Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего A–F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1–7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.

1. When reading these books, the speaker sees the world in an unusual way.

2. Thanks to these books, the speaker started to enjoy reading

3. These books made the speaker feel better when she/he was away from home.

4. Thanks to these books, the speaker found many new friends.

5. These books helped the speaker during a difficult period of study.

6. The things said by some of the characters help the speaker in difficult situations.

7. These books showed the speaker that friends are very important.

Вы услышите диалог. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А–G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not stated). Занесите номер выбранного Вами варианта ответа в таблицу. Вы услышите запись дважды.

A) Mike is five years older than his sister.

B) The family members live in different parts of the country.

C) Mike’s father had a very happy childhood.

D) Mike’s father retired because of his poor health.

E) Mike’s mother and father first met each other being on holidays.

F) Mike and his sister do not seem to be very close.

G) Mike and his sister were brought up in the same way.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

What, according to Michael Mitchell, is the biggest plus of Vintage Inns?

1) Picturesque locations.

2) Nostalgic landlords and landladies.

3) Tourists from all over the world.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

What point does Michael Mitchell make about Vintage Inns’ gardens?

1) They are perfect for any season.

2) All Vintage Inns must have them.

3) They are an alternative to dine in good weather.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

Why does not Michael Mitchell do anything to advertise his inns?

1) They are close to local places of interest.

2) They are not far from city centers.

3) They are situated around London.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

What is typical of all the Vintage Inns?

1) Traditional old style.

2) Victorian design.

3) Good food and atmosphere.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

According to Michael Mitchell, Vintage Inns menus

1) preserve traditional style in cooking.

2) modernize traditional dishes.

3) offer mainly international food.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

When is the menu likely to be more varied?

1) Saturdays.

2) Weekdays.

3) Sundays.

Вы услышите интервью. В задании запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

What is the booking policy of Vintage Inns?

1) It is not an accepted practice there.

2) You need to book well in advance.

3) Booking is possible only on Fridays

Установите соответствие заголовков 1–8 абзацам текста А–G. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании одна тема лишняя.

7 Toys to Boost Your Creativity

A. Spinning the layers of this desk toy can turn into an addictive exercise away from the screen. The sculpture transforms into various shapes providing a hands-on diversion, according to the Helicone’s designer John Edmark, a Stanford University professor who designed the kinetic sculpture. The 38 pieces of laser-cut plywood are attached to a brass tube and can be spun into either a helix or something resembling a pine cone.

B. Have a doodler in your life? Help them to up their creative game with a three-dimensional printing pen. A far cry from the ballpoint, the electric pen draws with heated bendable plastic to create cool designs in mid-air. The result is a 3D-artwork that can bring any types of doodles to life.

C. Having a debate with your colleague? Let a gnome settle it. Just give the Gnome-Be-Gone Decision Maker a spin to find your next answer. The pencil holder is made of recycled steel and spins to answer all of your executive decisions including “have a meeting,” “take personal day,” “ask HR” and “form focus group.”

D. Forget the Rubik’s cube or a Lego set. The Snaak construction toy has 64 interlocking cubes that can be twisted and shifted into endless possibilities. The pieces are attached with an elastic shock cord, so there are no parts to lose. The cube allows for an almost infinite number of shapes for the constant fidgeter — creating anything from sunglasses to robots is possible.

E. Need to lighten up a challenging project? You don’t need to leave your office. Tiny penguin-shaped bowling pins can turn a simple desk-side chat into a friendly mini-bowling match. Just remember to keep a scoreboard nearby.

F. For the kid in all of us comes this deluxe slingshot, which sits on a walnut base and can be personalised with initials. The sling can easily shoot crumpled paper all the way across a room (or into a nearby rubbish bin). And you’ll never run out of ammunition.

G. Fidgeting while thinking through complex problems can help you get unstuck. Use the blocks to find balance in just the right places or see how one wrong move can derail the rest. The oak stones have 10 facets for endless sculpture making.

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A–F частями предложений 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.

The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar. The one-of-a-kind discovery helps put flesh on the bones of these extinct creatures, opening a new window on the biology of a group A_______________________. Examination of the specimen suggests the tail was chestnut brown on top and white on its underside.

