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TEST 1 Listening
по английскому языку
You will hear part of a lecture. Decide whether the following statements
For questions 1-5, complete the sentences with a 6-10 are True (A) or False (B).
number or a word.
List of statements
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1 On a cold December evening 6 Rosa Parks refused to give

in _______(year), Rosa Parks incited a up her bus seat to a black passenger.
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revolution by just sitting down. 7 Her act of defiance began a
2 She was tired after spending the movement against segregation in
day at work as a _______. America.
3 She stepped onto the bus for the 8 The boycott of public buses
ride home and sat in the fifth row — the by African Americans in the whole
first row of the "Colored _______." country lasted 381 days.
4 In Montgomery, Alabama, when 9 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
a bus became full, the seats nearer the out that segregation on public buses
front were given to _______ passengers. was illegal.
5 After Parks refused to move, she 10 President Obama presented
was arrested and fined $_______. Rosa Parks with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 2013.
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Reading
Read the text.
Decide whether the following For questions 7-10 choose the correct
statements 1-6 are True (A), paragraph (A–E). Some of the letters
False (B) or Not stated (C). may be chosen more than once while
some of them may not be used.
List of statements
Which of the paragraphs mentions
1 Brown served as Prime Minister

of the United Kingdom from 2007 to
2010.
2 He tried to initiate calls for global 7 Brown was the longest
financial action. continuously serving Chancellor of
3 He was a passionate advocate for the Exchequer
global action to ensure education for all. 8 he earned a degree with
4 Brown has a PhD in History from honours
the University of Edinburgh. 9 he became friends with another
5 He was married to Sarah Brown, new MP
neé Blair. 10 Brown had a strong interest in
6 He reduced some taxes and sports
enacted Bank of England reforms.

agree, consider, just, regulate, treat
Some words are missing in the text. These 11

words in a different word form are listed 12
below. Derive new words from the given
13
words to fill in the gaps 11-15.
14
15
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A Gordon Brown was born in negotiation to cancel the debts of

Scotland and grew up in the the world’s poorest nations and
industrial town of Kirkcaldy. He the tripling of the development
started at Edinburgh University budget. It was during his time as
aged 16, becoming the youngest Chancellor that he proposed to
fresher there since the war. It was Sarah Macaulay and 7 months later
at university that he began to they were married at their home in
have problems with his sight and North Queensferry.
doctors diagnosed him with a C Gordon Brown became Prime country at the end of April 2009.
detached retina, which was caused Minister on 27 June 2007 after He regularly visited Iraq and

by an injury he received in his final Tony Blair left office. During his Afghanistan and, in December
game for his school rugby team. time as Prime Minister he oversaw 2009, he became the first Prime
He gained a First Class Honours changes such as the introduction Minister for some 14_______
degree in History and became the of neighbourhood policing in time to stay in a war zone when
youngest ever Rector of Edinburgh every area, a legally-enforceable he stayed overnight in Kandahar,
University in 1972. right to early cancer screening and Afghanistan.
B Gordon Brown became MP 12 _______, and the world’s first E He became heavily involved
for Dunfermline East in the 1983 ever Climate Change Act, which in international negotiations to
General Election with a majority was implemented in autumn reach an agreement to replace the
of 11,000 and shared his first office 2008. The greatest challenge he Kyoto Treaty and, in December
in the House of Commons with faced in office was the worldwide 2009, he attended the United
Tony Blair, where they became financial crisis and the following Nations summit in Copenhagen.
friends. Later he became Shadow recession. In April 2009, one year Following the summit, he pledged
Chancellor and backed Tony Blair before retirement, he hosted the to lead an international campaign
for the leadership of the Labour G20 Summit in London where to turn the agreements reached at
Party. Working together they won world leaders pledged to make an Copenhagen into a legally binding
a landslide majority in 1997. He additional $1.1 trillion available to treaty. During his time in office, he
was Chancellor of the Exchequer help the world economy through worked with his Irish counterpart
during the longest ever period of the crisis and restore credit, growth Brian Cowen to negotiate the
economic growth. He also made and jobs. They also pledged to devolution of policing and justice
the Bank of England independent improve financial supervision and powers in Northern Ireland. This
and announced, at the Gleneagles 13 _______. 15_______ was finally reached
Summit in 2005, an agreement D UK combat operations in Iraq, in February 2010 and the powers
to support the world’s poorest which had begun during his were passed to Northern Ireland’s
countries and deal with climate predecessor’s time in office, came government in the following April.
change. His passion for global to an end under Gordon Brown.
11_______ was shown in his British forces withdrew from the
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Use of English
Task 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using
the word given. Do not change the word given. Use from three to five words. The number of words
is specified in the brackets. Do not use short forms.
1 I didn't know that cars were so expensive in England.

IDEA
I had ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ so much in England.

(5 words)
2 John doesn’t have a serious enough attitude to his responsibilities.

SERIOUSLY
John doesn’t ___ ___ ___ ___ enough.
(4 words)
3 The two problems are completely different.

COMMON
The two problems don’t have ___ ___ ___ ___ each other.
(4 words)
4 I was amazed because there were no problems throughout the journey.

WENT
To my ___ , ___ ___ ___ throughout the journey.
(4 words)
5 There’s no point arguing about this question.

WORTH
This question ___ ___ ___ ___ about.
(4 words)
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Use of English
Task 2. Put the words from the

box. Some of the words may be A American E French I Mexican
chosen more than once while B Arabic F Greek J Russian
some of them may not be used. C Chinese G Indian K Scottish
D Dutch H Italian L Spanish

Sentences
1 Pardon my _______, but that’s a damned shame!

2 This contract is written in such complicated language that it’s all _______ to me.
3 You’ll be in _______ with your teacher if you don’t hand in this assignment on
time.
4 Well, don’t that beat the _______! It’s amazing what phones can do these days.
5 The official story is that he’s sick, but I think he’s just taking _______ leave.
6 I know it’s September, but don’t get out your winter clothes just yet—this area
often has an _______ summer.
7 The firm’s CEO denounced the rumors of impending layoffs as being nothing
more than _______ whispers.
8 Why are you home so early? Well, they made me walk _______.
9 The students lined up and walked _______ file into the auditorium.
10 John is always lecturing me like a _______ uncle, forgetting the fact that I’m 40
years old!
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Task 3. Put the words from the

box. There are two words which central former lavish social
you don’t need to use. cold green old specific
comfortable illegal passive upper
While The Great Gatsby is a highly 1_______ portrait of American society during
the Roaring Twenties, its story is also one that has been told hundreds of times, and
is perhaps as 2_______ as America itself: a man claws his way from rags to riches,

only to find that his wealth cannot afford him the privileges enjoyed by those born
into the 3_______ class. The 4_______ character is Jay Gatsby, a wealthy New Yorker
of indeterminate occupation. Gatsby is primarily known for the 5_______ parties he
throws each weekend at his ostentatious Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is suspected
of being involved in 6_______ bootlegging and other underworld activities.
The narrator, Nick Carraway, is Gatsby’s neighbor in West Egg. Nick is a young man
from a prominent Midwestern family. Educated at Yale, he has come to New York to
enter the bond business. In some sense, the novel is Nick’s memoir, his unique view of
the events of the summer of 1922; as such, his impressions and observations necessarily
color the narrative as a whole. For the most part, he plays only a peripheral role in the
events of the novel; he prefers to remain a 7_______ observer.
Upon arriving in New York, Nick visits his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband,
Tom. The Buchanans live in the posh Long Island district of East Egg; Nick, like Gatsby,
resides in nearby West Egg, a less fashionable area looked down upon by those who
live in East Egg. West Egg is home to the nouveau riche, people who lack established
8_______ connections, and who tend to vulgarly flaunt their wealth. Like Nick, Tom
Buchanan graduated from Yale, and comes from a privileged Midwestern family. Tom
is a 9_______ football player, a brutal bully obsessed with the preservation of class
boundaries. Daisy, by contrast, is an almost ghostlike young woman who affects an air of
sophisticated boredom. At the Buchanans’s, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a beautiful young
woman with a 10_______, cynical manner. The two later become romantically involved.
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Use of English
Task 4. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and
some have an extra word. Tick (v) the sentences that are correct. If a line has a word which
should not be there, write the word down.
1 The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller by Patricia Highsmith.

2 It is the first book by starring the iconic anti-hero Tom Ripley,

3 a small-time con man and master manipulator whose skill with less people and
4 manipulation allows him to get off access to power and influence.
5 Focusing on ever Ripley’s first major con, the book establishes
6 the main character and explores on themes of identity, obsession, and
7 the psychological impact of attempting to has become someone else.
8 The series was popular upon its release and remains significant culturally today,
9 although it was hardly controversial at the moment of its release due
10 to its main manipulative nature and occasional outbursts of rage and psychopathic
behavior.
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Task 5. Match the two columns.

A He was the man behind the ever-famous theory of the
evolution of man. He published On the Origin of Species which
discussed the basic mechanism of evolution and the concept of
natural selection.
B He was an English mathematician, astronomer, and
physicist. He published the Mathematics Principles of Natural
Philosophy which discussed the laws of motion and universal
gravitation which is used widely in the fields of science and
academics.
1 Sir Isaac Newton C He discovered that sound vibrations could travel

telegraphically. The discovery of telephone inspired the concept of
modern gadgets.
2 Edward Jenner D He was an English scientist who was greatly known
for his discovery of a smallpox vaccine. He was regarded by his
contemporaries as the «Father of Immunology». He studied the
3 Alexander Fleming feasibility of cowpox to counter smallpox virus.
E He contributed his steam engine to the world. His invention
4 James Clerk Maxwell was vital to start the Industrial Revolution which paved the way for
large machinery and mechanical equipment used in manufacturing
industries.
5 Charles Darwin F He accidentally discovered the cure for certain diseases
and disorders – the antibiotic. He found out a mold he identified as
“penicillin” which killed a number of disease-causing bacteria.
6 Alexander Graham Bell G He was the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN in Switzerland until 2008. He has been honoured with
a number of science awards including the Glazebrook Medal, the
7 James Watt 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize, and the IEEE Simon Ramo
Medal.
H He greatly contributed to the understanding of physics.
8 Lyn Evans He was widely known for his theory of electromagnetic radiation.
According to him, electric and magnetic fields travel through space
9 Timothy Berners-Lee with the speed of light.
I He is known for his landmark contributions to general
understanding of the big bang, black holes, and relativity. He is also
10 Stephen Hawking renowned for his work as a science popularizer, writing the best-
selling book «A Brief History of Time».
J He is a British computer scientist, knighted by the Queen
Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He is especially famous for his
proposal to share information by using the technology of hypertext,
the cornerstone of the world wide web. He also made the world’s
first website in 1991.
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Writing
An English-language newspaper has invited readers to send in reviews of novels

by American authors. You decide to submit a review of The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Your review should briefly describe how different characters
conflict with each other and explain why they do so.
Write your review.

