Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово FOUND так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
__________________ at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619.
1
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово «SPEAK» так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
Languages of the world
What do you think is the most difficult language to learn? Chinese? Japanese? No, it is Basque, the language which
__________________ in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
2
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово NOT RELATE так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
It __________________ to any other language in the world. In Basque, the name of the language is officially “Euskara”.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
3
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово GREAT так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
In French, the language is normally called “basque”, though in recent times “euskara” has become common. Spanish has a __________________ variety of names for the language than French. Today, it is most commonly referred to as “el vasco”, ”la lengua vasca” or “el euskera”.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
4
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово BUY так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and __________________ by English colonists.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
5
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово KNOW так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what __________________ today as Hampton Roads.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
6
Преобразуйте, если это необходимо, слово THEY так, чтобы оно грамматически соответствовало содержанию текста.
Most of __________________ names, as well as the exact number of those who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
Источник: ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020. Досрочная волна. Вариант 1
1) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
Languages of the world
What do you think is the most difficult language to learn? Chinese? Japanese? No, it is Basque, the language which ___ (SPEAK) in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.
2) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
It ___ (NOT RELATE) to any other language in the world. In Basque, the name of the language is officially “Euskara”.
3) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
In French, the language is normally called “basque”, though in recent times “euskara” has become common. Spanish has a ___ (GREAT) variety of names for the language than French. Today, it is most commonly referred to as “el vasco”, ”la lengua vasca” or “el euskera”.
4) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and ___ (BUY) by English colonists.
5) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
___ (FOUND) at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619.
6) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what ___ (KNOW) today as Hampton Roads.
7) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
Most of ___ (THEY) names, as well as the exact number of those who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.
Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
Ottawa’s Parliament Hill
Have you ever been to Ottawa? It’s ___ (CERTAIN) a very beautiful city.
9) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
One of its main ___ (ATTRACT) is Parliament Hill standing high above the Ottawa River.
10) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
There you can see the Neo-Gothic-style Parliament ___ (BUILD) of the last half of the 19th century.
11) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
The most ___ (IMPRESS) construction is the Peace Tower, which divides the House of Commons and the Senate on either side.
12) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
There ___ (TOUR) can also see the Centennial Flame.
13) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
It was lit in 1966 to ___ (SYMBOL) the centenary of the Canadian Confederation. There is also a sculpture garden. Below Parliament Hill, a lovely walk runs alongside the Ottawa River.
14) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
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 ___ in the house.
1) out
2) at
3) into
4) about
15) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
I loved her paintings and the old clock, but ___ all I loved a big Chinese vase which stood in the hall.
1) mostly
2) great of
3) greatly
4) most of
16) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
It was ___ than me.
1) higher
2) larger
3) taller
4) greater
17) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
And I couldn’t see ___ it.
1) about
2) around
3) inside
4) outside
18) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
I walked round and round it looking at the beautiful ladies and the birds and flowers and trees, and Grandmother often ___ me stories about these ladies.
1) said
2) spoke
3) talked
4) told
19) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
She said that her grandfather had brought the vase with him when he returned from a long ___ to China.
1) voyage
2) tour
3) hike
4) excursion
20) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
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 ___ 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) looked
2) viewed
3) appeared
4) seemed
Досрочный ЕГЭ по английскому языку 2020 Грамматика и лексика.
Те, кто готовится к ЕГЭ по английскому языку могут здесь потренироваться в выполнении лексико-грамматического теста по реальным материалам досрочного ЕГЭ 2020 года. Остальные тесты и тренажер устной части этого варианта смотрите здесь.
Весь раздел из трех заданий заключен в одном тесте, выполнив который вы получите общий результат.
1 задание на грамматику, (времена глагола, местоимения, степени сравнения и т.д.)
2 задание на словообразование.
3 задание на лексику.
