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

What country has no rivers? Hard to believe it, but there is such a country! Libya ___ (LOCATE) in North Africa and borders on the Mediterranean Sea.

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

It’s the ___ (FIFTEEN) largest country on Earth. But more than 90 percent of Libya is desert, and there’s not a single permanent river in Libya!

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

This huge country, more than four times the size of California, has a ___ (SMALL) population than a number of cities in California.

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

Libya ___ (BECOME) an independent nation in 1951.

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

A lesson on efficiency I remember my last year at school very well. There were three boys ___ (NAME) William in my class.

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

Miss Fisher, one of the teachers, called them all William, and we ___ (NOT KNOW) which one she was talking to.

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

One day, during a lesson on efficiency, she thundered, “William, put that gum you ___ (CHEW) in the wastepaper bin at once!” All three of them started to rise, paused, then walked to the front of the class to dispose of their gum. The teacher beamed. “Three for one! Now that's efficiency.”

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

When was the parachute invented? Have you ever felt like jumping out of a plane? Plenty of people have, but ___ (THANKFUL) most of them did it after parachutes had been invented.

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

Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480s. He had over 100 ___ (DRAW) that illustrated his theories on flight.

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

He designed a parachute in the 1480s, though he didn’t try it out. Another ___ (INVENT), Faust Vrande, jumped using a similar design in 1617.

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

In 1783, around the same time as the first hot-air balloon, Sebastien Lenormand invented a parachute, which he demonstrated by jumping from a tree, but it was only four meters high. A few years later, having refined his design, he made a ___ (SUCCESS) jump from a taller tower.

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

In 1785, Jean Pierre Blanchard used a dog to test his parachute design. The dog was fine, and so was Blanchard when he used the parachute in 1793 to escape a balloon accident. These early parachutes didn’t catch on because there weren’t any flying machines around to make them ___ (REAL) useful.

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

The invention of airplanes has made parachutes important. Since then, their ___ (EFFECTIVE) has been proved many times.

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

Daniel and Diana Daniel and Diana were good friends. They had majored in economics at Bristol University in the early 1980s. Then Daniel met Rachel, who had arrived a year after them, and fell in love with her at first ___.

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

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

In Rachel he found everything he was looking ___ in a wife. They married the day he graduated, and after they returned from their honeymoon, David took over the management of his father’s farm in Bedfordshire.

1) at
2) for
3) after
4) into

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

Three children followed in quick succession, and Diana was proud when she was asked to be godmother to Sophie, the eldest. Daniel and Rachel had been married for twelve years; they ___ ever quarelled.

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

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

___ married couples were so happy.

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

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

___ Diane was regularly asked to spend the weekend with them in the country, she only accepted one invitation out of three. She would have liked to join them more often, but since her divorce she had no desire to take advantage of their hospitality.

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

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

Diane felt tired. She ___ her work, but it had been an awful week.

1) enjoyed
2) pleased
3) admired
4) approved

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

Two contracts had fallen through, her son had been dropped from the school soccer team, and her daughter had never stopped ___ her that her father didn’t mind her watching television when she ought to be doing her homework. “I will survive.” Diana smiled and thought about Daniel’s birthday. She had forgotten to get him a present.

1) saying
2) speaking
3) telling
4) talking