Use the following words in your text: Remember to:
include a title;
better off, tension, relatable, use an appropriate style;
detail, cracking organise the information logically and clearly;
give recommendations to the readers.
Underline the required words when used in your text and

put them in the correct grammar form if necessary.
Write 250-300 words.
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Speaking
Preparation (15 minutes)
Presentation and questions

(10 minutes)
Monologue (2-3 minutes) Speak about:

Your school is planning to organise a trip Location
to London. At the meeting of your club History
you have to take your classmates on a Ceremonies
virtual tour of one the most fascinating Architecture
buildings in the world, Westminster
Abbey. Your task is to explain why it You can make notes during the
could be the best choice for your school preparation time, but you are not allowed
to visit it in summer. to read them during the presentation.
Answer 2 questions from your partner, who wants to get additional information not mentioned in
your presentation about the topic from the fact file.
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KEYS
Listening Use of English Task 4

1 v
1 1955 Task 1 2 by
2 seamstress 1 no idea that cars cost 3 less
3 section 2 take his responsibilities 4 off
4 white seriously 5 ever
5 10 3 anything in common with 6 on
6 B 4 amazement, nothing went 7 has
7 A wrong / everything went smoothly 8 v
8 B 5 is not worth arguing 9 hardly

9 A 10 v
10 B Task 2
1 E Task 5
Reading 2 F 1 B
3 D 2 D
1 A 4 D 3 F
2 A 5 E 4 H
3 C 6 G 5 A
4 C 7 C 6 C
5 B 8 L 7 E
6 C 9 G 8 G
7 B 10 D 9 J
8 A 10 I
9 B Task 3
10 A 1 specific
11 justice 2 old
12 treatment 3 upper
13 regulation (s) 4 central
14 considerable 5 lavish
15 agreement 6 illegal
7 passive
8 social
9 former
10 cold
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KEYS
Script
It’s one of the most famous moments in modern American civil rights history: on the chilly evening of
December 1, 1955, on a busy street in the capital of Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress boarded a segregated
city bus to return home after a long day of work, taking a seat near the middle, just behind the front “white”
section. At the next stop, more passengers got on. When every seat in the white section was taken, the bus
driver ordered the black passengers in the middle row to stand so a white man could sit. Rosa Parks refused.
She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation. She was tried on Monday, December 5, and
convicted of disorderly conduct under a state statute and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. E.D. Nixon, friend,
supporter, and former president of the Montgomery NAACP chapter, asked if she would let the NAACP use

her case to fight segregation. She agreed. Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the
legality of segregation. Both knew the risks: harassment, lynching, losing her job.
Rosa Parks’ defiance of an unfair segregation law, which required black passengers to defer to any white
person who needed a seat by giving up their own, forever changed race relations in America. She was not the
first African American to do this. In fact, two other black women had previously been arrested on buses in
Montgomery and were considered by civil rights advocates as potential touchpoints for challenging the law.
However, both women were rejected because community leaders felt they would not gain support. Rosa Parks,
with her flawless character, quiet strength, and moral fortitude, was seen as an ideal candidate. And those
community leaders were right: Rosa Parks’ subsequent arrest by local police sparked a collective and sustained
community response. As one young Montgomery resident said at the time, city officials had “messed with the
wrong one now.” The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery lasted 381 days, marking the country’s
first large-scale demonstration against segregation.
The boycott ultimately led the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw racial segregation on public buses in Alabama. It
also spurred more non-violent protests in other cities and catapulted a young Baptist minister named Martin
Luther King, Jr., into prominence as a leader of the civil rights movement. The movement and the laws it
prompted, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, are one of the greatest
social revolutions in modern American history.
President Obama, among many others, credits Rosa Parks’ “singular act of disobedience” with launching
a civil rights movement that lasts to this day. “Rosa Parks tells us there’s always something we can do,” he
said during a 2013 ceremony to unveil a statue of Parks at the U.S. Capitol, where she is honored alongside
past presidents, members of Congress, and military leaders. “She tells us that we all have responsibilities, to
ourselves and to one another.”
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TEST 2 Listening
You will hear part of a lecture.

For questions 1-5, complete the notes with
a number or a word.
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1 She was born in the state of _______. Decide whether the following statements
2 Her pseudonym was A.M. _______. 6-10 are True (A) or False (B).
3 Little Women was published in _______.
List of statements
4 Her first book was published in _______.
5 She passed away at _______.
6 She skipped school because she couldn't

afford to pay tuition.
7 She wasn't popular with young readers
during her life.
8 She grew up the fourth of five children.
9 She never wanted children.
10 She often quarrelled with her siblings.
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Reading
Read the text. Decide whether the following Complete the crossword using the clues
statements are True (A), False (B) or Not stated (C). from the text.
Grid
1 Wellington won some military
successes in India.
2 His house was attacked. 9 7
3 By defeating Napoleon he reached
the zenith of fame. 8 6 10 N T
4 He didn’t experience implicit
F
political pressure from his opponents.

5 Today there is appreciation of his
L
military genius.
Complete the sentences below. Write one

word only.
Wesley received a 11_______ for his service, mandating his name change from Wesley to Wellesley.
11 G H
As Prime Minister, the Duke’s 12_______ wavered slightly, due to his very conservative stances on many
issues.
12 U R
He is however credited with bringing about the Catholic 13_______ of Ireland, giving most basic civil rights
to Catholics in the UK.
13 M P
His uncompromising character and style of leadership earned him the 14_______ “The Iron Duke”.
14 I M
In 1830, Wellesley was removed from office via a vote of no 15_______, brought about by his rejection of The
Reform Act.
15 O F
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Reading
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

with both an 7_______ (a large area
Wellington, is today more famous as
of land) in Hampshire and a fortune
a soldier than as a politician. In fact,
of £400,000.
as the Prime Minister, he was known
After the Battle of Waterloo, he
for his measures to repress reform,
became Commander in Chief of
and his popularity sank a little during
the army in occupied France until
his time in 6_______( a position of November 1818. He then returned to
authority). England and Parliament, and joined
The Duke of Wellington was born in Lord Liverpool’s government in 1819
Dublin to the Earl and Countess of as Master General of the Ordnance.
Mornington. Fatherless at an early age, He undertook a number of diplomatic
and neglected by his mother, he was a visits overseas, including a trip to

reserved, withdrawn child. He failed Russia. In 1828, after twice being fear of mob rule was enhanced by the
to shine at Eton, and instead attended overlooked in favour of Canning and riots and sabotage that followed rising
private classes in Brussels, followed by Goderich, the Duke of Wellington was rural unemployment. His opposition
a military school in Angers. Ironically, finally invited by King George IV to to reform caused his popularity
the young duke had no desire for a to plummet to such an extent that
form his own 8_______ (the group of
military career. Instead he wished to crowds gathered to throw missiles at
people who officially control a country)
pursue his love of music. Following his his London home. The government
and set about forming his Cabinet.
mother’s wishes, however, he joined was defeated in the Commons, and
As Prime Minister, he was very
a Highland regiment. He fought at the duke resigned, to be replaced by
conservative. Yet one of his first
Flanders in 1794, and directed the
achievements was overseeing Catholic 10 _______(the title of high social
campaign in India in 1796, where his rank) Grey.
emancipation in 1829, the granting
elder brother was Governor General. He continued to fight reform in
of almost full civil rights to Catholics
Knighted for his efforts, he returned opposition, though he finally
in the United Kingdom. Feelings
to England in 1805. consented to the Great Reform Bill
ran very high on the issue. The duke
In 1806 he was elected Member of in 1832. Two years later he refused
persuaded the King only by his threat
Parliament for Rye, and within a year a second invitation to form a
of resignation. Lord Winchilsea, an
he was appointed Chief Secretary of government, and instead joined Sir
opponent of the bill, claimed that
Ireland by the Duke of Portland. He Peel’s ministry as Foreign Secretary.
by granting freedoms to Catholics
continued with his military career He later became Leader of the House of
Wellington “treacherously plotted
despite his parliamentary duties, Lords, and upon Sir Peel’s resignation
the destruction of the Protestant
fighting campaigns in Portugal and in 1846, retired from politics. In
constitution”. As a result, he and
France, and being made commander 1848 he organised a military force
Winchilsea fought a duel in Battersea
of the British Army in the Peninsular to protect London against possible
Park in March 1829. They deliberately
War. He was given the title Duke Chartist violence at the large meeting
missed each other in firing, and
of Wellington in 1814, and went on at Kennington Common.
to command his most celebrated 9_______ (respect that people have
‘The Iron Duke’ died in September
campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars, for a person) was satisfied.
1852 after a series of seizures. He was
with final victory at Waterloo in 1815. The duke had a much less enlightened
buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
When he returned to Britain he was position on parliamentary reform. He
The Wellington Arch still stands in
treated as a hero, defended rule by the elite and refused
London’s Hyde Park. He also gave his
formally honoured, and presented to expand the political franchise. His
name to the humble Wellington boot.
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Use of English
Task 1. Write one word which can be used in all three sentences.
1 He’ll go to _______ lengths to get what he wants.

For the first 900 metres he was going _______ guns, but then he got tired.
He socialized freely with the _______ and the good.

2 Class, you seem to have forgotten the simplest of facts, so it’s _______ to
basics for the first week of classes.
The actor was a huge star in the 80s, but he’s just a _______ number now.
Once John realized how valuable that painting actually was, he wanted to
buy it _______ from me.
3 Mrs. Smiph is a great teacher, and her _______ is always open if we ever
have any questions.
My grandfather fought a good fight against his cancer, but I’m afraid he’s
knocking on heaven’s _______ now.
She has powerful friends, so she got into the diplomatic service by the back
_______.
4 He’s as good in comedies as he is in _______ roles.

The larger part of the volume consists of _______ monologues.
There has been a _______ shift in public opinion.
5 The car needs some spit and _______.

Do you speak some _______?
By repeated oiling and shellacking one produces a French _______ that is
very durable and elastic.
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Use of English
Task 2. Read the sentences and

fill in the gaps choosing an
appropriate word from the box. affect effect principal tale
Choose the word once only. desert personal principle weather
There are extra words you don’t dessert personnel tail whether
have to choose.

Sentences
1 The new director is likely to make major changes in _______.