При выполнении 1 и 2 задания впечатайте свои варианты ответов словами, а в третьем только номера выбранных слов. Для проверки нажмите на кнопку Check.
*Можно выполнять задания выборочно, не обращая внимания на проценты. Просто невыполненные и неверные ответы останутся в окошечках. Можно делать исправления.
Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика
19-25. Languages of the world
What do you think is the most difficult language to learn? Chinese? Japanese? No, it is Basque, the language which 19 (SPEAK) in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It 20 (NOT RELATE) to any other language in the world. In Basque, the name of the language is officially “Euskara”. In French, the language is normally called “basque”, though in recent times “euskara” has become common. Spanish has a 21 (GREAT) variety of names for the language than French. Today, it is most commonly referred to as “el vasco”, ”la lengua vasca” or “el euskera”.
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and 22 (BUY) by English colonists. 23 (FOUND) at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what 24 (KNOW) today as Hampton Roads. Most of (THEY) 25 names, as well as the exact
number of those who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.
———————————
26-31. Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 1,001-acre public park that borders the downtown of Vancouver, Canada. This 26 (AMAZE) place is almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the main sights of Vancouver to be explored by 27 (TOUR) .
The park has a long history. The land was 28 (ORIGINAL) used by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Then the British decided to 29 (COLONY) this place during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. The land was later turned into Vancouver’s first park. It was named after Lord Stanley, a British politician who had recently been appointed 30 (GOVERN) general. Unlike other large urban parks, Stanley Park is not the 31 (CREATE) of a landscape architect, but rather the evolution of a forest and urban space over many years.
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32-38. Shirley
It was Friday, the thirty-first of May, and it was Shirley’s birthday, her twentieth birthday. Shirley could 32 ______ believe it, but it was true. And she suddenly, and wonderfully, felt quite grown up, very grown up, in fact. Last night her father had 33 ______ her a lovely young lady, and she had beamed at him, hugged him, and told him she was so happy to have him and Alice, have them as her parents. There was no one luckier than she was; Shirley believed that with all her 34 ______. Last night, over dinner, Alice and Victor praised her and were talking much about how proud they were of her and what she had become, and she had experienced an enormous rush of love and gratitude toward them. Her father had added that she had a wonderful life ahead of her, and she believed him. He always 35 ______ her the truth. Her dream of going to Cambridge had come true and for the past year she had been living her childhood dream, 36 ______ lectures. She 37 ______ every moment of living in that ancient city of shining spires, gracious quadrangles, and beautiful architecture. It was an extraordinary experience to be in that place of great learning, and she would 38 ______ it with love long after she had left. She was reading English and French history, her favourite subjects, and one day she hoped to be a historian and give lectures herself and write books.
32. 1) hardly 2) nearly 3) really 4) rarely
33. 1) referred 2) described 3) named 4) called
34. 1) mind 2) brain 3) heart 4) feeling
35. 1) said 2) told 3) talked 4) spoke
36. 1) approving 2) attending 3) participating 4) visiting
37. 1) admired 2) pleased 3) attracted 4) enjoyed
38. 1) repeat 2) remember 3) remind 4) review
Упражнение 18 для подготовки к ЕГЭ по английскому языку.
Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя.
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Major changes in the pattern of immigration have been caused by wars, revolutions, periods of starvation, persecutions, religious intoleration, and in short, by any number of disasters A ________ America was a better place to be. More than a million Irish, for instance, immigrated to America between 1846 and 1851 in order to escape starvation and disease in Ireland. B ________, large number of other Europeans fled political persecution. In the 1870-s another wave of refugees left the political turmoil of eastern and southern Europe to seek freedom and a future in America. The largest streams of European immigrants came between 1900 and 1920, that is before, after and during World War I. At other times, for example, C ________, smaller numbers of immigrants came to the US. Since the 1960-s more and more people have fled the poverty and wars in Asia and Latin America in the hope of finding a better life in the United States.