The study's first author, Lida Xing from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, discovered the remarkable fossil at an amber market in Myitkina, Myanmar. The 99-million-year-old amber had already been polished for jewellery and B______________. On closer inspection, however, it turned out to be the tail of a feathered dinosaur about the size of a sparrow. Lida Xing was able to establish by tracking down the amber miner C_________________.

Dr McKellar said examination of the tail's anatomy showed D_______________and not an ancient bird. Dr McKellar said there are signs the dinosaur still contained fluids when it was incorporated into the tree resin E_______________. This indicates that it could even have become trapped in the sticky substance F__________________.

Earlier this year, scientists also described ancient bird wings that had been discovered in amber from the same area of Myanmar.

1. who had originally dug out the specimen

2. it definitely belonged to a feathered dinosaur

3. the seller had thought it was plant material

4. while it was still alive

5. that dominated Earth for more than 160 million years

6. who wanted to do so just in case

7. that eventually formed the amber

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

12

What new details were added to the concept of Christmas, according to the first paragraph?

1) Sharing

2) Helping children

3) Decorating a Christmas tree

4) None of the above

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

13

Why was the character of Scrooge needed?

1) To understand the celebration in a new way

2) To show a bad man becoming a good one

3) To mock the greedy

4) To show how miserable and ugly lonely people are

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

14

London in the story is:

1) Posh

2) Dirty

3) Controversial

4) Dead

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

15

Which vision does Scrooge NOT see?

1) His childhood

2) His nephew

3) His death

4) His marriage

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

16

What happens to Scrooge at the end of the story?

1) He dies

2) He doesn’t change

3) He changes for the worse

4) He changes for the better

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

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What does the story teach us, according to the last paragraph?

1) We should live in reality, not in dreams

2) We should remember about our relatives

3) We should enjoy Christmas sincerely

4) We should forgive our enemies

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A Christmas Carol

This idea of Christmas, which the story itself did much to popularise, was already being preached about and written about in newspaper editorials when A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843. Christmas, in its new manifestation, would include the idea of giving as well as receiving, of looking after the less fortunate as well as eating well and spending time in good company.

For this reinvention of a tradition to become even more popular, an image was needed of a man who deliberately excluded himself from the cheer and the cosiness that the tradition, in all its fragility, implied. And such man was named Scrooge. In the story, this man would be taken through a personal purgatory in order to emerge purified. He would see many things that would horrify him or make him feel guilty and unloved, all the more to make the communal cheer of Christmas seem relished by those who had begun to enjoy it.

Part of the power of the book comes from the grim, unearthly picture it draws of London. Since London was a collection of villages in which anyone moving from a posh square to an important public building could catch a glimpse down the many side streets that housed the poor, in which privileged and pauper passed each other daily, then the novel itself gained nourishment from the friction between classes, from the closeness of the little streets to the great.

When Scrooge looks out of the window he sees the air “filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went”. The Ghost who propels Scrooge is merciless and relentless, forcing him, at first, to live in a time when past and present merge, like when his sees his native town and a younger version of himself. Some of the images he sees are of comfort and joy, but they are experiences in which he cannot share. They are disrupted by what he can hear, as the happy people are discussing him. One man, for example, who is enjoying domestic bliss, says: “I passed his office window ... and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”

Later, Scrooge will see the abode of the Cratchit family, a family of his clerk. “They were not a handsome family ... but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time.” Later, in Scrooge’s dark night of the soul, he will have also to witness his nephew and the nephew’s friends playing a parlour game in which they are asked to guess the identity of “an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets.” His name, of course, is Scrooge.

Such visions will seem almost innocent compared to the darker ones that are to come as Scrooge will be forced to witness his servants selling his clothes and his curtains as he lies on his deathbed. They will refer to him as “a wicked old screw”. Soon, he will be shown the relief and happiness of those in debt to him on hearing of his demise: “The only emotion, that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

When his redemption comes, as it must, because what happens to Scrooge in the night has a moral purpose, then the diction of the story itself will lighten, as Scrooge’s meanness lightens.

The word dream has been transformed, has been taken from its dark, cold, lonely, fearful place and, instead of being a watchword for frightful imaginings, filled with mockery and unbearable visions, has come to mean an opening of the self, a way of reimagining the world. And so, with that change, from nightmare to sweet reality, from miserliness to giving, from misery to merriness, Christmas came into being. Courtesy of Dickens, we live in its shadow still and on one cheery, idealised day of the year, as we force Scrooge to appear as merely a distant warning to us all, we become the happy, jolly Cratchits.

