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

Secret of the Sahara This is a story about a strange discovery made in the great Sahara Desert. In 1933 a French officer ___ (RIDE) in the Sahara through a deep canyon in a mountain range where no other European had ever been.

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

Suddenly he saw that the walls of the canyon ___ (COVER) with age-old carvings and paintings of strange unknown animals.

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

News of the discovery soon ___ (BRING) many experts of all kinds to the place.

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

Dinosaur Facts Dinosaurs lived on our planet millions of years ago. Some of them were very big. Now only their giant bones and footprints ___ (FIND).

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

Millions of years ago, the world did not look like it does today. Many of the animals that walked the land had bodies low to the ground and legs on the sides of their bodies. As time passed, the land changed. The animals changed too. Some of the animals now had legs under their bodies. They moved ___ (FAST) than the other animals.

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

___ (THIS) new animals were the first dinosaurs. They came in all sizes. Some were about 75 feet long.

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

The dinosaurs all died about 65 million years ago. Some people think that it got too cold for the dinosaurs. Other people think the dinosaurs ___ (NOT CAN) find enough food to eat. Still, no one is sure why the dinosaurs all died.

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

Tourism in Britain Tourism is already Britain’s fifth most important industry and it is also the fifth largest tourist industry in the world. It’s growing ___ (RAPID) : the number of people employed in the industry increased by more than 50,000 a year.

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

Britain has a rich and varied cultural heritage. ___ (COLOUR) royal ceremonies attract millions of visitors each year.

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London has an international reputation for its historic sites, museums and famous institutions. A city of infinite colour and ___ (VARY), London is both historic and unceasingly modern, at the forefront of fashion, music and art.

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

Historic cities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Bath are visited by large numbers of ___ (FOREIGN).

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

People who travel to Scotland, the Lake District and other areas of upland Britain find unique ___ (EXCITE) places and scenery which can vary over short distances.

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

Some of the most popular ___ (ATTRACT) outside London are the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, the Tudor ship in Portsmouth and National museum of Photography in Bradford.

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

Pierre and Faniry At the age of twenty-one, Pierre – that was the name of the winegrower – had been sent by his father to spend some time with his uncle in Madagascar. He ___ at the island and within two weeks he fell for a local girl called Faniry, or "Desire" in Malagasy.

1) reached
2) arrived
3) got
4) came

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

You could not blame him. At seventeen she was ravishing. In the Malagasy sunlight her skin was golden. Her black, waist-length hair, which hung straight beside her cheeks, framed large, fathomless eyes. It was a genuine love at first ___, for both of them. Within five months they were married.

1) sight
2) view
3) look
4) gaze

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

Faniry had no family, but Pierre's parents came out from France for the wedding, even though they did not strictly ___ of it, and for three years the young couple lived very happily on the island of Madagascar.

1) admit
2) agree
3) approve
4) accept

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

Then, one day, a telegram came from France. Pierre's parents and his only brother had been killed in a car crash. Pierre took the next flight home to ___ the funeral and manage the vineyard left by his father. Faniry followed two weeks later.

1) attain
2) attend
3) appear
4) apply

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

Pierre was grief-stricken, but with Faniry he ___ down to running the vineyard. His family, and the lazy, idyllic days under a tropical sun, were gone forever.

1) stayed
2) lodged
3) dwelled
4) settled

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

But he was very happily married, and he was very well-off. Perhaps, he reasoned, life in Bordeaux would not be so bad. Pierre thought he had married an angel, but soon he found ___ that he was wrong.

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

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

He had ___ a fatal mistake in marrying Faniry.

1) done
2) set
3) made
4) put