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

The largest snowfall in decades This week’s snowfall in Brazil is one of the largest in decades. As snow on the ground is not a very common landscape in a so-called tropical country, everybody ___ (FEEL) excited when they saw streets in snow.

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

In the cities by the sea people are used to spending the summer sun bathing. They ___ (SURPRISE) very much when they saw snow covering the city.

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

It ___ (NOT BE) long before social media became loaded with pictures of white fields and roads, and snowmen.

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

Flood in Santa Claus’ home The usual images of the North Pole are impressive ice sheets, but scenes from a webcam there reveal a different story. Meteorologists have reported that temperatures in early July were one to three degrees Celsius ___ (HIGH) than the year’s average over most of the Arctic Ocean.

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

Thanks to rapidly melting ice, Santa Claus now ___ (HAVE) his own swimming pool. The North Pole is currently a lake, Canada.com reports.

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

The lake is about a foot deep, ___ (CONSIST) entirely of the melted ice itself. It shows a dramatic change is the Arctic climate.

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

In fact, a pool of melted water ___ (FORM) at the North Pole every year now since 2002. The mythical home of Santa Claus has been officially flooded!

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

Russia in space Some of the greatest and most prominent inventions in the quest to explore space have a Russian connection. The father of theoretical astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, was a Soviet. His works have been an inspiration to ___ (LEAD) Russian rocket engineers Valentin Glushko and Sergev Korolyov.

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

Soviet ___ (SCIENCE) paved the way to the well-known success of the Russian space program. Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite orbiting the Earth, was launched in 1957.

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

On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin ___ (SUCCESS) made the first human trip to space.

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

Since then, many other Russian and Soviet records in space ___ (EXPLORE) followed.

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

Even now, Russia continues to be the ___ (LEAD) in satellite launching.

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

It is also the sole transport provider for space ___ (TOUR). Other Soviet contributions to the development of space flights include the invention of space food, space suits, human spaceflight, and human space orbit.

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

St. Paul’s School I have sweet memories of my childhood and my family. I also ___ going to St. Paul’s School at the age of eleven. There I was made to work really hard for the first time in my life.

1) review
2) remind
3) remember
4) repeat

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

At my prep school I was top in almost every subject without having to do much more than any other child, and ___ I was called “swot” or “swotty”, it never worried me.

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

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

At St. Paul’s there turned ___ to be several boys who were clever, but none of them could touch me when it came to maths. I enjoyed a subject so many of my classmates seemed to dread.

1) over
2) off
3) in
4) out

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

I couldn’t wait for the next algebraic equation, a further geometric puzzle or the challenge of solving an arithmetic test in my head while others in the form sucked their pencils as they ___ pages of figures.

1) reflected
2) thought
3) considered
4) judged

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

I did quite well in other subjects and although I was not much good at games I took up the cello and was invited to join the school orchestra, but my form master ___ none of this was important because I was obviously going to be a mathematician for the rest of my life.

1) spoke
2) said
3) talked
4) told

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

I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, as I knew Dad had left school at fourteen to help my grandfather to sell fruit and vegetables at his small grocery. Mum had gone to London University, but she ___ had to work to keep Dad “in the style to which he’d become accustomed.”

1) still
2) even
3) just
4) so

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

Or that’s what I ___ to hear Mum telling him at breakfast from time to time.

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