2 I asked how he was and he started telling me this big _______ of woe.
3 This assumption does not _______ the qualitative conclusions derived in
the paper.
4 How many people _______ from the army each year?
5 My own _______ view is that boxing should be banned.
6 The machine works according to the _______ of electromagnetic

conduction.
7 So in _______ the government have lowered taxes for the rich and raised
them for the poor.
8 The cars were parked nose to _______ down the street.
9 Nigeria remains the country’s _______ economic partner.
10 He had apple pie with ice cream for _______.
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Use of English

/ Informal English/
A one slavishly devoted to

1 You have to be a bit of a blagger to be an intellectual or academic pursuits
actor. B reflecting high standards of

2 She told an absolute corker of a story. personal behavior
3 But he looks more like a ballroom dancer C a thing that is especially good
than a bouncer. or funny
4 I’m a real grammar nerd. D wanting to be with another
5 He’s too classy to say anything nasty like that. person all the time in a way that is
6 Bobby is a very clingy child. annoying
7 Jane was very insecure and needy. E not willing to pay debts
8 Those slackers have gone home early again. F someone who gets what they
9 The new law is aimed at deadbeat landlords want by saying things that are not
who owe $22 million. true
10 Sooner or later someone would take pity on G a person who does not work
the poor wallflower and ask her to dance. hard enough
H a shy person
I one employed to restrain or
eject disorderly persons
J wanting too much attention
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Task 4. Complete the crossword.
Immerse yourself in the spellbinding 1_______ of Harry Potter on this trip to the
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London. Travel to the fabled Harry Potter studios by air-
conditioned 2_______ from central London, and on 3_______, trace the footsteps
of Hogwarts’ student wizards at leisure. Behold original sets such as Platform 9 ¾
and Diagon Alley; see the Hogwarts Express steam train; ride a broomstick like the
cast; and 4_______ the behind-the-scenes secrets of the movies’ on-screen wizardry.

This Harry Potter studio London tour includes round-trip coach transport and
5_______ tickets. Numerous daily 6_______ times are available, making this tour a
flexible option for Harry Potter fans.
Grid
6 T 2C
3 R L
4U C
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Use of English

A the tenth President of the United States
(1841-1845); the first Vice President to succeed to
the Presidency after the death of his predecessor
B elected at the depth of the Great Depression

as the 32nd President (1933-1945), he helped the
American people regain faith in themselves
C served as the 44th President of the United

States
1 Bill Clinton D the 27th President of the United States (1909-
2 William Howard Taft 1913)
3 John Tyler
4 James Monroe E the first Democrat elected after the Civil War
in 1885
5 Thomas Jefferson
6 Zachary Taylor F as the 41st President (1989-1993), he brought
7 Grover Cleveland to the White House a dedication to traditional
American values
8 Franklin D. Roosevelt
9 George H. W. Bush G the fifth President of the United States (1817–
10 Barack Obama 1825) and the last President from the Founding
Fathers
H served as the 42nd President of the United

States (1993-2001); took office at the end of the
Cold War
I the principal author of the Declaration of

Independence (1776), and the third President of
the United States (1801–1809)
J a general and national hero in the United

States Army from the time of the Mexican-
American War and the War of 1812, was elected
the 12th U.S. President
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Writing
Commеnt on thе following quotation.
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along
the way.”
Frank Smith
Write your essay.

Use the following plan:
Use the following words in your text:
makе an introduction, еxplaining how you
prominence, learn, famous,
instructive, instead undеrstand thе author’s point of viеw;
еxprеss your pеrsonal opinion and givе

rеasons to support it;
givе еxamplеs from litеraturе or history to

illustratе your reasons;
make a conclusion restating your position.

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Speaking

(10 minutes)

Your school is planning to take part in Life facts
an international competition for the Education
best documentary about an outstanding Novels
writer. Your classmates need to choose Recognition
one person whose legacy has changed the
world. Make a speech about Leo Tolstoy You can make notes during the
to persuade your classmates to choose his preparation time, but you are not allowed
life story for the documentary. to read them during the presentation.
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1 Pennsylvania Task 1 Task 4

2 Barnard 1 great 1 F
3 1868 2 back 2 C
4 1854 3 door 3 I
5 56 4 dramatic 4 A
6 B 5 (P) polish 5 B
7 B 6 D
8 B 7 J

9 B Task 2 8 G
10 B 1 personnel 9 E
2 tale 10 H
3 affect
Reading 4 desert
5 personal Task 5
1 A 6 principle 1 H
2 A 7 effect 2 D
3 A 8 tail 3 A
4 B 9 principal 4 G
5 A 10 dessert 5 I
6 office 6 J
7 estate 7 E
8 government Task 3 8 B
9 honour 1 world 9 F
10 Earl 2 coach 10 C
11 knighthood 3 arrival
12 popularity 4 uncover
13 Emancipation 5 entrance
14 nickname 6 departure
15 confidence
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Famed author Louisa May Alcott created colorful relatable characters in 19th century novels. Her work
introduced readers to educated strong female heroines. As a result, her writing style greatly impacted American
literature.
Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alcott’s parents were a part of the 19th
century transcendentalist movement, a popular religious movement. Their religious and political beliefs deeply
inspired Alcott as child. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a popular educator who believed that children should
enjoy learning. Therefore, at an early age, Alcott took to reading and writing. While most of her schooling
came from her parents she also studied under famed philosopher Henry David Thoreau and popular authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathanial Hawthorne. Much like her novel Little Women, Alcott was one of four
daughters and she remained close with her sisters throughout her life. Many times, Alcott’s family suffered
from financial woes, forcing her to attend school irregularly. She took many jobs to help alleviate financial
struggles, working as teacher and washing laundry. She turned to writing for both emotional and financial
support.
Her first poem, “Sunlight,” was published in a magazine under a pseudonym. Her first book, a compilation of
short stories, was published in 1854. When the Civil War started in 1861, Alcott served as a nurse in a Union
hospital. Unfortunately, in the middle of her assignment she contracted typhoid fever. Her experience in the
hospital as a patient and a nurse, inspired the novel Hospital Sketches. After the war, Alcott published several
other works and gained a following. Her audience included both adults and children. She also released many
of her earlier works under the name, A.M. Barnard. Let me spell, it’s B-A-R-N-A-R-D.
During this time, one of Alcott’s publishers asked her to write a novel for young women. To do so, she simply
reflected back on to her childhood with her sisters. In 1868, Alcott published her most popular work, Little
Women. The novel was published in a series of short stories, but was eventually compiled into one book. Little
Women was an instant success and the book cemented Alcott as one of the foremost novelist of the 19th and
early 20th century. In 1870, with one successful book, Alcott moved to Europe with her sister May. There she
published, another classic Little Men. She also joined the women’s suffrage movement. Throughout her life,
she would contribute to several publications which promoted women’s rights. She was also the first woman to
register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.
Alcott never married nor had any children, however, when her sister died, she adopted her niece. Afterwards
she moved to Boston, Massachusetts and continued publishing more works that followed the characters from
Little Women. Alcott suffered from bouts of illness throughout her life. She attributed her poor health to
mercury poisoning which she believed she contracted while she worked as a nurse during the Civil War. In
1888, she died at the age of 56 in Boston, Massachusetts. Today, readers continue to enjoy Alcott’s writings and
her novels still appear on bestseller list throughout the world.
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Listening & Reading
Read the text William Harrison and listen to the text Benjamin Harrison about two relatives.
You will notice that some ideas coincide and some differ in them.
William Harrison (1841)
“Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle While Tecumseh was away seeking more
a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my allies, Harrison led about a thousand men toward
word for it,” a Democratic newspaper foolishly gibed the Prophet's town. Suddenly, before dawn on
about William Henry Harrison, "he will sit . . . by the November 7, the Indians attacked his camp on
side of a 'sea coal' fire, and study moral philosophy." Tippecanoe River. After heavy fighting, Harrison
The Whigs, seizing on this political misstep, in 1840 repulsed them, but suffered 190 dead and wounded.
presented their candidate Harrison as a simple The Battle of Tippecanoe, upon which Harrison's

frontier Indian fighter, living in a log cabin and fame was to rest, disrupted Tecumseh's confederacy
drinking cider, in sharp contrast to an aristocratic but failed to diminish Indian raids. By the spring
champagne sipping Van Buren. of 1812, Indian forces were again terrorizing the
Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia frontier.
planter aristocracy. He was born at Berkeley in 1773. In the War of 1812, Harrison won more
His father, Benjamin, was a signer of the Declaration military laurels when he was given the command of
of Independence. He studied classics and history at the army in the Northwest with the rank of brigadier
Hampden-Sydney College, then began the study general. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake
of medicine in Richmond. Then in 1791, Harrison Erie, on October 5, 1813, he defeated the combined
obtained a commission as ensign in the First Infantry British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh.
of the Regular Army, and headed to the Northwest, The Indians scattered, never again to offer serious
where he spent much of his life. resistance in what was then called the Northwest.
In the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served Thereafter, Harrison returned to civilian life; the
as aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne Whigs, in need of a national hero, nominated him
at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened most of for president in 1840. He won by a majority of less
the Ohio area to settlement. After resigning from the than 150,000, but swept the Electoral College, 234 to
army in 1798, he became secretary of the Northwest 60.
Territory, was its first delegate to Congress, and When he arrived in Washington in February
helped obtain legislation dividing the Territory into 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural
the Northwest and Indiana Territories. Address, ornate with classical allusions. Webster
In 1801, he became governor of the Indiana obtained some deletions, boasting in a jolly fashion
Territory, serving 12 years. His prime task as governor that he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as
was to obtain title to Indian lands so settlers could dead as smelts, every one of them."
press forward into the wilderness. When the Indians Webster had reason to be pleased, for
retaliated, Harrison was responsible for defending while Harrison was nationalistic in his outlook, he
the settlements. The threat against settlers became emphasized in his Inaugural Address that he would
serious in 1809. An eloquent and energetic chieftain, be obedient to the will of the people as expressed
Tecumseh, with his religious brother, the Prophet, through Congress. But before he had been in office
began to strengthen an Indian confederation to a month, he caught a cold that developed into
prevent further encroachment. In 1811, Harrison pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died the first
received permission to attack the confederacy. president to die in office and with him died the
Whig program.
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Listening & Reading
Answer questions 1-10 by choosing A if the idea is expressed in both materials, B if it can be found
only in the reading text, C if it can be found only in the audio-recording, and D if neither of the
materials expresses the idea.
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1 He was married twice.

2 He ruled the country in the 19th century.
3 He lost the presidency to the incumbent opponent.

4 He was the Democratic presidential candidate.
5 He became President despite losing the popular vote.
6 He was elected to the United States Senate.
7 He made a career in the military.
8 He used to wear hats.
9 He had a famous antecedent.
10 His tenure as president was very short.
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Read the text and answer questions 1-10 below. Match the information and the sections of the text (A-E).
Choose only one letter for each number. Some of the choices may be required more than once.
In which section is the following mentioned?

