on for
different subjects and occasions.
6 What they learn to practise in one field of labour transfers itself with them, whether
they will or no, to other fields.
7 Their way of viewing things, nay, their very faculties of vision, catch the temper and drift
of what they work in; which drift and temper cleave to them in spite of themselves, and
unconsciously shape all their movements of thought; so that, change their matter as
they may, their mind still keeps the same.
8 The practical consequences of all this were both manifold and strongly marked.
9 The drama thus cut itself loose and swung clean away from the narrow circle of myths
and legends, where the ancients had fixed it, and ranged at large in all the freedom
and variety of historical representation.
10 It took on all the compass, amplitude, and expansiveness of the Homeric Epos.
11 The stereotyped sameness and confinement of the Greek stage were necessarily
discarded, and the utmost breadth of matter and scope, compatible with clearness
of survey, became the recognized freehold of dramatic art.
12 So that, as I have before observed, the English drama was, in the largest sense,
a national growth, and not the work of any individual.
13 Neither was it a sudden growth, as indeed nothing truly national ever can be: like the
English State, it was the slow, gradual, silent production of centuries, — the result of the
thoughts of many minds in many ages.
14 And where I like best to contemplate the Poet is, not in the isolation of those powers
which lift him so far above all others, but as having the mind of the nation, with its great
past and greater present, to back him up.
15 And it seems to me, his greatness consisted very much in that, as he had the gift, so he
surrendered himself to the high task, of reproducing in artistic immortality the beatings
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 TEST III. Listening
There can be little doubt, though we have no certain knowledge IDEA on the point, that by
this time the Poet’s genius had sweetened itself into the good graces of Queen Elisabeth;
as the irresistible compliment paid her in A Midsummer-Night’s Dream could hardly have
been of a later date. It would be gratifying to know DISCOVER by what play he made his
first conquest of the Queen. That he did captivate her, is told us in Ben Jonson’s poem
SONNET just quoted:
“Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were THERE
To see thee in our waters yet appear;
And make those flights upon the banks of Thames
That so did take Eliza and our James FRIEND!”
King fohn, King Richard the Second FIRST, King Richard the Third, A Midsummer-Night’s
Dream, and the original form of All’s Well that Ends Well, were, no doubt, all written
before the spring of 1596 1586. So that these five plays, and perhaps one or two others,
in addition to the ten mentioned before, may by that time have been performed in her
Majesty’s hearing, “as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and
pleasure”.
Aubrey tells us that Shakespeare “was wont to go to his native country once a year
DECADE”. We now have better authority than Aubrey for believing that the Poet’s heart
was in “his native country” all the while. No sooner is he well established in London,
and in receipt of funds to spare from the demands of business, than we find him making
liberal investments amidst the scenes of his youth. Some years ago BEFORE, Mr Halliwell
discovered in the Chapter-House, Westminster, a document which THAT ascertains that
in the spring of 1597 Shakespeare bought of William Underbill, for the sum of £60, the
establishment called “New Place,” described as consisting of “one messuage, two barns,
and two gardens, with their appurtenances”. This was one of the best dwelling-houses in
Stratford LONDON, and was situated in one of the best parts of the town. Early in the
sixteenth century it was owned by the Cloptons, and called “the great house”. It was in one
of the gardens belonging to this house that the Poet was believed SEEN to have planted
a mulberry-tree. New Place remained in the hands of Shakespeare and his heirs till the
Restoration, when it was repurchased by the Clopton family. In the spring of 1742, Garrick,
Macklin, and Delane were entertained there by Sir MR Hugh Clopton, under the Poet’s
mulberry-tree. About 1752, the place HOUSE was sold to the Rev. Francis Gastrell, who,
falling out with the Stratford authorities in some matter of rates, demolished the house,
and cut down the tree; for which his memory has been visited with exemplary retribution.
We have other tokens of the Poet’s thrift about this THAT time. One of these is a
curious letter, dated January 24, 1598, and written by Abraham Sturley, an aiderman of
Stratford, to his brother FATIIER-in-law, Richard Quiney, who was then in London on
business for himself and others. Sturley, it seems, had HAS learned that “our countryman,
Mr Shakespeare,” had money to invest, and so was for having him urged to buy up certain
tithes at Stratford, on the ground that such a purchase “would advance him indeed, and
would do us much good”; the meaning of which is, that the Stratford people were in want
PURSUE of money, and were looking to Shakespeare for a supply.

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 TEST IV. Listening
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football
manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is regarded
by many players, managers and analysts to be one of the greatest and most successful
managers of all time.
Ferguson played as a forward for several Scottish clubs, including Dunfermline Athletic
and Rangers. While playing for Dunfermline, he was the top goalscorer in the Scottish
league in the 1965-66 season. Towards the end of his playing career he also worked as a
coach, then started his managerial career with East Stirlingshire and St Mirren. Ferguson
then enjoyed a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen, winning three Scottish
league championships, four Scottish Cups and the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983. He
briefly managed Scotland following the death of Jock Stein, taking the team to the 1986
World Cup.
Ferguson was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986. During
his 26 years with Manchester United he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League
titles, five FA Cups and two UEFA Champions League titles. He was knighted in the 1999
Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for his services to the game. Ferguson is the longest
serving manager of Manchester United, having overtaken Sir Matt Busby’s record on
19 December 2010. He retired from management at the end of the 2012-2013 season,
having won the Premier League in his final season.
 CONTENTS

TEST I
Listening............................................................................... 3
Reading................................................................................. 3
Use of English...................................................................... 5
TEST II
Listening............................................................................. 10
Reading............................................................................... 11
Use of English.................................................................... 12
TEST III
Listening............................................................................. 18
Reading............................................................................... 19
Use of English.................................................................... 20
TEST IV
Listening............................................................................. 25
Reading............................................................................... 26
Use of English.................................................................... 26
KEYS ........................................................................................ 32
SCRIPT.................................................................................... 36

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Серия “Olympiad Builder”

Гулов Артём Петрович

ОЛИМПИАДЫ
ПО АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ
для 7-8 классов

Редактор О. А. Герасименко
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