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BRITISH THEATRE

The theatre has always been very strong in Britain. Its centre is, of course, London, where successful plays can ___ without a break for many years.

1) show
2) perform
3) run
4) produce

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BRITISH THEATRE

The theatre has always been very strong in Britain. Its centre is, of course, London, where successful plays can RUN without a break for many years.

БРИТАНСКИЙ ТЕАТР

Театр в Британии всегда был очень силен. Его центром, конечно же, является Лондон, где успешные спектакли могут идти без перерыва в течение многих лет.

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1) BRITISH THEATRE

The theatre has
always been very strong in Britain. Its centre is, of course, London, where
successful plays can   1  
____ without
a break for many years. London has several dozens of theatres, most of them
not   2   ____ from Trafalgar
Square.   3   _____ London
even some quite big towns have no public theatre at all, but every town has its
private theatres. British theatre is much admired. There you can   4   ____ the
best of everything – an excellent orchestra, famous conductors, celebrated
actors and a well-dressed   5  
____. 
Choose a good play, and you’ll enjoy yourself throughout from the moment the
curtain   6   ____to the end of the last
act. Get your seats beforehand, either at the box-office or at the theatre
itself. You’ll probably want to sit as near to the   7   ____ as
possible. 

1. А) show Б) perform В) run Г) produce

2. А) far Б) remote В) distant Г) close

3. А) Inside Б) Outside В) In Г) Out

4. А) take Б) give В) hold  
Г) get

5. А) audience Б) auditorium В) authority Г) publicity

6. А) puts up Б) sets up В) makes up Г) goes up

7. А) scene Б) stage В) scenery Г) performance

2) ‘It’s Only Me’

After her husband
had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went
upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any 
1 ______ that
morning, because in the evening she would be going to a fancy dress party with
her husband. She intended to dress up as a ghost and she had 2 ______ her
costume the night before. Now she was 3 ______ to try it on. Though the costume
consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. MrsRichards put it 4 ______, looked
in the mirror, smiled and went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it
would be 5 ______ to
wear.

Just
as Mrs Richards was entering the dining-room, there was a  6 ______ on
the front door. She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to come
straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the
kitchen table. Not wanting to 7 ______ the poor man, Mrs Richards
quickly hid in the small store-room under the stairs. She heard the front door
open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the store-room was
opened and a man entered. Mrs Richards realized that it must be the
man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the meter. She tried
to 8 ______ the
situation, saying ‘It’s only me’, but it was too late. The man let out a cry
and jumped back several paces. When MrsRichards walked towards him, he ran
away, slamming the door behind him.

1. А)
homework; Б) household; В) housework; Г) housewife

2. А) did; Б)
made; В) built; Г) created

3. А)
nervous; Б) restless; В) ill at ease; Г) impatient

4. А) up; Б)
on; В) over; Г) down

5. А)
attractive; Б) exciting; В) comfortable; Г) cozy

6. А) knock;
Б) kick; В) hit; Г) crash

7. А) fear;
Б) worry; В) disturb; Г) frighten

8. А)
describe; Б) explain; В) interpret; Г) clear

3) Light from the
Past

When you stand and
look at the stars, you are really looking at past history. The light from Alkaid,
the end star in the handle of the Big Dipper, has taken about 210 years
to 1 ______
your eyes. If Alkaid stopped 
2 ______
today, people on earth would still see it 3 ______ about 210 years. Some of the stars you see
here tonight may have stopped existing several thousand years ago. The light
from some 4 ______
stars right now will not be seen on earth until thousands, or even millions, of
years from now!

It’s 5 ______
breathtaking, and it 6 ______ to the great mystery about the nature of
light. Think about water waves. They get smaller and smaller in amplitude as
they travel. Their energy is lost in friction among the water molecules. Think
of sound waves in air. They too get weaker and weaker because of friction among
the air molecules.

But light waves
stop only if they strike something, and their energy is transferred 7 ______ another
form.8 ______,
they can go on and on, at the same terrific speed, with no loss of energy,
forever!

