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

New Seven Wonders of the World: Teotihuacan Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in Mexico. It contains some of the ___ (LARGE) pyramids in America.

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Also, the archaeological site of Teotihuacan ___ (KNOW) for the so-called ‘street of the dead’ and its colourful frescos.

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Between 1AD and 250AD Teotihuacan ___ (BECOME) an important religious and economic centre when the construction of the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon had been finished.

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At that time as many as 200,000 people lived in Teotihuacan in ___ (THEY) 2,000 houses.

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New Seven Wonders of the World: the Forbidden City Today, the Forbidden City is a public museum that draws the attention of millions of travellers and tourists from around the world. Some people think that it is one of the ___ (POPULAR) sights in the world.

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It ___ (BUILD) as the Chinese imperial palace by one of the emperors. It was also the ceremonial and political centre of the Chinese government for almost five centuries.

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

Now it is known as the Palace Museum that covers 74 hectares ___ (INCLUDE) over 900 buildings with 9 999 rooms.

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

Invention of Crossword Puzzle Crossword puzzles are the most popular word puzzles in the world. However, their history is ___ (REAL) short.

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They were created in the 19th century in England, but the ___ (APPEAR) of the first published crossword puzzle took place in 1913 in the New York World newspaper.

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The author of the puzzle was Arthur Wynne, a ___ (JOURNAL) born in Liverpool, England.

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

Wynne’s crossword puzzle looked much ___ (DIFFER) from the crosswords used today and had no black squares.

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At first, only the New York World published such puzzles every week. But in 1924 the first collection of World puzzles was printed in book form and crossword puzzles immediately gained ___ (POPULAR).

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A major breakthrough in crossword puzzle development came with the personal computer. Although many computer specialists used to say that it was ___ (POSSIBLE) for a computer to create a crossword puzzle, software was developed which allows any person to construct their own crossword puzzles.

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

New York City: Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood Life is made up of little things: some unimportant memories from childhood that, in fact, shaped your character. I ___ on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the 1950s-60s...

1) brought up
2) grew up
3) went up
4) got up

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

...where family life was centred around old ___ of flats and small stores.

1) blocks
2) houses
3) groups
4) sets

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

Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had character. It was ___ with working families of Italian, German and Irish origin.

1) covered
2) held
3) loaded
4) filled

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

We shopped together with all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced the way our family lived. I absorbed the street life. It gave me an ___ that I could not have received in any other place. To me, it was home.

1) knowledge
2) information
3) education
4) training

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

In a recent walk around Third Avenue my eyes ___ signs of the old neighbourhood but couldn’t find any.

1) looked after
2) looked for
3) looked through
4) looked at

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

If I hadn’t been born here and someone described the area, it would be ___ to believe. It wasn’t because a few buildings had changed — everything had changed. The transformation began in the late 1950s and 60s when corporations replaced the old neighbourhood.

1) hard
2) rough
3) strange
4) heavy

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

In the early 1960s, the houses were pulled down. Families were forced to ___, the small stores went out of business and the old neighbourhood was changed forever. And now there is a lack of character in the transformed neighbourhood.

1) stay out
2) take out
3) move out
4) go out