1 He wrote works of psychological drama.
2 He obsessed over quality of his published work.
3 His boss was killed.
4 He paid for his higher education.
5 He felt sorrow at the loss of his friend.
6 He was good at chemistry.
7 He tore apart the religious policy.
8 His wife wrote books.
9 He hoped to end racial segregation.
10 He was a trustworthy person.
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A With the assassination of President the Russo-Japanese War, reached a gentleman's and the horrors of World War I deepened his
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, agreement on immigration with Japan, and melancholic outlook. In 1919 Elgar wrote the
became the youngest president in the nation's sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of masterly Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85,
history. He brought new excitement and power the world. Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most whose deep feeling of sadness and impending
to the presidency, as he briskly led Congress effective achievements were in conservation. loss surely relates to the final illness of his
and the American public toward progressive He added enormously to the national forests faithful Alice, who died in 1920. In the early
reforms and a strong foreign policy. in the West, reserved lands for public use, and 1930s, Elgar set to work on a third symphony,
He took the view that the president as a fostered great irrigation projects. left unfinished at his death in 1934.
"steward of the people" should take whatever Leaving the presidency in 1909, Roosevelt C English Romantic poet John Keats was
action necessary for the public good unless went on an African safari, then jumped back born on October 31, 1795, in London. The
expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution. into politics. In 1912, he ran for president oldest of four children, he lost both his parents
"I did not usurp power," he wrote, "but I did on the Progressive Party ticket. To reporters, at a young age. His father, a livery-stable
greatly broaden the use of executive power." he once remarked that he felt as fit as a "bull keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother
In 1884, his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and moose," the nickname of his new party. While died of tuberculosis six years later. After his
his mother died on the same day. Roosevelt campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the

mother's death, Keats's maternal grandmother
spent much of the next two years on his ranch chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, appointed two London merchants, Richard
in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There, he but his words at that time remained applicable Abbey and John Rowland Sandell, as
mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle, at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has guardians. When Keats was fifteen, Abbey
driving cattle, hunting big game; he even had a happier life than I have led; a happier life withdrew him from the Clarke School, Enfield,
captured an outlaw. On a visit to London, he in every way." to apprentice with an apothecary-surgeon
married Edith Carow in December 1886. B Sir Edward William Elgar (1857–1934) and study medicine in a London hospital. In
During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was an English composer, among whose best- 1816 Keats became a licensed apothecary, but
was colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, known compositions are orchestral works he never practiced his profession, deciding
which he led on a charge at the battle of San including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and instead to write poetry.
Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin Around this time, Keats met Leigh Hunt,
heroes of the war. Boss Tom Platt, needing a and cello, and two symphonies. an influential editor of the Examiner, who
hero to draw attention away from scandals Elgar's father owned a music shop and was published his sonnets "On First Looking into
in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the a church organist who taught his son piano, Chapman's Homer" and "O Solitude." Hunt
Republican candidate for governor in 1898. organ, and violin; apart from this instruction, also introduced Keats to a circle of literary men,
Roosevelt won and served with distinction. Elgar was basically self-taught as a musician. At including the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and
As president, Roosevelt held the ideal the age of 16, the composer became a freelance William Wordsworth. The group's influence
that the government should be the great musician and for the remainder of his life never enabled Keats to see his first volume, Poems
arbiter of the conflicting economic forces took a permanent job. He conducted locally, by John Keats, published in 1817. Shelley, who
in the nation, especially between capital performed, taught, and composed, scraping by was fond of Keats, had advised him to develop
and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and until his marriage to Caroline Alice Roberts, a more substantial body of work before
dispensing favors to none. Roosevelt emerged a published novelist of some wealth, in 1889. publishing it. Keats did not follow his advice.
spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the In 1899, Elgar composed one of his best-known Endymion, a four-thousand-line allegorical
dissolution of a great railroad combination in works, the "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36, which romance based on the Greek myth of the same
the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the catapulted him to fame. The work is a cryptic name, appeared the following year. Two of
Sherman Act followed. tribute to Alice and to the many friends who the most influential critical magazines of the
Roosevelt steered the United States more stood behind the composer in the shaky early time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's
actively into world politics. He liked to quote days of his career. Elgar's most fruitful period Magazine, attacked the collection.
a favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry was the first decade of the twentieth century, Keats spent the summer of 1818 on a walking
a big stick." Aware of the strategic need for during which he wrote some of his noblest, tour in Northern England and Scotland,
a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific, most expressive music, including the first returning home to care for his brother, Tom,
Roosevelt ensured the construction of the four of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches; who suffered from tuberculosis. While nursing
Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe the first of these, subtitled "Land of Hope and his brother, Keats met and fell in love with a
Doctrine prevented the establishment of Glory", became an unofficial second national woman named Fanny Brawne. Writing some of
foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated anthem for the British Empire. his finest poetry between 1818 and 1819, Keats
the sole right of intervention in Latin America Elgar suffered a blow when Jaeger (the mainly worked on "Hyperion," a Miltonic
to the United States. "Nimrod" of the "Enigma" Variations) died in blank-verse epic of the Greek creation myth.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating 1909. The composer's productivity dropped, He stopped writing "Hyperion" upon the death
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of his brother, after completing only a small contagious, deadly disease. Newton went to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in
portion, but in late 1819 he returned to the home. It was during this time that Newton Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his
piece and rewrote it as "The Fall of Hyperion" started to pursue his own ideas on math, novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford.
(unpublished until 1856). physics, optics and astronomy. By 1666 he had In an attempt to create a saga of his own,
In July 1820, he published his third and best completed his early work on his three laws of Faulkner has invented a host of characters
volume of poetry, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. motion. The university reopened and Newton typical of the historical growth and subsequent
Agnes, and Other Poems. The three title poems, took a fellowship in order to obtain his masters decadence of the South. The human drama in
dealing with mythical and legendary themes degree. Faulkner’s novels is then built on the model
of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance times, As the years progressed, Newton completed of the actual, historical drama extending over
are rich in imagery and phrasing. The volume his work on universal gravitation, diffraction almost a century and a half. Each story and
also contains the unfinished "Hyperion," and of light, centrifugal force, centripetal force, each novel contributes to the construction of a
three poems considered among the finest inverse-square law, bodies in motion and whole, which is the imaginary Yoknapatawpha
in the English language, "Ode on a Grecian the variations in tides due to gravity. His County and its inhabitants. Their theme is
Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode to a impressive body of work made him a leader in the decay of the old South, as represented by
Nightingale." The book received enthusiastic scientific research. However, in 1679 his work the Sartoris and Compson families, and the

praise from Hunt, Shelley, Charles Lamb, and came to standstill after he suffered a nervous emergence of ruthless and brash newcomers,
others. breakdown. Upon regaining his health the Snopeses. Theme and technique – the
The fragment "Hyperion" was considered Newton returned to the university. He became distortion of time through the use of the
by Keats's contemporaries to be his greatest a leader against what he saw as an attack on the inner monologue are fused particularly
achievement, but by that time he had reached university by King James II. The king wanted successfully in The Sound and the Fury (1929),
an advanced stage of his disease and was only Roman Catholics to be in positions of the downfall of the Compson family seen
too ill to be encouraged. He continued a power in government and academia. Newton through the minds of several characters.
correspondence with Fanny Brawne and— spoke out against the king. When William of The novel Sanctuary (1931) is about the
when he could no longer bear to write to her Orange drove James out of England, Newton degeneration of Temple Drake, a young girl
directly—her mother, but his failing health was elected to Parliament. While in London from a distinguished southern family. Its
and his literary ambitions prevented their he became more enchanted with the life of sequel, Requiem For A Nun (1951), written
getting married. Under his doctor's orders to politics than the life of research. After suffering partly as a drama, centered on the courtroom
seek a warm climate for the winter, Keats went a second breakdown in 1693 Newton retired trial of a Negro woman who had once been a
to Rome with his friend, the painter Joseph from research. He became Warden of the party to Temple Drake’s debauchery. In Light in
Severn. He died there on February 23, 1821, at Royal Mint in 1696. He became Master of the August (1932), prejudice is shown to be most
the age of twenty-five, and was buried in the Royal Mint in 1699. destructive when it is internalized, as in Joe
Protestant cemetery. Throughout Newton's career he was torn Christmas, who believes, though there is no
D Isaac Newton was born in 1643 in between his desire for fame and his fear of proof of it, that one of his parents was a Negro.
Woolsthorpe, England. His father was a criticism. His overwhelming fear of criticism The theme of racial prejudice is brought up
wealthy, uneducated farmer who died three caused him to resist immediate publication again in Absalom, Absalom! (1936), in which a
months before Newton was born. Newton's of his work. As a consequence Newton often young man is rejected by his father and brother
mother remarried and he was left in the care of felt compelled to defend his work against because of his mixed blood. Faulkner’s most
his grandmother. He attended Free Grammar plagiarism. One such dispute arose over outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship
school. Though Newton did not excel in calculus. Though Newton had been the first and the problems between Negroes and whites
school, he did earn the opportunity to attend to derive calculus as a mathematical approach, is to be found in Intruder In the Dust (1948).
Trinity College, Cambridge where he wanted Gottfried Leibniz was the first one to widely In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of
to study law. His mother refused to pay for disseminate the concept throughout Europe. the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be followed
his education so while at college he worked The dispute with Leibniz dominated the last by two volumes, The Town (1957) and The
as a servant to pay his way. Newton also kept years of his life. Newton died in 1727. Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the rise
a journal where he was able to express his E William Faulkner (1897-1962), who of the insidious Snopes family to positions
ideas on various topics. He became interested came from an old southern family, grew up in of power and wealth in the community. The
in mathematics after buying a book at a fair Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, Reivers, his last – and most humorous – work,
and not understanding the math concepts and later the British, Royal Air Force during with great many similarities to Mark Twain’s
it contained. Newton graduated with a the First World War, studied for a while at Huckleberry Finn, appeared in 1962, the year
bachelor degree in 1665. The further pursuit the University of Mississippi, and temporarily of Faulkner’s death.
of an education was interrupted by the plague. worked for a New York bookstore and a New
Trinity College was closed due to the highly Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips
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Task 1. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals.
The British Thirteen Colonies had been administered by what came to be

known as “salutary neglect,” a kind of 1_______ (AUTONOMOUS) in everything
but name. Each colony’s assembly was in some measure distinct and all had their

own particular kind of relationship with Britain. One 2_______ (COMMON),
however, was the notion that the Colonies were not to be taxed. Resistance to
3_______ (TAX) without representation had a long history in the Colonies
and it flared up in the 1750s, the 1760s, and — finally — in the 1770s. As King
George III’s government pushed in the direction of more direct and 4_______
(AUTHORITY) rule over the colonies, the colonists themselves were pulling
in a different direction. Philosophical discussions regarding classical views
on 5_______ (DEMOCRACY) principles and rights became widespread and
informed a Whig challenge to 6_______ (EMPIRE) rule. Thomas Paine (1737-
1809), an English 7_______ (MIGRATE) to America in 1774 who popularized
new ideas associated with human rights, provided much of the vocabulary needed
to mobilize 8_______ (COLONY) support for revolution. At the same time, there
were scores of merchants and investors in the main port cities who saw glory
and 9_______ (PROSPEROUS) in a future outside of British trade constraints.
The Revolution, then, was spurred by a desire to conserve existing rights, an
10_______ (AVERSE) to taxes, awareness of opportunities for wealth-making,
and a suite of truly revolutionary ideas about who should govern whom.
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Task 2. Read the sentences and find words that do not fit as they make the sentence they are used in
meaningless. Unscramble the words by rearranging the letters in these words.

