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Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Sheila Sheila had taken on a heavy load of six classes for her first semester. She wanted to get her obligatory classes out of the 30 ______ as quickly as possible, so she took more than she could enjoy. But she found that she liked the ones she had signed up for, including an eighteenth-century English literature class, which 31 ______ writing. She knew it was good for her to write more than crime stories and mysteries. She had a lot of reading to do at night, and loved being challenged by the work. Most of her high school classes had been easy for her, and it was exciting to be taking more challenging courses, taught by professors she 32 ______. She noticed that one of her roommates studied as much as she did and they went to the library together. She was from China and a physics major. She’d wanted to 33 ______ Oxford and didn’t get in, but was hoping to try again and transfer to sophomore year. At the end of the first month, Sheila went home, delighted to see the family and have a weekend with them, 34 ______ she had brought home a lot of reading to do. She 35 ______ to write any of her own stories for a month, and was frustrated about it. Her sister Mary came to her room after dinner on her first night back, and they talked into the night. Mary was upset that Sheila had no social life, she preferred to spend every moment on her book. At last Sheila 36 ______ to finish the book.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Going on a hike Simon and I were in a school football team. Occasionally, the team took field trips to places outside of our neighbourhood on the weekends. Last week, our coach Mr Brown 30 ______ we were going on a hike through a forest in a state park. Simon is my best friend, and the two of us had both liked the trips to the museums, plays, and basketball games. We weren’t all that 31 ______ in the outdoors. 32 ______, Mr Brown claimed that we’d really enjoy discovering how amazing nature can be—especially for the big city kids. Simon and I were sure we’d rather be back home playing video games. Now we were in a state park, marching through woods as 33 ______as a grizzly bear’s fur. Our group of 12 kids had been hiking for a good 30 minutes when Simon and I grew bored and stepped away from the group to take some pictures. I looked around, shouting, “Check out that tree — it’s kinda cool. Doesn’t its shape 34 ______ you of an elephant?” “Ha! It does,” Simon replied. “And look at how those rocks are formed over there. You don’t see stuff like that in the city, now do you?” For the next few minutes, we got caught up in 35 ______ flowers, leaves, animals, and little caves we hadn’t seen before. The more we opened up to the forest, the more it opened up to us. We were beginning to see the amazing things around us. Out here, away from the city, I was starting to get what Mr Brown had 36 ______ us about how wonderful nature could be.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. At the lecture The opening lecture in Grand Hall was on the subject of British Literature. It was delivered by Professor Carlson. During the summer holidays, Emily and Peter had read all the authors on the assigned list. The list 30 ______ of 20 thick books. So, by the time they took their places in the lecture hall that Tuesday morning, they both felt 31 ______ that they were well prepared. Within moments of Professor Carlson starting his lecture, they both realized that they had done little more than read the texts. They had not 32 ______ the different influences on the authors that birth, upbringing, education, religion and mere circumstance had brought to their work, not given any thought to the fact that the gift of storytelling was not bestowed on any particular class, colour or creed. Professor Carlson continued his speech. Peter looked 33 ______ from his notes and saw the back of his head. He felt sick. He stopped listening to Professor Carlson’s views on Byron and continued to stare for some time before the student turned and began 34 ______ to his neighbour. Peter’s worst fears were 35 ______. It was Conrad. He was at the same university. 36 ______, he was taking the same course. Peter waited until Conrad had left the lecture theatre before he collected up his books and rose from his place. Emily followed him quickly.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Pat Pat checked her bags at the airport the next day. She carried her overstuffed hand luggage and boarded the plane to London, feeling like she was leaving home again but 30 ______ to see her old friends too. The two years in Europe after college had been the beginning of her adult life, 31 ______ she hadn’t changed physically. She still looked years younger than she was and could have passed for a teenager in ballet flats and jeans at twenty-four. She didn’t 32 ______ it but Sue and Vicky were at the airport to meet her, as a surprise when she came through customs. They held her tight when they hugged her and they both cried and so did Pat. She’d seen them at her sister’s wedding ten months earlier, but that was a long time too. Her friends headed for the garage to get the car. Both her friends ascertained immediately that Pat looked happy and well, and she seemed to have more 33 ______ after living on her own for two years. They thought that she was more beautiful than ever. Sue gave a sigh of relief as she started the car. Pat 34 ______ them all about her recent trip around Europe on the drive from the airport. Pat settled into her room that night. She unpacked her bags, and put her papers on her desk, and in a way, it was very odd. It was as though she had never left. She could 35 ______ believe she had been away for two years. She went downstairs for breakfast with Vicky the next morning. Pat informed Vicky that she had an offer from a big production company to film one of her books. However, she didn’t decide whether to 36 ______ it.