1. A)
approach; Б) reach; В) hit; Г) achieve

2. A) burning;
Б) flashing; В) blushing; Г) shining

3. A) after;
Б) through; В) for; Г) at

4. A)
farewell; Б) faraway; В) far; Г) fair

5. A) quit;
Б) quick; В) quiet; Г) quite

4) The First Day at School

4) Do you remember
your first day at school?

 It was
probably 1 ____
confusing. Now, to 2 ____ this confusion, many primary schools in England have a
special teacher who welcomes new pupils. She is 3____ a reception class teacher. The children are 4 ____ with the
idea of school and if they have been good, they can’t understand why they have
to go to school. They imagine that school is optional. When the child goes
to school on his first day and watches his mother leaving he thinks that she is
deserting him. The teacher must 5 ____ him that at the end of the day his mother will
be back and take him home. The children are not the only people that are
disturbed by going to school. The teacher sometimes has as much difficulty
in 6 ____
with the mothers. They hang around and dislike leaving the child without their
protection.

The best way
to 7 ____
with the situation is to get the child used to the idea of school. Before the
beginning of term, the mother should take her child to see the teacher and to
look 8 ____
the school. The first day should be something to emphasize the
regularity of school.

1. А) enough; Б)
rarely; В) rather; Г) equally

2. A) escape;
Б) defeat; В) beat; Г) avoid

3. A) named;
Б) called; В) said; Г) told

4. A) afraid;
Б) threatened; В) endangered; Г) risked

5. A)
convince; Б) prove; В) explain; Г) announce

6. A)
managing; Б) guiding; В) coping; Г) handling

7. A) face;
Б) deal; В) touch; Г) consider

8. A)
through; Б) about; В) after; Г) round

Your Future World

5) What will you be doing in 2025? 

Will you be living
in an undersea research station? Will you be the chief engineer 1 ______ a
bridge across the Atlantic Ocean? Will you be leading an 2 ______ to
the planet Mars? Will you be …?

You can daydream,
of course, but nobody knows exactly what the world will be 3 ______. But scientists
have made some guesses.

Based on the
advances made, they believe people will be healthier. Diphtheria, malaria,
tuberculosis, polio and many other killers are under control now. These
diseases are on the way out, 4 ______ to germ-killing chemicals, new ways of
finding out about our bodies, and new ways of providing clean, safe 5______ and
water.

Healthier people
live longer, so we can expect the world’s population to 6 ______ sharply.
It may double in the next forty years! This brings up a serious problem: how
will we find food, water, and minerals for such a huge population?

Scientists are at
work on some 7 ______.
From the ocean they hope to get new fertilizers to increase the yield of the
soil; new chemicals to kill crop-destroying insects without 8 ______ other
animals, new sources of water or supplies of food.

1. A) inventing; Б)
designing; В) scheming; Г) doing

2. A) exploration; Б) expenditure; В) expedition; Г) exhibit

3. A) like;
Б) alike; В) likely; Г) likable

4. A) as a
result; Б) because; В) on account; Г) thanks

5. A) eat; Б)
feed; В) food; Г) cooking

6. A)
decrease; Б) distract; В) dissolve; Г) increase

7. A)
solutions; Б) alternatives; В) preferences; Г) questions

8. A)
hurting; Б) harming; В) injuring; Г) wounding

6) Alaska

The first
Europeans to visit what is now called Alaska were Russian sailors led
by Captain Bering. The 1 ______ was funded by Russian czar Peter the Great.
In 1728 Bering and his crew 2 ______ through the strait that is now named after him, between
the easternmost part of Asia and the westernmost part of the Americas. Their
journey 3 ______
that Asia was not connected to North America; however, due to the heavy fog,
they never actually saw the nearby land of North America. In 1741 Bering headed
further south, landing on tiny Kayak Island off the 4 ______ of what
is now the southeastern part of the state.

