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‘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. Mrs Richards 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 Mrs Richards 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

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The
Great Discovery

In ancient times
people lived on whatever food they could find. As the early people 1 ______ in
numbers, they had to wander and search for wild fruits and seeds of wild
plants or hunt for small animals.

Then one of these
early people 2 ______ a great discovery. A great
genius discovered the meaning of seeds. He may have noticed that where
some seeds had fallen on the ground, new plants grew. Perhaps he
was 3 ______ enough
to put some seeds in the ground to see what would happen. No one knows
how it happened, but man 4 ______ that if he put a seed into the
soil it could grow into a plant which might yield hundreds or even
thousands of seeds!

He was free of the
need to be in a constant 5 ______ of his food!

Early man could
now 6 ______ seeds
in the spring and wait for them to grow.

In the fall he could
gather a harvest of seeds. There would be enough to 
7 ______ himself
and his family all through the winter, with some left over for planting
when spring came.

This discovery was the
beginning of 8 ______ and the most important change
that ever happened to people on earth.

 1. А) decreased; Б) increased; В) developed; Г) improved

2. А) fulfilled; Б) did; В) made; Г) conducted

3. А) curious; Б) questioning; В) surprised; Г) puzzled

4. А) disclosed; Б) opened; В) discovered; Г) exposed

5. А) investigation; Б) exploration; В) look; Г) search

6. А) put; Б) plant; В) deliver; Г) lay

7. А) feed; Б) food; В) provide; Г) nourish

8. А) gardening; Б) cropping; В) cultivation; Г) farming

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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

6. A)
enlarges; Б) increases; В) adds; Г) multiplies

7. A)
into; Б) onto; В) for; Г) at

8. A)
although; Б) otherwise; В) whatever; Г) either

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The First Day at School

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

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Your Future World

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

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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

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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
Seventeen magazine, “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

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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

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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 WatfordMuseum 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

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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

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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. He 2 ______ 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.

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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.

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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 of the
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.

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Busy Day

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

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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

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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

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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

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that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some
interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text
to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be
ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to
read it.

Until fairly recently,
it was a mystery how certain large bees, bumblebees in particular, were
able to fly. To scientists who study the physical laws of flight, a bee’s
body seemed too heavy and its wings too small for it to become airborne
and remain so. Bees “can’t” fly … but do. The mystery became so
intriguing that a few scientists decided to study it.

Most insects fly by using muscles that flap their wings
with great speed. For example, the locust beats its wings at a rate of
about 20 times per second to fly. Other flying insects have to beat their
wings even faster – some as rapidly
as 100 times per second.

But bees must work extra hard to become airborne.
Honeybees, for instance, must beat their wings about 200 times a second
to fly. Yet larger bees – like
bumblebees – whose bodies are heavier, wider, and longer – have
to do even better.

Task 1. Imagine
that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some
interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text
to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be
ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to
read it.

Islands that appear
and disappear are certainly part of the world’s legends. But in 1963,
with the aid of cameras and scientific observers, some of those legends
were given a solid basis of fact. For example, on November 14, 1963,
a kind of miracle occurred. An island was born.

On that day a fishing
boat sailed into waters that were boiling and rolling and foul with a
strong smell. The world still had a hard time believing the miracle that
was to occur. It was the first time that scientists were to witness the
unexpected birth of an underwater island.

First the engineer,
then the captain, and at last the cook were aware of the awful smell and
the peculiar roll of the sea. But it was the cook who first noticed the
smoke. He thought there was a ship in trouble somewhere on the seas.

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interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text
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ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to
read it.

The mystery of why
trees don’t stop growing is still unsolved. Human beings usually stop
growing sometime during their teens. Many animals reach full growth
within a year. Others are fully grown in just a few years. Birds and
insects also stop growing at a certain age. But trees keep growing as
long as they live.

Trees live, grow, and
reproduce themselves by an amazing process. The thousands of leaves put
forth by the tree breathe for it and manufacture its food. Its root
system gathers minerals and vast quantities of water. To carry this water
to the leaves, the tree is equipped with an intricate circulation system
that extends upward from the millions of root hairs through the trunk and
branches. The trunk holds the leaves up to the sunlight, sends them water
from the roots, and gets food back from them. Then
seeds are borne in flowers or cones.