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

The Emperor’s Seed Once there lived an old emperor who had no children. He ___ (NOT CAN) choose his successor for a long time.

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

Then he called all the young people in the kingdom together and said, «I’ll give each one of you a seed today. I want you to go home, plant it, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed.» A boy named Ling also got a seed. He came home and told his mother that he ___ (GROW) the best plant.

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

She helped ___ (HE) plant the seed. Every day he watered it but nothing grew.

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

A year passed and Ling took his empty pot to the palace while all the rest brought some beautiful plants. The emperor said, «Lying is the ___ (BAD) thing in the world. I gave you all spoilt seeds. Nothing grows from spoilt seeds». So Ling became the new emperor.

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

Roald Dahl Roald Dahl, a famous British writer, was Norwegian by birth. Dahl ___ (NAME) after the Polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. During the Second World War Dahl served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot.

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

Dahl became well-known in 1940s with works for both ___ (CHILD) and adults.

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

One of his highly popular tales was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Since 1945 his books ___ (PUBLISH) in almost 50 languages.

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

Entertaining guests The most usual way to entertain friends at home is to invite them for a meal, either in the evening or at lunch-time on a Sunday. When guests are invited for a meal, they often sit and chat while they have a drink before the meal, and coffee is ___ (USUAL) served afterwards.

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

Several close friends are sometimes invited at once to make a small party to celebrate a birthday, a child’s coming of age or some special ___ (ACHIEVE).

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

These parties are almost always ___ (FORMAL), there is no dress code and in summer, when the weather is fine, people may hold a barbecue in the garden.

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

Formal occasions, official receptions for foreign visitors, when written ___ (INVITE) are sent, rarely take place in people’s homes, although they did in the past.

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

The host often provides ___ (VARY) kinds of entertainment, or at least entertains guests with interesting stories and merry jokes.

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

The ___ (TASTE) meal is often followed by party games or dances which are intended to amuse or interest people in a way that gives them pleasure and make them enjoy the party.

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

Father Feels Starved In the summers, when we went to the country, we usually hired a temporary cook to go with us, so that Margaret could stay in town. We hated to leave her, but the idea was that somebody must stay to ___ care of the house.

1) help
2) make
3) give
4) take

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

But this didn’t work well. No matter how few the substitute’s faults were, Father had no patience with them. One summer, I remember, there was a nice woman Delia who got on well with Mother because she was so obliging and pleasant, but who didn’t ___ Father at all.

1) agree
2) suit
3) fit
4) match

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

“I don’t give a damn how obliging she is,” he ___ to say.

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

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

”If she won’t oblige me by cooking something fit to eat, she can go.” This didn’t sound unreasonable, but to ___ the truth, Delia cooked well enough for the rest of us.

1) speak
2) talk
3) say
4) tell

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

Mother tried to ___ no attention to Father’s grumbling. At breakfast Father would put down his coffee cup in disgust and roar: “Does she call this confounded mess coffee? Take it away!” And while Mother and Delia were frantically making a fresh pot, he would eat all of his omelet and bacon, and then declare that he was starved.

1) pay
2) draw
3) bring
4) turn

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

The longer Delia stayed with us, the more alarmed Father became. He ate heartily, but he said he didn’t feel nourished. At last Mother had to ___ that it was impossible to go on like this.

1) admit
2) adopt
3) decide
4) promise

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

“This is Delia’s last night. I do hope you will like Tobo, they say, he is a very good cook.” The next night, Father found out, that the first dish was too Oriental and the meat underdone. So Mother sent for Margaret. She knew she could always depend ___ Margaret.

1) in
2) on
3) at
4) of