In the 1780s and
1790s Russians began small colonies, first on Kodiak Island and later
on the mainland. In 1799 the Russian-American Company was
established to 5 ______ Russian interests. For the next 68 years the company
provided the only form of government for the European colonists, 6 ______ never
numbered more than a few hundred. The Russians ruled the 7 ______ until
the late 1860s, when they sold it to the United States for $7.2
million dollars.

The 8 ______ of gold
in 1896 in the Yukon Territory started a huge gold rush that brought
thousands of settlers.

1. A) travel;
Б) trip; В) journey; Г) expedition

2. A)
paddled; Б) sailed; В) travelled; Г) rowed

3. A) proved;
Б) convinced; В) persuaded; Г) appeared

4. A) bank;
Б) beach; В) shore; Г) sea-side

5. A) look
after; Б) look at; В) look for; Г) look away

6. A) which;
Б) whose; В) what; Г) who

7. A)
country; Б) area; В) ground; Г) earth

8. A)
discovery; Б) detection; В) exploration; Г) innovation

7) Ordinary

“Ordinary” was the
worst word she could find for anything. She and I would
argue fiercely because I wanted to be ordinary as desperately as my mother
wanted to be 1 ______ .

“I can’t 2 ______ that
hair-do”, she said when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and came back
with a pageboy haircut straight out of Seventeenmagazine, “It’s so terribly
ordinary”. Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary.

Her 3 ______ of
ordinariness came out most strongly in her clothes.

“Couldn’t
you please 4 ______ something
else?” I asked her when she was dressing for Parents’ Day in tight-fitting
pants and a bright pink sweater, with a Mexican cape.

“What’s
wrong with my outfit?”

What
wasn’t wrong with it!

“It’s
just that I wish it would be something more plain,” I said sheepishly,
“something that people won’t 5 ______ at.”

She
looked at me angrily and drew herself 6 ______ to
her full height of five feet ten inches.

“Are
you 7 ______ of your
own mother? Because if you are, Isadora, I feel 8 ______ for
you. I really do.”

1. A) uncommon; Б) unusual; В) odd; Г) peculiar

2. A) stand; Б) approve; В) agree; Г) vote

3. A) worry; Б) trouble; В) panic; Г) fear

4. A) dress;
Б) put; В) wear; Г) clothe

5. A) watch; Б) stare; В) glance; Г) peep

6. A) up; Б) on; В) over; Г) at

7. A) sorry; Б) shamed; В) ashamed; Г) angry

8. A)
regretful; Б) sorry; В) guilty; Г) unhappy

Searching for a New Programme

A healthy
lifestyle can vastly improve your well-being. This is a lifestyle designed for
those who wish to feel more certain about their health and more in control of
what the present and future will bring them in that
important 1 ______ of existence. None of us wants to be sick. None of
us enjoys the idea that we may become a medical statistic. This is a simple,
easy-to-follow health-style that can enable you to get cards very much in
your 2 ______. The doctors were fortunate enough to come
into 3 ______ with a field of study that brought them to healing and
well-being that they so desperately needed. They personally
have 4 ______ thousands of people improve their health using only a
small part of information. Many more people begin to improve their health now.
Embracing the most current information from many health-related fields, the
programme of healthy lifestyle gives you an understanding of the impact of
exercise, breathing, sunshine, sleep and much more on your health. In order for
this programme to work for you, you have to be willing to apply at least some
part of it. Some change will be 5 ______. And as you make those first
modest changes, you will get positive results that encourage you to do more.
Changing is fun. And if you realize that your new healthy
lifestyle 6 ______ the making of new habits, not
the 7 ______ of old ones, you will feel very positive about what the
future holds for you.

