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

The North Pole has melted again Two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic have caused a lake to begin forming. To be clear, the water ___ (SURROUND) the pole is not sea water from the ocean.

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

It is ___ (MELT) ice water resting on a layer of ice below. “It’s a shallow lake. It’s a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake,” writes William Wolfe of Canada.com.

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

That lake started to form on July 13 during a month of abnormally warm weather – temperatures were 1-3 degrees Celsius higher than average in the Arctic Ocean this month. In addition, the weather is likely to get ___ (BAD) over the coming week. An Arctic cyclone will bring strong winds and rain.

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

Snow in Brazil According to the National Meteorology Institute, 87 towns in all three of Brazil’s southern states saw snow and freezing rain last week. The temperature ___ (GO) below zero.

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

In some towns temperature as low as minus 7 degrees Celsius was registered. It was the ___ (ONE) time that it snowed in Florianopolis, and Curitiba, the capital of the state of Parana reported snow after 38 years.

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

Snow is rare in Brazil. Last year it ___ (FALL) out only in a handful of towns in the mountainous areas.

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

This year because of heavy snowfalls and low temperature a state of emergency ___ (DECLARE) in several towns of the country.

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

Don’t swim with ‘Dusty’ Dolphins are known for their gentle personality. But the celebrity dolphin, ‘Dusty’, one can see in Doolin Harbour, County Clare, Ireland is different.This female dolphin is well-known for her ___ (AGGRESSION) behaviour.

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

One day she was bathing next to a wall and stone steps of the harbour, with two ___ (SWIM) nearby.

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

She soon turned sinister as she began to bash her tail on the surface of the water in a sign of anger and ___ (IRRITATE), causing enormous splashes.

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

___ (SUDDEN) the dolphin surged through the water and hit a woman, leaving her screaming in pain.

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

The ___ (FORTUNATE) womanbegan shouting for help. She was dragged onto the steps by a bystander, but Dusty soon came back and menacingly raised her head out of the water before swimming away.

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

Dusty was first spotted in the waters as far back as 2000. At times she can seem ___ (FRIEND) and welcoming of the attention, but she can quickly turn nasty. Lifeguards in the area are now putting out red flags whenever Dusty is spotted in the area and have asked tourists not to swim with the dolphin.

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

My family I don’t believe anyone could describe me as a snob. However, I do believe that the saying “There’s a place for everything, and everything has its place” ___ equally well to human beings.

1) concerns
2) applies
3) affects
4) influences

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

I was born in Yorkshire in Victorian times and I can safely ___ that during this period my family played a considerable role.

1) say
2) speak
3) tell
4) talk

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

My father, Sir Raymond Hardcastle, was not only an inventor and industrialist of great imagination and skill, but he also built up one of the nation’s most successful companies. At the same time he always ___ his workers as if they were all part of the family.

1) counted
2) dealt
3) judged
4) treated

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

Indeed it was this example that he ___, whenever he dealt with those less fortunate than himself that has been the benchmark by which I have attempted to conduct my own life.

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

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

I have no brothers and just one elder sister, Amy. ___ there were only a couple of years between us, I cannot pretend that we were even particularly close, perhaps because I was an outgoing child, while she was shy and reserved.

1) however
2) although
3) therefore
4) nevertheless

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

Her only interests in life were gardening, crochet work and the occasional visit to Scarborough festival. She never ___ an attempt to get out of the family circle.

1) made
2) did
3) took
4) held

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

Gerald and I first met when I had been a houseguest at Lord Fanshaw’s country home in Norfolk. As it turned ___, we had much in common. We were married in July 1895 and our son Guy was born a year later. My father simply doted on Guy and left everything to him.

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