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What is the article author’s opinion about “A Christmas Carol”?

1) He thinks the idea is too simple

2) He thinks this book is still up-to-date

3) He thinks Dickens misled us

4) He thinks Scrooge lives in everyone

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Online ads for food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar ____________ at children are to be banned under new rules from advertisers.

AIM

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The Committee on Advertising Practice (CAP) said its restrictions would also apply to all other media where under-16s made up __________ than quarter of the audience.

MANY

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The rules are an attempt to help tackle obesity when kids nowadays ___________ more time online than ever before.

SPEND

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But critics say the new rules do not go far enough and may not have any impact. They point to the thousands of ___________ watching TV shows and videos online not specifically targeted at them, which these rules will not cover.

CHILD

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However, the advertisers' body said the move would lead to "a major reduction" in the number of "junk food" ads _________ by kids on platforms such as YouTube and children's games websites.

SEE

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Recent figures showed every _________ underage in the UK was overweight or obese by the time they left primary school.

THREE

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The rules _________ into effect next July. COME

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A campaign led by medical _____________is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.

PROFESSION

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Doctors Against Diesel claim 9,400 Londoners a year die ___________ from breathing in toxic fumes from diesel engines. Paris, Madrid, Mexico City and Athens have committed to a ban on diesel vehicles by 2025.

PREMATURE

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Opponents to the campaign have called the proposals "______________" and warned a blanket ban could "backfire".

PRACTICAL

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A spokesman for the mayor said he has no legal powers to ban cars in London and is calling on the government "to face its ____________ and implement a national diesel scrappage scheme now".

RESPONSIBLE

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According to the campaign, nearly 40% of all nitrogen oxides emissions and PM10___________, which is linked to decreased lung function, within London comes from diesel vehicles.

POLLUTE

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A spokesman for the Society of Motor ______________and Traders (SMMT) said the industry is investing "billions" to reduce emissions and the latest diesel cars are the "cleanest in history".

MANUFACTURE

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

32

1) a few 2) a little 3) few 4) little

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

33

1) sound 2) ding 3) music 4) bell

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

34

1) fame 2) spotlight 3) carpet 4) attention

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

35

1) rather 2) sufficient 3) efficient 4) enough

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

36

1) launched 2) opened 3) got 4) rocketed

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

37

1) push 2) pull 3) get 4) kick

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Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, Charles Worthington. Just 32____________high-profile male hairdressers whose names will, more often than not, ring a 33__________, if only for their range of styling products that sit on the shelves of shops up and down the country. But, given that women make up 88% of the industry, why is it a struggle to name any ladies in the 34_____________?

While women might be achieving success as well, but they were nowhere to be seen on the shortlist for the prestigious British Hairdresser of the Year category at last week's British Hairdressing Awards. "Women are being nominated but they don't get 35__________[nominations]," says Ruth Hunsley.

Karine Jackson says there are successful women in the industry who have 36___________their own ranges, even if they're not covered in the media.

"We work with the beauty press, but they seem to (37)__________ the men forward. Yet the magazines that they're in, the (38)_________magazine is about women, women's rights and things like that and you get to the beauty section and it's men."

38

1) all 2) whole 3) every 4) each

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Nicole who writes:

…Last week our family went to the famous Niagara Falls. It was my first visit there and it was fun! We enjoyed the weather and the splashes of falling water on our faces. It reminded us of our last rafting trip. Where can you see beautiful water sights in Russia, if at all? Have you ever gone rafting? What do you think about extreme sports in general?

By the way, we are going to Greece this summer…

Write a letter to Nicole. In your letter

• answer her questions,
• ask 3 questions about her trip to Greece

Write 100—140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

You have 20 minutes to do this task.

Comment on the following statement:

1. In any occupation discipline is more important than talent.

2. A person who is fluent in a foreign language can easily teach it.

What is your opinion?

Write 200–250 words.

Use the following plan:

− make an introduction (state the problem)

− express your personal opinion and give 2–3 reasons for your opinion

− express an opposing opinion and give 1–2 reasons for this opposing opinion

− explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion

− make a conclusion restating your position