There is, of course, D ________ and racial variety, one that Americans, more than other people, are aware of. The first slaves brought to what is today the United States arrived in Virginia on a board of a Dutch ship in 1619. On the eve of the American Revolution E ________ what was shortly to be the United States of America. In 1776 probably about a fifth of all inhabitants in the British colonies in America were Negro slaves.
Between 1777 and 1804 all states in the new republic north of Maryland abolished slavery. However, neither the North nor the South would escape the grave social, economic, political and moral problems F ________. Although the Civil War (1861-1865) brought the end to slavery in all of the states, discrimination against Blacks would continue.
1. during the Depression and during World War II
2. that are the heritage of slavery
3. which led to believe that
4. are not welcomed by all Americans
5. another side to American’s ethnic pluralism
6. during the same period of time
7. slavery was already firmly established in
A-3; B-6; C-1; D-5; E-7; F-2
Why they came.
Major changes in the pattern of immigration have been caused by wars, revolutions, periods of starvation, persecutions, religious intoleration, and in short, by any number of disasters which led to believe that America was a better place to be. More than a million Irish, for instance, immigrated to America between 1846 and 1851 in order to escape starvation and disease in Ireland. During the same period of time, large number of other Europeans fled political persecution. In the 1870-s another wave of refugees left the political turmoil of eastern and southern Europe to seek freedom and a future in America. The largest streams of European immigrants came between 1900 and 1920, that is before, after and during World War I. At other times, for example, during the Depression and during World War II, smaller numbers of immigrants came to the US. Since the 1960-s more and more people have fled the poverty and wars in Asia and Latin America in the hope of finding a better life in the United States.
There is, of course, another side to American’s ethnic pluralism and racial variety, one that Americans, more than other people, are aware of. The first slaves brought to what is today the United States arrived in Virginia on a board of a Dutch ship in 1619. On the eve of the American Revolution slavery was already firmly established in what was shortly to be the United States of America. In 1776 probably about a fifth of all inhabitants in the British colonies in America were Negro slaves.
Between 1777 and 1804 all states in the new republic north of Maryland abolished slavery. However, neither the North nor the South would escape the grave social, economic, political and moral problems that are the heritage of slavery. Although the Civil War (1861-1865) brought the end to slavery in all of the states, discrimination against Blacks would continue.
Задание №10207.
Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому
Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and ___ (BUY) by English colonists.
Решение:
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and WERE BOUGHT by English colonists.
Рабство в Северной Америке
13 августа 1619 года — это дата начала двух с половиной веков рабства в Северной Америке. В этот день первые африканцы, похищенные португальцами, прибыли в британскую колонию Вирджиния и были куплены английскими колонистами.
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Весь раздел из трех заданий заключен в одном тесте, выполнив который вы получите общий результат.
1 задание на грамматику, (времена глагола, местоимения, степени сравнения и т.д.)
2 задание на словообразование.
3 задание на лексику.
При выполнении 1 и 2 задания впечатайте свои варианты ответов словами, а в третьем только номера выбранных слов. Для проверки нажмите на кнопку Check.
*Можно выполнять задания выборочно, не обращая внимания на проценты. Просто невыполненные и неверные ответы останутся в окошечках. Можно делать исправления.
<br/> Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика<br/>
19-25. Languages of the world
What do you think is the most difficult language to learn? Chinese? Japanese? No, it is Basque, the language which 19 (SPEAK) in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It 20 (NOT RELATE) to any other language in the world. In Basque, the name of the language is officially “Euskara”. In French, the language is normally called “basque”, though in recent times “euskara” has become common. Spanish has a 21 (GREAT) variety of names for the language than French. Today, it is most commonly referred to as “el vasco”, ”la lengua vasca” or “el euskera”.
Slavery in North America
August 13, 1619 is the date when two and a half centuries of slavery in North America began. On this day the first Africans kidnapped by the Portuguese arrived in the British colony of Virginia and 22 (BUY) by English colonists. 23 (FOUND) at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what 24 (KNOW) today as Hampton Roads. Most of (THEY) 25 names, as well as the exact
number of those who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.