Sentences
1 We all hanker after a secret disease hotel we can call our own.
2 He led us down a small staircase into a dank, dark recall.
3 We had tea, and afterwards we sat in the danger for a while.
4 The giant throne is lured into its hive.
5 This recovery technique bakers new ground.
6 I'll wasp you my chocolate bar for your peanuts.
7 We could hear the table of sheep in the meadow.
8 Sulfur has an unpleasant door resembling that of rotten eggs.
9 The competition will be judged by a plane of experts.
10 I have remained listen till now, John, but I have to tell you what I think.
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Task 3. Match to make sentences.
A I ever heard of.
B but doing what I do not like.

1 Life seems C must be in want of a wife.
2 Selfishness must always be forgiven,
3 A large income is the best recipe for D cannot understand the
happiness pleasures of the other.
4 Nothing ever fatigues me,
5 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a E but a quick succession of
single man in possession of a good fortune, busy nothings.
6 Those who do not complain
7 One half of the world F because I never put up with
8 There are people, who the more you do for any other.
them,
9 Business may bring you money, G because there is no hope of a
10 I always deserve the best treatment cure.
H are never pitied.
I but friendship hardly ever

does.
J the less they will do for

themselves.
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Task 4. Write one word in each gap.
1 French _______
long, thin pieces of fried potato
2 French _______
a musical instrument that consists of a long metal tube bent into circles
3 French _______
a glass container for making coffee

4 French _______
a style for nails in which white polish is painted on to the ends of the nails
5 French _______
a long, thin stick of white bread
6 French _______
a pair of glass doors, usually opening from the back of a house into its garden
7 French _______
a style of wearing a shirt partly pushed into the waist of your trousers at the front but hanging
out at the back and sides
8 French _______
bread that has been covered in egg and fried
9 French _______
a cold sauce made from oil and vinegar, used especially on salad
10 French _______
the act of putting a clear liquid onto the pink part of your nails and a white liquid onto the
white part
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Task 5. Put the events in chronological order. The earliest one should be the first.
A The Declaration of J At the battle of F U.S. President John

Independence, from the pen Tippecanoe, Indian warriors Adams is the first President
of Thomas Jefferson and his under the command of to live in the White House,
committee, is approved in the Tecumseh and his brother then known as the Executive
Second Continental Congress Tenskwatawa, known as the Mansion and sixteen days
of the United States of America, Prophet, are defeated by later, the United States

held in Independence Hall, William Henry Harrison, the Congress holds its first session
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. governor of Indiana. in Washington, D.C.
D The Boston
G President Thomas Massacre occurs when British I George Washington,
Jefferson doubles the size of troops fire into a Boston mob, as President, approves the
the United States of America who were demonstrating Residence Bill, legislation
with his purchase of the against British troops at the that authorizes the buying of
Louisiana Territory from customs commission. land along the Potomac River
Napoleon's France, thus for federal buildings and
paving way for the western parks, creating the District of
expansion that would mark Columbia.
C The American
the entire history of the 19th
System of Manufacturing
century from Missouri to the
is invented by Eli Whitney,
Pacific Coast.
who uses semi-skilled labor,
machine tools, and jigs to make E In a speech before
standardized, interchangeable Congress, James Monroe
parts, then an assembly line of announces the Monroe
H The Smithsonian labor.
Institution is founded when Doctrine, stating the policy
British scientist James that European intervention
Smithson bequeathed one B The American anyplace in the Americas is
hundred thousand pounds Minerva, established by Noah opposed and that he would
from his estate for its initial Webster, becomes New York establish American neutrality
funding. City's first daily newspaper. in future European wars.
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You work in Zaryadye Park, Moscow. Your manager has asked you to write a report
in English on the park popularity with tourists. You should briefly describe the
facilities that are currently available to visitors. Your report should also recommend
at least two improvements that would enhance the park further and attract more
visitors.
Write your report.

Remember to:
efficiency, expertise, include a title and subtitles;

increase, cooperate, reduce use an appropriate style;
organise the information logically and
clearly;
make a critical evaluation of the facilities;
give recommendations to the park
administration.

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Speaking

(10 minutes)

Your school is planning to open a Family
school museum dedicated to a famous Education
politician. Your classmates need to Career
choose one person whose legacy has Presidency
changed our country.
Make a speech about Boris Yeltsin to You can make notes during the
persuade your classmates to open the preparation time, but you are not allowed
museum bearing his name. to read them during the presentation.
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Listening Use of English Task 3

1 E
1 С Task 1 2 G
2 A 1 autonomy 3 A
3 D 2 commonality 4 B
4 D 3 taxation 5 C
5 C 4 authoritarian 6 H
6 C 5 democratic 7 D
7 B 6 imperial 8 J
8 D 7 immigrant 9 I

9 A 8 colonial 10 F
10 B 9 prosperity
10 aversion Task 4
1 fry
2 horn
Reading 3 press
Task 2 4 tip
1 E 1 seaside 5 stick, bread
2 D 2 cellar 6 windows
3 A 3 garden 7 tuck
4 D 4 hornet 8 toast
5 B 5 breaks 9 dressing
6 C 6 swap 10 manicure
7 D 7 bleat
8 B 8 odor Task 5
9 E 9 panel 1 D
10 A 10 silent 2 A
3 I
4 B
5 C
6 F
7 G
8 J
9 E
10 H
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Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison
conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegates that visited him in
Indianapolis. As he was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, Democrats called him "Little Ben"; Republicans replied he
was big enough to wear the hat of his grandfather, "Old Tippecanoe."
Born in 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati, Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio and
read law in Cincinnati. He moved to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican
Party. He married Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. After the Civil War, he served in the 70th Volunteer Infantry.
Harrison became a pillar of Indianapolis, enhancing his reputation as a brilliant lawyer.
The Democrats defeated him for governor of Ohio in 1876 by unfairly stigmatizing him as "Kid Gloves"
Harrison. In the 1880s, he served in the United States Senate, where he championed Indians, homesteaders, and

Civil War veterans. In the presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than incumbent
Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. Although Harrison had made no political bargains,
his supporters had given innumerable pledges upon his behalf. When Boss Matt Quay of Pennsylvania heard
that Harrison had ascribed his narrow victory to Providence, Quay exclaimed that Harrison would never
know "how close a number of men were compelled to approach . . . the penitentiary to make him president."
Harrison was proud of the vigorous foreign policy that he helped shape. The first Pan American Congress met
in Washington in 1889, establishing an information center that later became the Pan American Union. At the
end of his administration, Harrison submitted to the Senate a treaty to annex Hawaii; to his disappointment,
President Cleveland later withdrew it. Substantial appropriation bills were signed by Harrison for internal
improvements, naval expansion, and subsidies for steamship lines. For the first time except in war, Congress
appropriated a billion dollars. When critics attacked the "billion-dollar Congress," Speaker Thomas B. Reed
replied, "This is a billion-dollar country." President Harrison also signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act "to
protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," the first federal act attempting to
regulate trusts.
The most perplexing domestic problem Harrison faced was the tariff issue. The high tariff rates in effect had
created a surplus of money in the Treasury. Low-tariff advocates argued that the surplus was hurting business.
Republican leaders in Congress successfully met the challenge. Representative William McKinley and Senator
Nelson Aldrich framed a still higher tariff bill; some rates were intentionally prohibitive. Harrison tried to
make the tariff more acceptable by writing in reciprocity provisions. To cope with the Treasury surplus, the
tariff was removed from imported raw sugar; sugar growers within the United States were given two cents a
pound bounty on their production.
Long before the end of Harrison's term, the Treasury surplus had evaporated, and prosperity seemed about to
disappear as well. Congressional elections in 1890 went stingingly against the Republicans, and party leaders
decided to abandon President Harrison although he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation.
Nevertheless, his party renominated him in 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland.
After he left office, Harrison returned to Indianapolis, and married the widowed Mary Dimmick in 1896.
A dignified elder statesman, he died in 1901.
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TEST 4 Listening
Listen to the poem by William Shakespeare.

Decide whether the following statements are All the World's a Stage
True (A), or False (B).
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1 The author shows that every person plays different parts.

2 The author shows that some people take their roles too seriously.

3 The author shows that the third stage is that of being a young pupil.
4 The author compares the world to a play.
5 The author expresses the old man’s helplessness through being dependent
on the nurse.
6 The author draws readers’ attention toward the drama everyone lives
throughout their lives.
7 The author thinks that a person has seven different ages.
8 The author thinks that many people can be divided into the selfish and the
selfless.
9 The author views life as something that is predestined.
10 The author thinks that the result of each stage is unpredictable.
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Reading
Read the text.
Although Emily Dickinson's Homestead, where Emily could are difficult to re-construct. Drafts
calling as a poet began in her teen raise climate-sensitive flowers. of three letters, now called the
years, she came into her own as an Now she could engage in her "Master Letters," survive from late
artist during a short but intense beloved hobby of gardening year- 1858 and early 1861. They suggest
period of creativity that resulted round. And Dickinson had her a serious and troubled (though
in her composing, revising, and own bedroom, the southwest unidentified) romantic attachment
saving hundreds of poems. That corner room on the second floor, a that some scholars believe drove
period, which scholars identify space essential to her writing. Dickinson's creative output.
as 1858-1865, overlaps with the By the time Dickinson turned During this time Dickinson also
most significant event of American 35, she had composed more than referred to a trauma that she
nineteenth-century history, the 1100 concise, powerful lyrics described in a letter: "I had a terror
Civil War. During this time, that astutely - since September - I could tell to
Dickinson's personal life also examine none". The cause of that terror is
underwent tremendous change. pain, grief, unknown.

