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

Lift note Melanie was paying a visit to her friend Henry to see his new flat. After ___ (ARRIVE) at his building, she called the lift down from its previous destination, Floor 1, and stepped inside.

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

She noticed a sign by the panel of buttons. She ignored it for a moment and simply pressed the button for the ___ (FIVE) floor, the floor that Henry lived on.

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

She read the note as the lift ascended. Apparently, some people in the building thought some of the other residents were a bit lazy, because the note said, ‘Dear Floor 1, are the stairs broken? Love, Floors 2-7.’ Melanie laughed and wondered who ___ (WRITE) the note!

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

Pigeon fanciers A popular pastime in Scotland is ‘pigeon fancying’ or keeping pigeons for racing or as pets. Fanciers often keep several birds at once in a special hut that they ___ (BUILD) for them.

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

The Scottish word for a male pigeon is a ‘doo’ and one type of pigeon fancier in Scotland is called a ‘dooman’. Doomen specialise in using their doos to attract other people’s pigeons, which they then capture and claim for ___ (THEY).

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

The fascination that doomen and other pigeon fanciers have with the birds is that a pigeon will form a bond with its owner. In other words, if you released one of them into the sky, it ___ (RETURN) to you later on.

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

Pigeons and their owners form bonds through language. In fact, if a pigeon owner can’t use bird sounds properly, the pigeon ___ (FLY) away and find a new owner.

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

Buranovskiye Babushki If you’ve been watching the Eurovision Song Contest in the last few years, you might remember this singing group. They stood out from the rest because they were not the ___ (TYPE) entrant in the contest.

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

Most entrants are usually quite young and very trendy. They’re dressed in ___ (FASHION) clothing - or at least they try to be, and they perform wild dance routines on occasion.

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

Buranovskiye Babushki breaks from that mould. They’re a group of eight elderly Russian women, or grannies’, which is ‘babushki’ in Russian. Most of them are in their sixties and seventies, and their ___ (PERFORM) at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest got the second highest number of votes.

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

Their music is sung in the Udmurt language, an official language in the region of Udmurtia, where the grannies are from. The Udmurt alphabet is ___ (LARGE) the same as the Russian alphabet.

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

Buranovskiye Babushki’s song entry was called ‘Party for Everybody’ and most of the song was in Udmurt, with a few English lyrics. The group wrote the Udmurtian lyrics themselves, and the English parts were written by an ___ (AMERICA) songwriter.

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

The grannies have hopes of rebuilding a church in their native Udmurtia. They have pledged to put all of their ___ (EARN) from their singing into a fund for the church.

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

The lone tree When an old tree just outside Dianas village fell down after a particularly bad storm, it was as if the whole community fell with it. The tree was beloved by the local people, so they set ___ on a mission to save it.

1) aside
2) up
3) out
4) in

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

Although heavily damaged by the storms gale force wind and forced down onto the ground, the 200- year-old tree was not dead. After weeks of community members climbing the hill to ___ their respects, they noticed that it was still growing. Green needles remained on its branches.

1) pay
2) donate
3) award
4) grant

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

The villagers believed it could be saved. Diana and her family contacted officials who were knowledgeable about the ___ of trees and the environment.

1) assistance
2) security
3) preservation
4) safety

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

They visited the village to see what could be done. After carefully ___ the roots, they decided that with enough soil placed around the roots, the tree might just survive and grow again.

1) studying
2) looking
3) watching
4) reading

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

'Even though the small roots have snapped off, theres one large root that’s still connected,’ the expert told Diana. ‘We mustn’t be careless ___ how we handle the existing root system. The tree’s going to need lots of care and attention.’

1) from
2) towards
3) about
4) into

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

The expert discussed the situation with the local people and explained that under ___ circumstances should anyone try to place the tree back in an upright position.

1) any
2) no
3) zero
4) nil

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

Naturally, everyone ___ by those rules. Diana hoped the tree - which her grandparents had known as children - would one day grow tall again, if not with the same grandeur as it once had.

1) stuck
2) followed
3) adhered
4) abided