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

Can fish hear? To divers, the underwater world is silent, and we call the ocean the “silent deep.” But to a fish, the underwater world isn’t silent at all. Fish can “hear” other fish ___ (MOVE) through the water.

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

Fish ___ (NOT HAVE) ears, but they do have a structure inside their head that is very much like our own inner ear.

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

This structure is sensitive to vibrations in the water, ___ (MAKE) by other fish.

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

Research ___ (SHOW) that some fish are sensitive to ordinary sounds, too. Catfish can probably hear everything we hear!

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

The White House The White House, in Washington, DC, is one of the world’s most recognized buildings. It is the home of the president of the United States. The original house ___ (BUILD) in the 1790s.

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

It was burnt down in 1814, and rebuilt ___ (LATE).

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

Since then, various presidents ___ (MAKE) changes to it over the years. The White House has 132 rooms, including the President’s Oval Office.

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

Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics This is certainly the greatest Games for Britain in more than a century, and realistically the greatest ever. The British were more ___ (SUCCESS) only once in 1908, in London, when a third of all the competitors were from the UK.

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

Gold medals came from 13 different sports as several made ___ (IMPRESS) breakthroughs, including in canoe slalom, road cycling, triathlon and taekwondo.

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

___ (SWIM), however, brought no gold medals in the Aquatics Centre.

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

They won just one silver and two bronze medals and a review was launched into their ___ (TRAIN).

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

Optimists may also conclude from London 2012 that the British team came within a whisker of at least five or six more Olympic titles. However, nobody can ___ (SERIOUS) suggest second place for the UK at the next Olympics.

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

If funding levels are maintained and progress continues for the next four years, the defense of third place could be a realistic ___ (EXPECT).

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

Philip and Michael Philip Masters was a millionaire now. ___, everyone in the club was aware that he had built up his own business from scratch after he had left his first job as a kitchen salesman.

1) Therefore
2) Moreover
3) However
4) Although

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

“Ready-Fit Kitchens” had started in a shed at the end of Philip’s garden. Later, he ___ in building a factory on the other side of town that employed more than three hundred people.

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

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

Ten years later, the financial press speculated that Philip’s business was worth a couple of million. When five more years later the company was taken over by the John Lewis Partnership, Philip got seventeen million pounds. ___ businessmen were as lucky as he was.

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

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

Philip was married for more than twenty years. He had fallen in love with Sally at first ___. Now Sally was chairman of the regional branch of the Save the Children Fund. Their son had just won a place at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Michael was the boy’s godfather.

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

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

Michael Gilmour could ___ be a greater contrast.

1) simply
2) nearly
3) hardly
4) merely

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

On leaving school, where Philip had been his closest friend, he ___ to find a permanent job. He started out as a trainee with Watneys, but lasted only a few months.

1) lacked
2) missed
3) failed
4) lost

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

Then he started to work as a reporter with a publishing company. He drifted from job to job. ___ Philip, he married his childhood sweetheart, Carol West, the daughter of a local doctor. They had a daughter. Michael seemed to have settled down at last.

1) Like
2) Alike
3) Familiar
4) Similar