———————————
26-31. Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 1,001-acre public park that borders the downtown of Vancouver, Canada. This 26 (AMAZE) place is almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the main sights of Vancouver to be explored by 27 (TOUR) .
The park has a long history. The land was 28 (ORIGINAL) used by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Then the British decided to 29 (COLONY) this place during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. The land was later turned into Vancouver’s first park. It was named after Lord Stanley, a British politician who had recently been appointed 30 (GOVERN) general. Unlike other large urban parks, Stanley Park is not the 31 (CREATE) of a landscape architect, but rather the evolution of a forest and urban space over many years.
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32-38. Shirley
It was Friday, the thirty-first of May, and it was Shirley’s birthday, her twentieth birthday. Shirley could 32 ______ believe it, but it was true. And she suddenly, and wonderfully, felt quite grown up, very grown up, in fact. Last night her father had 33 ______ her a lovely young lady, and she had beamed at him, hugged him, and told him she was so happy to have him and Alice, have them as her parents. There was no one luckier than she was; Shirley believed that with all her 34 ______. Last night, over dinner, Alice and Victor praised her and were talking much about how proud they were of her and what she had become, and she had experienced an enormous rush of love and gratitude toward them. Her father had added that she had a wonderful life ahead of her, and she believed him. He always 35 ______ her the truth. Her dream of going to Cambridge had come true and for the past year she had been living her childhood dream, 36 ______ lectures. She 37 ______ every moment of living in that ancient city of shining spires, gracious quadrangles, and beautiful architecture. It was an extraordinary experience to be in that place of great learning, and she would 38 ______ it with love long after she had left. She was reading English and French history, her favourite subjects, and one day she hoped to be a historian and give lectures herself and write books.
32. 1) hardly 2) nearly 3) really 4) rarely
33. 1) referred 2) described 3) named 4) called
34. 1) mind 2) brain 3) heart 4) feeling
35. 1) said 2) told 3) talked 4) spoke
36. 1) approving 2) attending 3) participating 4) visiting
37. 1) admired 2) pleased 3) attracted 4) enjoyed
38. 1) repeat 2) remember 3) remind 4) review
Racism: The Precedent To Slavery In North America Essay, Research Paper
Racism: The Precedent to Slavery in North America
In tracing the origins of slavery or racism in either sense, one must keep in mind that neither is an event or circumstance that occurred in North America in the 17th through 19th centuries. We must examine slavery as an institution and racism as a mentality defined by the oppressor, independent to the oppressed. Europeans who came to North America in the 17th century were predisposed to the institution of slavery. Slavery had long since been a proactive institution in South America. Africans were also slaves in Europe before 1619. Slave trades that preceded the Trans-Atlantic slave trade also show evidence that there were black slaves in Europe from many centuries. Therefore, Europeans never arrived in the colonies with the thought that slavery was not a natural human institution, or that blacks were equal to them and deserving of rights. The racist views that derived from European?s predisposed bias against blacks was a justification the race based slavery that existed in North American beginning in the 17th century.
Whites had a negative proclivity towards blacks in pre-colonial times. In his book, The Write Man?s Burden: Historical Origins of Slavery in the United States, Winthrop Jordan describes Europeans reactions towards contact with blacks. However he fails to note that there emphasis on viewing blacks as savage, and heathenish, etc, were the very differences between Europeans and Africans, that would be to Europeans, a justifications for the institution of race based slavery. ?Unquestionably, signs of European prejudice and discrimination toward Indians and Africans had been present in the English colonies from the start. Burt the poisonous pattern of mistrust and abuse became widespread and central within the culture only after 1700, as race slavery rapidly expanded.? In order to create a massive institution such as slavery that oppresses any people, the oppressor must view the oppressed as less than human, less deserving of human rights. Olaudah Equiano writes, in his slave narrative The Life of Olaudah Equiano, ?does not slavery itself depress the mind, and extinguish all fire, and every noble sentiment??
