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

No more selfies! Modern social media is full of people’s selfies. People use various filters to look ______ (GOOD) than they really are, but is it worth it?

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

Psychologists point out that dealing too much with selfies can ruin a person’s self-esteem. We should all stop ______ (TAKE) so many selfies.

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

We ______ (NOT NEED) to create a false image of ourselves to be loved by others.

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

Oranges Do you like oranges? This bright fruit is very popular all over the world. Oranges ______ (COME) to the West from Asian countries only in the 15th century.

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

You may be surprised to know that ______ (THAT) oranges were not in fact orange – they were green.

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

Since that time people ______ (LEARN) to make many things from oranges – from orange juice to tasty marmalade.

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

Vladislav Tretyak Vladislav Tretyak is an outstanding Russian hockey player. He is considered to be one of the best goaltenders in the history of ice hockey. He was born in 1952 in a family of a military pilot and a PE teacher. So, it was only ______ (NATURE) that Tretyak did much sport in his early childhood.

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

He tried ______ (VARY) sports and wanted to excel in all of them, but fell in love with ice hockey at the age of 11.

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

He entered the Children and Youth Sports School of the CSKA, where he began playing goaltender when he saw that, ______ (ACTUAL), no one else had the desire or courage to play the position.

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

By the age of 19, Tretyak was already famous not only in Russia, but also on the ______ (NATIONAL) level.

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

His great ______ (PERFORM) in the Summit Series in 1972 earned him a massive fan base all over the world. Tretyak retired at the age of 32 to spend more time with his family. He is the current president of the Ice Hockey Federation in Russia.

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

A hard task I barely made the 8:30 a.m. Saturday train to Huntington, a town on the north shore of Long Island. The railroad stopped service because of the snowfall the night before; sleepy commuters wearing smart suits crowded in the train. They seemed really tired and eager to get home and finally ______ the rest of the weekend with their families.

1) admire
2) enjoy
3) adore
4) envy

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

I had planned on using this one-hour train ride to get a good start on a short story I was ______ to submit to a magazine on Monday morning.

1) suspected
2) succeeded
3) supported
4) supposed

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

But standing there, sandwiched between a stroller and an exhausted businessman, I couldn’t even get my journal out of my backpack. It was absolutely impossible to compose my thoughts on its pages. Of course, it was a ______ for me as I was forced to relax instead of struggling with my blank journal pages.

1) refund
2) revenge
3) relief
4) regret

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

Frankly ______, I’d been struggling to come up with an idea for the story for days, my thoughts circling aimlessly in the warehouse of my mind.

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

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

The harder I ______ for the idea, the emptier my head seemed.

1) looked
2) watched
3) glanced
4) saw

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

And then, unexpectedly, as I was trying hard to maintain my balance, pressed against the bathroom door and a crowd of commuters, I finally got an idea – or rather, an idea for how to get an idea. I decided that by the end of ______ adventure I have this weekend, I will write a short story about it.

1) wherever
2) whenever
3) whatever
4) whoever

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

I told my friend Bennett about my decision when I was getting inside his car at the station. And the two of us set ______ on our adventure.

1) round
2) off
3) over
4) down