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

A tasty doctor Food can help you to stay healthy. Even in ancient times people ______ (KNOW) how important it was to eat the right food.

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

For example, one should eat apples and carrots to keep their ______ (TOOTH) healthy.

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

If you often feel tired, you should give up ______ (EAT) junk food and eat more fruit and nuts because wrong food can damage your health.

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

The Dead Sea Do you know anything about the Dead Sea? In fact, it ______ (NOT BE) a sea, it is a lake.

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

It ______ (CALL) a sea because it has a lot of salt in it.

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

It actually has nine times ______ (MUCH) salt than any other natural body of water, and nothing can live in it.

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

People ______ (KNOW) about it since the 2nd century BC. Now this place is in danger because of tourism and mining.

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

Alexey Savrasov Alexey Savrasov is an outstanding Russian painter. He is considered to be the ______ (CREATE) of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant.

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

He became interested in painting very early and tried ______ (VARY) styles and techniques.

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

He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MSPSA) in 1850 and began to ______ (SPECIAL) in landscape painting.

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

In 1857 Savrasov became a teacher in the MSPSA, and his best students there were Isaac Levitan and Konstantin Korovin. After his marriage his home became one of the most ______ (INTEREST) places for artists and collectors.

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

______ (FORTUNATELY), Savrasov sank into depression after some tragic events in his personal life.

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

His work suffered ______ (DRAMATIC) and he spent the last years of his life in poverty. Still, we admire his works and will never forget him.

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

A summer by the lake Barbara and Michael were sister and brother – twelve and eight years old. They were ______ vacation, but Barbara was bored out of her mind.

1) to
2) on
3) in
4) at

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

Ever since Michael was born, their family had been coming to Emerald Lake, a crystal blue lake which stretched as far as the eye could ______.

1) glance
2) look
3) watch
4) see

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

They had stayed in the same cabin, an old wooden house just several steps from where the water met the sandy beach. And ever since Barbara was ten, she had hated coming here. The mosquitoes got bigger every year. By now they were larger, it seemed, than her fist. The humidity got worse, and the rain became more constant. If this is what people meant by climate change, she thought, she was not ______ with it.

1) affected
2) satisfied
3) interested
4) convinced

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

Everybody in the family knew about it as Barbara never ______ to love this place.

1) presented
2) preserved
3) pretended
4) previewed

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

She spent most of the day reading in bed, stretched out on the woollen blanket on top of the rock-hard mattress, wishing she was at home with her friends doing normal summer stuff: going to the mall, watching movies, eating popsicles in the park. She wished she was anywhere but Emerald Lake. ______, there was nowhere else Michael wanted to be.

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

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

He didn’t mind the humidity, he found the constant rain soothing, and thought the giant mosquitoes were the most amazing animals he had ever seen. Michael paid ______ to every little animal and plant around him.

1) affection
2) connection
3) attention
4) relation

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

He didn’t have time for reading on a woollen blanket because he was in love with the lake. The boy was ______ the most of his summertime by the lake.

1) turning
2) keeping
3) giving
4) making