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

Kid inventions Becky Schroeder was only 10 years old when she came up with the idea of the glo-paper. Two years ___ (LATE), in 1974, her invention was patented.

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

She became the ___ (YOUNG) female to ever receive a patent in the United States.

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

The idea came to her when she tried to do her homework in the family car, while her mother shopped for groceries. It ___ (GET) dark gradually, and she couldn’t see her notebook very well.

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

She ___ (NOT HAVE) a flashlight and imagined how nice it would be to have a paper that glows in the dark and allows you to write effortlessly without light. A year of research and experiment and she did it!

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

A white flag It’s always a problem for me to find my car in a huge parking lot. After reading an article with a piece of advice for people like me, I decided to follow it one day. I attached a tissue to the car’s antenna with a rubber band. The little white flag waving in the breeze ___ (SUPPOSE) to help me spot my car easily.

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

So I went ___ (SHOP).

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

When I ___ (COME) out, I quickly spotted a little white flag … and about ten others.

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

Morse Code Before phones, computers, and telegraphs were invented, messages would take months or even years to reach their destination. Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in April 1791, not knowing that he would be a famous ___ (INVENT).

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

Since the age of four, Morse had been interested in ___ (DRAW) and he wanted to become a painter. Mr. and Mrs. Morse were afraid that he couldn't make a living as a painter, so they made him a bookseller. He worked as a bookseller but at night he would paint.

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

___ (FINAL), his parents realized how he loved art, so they found the money for Morse to study art in London.

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

After a ___ (SUCCESS) artistic career (first painting historical scenes and then portraits), Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835.

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

Morse patented a working telegraph machine in 1837, with help from his ___ (BUSY) partners, Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail.

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

Morse used a dots-and-spaces code for the letters of the alphabet and for numbers. It was later improved to use dashes with dots and spaces. Since then, it has proved its ___ (EFFECTIVE) many times.

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

Alexander Sir Alexander Heathcote was an exact man. ___ people were like him. He was exactly six feet three-and-a-quarter inches tall, rose at seven o’clock every morning, joined his wife at breakfast to eat one boiled egg cooked for precisely four minutes, two pieces of toast with one spoonful of Cooper’s marmalade, and drink one cup of China tea.

1) Many
2) Little
3) Few
4) Much

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

He used to take a carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and ___ at the Foreign Office at promptly 8:59, returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.

1) reach
2) arrive
3) come
4) enter

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

Sir Alexander had been exact from an early age, as he was the only son of a general. But, unlike his father, he chose to serve his queen in the diplomatic service, another exacting calling. He ___ in progressing from a shared desk at the Foreign Office in Whitehall to third secretary in Calcutta to minister in Peking.

1) fulfilled
2) achieved
3) managed
4) succeeded

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

He was delighted when Mr. Gladstone ___ the opportunity to represent the government in China.

1) proposed
2) approached
3) offered
4) suggested

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

For some time he had been ___ in the art of the Ming dynasty.

1) involved
2) interested
3) fond
4) keen

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

This appointment would present him a perfect chance of ___ in their natural habitat some of the great statues, paintings and drawings he had previously been able to admire only in books.

1) observing
2) noticing
3) remarking
4) looking

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

When he arrived in Beijing, Her Imperial Highness wished him a successful term of office in his appointment and then the audience ___ to an end.

1) got
2) brought
3) came
4) went