The 17th century shows a deterioration of status for blacks in America. When blacks first arrived in the colonies, their status was of a mixed nature. There were some blacks that worked as indentured servants, some were slaves, and some were free and owned property and laborers of their own. However, history tends to over elaborate this point for some reason or the other. These free blacks were few and their social status was one that was lower than whites. As the population of European indentured servitude began to decrease, there was a need for a stable work force. Africans became the sole labor force for the white English planters. Africans began being associated with the status of slaves. Eventually their children too would inherit this status. This began for man clear and unclear reasons. One reason was that the white legislature in the colonies wanted to stress to those white indentured servants, who began to be unified with blacks, that they were higher in class status than blacks. ?There is evidence of invidious distinctions between black and white laborers from a relatively early date?.. In order to prevent uprisings by the poor white indentured servants; the white legislature stressed the lower class standing of blacks to pacify them. Also, indentured servants were sending correspondence back to their country telling of the hardships of living in American. This brought a decline in indentured servants from Europe. Africans, however, who were too far from home with out any means of contacting their families or anyone, could not tell their countrymen that they were being treated badly. Also, there was no one coming to the aid of Africans; even the Christian church backed the institution. By the early 1700s the status of blacks became property not people. The later 17th century and early 18th century framed the introduction of slave codes bent on controlling the growing slave population. This was all apart of a transformation making ?black? synonymous with ?slave?..
Thus said I must conclude that racism preceded slavery in the British colonies. Blacks may have been treated slightly better without slave codes, and other controlling mechanisms, before the 17th century; but that was because there were not as many blacks in North American at that time to pose a ?threat? to whites. This was also before the massive deportations from African after slavery became a solely black institution. That also does not show that whites felt any different toward blacks. I have shown that they were already predisposed to a racist sentiment against blacks before the 17th century.
We must also not let the successes of very few blacks subtract from the fact that most blacks were slaves. ?Africans pre-17th century could be indentured servants as well as slaves. Few acquired considerable property as well as slaves.? They were by far the envied minority. Their status also began to deteriorate by the late 17th century as well as other free blacks. Europeans indentured servants came to America voluntarily searching for in essence, the ?American Dream? and for a new life, for a “tabla rasa” of sorts. Africans were migrated by force to North America in sheer terror and morbid conditions. After the transformation from blacks to equating to slaves, they had no hope (maybe sparing but mostly none) of acquiring neither their freedom nor their children?s freedom. As I previously stated, we must look at slavery not as an event or what happened (or didn?t happen) to an individual, but as an institution that existed as real as the air we breathe for centuries.
Late in the 18th century anti-miscegenation laws are an example of whites attempt to define systematic supremacy over blacks. Many whites feared that blacks were not worthy of or deserving the very rights and freedom that they were fighting for in the American Revolution. Whites have constantly oppressed and exploited blacks for their own self-aggrandizement. It was this selfish mind and racist disposition that caused race slavery in the North America. This mindset was established in Europe and carried on to the colonies as a tool for enslaving generations of African descendant people.
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Christmas is the most important annual festival in both Britain and North America. In its origins, it combines the Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, on 25 December, with the ancient tradition of a winter feast during the darkest period of the year. |
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Christmas carols — a special kind of religious songs — are an important part of it. You may hear them countless times over the radio but it is quite different when you listen to people sing carols around you in church. |
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At this time, too, many carol singers make door-to-door visits to people at home, collecting money for this or that charity. |
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Many weeks before Christmas, shops start selling various Christmas cards and Christmas gifts. |
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Shop owners decorate their shops with holly, mistletoe, candles and colourful paper chains and lanterns. |
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All kinds of traditional Christmas food are also widely available. |
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