1. А) sector Б) region В) area Г) territory

2. А) benefit
Б) advantage В) privilege Г) favour

3. А) touch Б) contact В) view Г) connection

4. А) confessed
Б) witnessed В) determined Г) recognized

5. А) ordered
Б) commanded В) forced Г) required

6. А)
contains Б) consists В) involves Г) encloses

7. А) breaking Б) damaging В) ruining Г) destroying

9)
To the North of London

The Aldenham Country Park is
a large and pleasant area easily reached if you are travelling north out
of London. It is worth visiting if you want a quick breath of fresh air
and a reasonably attractive place for a brief picnic. The most important point
of the park is Aldenham Reservoir. It was built in 1796 to 1 ______
the water level in the river 2 ______ by the newly
constructed Grand Union Canal, and more recently has been used
as a reserve public water supply. Not far from there lies the busy town
of Watford which can be recommended for a brief visit. And in
any 3 ______ much more interesting stretches of the canal are met
further north. And if you make your way through the town you can visit
the Watford Museum in the High Street which has materials on printing
and paper-making on 4 ______. The picture gallery has changing
exhibitions of works by artists who lived or painted in the area. Another
attraction of the neighbourhood is a fascinating complex of Roman buildings,
the 5 ______ of a great city, once the third largest centre of Roman
Britain. The private houses were impressive, many of them furnished with mosaic
floors. The beauty of the mosaics can hardly be described on paper, and it is
best 6 ______ by standing and looking for a while. The other principal
Roman site to be visited is a long stretch of the city wall
which 7 ______ back to the 3^rd century.

1. А) remain
Б) support В) hold Г) maintain

2. А)
confused Б) affected В) bothered Г) disturbed

3. А)
condition Б) situation В) circumstance Г) case

4. А)
presentation Б) display В) demonstration Г) exhibition

5. А) remains
Б) wastes В) wreckage Г) reminders

6. А) praised
Б) approved В) appreciated Г) regarded

7. А) dates
Б) returns В) follows Г) comes

10) Sharing music
with friends

Brenda is a
nineteen-year old full-time college student, and she earns money working part
time as a waitress. Brenda loves to listen to music like most young people, but
she can’t 1 _____ the high CD prices that record
companies 2 _____ for popular CDs. Brenda says that the prices of CDs
are ridiculously high at $17 to $20 each and there are only two or three good
songs on each CD.

She 3 _____
an apartment with three other roommates. She pays her own 4 _____ and
she also pays most of her 5 _____. Her solution to expensive CDs is
to download or copy music from the Internet. Brenda and millions of other
people are called “downloaders” because they download free file-sharing
software and music. When Brenda later gives, shares, or trades her music files free
over the Internet, she is also an uploader. She considers herself an active
music uploader, but the music industry considers her a 6 _____. From
2001 on, the Recording Industry Association of America has sued and fined
dozens of file-sharing services, for uploading music files, and hundreds of
people, for 7 _____ the law by downloading music.

1. А) provide Б)
supply В) afford Г) allow

2. А) offer
Б) charge В) suggest Г) propose

3. А) leases
Б) lends В) hires Г) rents

4. А) lessons
Б) classes В) tuition Г) education

5. А) costs
Б) fees В) expenses Г) payments

6. А) thief
Б) cheater В) burglar Г) bandit

7. А)
undermining Б) disobeying В) breaking Г) ruining

12) A CHINESE VASE

When I was a child
I loved visiting my grandmother. I thought her house was as beautiful as a
palace. As I grew older the house and garden seemed smaller, but I still loved
visiting the old lady. There were so many lovely things to look   1   _____ in
the house.

I loved her
paintings and the old clock, but   2  
_____ all
I loved a big Chinese vase which stood in the hall. It was   3   _____ than
me, and I couldn’t see   4  
_____ it.
I walked round and round it looking at the beautiful ladies and the birds and
flowers and trees, and Grandmother often   5   _____ me
stories about these ladies. She said that her grandfather had brought the vase
with him when he returned from a long   6   _____ to
China.

We live in a
modern house, and I’m afraid my husband and I often nag at the children. “Don’t
make the new carpet dirty, Paul!” “Be careful with the new table, Philip!”

Before she died,
Grandmother gave me the vase I loved so much. It   7   _____ beautiful
in our modern hall.