In late 1855, Dickinson moved, joy, love, Significant friendships such as
somewhat reluctantly, with her nature, and those with Samuel Bowles, Edward
family back to the Homestead, her art. She Dwight, and Charles Wadsworth
birthplace. Her father Edward had recorded changed during this time, and
purchased the home in early 1855 about 800 of Dickinson began to feel an
and made significant renovations these poems increasing need for a "preceptor"
to it. The Homestead became part in small to cope with her outpouring of
of an enhanced Dickinson estate handmade verse and with questions about
when in 1856 Dickinson's older booklets publication.
brother, Austin, married her close (now called “fascicles”), very In 1864 and 1865, Dickinson
friend Susan Huntington Gilbert, private “publications” that she underwent treatments for a painful
and the couple built a home next shared with no one. eye condition, now thought to be
door known as The Evergreens. Dickinson did share a portion iritis, with Boston ophthalmologist
That household was a lively nexus of her poems with family and Henry W. Williams. While under
for Amherst society, and Dickinson selected friends whose literary the doctor's care (eight months
herself took part in social gatherings taste she admired. Susan Dickinson in 1864, six months in 1865), she
there early in the couple's received more than 250 poems boarded with her cousins, Frances
marriage. Their lifestyle eventually throughout the two women's and Louisa Norcross. Those trips
would contrast markedly with forty-year relationship, and to were to be her last out of Amherst;
her own, more reclusive manner. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, after her return in 1865, she rarely
The couple's three children—Ned, who authored an article in an ventured beyond the grounds of
born in 1861; Martha, in 1866; 1862 issue of the Atlantic Monthly the Homestead.
and Gilbert, in 1875—brought that encouraged young people to Emily Dickinson died in Amherst
much joy to Dickinson's life, even write and publish, Dickinson sent in 1886. After her death her family
though Susan's developing role about 100 poems. Although a few members found her hand-sewn
as a mother may have put more of her poems were published in, books, or “fascicles.” These fascicles
distance between her and the poet. they were printed anonymously contained nearly 1,800 poems.
In addition to providing close and apparently without her prior Though Mabel Loomis Todd and
proximity to her brother and his consent. The vast majority of her Higginson published the first
family, the renovated Homestead work remained known only to its selection of her poems in 1890, a
offered Dickinson several other author. complete volume did not appear
advantages. Edward Dickinson Some events in Dickinson's life until 1955.
added a conservatory to the during her intense writing period
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Reading
During her adult years at the Homestead, Emily

Complete the sentences. Dickinson began to 1_______ poetry in earnest. During
Write one word only. her most productive period, 1858 to 1865, she compiled
her poems into small packets now termed “fascicles.”
Only ten of her poems are known to have been published
in her lifetime, all anonymously and presumably without
her 2_______.
Choose the best answer The two Dickinson daughters, who never married,
(A, B, C or D) for each question. remained at the Homestead for the 3_______ of their
lives. After Emily's death in 1886, Lavinia lived on at
the Homestead until she died in 1899. At that time, the

4 How many of Dickinson’s poems Homestead was inherited by Austin’s daughter, Martha
were published during her lifetime? Dickinson Bianchi, and leased to tenants until 1916,
A quite a few when it was sold to the Parke family.
B none
C about 350
D not many
5 What was Emily’s sister’s name?
A Susan
B Frances
C Lavinia
D Martha
6 Emily Dickinson…
A was well-known for her
lavish parties and balls
B shared conservative
political views
C carefully tended her plants
D devoted her life to bringing
up her nephews
7 Which city did Emily Dickinson 8 Which statement is TRUE about her family?
live in most of her life? A her brother Austin bought a house,
A Amherst which stood adjacent to the one where Emily lived
B Chicago B her mother wrote letters to Thomas
C Homestead Higginson
D Boston C Henry W. Williams was a physician
D none of the above
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Reading
For questions 9-10, choose two correct

answers. Write them in any order.
A Emily Dickinson did not have a

spouse. 9
B She made a lot of attempts to
publish her work.
C After her death, her poems were 10

brought to the attention of the wider
world.
D Many of her poems deal with
themes of death and immortality. For questions 11-15, put the events A-E in
E She was probably influenced by chronological order.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
List of events
A The Dickinson family

moves back to the repurchased and
remodeled Homestead.
B Dickinson twice spends
11
many months in Boston,
Massachusetts, for treatment of a
12 severe eye ailment.
C Gilbert Dickinson, Emily
Dickinson’s nephew, is born at The
13 Evergreens.
D Samuel Fowler Dickinson,
14 Emily’s paternal grandfather, builds
the Homestead on Main Street in
Amherst.
15 E Poems by Emily Dickinson,
edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and
T.W. Higginson, is published.
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Use of English
Task 1. Some words are missing in the text. These words in a different word form are listed below.
Derive new words from the given words to fill in the gaps 1-5.
1
2 access, challenge,
3 marry, nation,

4 persecute
5
Elizabeth I faced more difficulties as a monarch than any other Tudor. Born the
daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn on 7 September 1533, Elizabeth’s right to
rule as queen of England never went 1_______. Protestants (notably John Knox)
initially claimed female rule was unnatural or monstrous, while Roman Catholics
judged Elizabeth a bastard since they refused to recognise her father’s 2_______ to
her mother. Unlike her father and brother, whose legitimacy was never questioned,
Elizabeth had to confront dynastic challenges at her 3_______ which continued
almost until her death.
Another difficulty for Elizabeth was that she inherited a realm ill at ease with itself.
The religious 4_______ under her sister, Mary, had divided communities and
traumatised English Protestants and their sympathisers. The economic recession,
dreadful harvests, and devastating epidemics of the mid-1550s created uncertainties
and shattered the lives of many ordinary people. The humiliating French capture of
Calais (England’s last continental possession) in January 1558 punctured confidence
in England’s military power and 5_______ prestige.
From these problems Elizabeth emerged triumphant. She confounded her Catholic
enemies, imposed her will on the political scene, turned England into a strong
Protestant state, presided over a glittering court culture, and died in her bed at the
age of 69.
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Use of English
Task 2. Find and correct the logical mistakes (‘wrong words’) in the sentences below.
Example: There's a clock on the church towel.
WRONG RIGHT
towel tower
Humble and Grumble

by Eldred Herbert

1 Humble and Grumble were identical wins,
And Humble was ever so meek;
2 Grumble did nothing but grumble all May,
Some may even call him a freak.
3 Humble was nappy and everyone’s friend,
Grumble was jealous of course;
4 Humble was happy to follow the cord,
But Grumble, an immoral source.
5 Humble was never seen wearing a crown,
And Grumble, ne’er seen with a smile;
6 Humble won friends by just being himself,
But, Grumble, he won them by guild.
7 So Grumble, please hollow Humble, your twin,
And Humble, don’t grumble, I pray,
8 Or grumble will make you like Grumble, your twin,
Please Grumble, be humble today.
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Task 3. Read the sentences and fill in

the gaps choosing an appropriate word agricultural expansive indentured
from the box. Choose the word once only. syncretic burgeoning finite
There are extra words you don’t have to profitable tenuous colonial
choose. futile staple widespread

Sentences
1 He served an _______ apprenticeship in mechanical engineering.

2 The company had to eliminate 200 jobs to stay _______.
3 The funds available for the health service are _______ and we cannot afford
to waste money.
4 Prices of _______ foods such as wheat and vegetables have also been
increasing.
5 Various parts of Africa have suffered under _______ rule.
6 There are reports of _______ flooding in northern France
7 The world's supply of _______ land is shrinking fast.
8 The company hoped to profit from the _______ communications industry.
9 The idea is to incorporate the towers into a new _______ centre of unified
Hindu, Buddhist and Tantric worship.
10 It's completely _______ trying to reason with him - he just won't listen.
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Use of English
Task 4. Put the names from the box. There are two words which you don’t need to use.
A Abbey Road E Columbia Road I Oxford Street

B Baker Street F Downing Street J Piccadilly
C Bond Street G Jermyn Street K The Mall
D Brick Lane H Kings Road L The Strand
1 This is perhaps one of the most iconic street names in the UK, especially amongst shoppers and fashion
enthusiasts. _______ is the centre of London’s retail scene and is home to a huge list of high-end brands and luxury
boutiques. From Gucci to Adidas, you can fill your bags with all kinds of treasures as you stroll down the street.

2 This particular street in Central London will be forever remembered thanks to the Beatles and their brilliant
album. Head over to _______ to take a selfie with the road sign or recreate the iconic road crossing photo.
3 _______ has gone through several changes over the years but has always remained a bustling place for diners
and shoppers. Historically, it was known for being the go-to place if you’re looking for authentic Indian or Bangladeshi
food. Recently, however, it has become a hotspot for hipsters as a number of alternative shops have moved on to the
street.
4 Often compared to Time Square in New York City, _______ is one of the most colourful streets in London.
It is also one of the busiest and gets a huge amount of foot traffic every day. As you walk around trying to dodge the
crowds, you’ll discover that this street is packed full of incredible photo opportunities. Don’t forget to bring your
camera and get some pictures of the huge TV screens.
5 Running from Admiralty Arch down to Buckingham Palace, it is where Britain’s royal family parades, as well
as a constant stream of black taxi cabs. Designed by Aston Webb and opened at the start of the 20th century, _______
is all about parades and power, royalty and regal flair.
6 The centre of British political power, _______ is a rather small street just off Whitehall, and you can no longer
walk up it because of a security fence. This is where the prime minister lives (at number 10), as does the chancellor
(next door at number 11). The little street was built in the 1680s and has housed the prime minister for more than
300 years. The famous black door of number 10 is familiar to all Britons from countless news broadcasts of important
political events, press conferences and visiting dignitaries arriving or departing.
7 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B _______ (the exact address
didn’t actually exist when the stories were written) and his influence has only grown in recent years, with a slew of
adaptations proving this deerstalker wearer is as important as ever to British culture. On this street you can visit the
Sherlock Holmes Museum, a Sherlock café and a hotel named after our hero. The street is also famous for Transport
for London’s lost property office where all of the tube’s lost umbrellas go.
8 _______ is one of the city’s grandest streets offering a slice of high-class London life. Its history stretches back
to Roman times, when it was a main road through the capital. Today it is home to the opulent Art Deco Savoy Hotel,
the posh eatery Simpson’s and the historic Twinings tea shop at 216, which has been serving teas for more than 300
years.
9 _______ became popular in the 18th century for its luxury shops such as Asprey, a jeweler which has a Royal
Warrant. You’ll also find some interesting art galleries - Halcyon Gallery, Galerie Bartoux and Opera Gallery are all
open to the public.
10 One of the best London shopping streets for men is _______. This luxurious road in St James is home to
prestigious gentlemen’s outfitters such as DAKS and Hackett. You’ll find many men’s shirtmakers here, including
Thomas Pink and Turnbull & Asser. There’s also a large La Martina polo clothing store and shoe makers John Lobb
and Foster & Son. At number 93, there is the oldest cheese shop in Britain, Paxton & Whitfield.
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Task 5. Solve puzzles and arrange letters in the right order.
The Romantic Period of English literature began in the late 18th century and lasted
until approximately 1832. In general, Romantic literature can be characterized by its personal
nature, its strong use of feeling, its abundant use of 1_______ (SYOLISMBM), and its exploration
of nature and the supernatural. In addition, the writings of the Romantics were considered
innovative based on their belief that literature should be spontaneous, imaginative, personal,
and free. The Romantic Period produced a wealth of authors including Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
William 2_______ (WDSWORTORH), Jane Austen, and Lord Byron.

