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

The History of Man How long has man been on earth? Let us travel 5,000 years into the past. We are in the days before man learned to write. Recorded history ___ (NOT BEGIN) yet.

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

Yet there are people, about five million of them, ___ (LIVE) on all five continents.

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

The ___ (EARLY) true human being, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe more than 50,000 years ago.

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

Greek myths: Daedalus Daedalus was a brilliant architect and inventor of ancient Greece. He was so brilliant that King Minos of Crete ___ (KEEP) him as a prisoner.

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

The King ___ (NOT WANT) to let him go back to his home in Athens.

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

Daedalus lived with his son Icarus in a tower of the palace, and King Minos made him invent weapons of war that would make his army and navy even ___ (POWERFUL) than they already were.

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

Although Daedalus and Icarus had every comfort, they longed to return home to Athens. Daedalus looked at the sea, and he realised that even if they managed to slip out of the tower and find a little boat, they would not be able to sail far. One of King Minos’s ___ (SEAMAN) would spot and catch them very soon.

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

Global Language It is difficult to tell exactly how many languages there are in the world today. ___ (SCIENCE) say there are about 2,700 languages, but no one has ever made a more definite count.

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

In most countries there are at least two native languages, and in some cases — as in Cameroon — there are hundreds. The number of languages ___ (NATURAL) changes as tribes die out or linguistic groups are absorbed.

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

Nowadays, globalization influences the ___ (DEVELOP) of languages. New words appear, existing words acquire new meanings, native words give way to international terms.

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

Almost all languages change. A rare exception is written Icelandic, which has changed so little that ___ (SPEAK) of modern Icelandic can read sagas written a thousand years ago.

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

If you drew a map of Europe based on languages, it would be different from a conventional map. For example, Switzerland would practically ___ (APPEAR), becoming part of the surrounding areas of French, Italian, and German.

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

Italy, too, would appear on the map not as one language, but as a whole ___ (VARY) of broadly related but often mutually incomprehensible dialects.

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

Vicky Vicky Forth was an optimist, and she had been for all of her life; even when she was a child, her ___ had been positive.

1) approach
2) position
3) attitude
4) viewpoint

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

Her glass was always half full, never half empty; tomorrow would be a much better day than today; the future was full of promise and success. She ___ her best to look at the bright side of things.

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

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

How right she had been to encourage her daughter to be optim istic, to set her sights on Oxford University. W omen were not yet adm itted to membership of the University, but they could ___ lectures, take courses, and sit for examinations.

1) visit
2) attend
3) observe
4) present

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

Grace Rose would be able to do all of these things, and would be well ___ after by Vicky’s dear old friend Millicent, now widowed, who had a lovely new house in Oxford. It had been an inspired idea to write to her.

1) watched
2) seen
3) viewed
4) looked

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

Vicky was relieved and happy for her daughter, who was a wonderful student. She hoped to be a historian one day. Vicky always thought that ___ up children was so exciting.

1) bringing
2) rearing
3) growing
4) raising

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

She remembered that her husband was waiting for her downstairs. After ___ on her dress and stepping into matching rose-colored shoes, Vicky went back to her dressing-table and selected a pair of diamond earrings and a m atching brooch made of silver.

1) wearing
2) trying
3) holding
4) putting

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

She looked at herself in the large looking glass in one corner of the room. Vicky ___ she liked her appearance.

1) determined
2) chose
3) decided
4) resolved