One day I came
home from the shop. The boys met me at the door. “I’m as strong as George Bes,
Mummy,” said Paul. “I got a goal and I broke the vase.” Philip tried to be more
diplomatic than Paul, “It doesn’t really matter, does it? You told us it wasn’t
new. You aren’t cross, are you?”

1. А) out Б) at В) into Г) about

2. А) mostly Б) great of В) greatly Г) most of

3. А) higher Б) larger В) taller Г) greater

4. А) about Б) around В) inside Г) outside

5. А) said Б) spoke В) talked Г) told

6. А) voyage Б) tour В) hike Г) excursion

7. А) looked Б) viewed В) appeared Г) seemed

13) A QUIET HOUSE

It was April and
John Moore was studying for an important examination. As the date of the
exam 1 _______ nearer, he decided to go somewhere and read by
himself.

He did not want
the amusements of the seaside, or the beauties of the countryside. He decided
to find a quiet, little town and work there undisturbed.
He2 ______ his suitcase with clothes and books. Then he looked in a
railway timetable for a town that he did not know. He found one, and bought a
ticket to go there. He did not tell anyone where he was going. After all, he
did not want to be 3 ______.

That is how Moore
arrived at Benchurch. It was a market town, and once a week it was quite busy
for a few hours. The rest of the time it was a very quiet and sleepy place.
Moore spent his first night at the only hotel in the town. The landlady was
very kind and helpful, but the hotel was not really quiet enough for him. The
second day he started 4 ______ for a house to rent.

There was only one
place that he liked. It was more than quiet – it was deserted and very lonely.
It was a big, old seventeenth-century house. It had barred windows like a
prison, and a high brick wall all around it. It would be hard
to 5 ______ a more unwelcoming place. But it suited Moore
perfectly. He went to find the local lawyer, who was responsible for the house.

Mr. Carnford, the
lawyer, was very happy to rent the house to him. “I’d be glad to let you have
it free,” he said, “. It’s been empty so long that people have started
to 6 ______ a lot of foolish stories about it. You’ll be able to
prove that the stories are wrong.

Moore didn’t think
it was necessary to ask the lawyer for more details of the foolish stories. He
paid his rent, and Mr. Carnford gave him the name of an old servant
to 7 ______ him. He came away from the lawyer with the keys of
the house in his pocket.

1.	A)	appeared	B)	drew	C)	moved	D)	entered
2.	A)	wrapped	B)	laid	C)	piled	D)	packed
3.	A)	bothered	B)	intervened	C)	interfered	D)	helped
4.	A)	finding	B)	looking	C)	skimming	D)	exploring
5.	A)	understand	B)	imagine	C)	know	D)	seek
6.	A)	extend	B)	promote	C)	gossip	D)	spread
7.	A)	lookat	B)	lookabout	C)	lookafter	D)	lookaround

14)Looking for a
job

My new home was a
long way from the center of London but it was becoming essential to find a job,
so 1 ______ I spent a whole morning getting to town and applying
to London Transport for a job on the tube. It turned out that they were looking
for guards, not drivers. This 2 ______ me. I couldn’t drive a
car but I could probably guard a train and perhaps continue to write poems
between stations. “Yes, I would be a tube guard,” I thought. I could see myself
being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis.

The next day I sat
down, with almost a hundred other 3 ______, for the intelligence
test. I must have done all right because after half an hour’s wait I was sent
into another room for a psychological test. The examiner sat at a desk. You
were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous
occupant had been 4 ______. Sometimes the person was rejected quickly
and sometimes after quite a while. Obviously the longer interviews were the
most successful ones. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half. I
can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job, “Why did you
leave your job before that? “And the one before?” I
can’t 5 ______ my answers, except they were short at first and
grew shorter as we continued. His closing statement 6 ______ a
lack of sensitivity, which helped to explain why as a psychologist he had risen
no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed this test and we are
unable to offer you a position.” Failing to get that job was my low point. Or
so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such a job 7 ______ exactly
this sort of elementary responsibility a dreamer like me is unlikely to have.
But, I was still far short of self-understanding as well as short of cash.