It was during the Romantic Period that 3_______ (OTHGIC) literature was born. Traits of
this type of literature are dark and gloomy settings and characters and situations that are fantasic,
grotesque, wild, savage, mysterious, and often melodramatic. Two of the most famous novelists
of the era are Ann 4_______ (RFCADFLIE) and Mary 5_______ (LESEHLY).
The Victorian Period of English literature began with the accession of Queen Victoria to
the throne in 1837, and lasted until her death in 1901. Because the Victorian Period of English
literature spans over six decades, the year 1870 is often used to divide the era into "early Victorian"
and "late Victorian." In general, Victorian literature deals with the issues and problems of the
day. Some of the most recognized authors of the Victorian era include Alfred Lord Tennyson,
Elizabeth Barrett 6_______ (WNIBRONG), her husband Robert, Matthew Arnold, Charles
Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas 7_______ (DYARH).
Within the Victorian Period, two other literary movements, that of The Pre-Raphaelites (1848-
1860) and the movement of Aestheticism and 8_______ (ANCDEDECE) (1880-1900), gained
prominence.
The Edwardian Period is named for King Edward VII and spans the time from Queen
Victoria's death (1901) to the beginning of World War I (1914). During this time, the British
Empire was at its height and the wealthy lived lives of materialistic luxury. However, four fifths
of the English population lived in squalor. The 9_______ (RGWINSTI) of the Edwardian Period
reflect and comment on these social conditions. For example, writers such as George Bernard
Shaw and H.G. 10_______ (ESLLW) attacked social injustice and the selfishness of the upper
classes. Other writers of the time include William Butler Yeats, Joseph 11_______ (RDCOAN),
Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, and E.M. 12_______ (FRERSTO).
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Writing
You have decided to enter an international short story competition. The competition
rules say that the story must begin with the words:
Now and then I think of when we were…
Write your story.

Remember to:
sadness, cut off, stranger, include a title;

collect, stooped use an appropriate style;
include 1-2 idioms;
include 2 cases of direct speech;
describe feelings and emotions;
describe at least two characters;
make an emotional ending.

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Speaking

(10 minutes)

Your school is planning to organise a Main characters
library exhibition for foreign guests. Plot
Your classmates need to choose several Major themes
items to present to international Adaptations
students. Make a speech about
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin You can make notes during the
to persuade your audience to read this preparation time, but you are not allowed
book. to read them during the presentation.
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KEYS
1 A Task 1 Task 4
2 B 1 unchallenged 1 I
3 B 2 marriage 2 A
4 A 3 accession 3 D
5 B 4 persecution 4 J
6 A 5 national, international 5 K
7 A 6 F
8 B 7 B

9 A 8 L
10 B 9 C
Task 2 10 G
WRONG RIGHT
1 wins twins
2 May day
Reading 3 nappy happy Task 5
4 cord Lord 1 symbolism
1 write/create /compose 5 crown frown 2 Wordsworth
2 permission/consent/ 6 guild guile 3 Gothic
agreement 7 hollow follow 4 Radcliffe
3 rest/majority/most 8 Or For 5 Shelley
4 D 6 Browning
5 C 7 Hardy
6 C Task 3 8 Decadence
7 A 1 indentured 9 writings
8 D 2 profitable 10 Wells
9 A/C 3 finite 11 Conrad
10 C/A 4 staple 12 Forster
11 D 5 colonial
12 A 6 widespread, expansive
13 B 7 agricultural
14 C 8 burgeoning
15 E 9 syncretic
10 futile
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Script
All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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TEST 5 Integrated
Listening & Reading
Read the text, and then listen to the recording on the same topic.
Elizabeth I's Tilbury speech

in full
My loving people,
We have been persuaded
by some that are careful of
our safety to take heed how
we commit ourselves to

armed multitudes, for fear of
treachery. But I assure you, I
do not desire to live to distrust
my faithful and loving people.
Let tyrants fear. I have always
so behaved myself that, under
God, I have placed my chiefest
strength and safeguard in the
loyal hearts and good-will of
my subjects; and therefore I
am come amongst you, as you see, at this
time, not for my recreation and disport, but judge, and rewarder of every one of your
being resolved, in the midst and heat of the virtues in the field.
battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay I know already, for your forwardness you
down for my God, and for my kingdom, and have deserved rewards and crowns; and
my people, my honour and my blood, even We do assure you on a word of a prince,
in the dust. they shall be duly paid. In the mean time,
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble my lieutenant general shall be in my stead,
woman; but I have the heart and stomach than whom never prince commanded a
of a king, and of a king of England too, and more noble or worthy subject; not doubting
think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any but by your obedience to my general, by
prince of Europe, should dare to invade the your concord in the camp, and your valour
borders of my realm: to which rather than in the field, we shall shortly have a famous
any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will victory over these enemies of my God, of my
take up arms, I myself will be your general, kingdom, and of my people.
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Integrated
Listening & Reading
Answer questions 1-15 by choosing A if the idea is expressed in both materials, B if it can be found
only in the reading text, C if it can be found only in the audio-recording, and D if neither of the
materials expresses the idea.
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1 She believes that her people love her.

2 She encourages patriotism in order to persuade the people to unite.

3 She urges people not to sunbathe.
4 She thanks people for not going out.
5 She demonstrates religious tolerance.
6 She expresses her readiness to take action against the enemies.
7 She thanks health workers.
8 She is ready to sacrifice herself for her country.
9 She shares a personal memory of her childhood experience.
10 She has health problems.
11 She urges to stay determined to overcome difficulties.
12 She praises those coming together to help the elderly.
13 She pays tribute to her military service leader.
14 She acknowledges the monetary insecurity.
15 She stresses the need to be evacuated.
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Reading
Read the text and decide whether the following statements are True (A), False (B) or Not stated (C).

List of statements
1 His leadership in war conflicts earned Jackson national fame as a military hero.
2 He felt hostility toward Great Britain.
3 Jackson married Rachel in his thirties.
4 After narrowly losing to John Quincy Adams in the contentious 1824
presidential election, Jackson returned four years later to win redemption, becoming
the nation’s seventeenth president.
5 He became the first man to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from
Tennessee.
6 Jackson served as a general in the War of 1812.
7 He commanded U.S. forces in a campaign against the Native Americans.
8 Jackson invited his niece to serve as a hostess at the White House.
9 During the Creek War he was captured by the British.
10 President John Quincy Adams saved Jackson from censure and hastened the U.S.
acquisition of Florida.
11 In the election of 1824 three candidates received electoral votes.
12 In the election of 1828 Jackson defeated Adams.
13 Jackson was the first president from the area west of the Appalachians.
14 Jackson was born in poverty.
15 His parents emigrated from Northern Ireland.
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The career of Andrew Jackson pirates—successfully defended the city had had been forced to act. Adams used
exemplified both the opportunities and and inflicted more than two thousand Jackson’s military successes in this First
the dangers of political life in the early casualties against the British, sustaining Seminole War to persuade Spain to accept
republic. A lawyer, slaveholder, and barely three hundred casualties of their the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, which
general—and eventually the seventh own. The Battle of New Orleans was a gave Florida to the United States.
president of the United States—he thrilling victory for the United States, but Any friendliness between John Quincy
rose from humble frontier beginnings it actually happened several days after a Adams and Andrew Jackson, however, did
to become one of the most powerful peace treaty was signed in Europe to end not survive long. In 1824, four nominees
Americans of the nineteenth century. the war. News of the treaty had not yet competed for the presidency in one of the
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, reached New Orleans. closest elections in American history. Each
1767, on the border between North and The end of the War of 1812 did not came from a different part of the country—
South Carolina, to two immigrants from end Jackson’s military career. In 1818, Adams from Massachusetts, Jackson from
the northern part of Ireland. He grew up as commander of the U.S. southern Tennessee, William H. Crawford from
during dangerous times. At age thirteen, Georgia, and Henry Clay from Kentucky.
he joined an American militia unit in the

Jackson won more popular votes than
Revolutionary War. He was soon captured, anyone else. But with no majority winner
and a British officer slashed at his head in the Electoral College, the election was
with a sword after he refused to shine the thrown into the House of Representatives.
officer’s shoes. Disease during the war had There, Adams used his political clout to
claimed the lives of his two brothers and claim the presidency, persuading Clay to
his mother, leaving him a poor orphan. support him. Jackson would never forgive
Their deaths and his wounds had left Adams, whom his supporters accused of
Jackson with a deep and abiding hatred of engineering a “corrupt bargain” with Clay
Great Britain. to circumvent the popular will.
After the war, Jackson moved west to Four years later, in 1828, Adams and
frontier Tennessee, where despite his Jackson squared off in one of the dirtiest
poor education, he prospered, working presidential elections to date. Pro-Jackson
as a lawyer and acquiring land and slaves. partisans accused Adams of elitism.
In 1796, Jackson was elected as a U.S. Adams’s supporters, on the other hand,
representative, and a year later he won a accused Jackson of murder and attacked
seat in the Senate, although he resigned the morality of his marriage, pointing
within a year, citing financial difficulties. out that Jackson had unwittingly married
Thanks to his political connections, his wife Rachel before the divorce on her
Jackson obtained a general’s commission military district, Jackson also launched prior marriage was complete. This time,
at the outbreak of the War of 1812. Despite an invasion of Spanish-owned Florida. Andrew Jackson won the election easily,
having no combat experience, General He was acting on vague orders from the but Rachel Jackson died suddenly before
Jackson quickly impressed his troops, War Department to break the resistance his inauguration. Jackson would never
who nicknamed him “Old Hickory” after of the region’s Seminole Indians, who forgive the people who attacked his wife’s
a particularly tough kind of tree. protected runaway slaves and attacked character during the campaign.
Jackson led his militiamen into battle American settlers across the border. On In 1828, Jackson’s broad appeal as a
in the Southeast, first during the Creek Jackson’s orders in 1816, U.S. soldiers and military hero won him the presidency.
War, a side conflict that started between their Creek allies had already destroyed He was “Old Hickory,” the “Hero of
different factions of Muskogee (Creek) the “Negro Fort,” a British-built fortress New Orleans,” a leader of plain frontier
Indians in present-day Alabama. In on Spanish soil. His actions created an folk. His wartime accomplishments
that war, he won a decisive victory over international diplomatic crisis. appealed to many voters’ pride. Over
hostile fighters at the Battle of Horseshoe Most officials in President James the next eight years, he would claim to
Bend in 1814. A year later, he also Monroe’s administration called for represent the interests of ordinary white
defeated a large British invasion force Jackson’s censure. But Secretary of Americans, especially from the South and
at the Battle of New Orleans. There, State John Quincy Adams, the son of West, against the country’s wealthy and
Jackson’s troops—including backwoods former president John Adams, found powerful elite. This attitude would lead
militiamen, free African Americans, Jackson’s behavior useful. He defended him and his allies into a series of bitter
Indians, and a company of slave-trading the impulsive general, arguing that he political struggles.
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Use of English
Task 1. Write one word in each gap.

