1) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Mysterious places in Russia Russia has a lot of mysterious places. One of them is Karandash, which means a pencil in Russian. It is a small mountain in the southern Urals. Despite being only 610 metres tall, it is very important for scientists because it holds the title of being the ______ (OLD) mountain in the world.

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2) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

It ______ (BELIEVE) to be about 4.2 billion years old whereas our planet is about 4.75 billion years old.

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3) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

So far, scientists ______ (FIND) some interesting minerals in Karandash which prove that this mountain used to be a part of the supercontinent that existed 2 billion years ago. Another place is Manpupunyor. It may be hard to pronounce the name of this mysterious plateau, but this place is one of the top attractions of Russia for curious tourists.

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4) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

The name of the plateau is translated from a local language as The Small Mountain of Idols. Six rock formations from 30 to 42 meters tall stand in a row, while the ______ (SEVEN) one stands alone.

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5) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

According to a legend, ______ (THIS) seven rocks were giant men who wanted to conquer the locals.

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6) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

However, they ______ (TURN) into stones by a shaman ages ago.

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7) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

From the history of libraries The first libraries appeared in around 2600 BC in Sumer. There were no paper books at that time – people used clay tablets. They were stored in ______ (CONTAIN) in special rooms.

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8) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Such rooms were ______ (USUAL) located in temples.

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9) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

However, more and more information needed to be stored, that is why people decided they needed separate ______ (BUILD) for the clay tablets and later for manuscripts.

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10) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Around 500 BC libraries stored not only ______ (GOVERN) orders and records, but also works on mathematics, history, astronomy, philosophy and medicine.

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11) Вставьте слово, которое грамматически и лексически будет соответствовать содержанию текста.

Libraries of the ancient Roman Empire had ______ (COUNT) manuscripts of the best scholars of that time, so an early form of a catalogue system was introduced and librarians were needed.

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12) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

Sandy Sandy called Dan Atkins the following week, to give Berta Canning, her literary agent, plenty of time to get in touch with him and send him the manuscript he could read. She hoped he would ______ to help her to edit her first book.

1) assume
2) admit
3) approve
4) agree

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13) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

And when Dan Atkins answered, he seemed as though she’d woken him out of a sound sleep. She ______ profusely, and he didn’t sound happy to hear from her. There was a long silence and then he told Sandy to come on Saturday.

1) apologized
2) appeared
3) applied
4) approached

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14) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

He explained that he lived near the university campus where he ______ to teach. She wasn’t looking forward to meeting him, but she didn’t want Berta to be angry with her either. So, she bicycled over to his address on Saturday.

1) held
2) took
3) kept
4) used

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15) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

When Sandy got there, he took forever to answer the bell. She was ______ about to leave when he opened the door.

1) yet
2) just
3) still
4) only

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16) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

She followed him upstairs to a large living room that would have been lovely if he tidied it once in a while. There were stacks of books everywhere, a pile of papers, a mountain of manuscripts on the desk and half eaten food on the coffee table. He obviously lived alone and needed a housekeeper desperately. He was as untidy as his living room. He had a long, unkempt beard, a mane of wild white hair that ______ Sally of Albert Einstein.

1) reminded
2) regarded
3) recognized
4) remembered

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17) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

He was wearing jeans, a sweater with holes in it, and tennis shoes. Sandy could ______ figure out his age.

1) really
2) rarely
3) hardly
4) nearly

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18) Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

He seemed to be about seventy, ______ Berta told her later that he was only sixty. He said that he liked her book.

1) nevertheless
2) therefore
3) although
4) moreover