1.	A)	finally	B)	attheend	C)	lastly	D)	inconclusion
2.	A)	comforted	B)	matched	C)	fitted	D)	suited
3.	A)	friends	B)	members	C)	candidates	D)	nominees
4.	A)	declined	B)	dismissed	C)	accepted	D)	abandoned
5.	A)	recall	B)	memorize	C)	forget	D)	remind
6.	A)	discovered	B)	revealed	C)	disguised	D)	opened
7.	A)	expects	B)	offers	C)	demands	D)	asks

15) Tracy

Tracy was as
excited as a child about her first trip abroad. Early in the morning, she
stopped at a 1 ______ agency and reserved a suite on the Signal
Deck ofthe Queen Elizabeth II. The next three days she spent buying
clothes and luggage.

On the morning of
the sailing, Tracy hired a limousine to drive her to the pier. When
she 2 ______ at Pier 90, where the Queen Elizabeth II was
docked, it was crowded with photographers and television reporters, and for a
moment Tracy was panic stricken. Then she realized they were interviewing the
two men posturing at the foot of the gangplank. The members of the crew were
helping the passengers with their luggage. On deck, a steward looked at Tracy’s
ticket and 3 ______ her to her stateroom. It was a lovely suite
with a private terrace. It had been ridiculously expensive but
Tracy 4 ______ it was worth it.

She unpacked and
then wandered along the corridor. In almost every cabin there were farewell
parties going on, with laughter and champagne and conversation. She felt a
sudden ache of loneliness. There was no one to see her 5 ______, no
one for her to care about, and no one who cared about her. She was sailing into
a completely unknown future.

Suddenly she felt
the huge ship shudder as the tugs started to pull it out of the harbor, and she
stood 6 ______ the passengers on the boat deck, watching the
Statue of Liberty slide out of 7 ______, and then she went exploring.

1.	A)	journey	B)	trip	C)	travel	D)	tourist
2.	A)	achieved	B)	arrived	C)	entered	D)	reached
3.	A)	set	B)	came	C)	headed	D)	directed
4.	A)	determined	B)	resolved	C)	decided	D)	assured
5.	A)	in	B)	off	C)	of	D)	after
6.	A)	among	B)	along	C)	between	D)	besides
7.	A)	glance	B)	stare	C)	sight	D)	look

16)BusyDay

Let me tell you
what happened once when my dear Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the
wall. He told us not to   1 ______ and
just watch him do it. He said he would do it by himself. Well, he came up to
the picture which was waiting to be put up in the dining room and took it. But
suddenly it fell down and the glass   2 ______ into
pieces and he cut his finger. He started to   3 ______ his
handkerchief but couldn’t find it because he had put it in his coat and none of
us knew where his coat was. 
“Six of you!” Uncle Podger exclaimed, “and you cannot find the coat that I put
down only five minutes ago!” But then he got up from his chair and found that
he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. “Oh, you can stop your   4 ______. I’ve found it myself!”
Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered where
the hammer had disappeared to. And while everybody was trying to get the hammer
he was standing on the chair saying: “Well, I want to know if you are going
to   5 ______ me here all evening!”
Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had
prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn’t keep   6 ______ while
he was waiting for another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about
our habit of losing all the things he needed.
When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, everybody looked
very   7 ______, all except Uncle Podger, who
was lively as ever. Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do a job
like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it was over.