Grappling with the Canadian past is fraught with challenges and alive with
exciting questions crying out to 1_______ addressed. But what constitutes
the “Canadian” past? Clearly, the geographic space we call Canada 2_______
a relatively recent invention. Confederation, beginning in 1867, spread the
brand beyond the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes to include other British
colonies on the east and west coasts and some of the land 3_______ between.
As a political idea — a country made 4_______ of provinces and territories with
a constitution, flag, anthem, etc. — it continues to evolve. But in 1867 it was
just 5_______ of many colonies in the British Empire. A century and 10 years
earlier it was part of a French empire that claimed influence 6_______ a much
larger territory than the Canada of today. Still another century earlier, “Canada”
referred to a struggling chain of frightened and fortified settlements along the
St. Lawrence.
Let’s push it back yet another century and more. Around 1567 the northern
half 7_______ North America was a well-populated landscape made up of a
multitude of diverse cultures. Their economies and relationships 8_______
continually changing while retaining core features from one generation to the
next. The “Canada” of 1497 — one small patch of which may have 9_______
briefly visited by John Cabot and his crew — was a vastly more populous and rich
human environment than would re-emerge here until 10_______ 19th century.
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Task 2. Put one word in each gap in correct grammatical form. (John Keats)

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the 1 N _ _ _ _
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's 2 P _ _ _ _ _ _, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen 3 M _ _ _
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet 4 U _ _ _ _ _,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to 5 D _ _ _ _.
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Task 3. Put the words from the box. Some of the words may be
chosen more than once while some of them may not be used.
beans cheese egg milk

cabbage cookie fish potato

carrot cucumber meat tomato

Sentences
1 She walked in as cool as a _____, as if nothing had happened.

2 He dropped the topic like a hot _____.
3 A lot of people had their hands in the _____ jar at the company.
4 You seem full of _____ this morning; you must have had a good night's
rest.
5 She's full of the _____ of human kindness.
6 If you slept through your alarm, hard _____!
7 Sometimes I just have to resort to the _____ and stick approach with my
children.
8 With the police disorganized after the collapse, many criminals started to
_____ in troubled waters.
9 This latest scandal has left the government with _____ on its face.
10 Too much information will overwhelm the new manager, so just give
him the _____ and potatoes.
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Task 4. Put the titles from the box. There are two words which you don’t need to use.
A A Room with a View E Jane Eyre I Silas Marner

B Clarissa F Jude The Obscure J The Man of Property
C David Copperfield G Mrs Dalloway K The Study in Scarlet
D Heart of Darkness H Nineteen Eighty-four L Villette
1 _______, novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story Youth and thereafter
published separately. The story, written at the height of the British empire, reflects the physical and

psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo.
2 _______ is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa in post-World War I
England.
3 _______ is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, a classic tale of a young man’s adventures on his
journey from an unhappy childhood to his success as a novelist.
4 _______ is a novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949 as a warning against
totalitarianism. One can discover the world in a state of perpetual war, and Big Brother who sees and
controls all.
5 Charlotte Brontë's greatest and most original novel was her last, _______. This masterpiece
powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.
6 _______ by E.M. Forster was published in 1908 and is a story about a young woman coming of
age in the Edwardian era, which was the period when King Edward VII ruled England (from 1901-1910).
During this time in England, the social rules were very strict, and, although there were changes coming,
many people felt this time period was restrictive, especially for women.
7 In _______, Galsworthy attacks the Forsytes through the character of Soames Forsyte, a solicitor
who considers his wife Irene as a thing.
8 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes, one of the
most famous and enduring fictional characters of all the time. The famous detective first appeared in the
novel _______; although rejected three times by publishers, the novel became a Christmas giveaway for a
magazine.
9 Known by the name of George Eliot, the English novelist Mary Ann Evans used a male pen name
in a not easy time for female writers. Born in 1819, George Eliot wrote some of the most famous works of
English literature, including _______.
10 One of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history, Thomas Hardy wrote
poetry and novels, though the first part of his career was devoted mostly to novels. Published as a magazine
serial in 1895, _______ is Hardy’s most pessimistic novel which roused condemnation by critics.
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Task 5. Put the names from the box. There are two words which you don’t need to use.
A Alfred the Great E George II I Julius Caesar

B Canute F Guy Fawkes J Offa
C Charles I G Henry VIII K Oliver Cromwell
D Charles II H James I L William the Conqueror
The area around Downing Street was home to ancient Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norman settlements,
and was already a prestigious centre of government 1,000 years ago.

The Romans first came to Britain under the command of 1_______ in 55 BC. Making their capital at
Londinium downriver, the Romans chose Thorney Island – a marshy piece of land lying between two
branches of the river Tyburn that flowed from Hampstead Heath to the Thames – as the site for their early
settlement.
These Roman settlements, and those of the Anglo-Saxons and Normans who supplanted them, were not
very successful. The area was prone to plague and its inhabitants were very poor. A charter granted by the
Mercian King 2_______ in the year 785 refers to “the terrible place called Thorney Island”. It took royal
patronage to give the area prestige. King 3_______ (reigned 1017 to 1035) built a palace in the area, and
Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042 to 1066) and 4_______ (reigned 1066 to 1087) maintained a royal
presence there. The position of Westminster (as the area became known) as the centre of government and
the church was solidified following the construction of the great abbey nearby, on Edward's orders.
The earliest building known to have stood on the site of Downing Street was the Axe brewery owned by
the Abbey of Abingdon in the Middle Ages. By the early 1500s, it had fallen into disuse.
5 _______ (reigned 1509 to 1547) developed Westminster's importance further by building an extravagant
royal residence there. Whitehall Palace was created when he confiscated York House from Cardinal Wolsey
in 1530 and extended the complex. Today's Downing Street is located on the edge of the Palace site.
The first domestic house known to have been built on the site of Number 10 was a large building leased
to Sir Thomas Knyvet in 1581 by Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 to 1603). He was an MP for Thetford
as well as a justice of the peace for Westminster. His claim to fame was the arrest of 6_______ for his role
in the gunpowder plot of 1605. He was knighted in 1604 by, King 7 _______ (reigned 1603 to 1625) and
the house was extended.
After the death of Sir Knyvet and his wife, the house passed to their niece, Elizabeth Hampden, who
continued to live there for the next 40 years. The middle of the 17th century was a period of political
upheaval and Mrs Hampden's family was right in the middle of it. Her son, John Hampden, was one of
the MPs who opposed King Charles I, and 8_______, the Lord Protector, was Mrs Hampden's nephew.
Hampden House, as it was then known, gave Mrs Hampden a prime view of the tumultuous events
during the Civil War and the Commonwealth and the early years of the Restoration.
The execution of 9_______ in 1649 took place on a scaffold in front of Banqueting House in Whitehall,
within earshot of the house. Mrs Hampden was still living there when King 10_______ (reigned in
Scotland from 1649 to 1685) was restored to the English throne in 1660.
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Writing
You are a student at an international school in Russia. Your tutor has asked you
to write an article for the school website on ways students can improve their
communicating skills in English. In your article, you should suggest ways in which
students can make contact with English-language speakers all around the world.
Write your article.

Remember to:
include a title and subtitles;
global, expand, taught,
proficiency, conference use an appropriate style;
organise the information logically and
clearly;
include 1-2 quotations from the list below;
give recommendations to the readers.
“But if thought corrupts language, language can
also corrupt thought.”
George Orwell
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself:

for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
James Joyce
Underline the required words when
“When I cannot see words curling like rings
used in your text and put them in the
of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am
nothing.” correct grammar form if necessary.
Virginia Woolf Write 200-250 words.
“If you talk to a man in a language he

understands, that goes to his head. If you talk
to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
Nelson Mandela
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Speaking

(10 minutes)

You are a tourist guide giving an Location
excursion to a group of international Architecture
students speaking about Red Square in Engineering solution
Moscow. Interesting facts
Make your excursion. Remember to You can make notes during the
include an introduction and conclusion. preparation time, but you are not allowed
to read them during the presentation.
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KEYS
1 B Task 1 Task 4
2 A 1 be 1 D
3 D 2 is 2 G
4 C 3 in 3 C
5 C 4 up 4 H
6 B 5 one/part 5 L
7 C 6 over 6 A
8 B 7 of 7 J

9 C 8 were 8 K
10 D 9 been 9 I
11 A 10 the 10 F
12 D
13 B
14 C
15 D Task 2
1 night Task 5
Reading 2 patient 1 I
3 mask 2 J
1 A 4 unrest 3 B
2 A 5 death 4 L
3 C 5 G
4 B 6 F
5 C 7 H
6 A Task 3 8 K
7 A 1 cucumber 9 C
8 C 2 potato 10 D
9 B 3 cookie
10 B 4 beans
11 B 5 milk
12 A 6 cheese
13 C 7 carrot
14 C 8 fish
15 B 9 egg
10 meat
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Script
The Queen's broadcast to the UK and Commonwealth
I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of
our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes
to the daily lives of us all. I want to thank everyone on the NHS frontline, as well as care workers and those
carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us
all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your
hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.
I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and
sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. Together we are tackling this

disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it. I hope in
the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. And those who
come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise
this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future. The
moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be
remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.
Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming
together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or
converting businesses to help the relief effort. And though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people
of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in
prayer or meditation. It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister.
We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent
away for their own safety. Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones.
But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do. While we have faced challenges before,
this one is different.
This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science
and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us.
We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with
our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again. But for now, I send my thanks and
warmest good wishes to you all.
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1 On a cold December evening 6 Rosa Parks refused to give

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Read the text.

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Some words are missing in the text. These 11

A Gordon Brown was born in negotiation to cancel the debts of

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1 I didn't know that cars were so expensive in England.

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2 John doesn’t have a serious enough attitude to his responsibilities.

3 The two problems are completely different.

4 I was amazed because there were no problems throughout the journey.

5 There’s no point arguing about this question.

Task 2. Put the words from the

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1 Pardon my _______, but that’s a damned shame!

Task 3. Put the words from the

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1 The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller by Patricia Highsmith.

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Task 5. Match the two columns.

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An English-language newspaper has invited readers to send in reviews of novels

Write your review.

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Underline the required words when used in your text and

Preparation (15 minutes)

Presentation and questions

Monologue (2-3 minutes) Speak about:

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Listening Use of English Task 4

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You will hear part of a lecture.

download audio https://yadi.sk/d/fPc1Ksol5T1Ktw

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6 She skipped school because she couldn't

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Complete the sentences below. Write one

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

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1 He’ll go to _______ lengths to get what he wants.

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4 He’s as good in comedies as he is in _______ roles.

5 The car needs some spit and _______.

Task 2. Read the sentences and

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1 The new director is likely to make major changes in _______.

6 The machine works according to the _______ of electromagnetic

Task 3. Match the two columns.

A one slavishly devoted to

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Task 4. Complete the crossword.

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Task 5. Match the two columns.

B elected at the depth of the Great Depression

C served as the 44th President of the United

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