1. A) scare  B) disturb 
C) worry  D) fear

2. A) failed B) broke C) ruined D) fell

3. A) look at B) look to C) look after D) look for

4. A) search B) investigation  C) exploration 
D) study

5. A) stay B) keep C) put D) take

6. A) dumb B) cool C) still D) silent

7. A) dull B) tired C) fresh D) boring

17) A
Storyteller

In my early 20s,
after a year and a half in England, and four months in France, I returned to
the United States and got a job at a camp in northern Virginia. My   1 ______ that
summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island. We worked together
with a group of boys from 12 to 14 years old. I’ve always been a bit untidy,
but Dan was   2 ______ and
clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers. We could not have been
more different, but we got on because we shared the same   3 ______ of
humor.
At the end of the summer, a few of us went to   4 ______ a
cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t as
dramatic as it sounds. The park rangers had told us to stay there if anything
happened. They knew where we were going, and when we should have been back. Dan
hurt his right foot badly. So we had to   5 ______ the night in the cave. Food and water
were not a problem, but we turned off our lights to save power. In the
distance, we could hear the sound of running water.
To   6 ______ the time, we told stories. That night
in the cave we moved from one family story to another. As the night wore on, I
remembered more and more. I was not alone–the cave, the blue light and the
flowing water released stories and memories that we had never revealed to
anyone. It was as if a river of stories had started flowing in each of us. 
When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want to   7 ______. «Can’t we just tell a
few more stories?» In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

1. A) friend  B) teammate 
C) partner  D) opponent

2. A) clear  B) neat C) exact D)
careful

3. A) feeling B) emotion C) reason D)
sense

4. A) explore B) analyze C) teach D) learn

5. A) lead B) spend C) hold D) waste

6. A) keep B) waste C) spare D) pass

7. A) escape B) leave C) remain D) retire

18) New
York City: Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood

Life is made up of
little things: some unimportant memories from childhood that, in fact, shaped
your character. I   1
______ on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the
1950s-60s where family life was centred around old   2 ______ of
flats and small stores. Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had
character. It was   3 ______ with
working families of Italian, German and Irish origin. We shopped together with
all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced the
way our family lived. I absorbed the street life. It gave me an   4 ______ that
I could not have received in any other place. To me, it was home.
In a recent walk around Third Avenue my eyes   5 ______ signs
of the old neighbourhood but couldn’t find any. If I hadn’t been born here and
someone described the area, it would be   6 ______ to
believe. It wasn’t because a few buildings had changed – everything had
changed. The transformation began in the late 1950s and 60s when corporations
replaced the old neighbourhood. In the early 1960s, the houses were pulled
down. Families were forced to   7
______, the small stores went out of business and the old
neighbourhood was changed forever. And now there is a lack of character in the
transformed neighbourhood.

1. A)  brought up B)  grew up C)  went up
D) got up

2. A) blocks B) houses C) groups D) sets

3. A) covered B) held C) loaded D) filled

4. A) knowledge B) information C)
education D) training

5. A) looked after B) looked for C) looked through D)
looked at

6. A) hard B) easy C) strange D) heavy

7. A) stay out B) take out C) move out D) go out

19)To Hear A Child

I believe in
patience. I live as a volunteer residential counselor in a small group home.
These boys have brought joy and happiness into my life; they have made me laugh
and made me proud. However, they have also challenged me, made me angry and
tested my patience. 
Each day we start anew, going about a   1 ______ routine.
I drive them to school, pick them up, cook for them and help with homework. We
spend the evenings   2 ______ about
what happened during the day. I meet their teachers and study for tests with
them. They are the last people I see each night and the first ones I hear in
the morning. They have become a   3 ______ of my
life. I am twenty-two and am beginning to understand the love of a parent.
I could not have come this far without patience. They do not think like
miniature adults and it is not fair to expect them to.   4 ______ my
expectations of them are high, I must remember that so much of what they see
and understand is for the first time. First loves, first failed test, first
time feeling the need to break away from the nest. I must have patience with
them, because there is still a child within that comes out when I least expect
it.
This world is a fast-paced, fast food, fast-internet place.   5 ______, no matter how fast things
move, children will be children. I believe they will mature quicker and with
more tools if I am patient. I see it in their eyes. Over time, sad eyes can
glisten again, but only if I am   6 ______ of
the fact that it takes them longer to get somewhere. 
I see around them a world that expects too much of them. They come   7 ______ too
many things that give them too much sadness. They listen to me, respect me and
understand reason but not always when I want them to. This opportunity has
given me wisdom but only when I was patient enough to hear a child.

1. A)  daily  B) common  C) 
average  D) traditional

2. A) discussing  B) debating  C) talking 
D) saying

3. A) bit  B) part  C) parcel  D) piece

4. A) also  B) altogether  C) although  D)
thus

5. A) nevertheless  B) nevermore  C)
although  D) therefore

6. A) common  B) familiar  C) aware 
D) acquainted

7. A) through  B) along  C) upon  D)
across

20) Bo

It was raining.
The rain started early in the morning and it seemed, that it would never stop.
Looking out of the window, Bo was thinking about his telephone conversation.
Raindrops spattered the windshield as the taxi sliced through   1 ______ traffic
on Park Avenue. There were too many cars as usual. When it had skidded to a
halt at the curb, Bo gave a ten-dollar bill to the driver. That included a very
generous tip. He   2 ______ his
point of destination and was ready to take on Frank Ramsey. He had called
Ramsey that morning from the Yale club and demanded the meeting. Ramsey had
tried to avoid it but Bo insisted and Ramsey gave   3 ______.
At the building’s revolving doors, Bo glanced back over his shoulder through
the rain and noticed a woman standing on the sidewalk a short distance away. In
the dim light he could not get a clear picture. She   4 ______ so
much like Tiffany. She was wearing a yellow top and had long blond hair.
Standing absolutely  5 ______ beneath
her umbrella while everything around her moved, she seemed to be gazing sraight
at him. His heart   6 ______,
the way it always did when he saw her. He couldn’t help it. Bo strained
to   7 ______ sight
of her as he was jostled into the doorway. When he cleared the doors, the woman
had already disappeared.

1. A) solid  B) heavy 
C) hard  D) difficult

2. A) achieved  B) arrived  C) entered  D)
reached

3. A) to  B) on  C) in  D) off

4. A) stared  B) gazed  C) looked  D)
glanced

5. A) inert  B) static  C) quiet  D) still

6. A) set  B) sank  C) moved  D)
dropped 

7. A) keep  B) hold  C) take  D) give

21) The secret tunnel

In the middle of
our village, there is a beautiful old church, which dates back to the beginning
of the Middle Ages. It was rebuilt several times, but some of its parts,
including the foundations, are   1 ______.
Well,   2 ______ about
restoration, a while ago they decided to install a heating system there, as it
gets cold in winter. Some of the local boys volunteered to help, including
myself.
The benches were connected in stacks, so it was hard work to lift or to push
them away, but we managed it. Most of the church floor was covered with
marble-type slabs, but under some benches there were just some ancient-looking
bricks.
We got really   3 ______,
as we had heard stories about an old underground passageway leading from a
crypt below the church to the castle in the nearest city. It is twelve
miles   4 ______.
So, a friend of mine and I started to dig down there. It was relatively easy to
pull out the top layer of bricks, and underneath them we found soil, which also
moved easily as it was completely dry. We found that one side of the hole was
so soft that you could just   5 ______ a
stick through it. It was obviously that passageway! Then some workmen came in
and told us to stop. Just fancy that! We had to stop at the most exciting
moment. 
After a few days, the workmen put a layer of hard cement over the entire floor,
so our find remained a mystery. But I won’t give   6 ______. I still hope to go there
some day and find that secret tunnel. Maybe, that will become the
greatest   7 ______ of
the 21st century.

1. A) natural 
B) original  C) real  D) genuine

2. A) commenting  B) telling  C) saying 
D) speaking

3. A) excited  B) amazed  C) annoyed  D)
animated

4. A) away  B) far  C) off  D) about

5. A) shift  B) pull  C) push  D)
remove

6. A) in  B) up  C) on  D) at

7. A) innovation  B) invention  C)
discovery  D) development

Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 24.04.2014. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1