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Donna Donna was happy. By the end of the week, she 30 ______ to finish and email the manuscript to her literary agent Polly Smith to hand in to the publisher. Polly informed her that her most recent book was currently climbing bestseller lists at a rapid rate. Donna had become a regular feature on it by then, but was never blasé about it. It thrilled her every time when she got emails from Polly congratulating her and 31 ______ her that one of her books was on the list week after week. This was another big bestseller. Donna wrote under the pseudonym Alexander Green. Her publishers were still 32 ______ that the books were written by a young woman, and her identity was the best-kept secret in the business. The publicity department occasionally planted an item about the author, that he was hunting in Wales, or researching a new book somewhere, or had just 33 ______ to his ranch in Texas to start work on a new thriller. Donna almost believed he was real, like some alter ego. She always 34 ______ it funny when they sent her a clipping about the elusive Alexander Green, or an alleged sighting of him somewhere unlikely like Somali. After her editor left, Donna decided to look 35 ______ a new apartment, since the second lease on hers was expiring in June. This time it took her two weeks to find one. It was slightly smaller than the one she’d had, but it suited her. She liked to have her own place to live, 36 ______ she missed her sisters and the warmth of being among them.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Jack Jack met three guys from school in London, and they had fun together before they all went back to real life again. Two of them were going to law schools, and one was getting married soon. As for Jack, he was turned down at the schools he 30 ______to, because he didn’t have a master’s yet. So he was going to 31 ______ courses at London University. All the prep schools had told him to come back again in a year, when he had his degree. But it still seemed a lifetime away, and he wasn’t 32 ______ in the general courses he’d signed up for at London University. He was living at home and his mother was driving him nuts. Everyone he knew was away. He felt like the only one 33 ______at home, and in desperation he took a job at Tracy’s in the Christmas rush, and didn’t even mind when they assigned him to the men’s department and had him selling shoes. Anything would have been better than sitting home by then, and he 34 ______liked the store. It was one of those large elegant department stores that smelled good and where all the people were well dressed. Tracy’s had once been a store which set the styles for everyone, and to some extent it still did, 35 ______ there appeared a new luxury store Paradise only three blocks away. Jack was fascinated by that, and he 36 ______telling the store manager what he thought they could do to compete with the new store, and the manager only smiled. Tracy’s didn’t compete with anyone. But Peter Clinton, the head of the store, was intrigued when he read a memo from Jack. He liked Jack’s ideas a great deal.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Ronda and Max Max and Ronda had become real friends and, perhaps, more than that. Max 30 ______ that Ronda meet him in Hartwood’s the week after the wedding of her sister. They hadn’t seen each other in five weeks and had been 31 ______ each other. She had a mountain of work to do at the store, especially with their online business now, and they had just hired another assistant whom Jane was training, and Ronda thought she should be there too. But she wanted to see him, and 32 ______ to go. She had been feeling down ever since the wedding. And after Hartwood’s he had business in California and he wanted her to join him. Ronda 33 ______ her mother she was leaving and meeting a friend and Belinda thought it was an excellent idea. Ronda looked exhausted, and her mother didn’t ask who she was meeting, since Ronda didn’t mention it herself. Belinda never pried, but she hoped it was 34 ______ a special friend. She thought it would 35 ______ Ronda good if it was. Ronda took a plane to California two days later, and a very small airplane from there to Hartwood’s. The second flight was bumpy and the landing was frightening, but she was so happy to be meeting Max that she didn’t care how bad the 36 ______ was. He was waiting for her at the airport and held her tightly in his arms. He could see all the strain and sorrow of the past month in her eyes. And all he wanted to do now was to make it better.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Julie Two things happened to Julie in the summer before her senior year at Chicago College. Her literary agent Celesta sold her second and third books to the same publisher for twice the money for each book as Julie got for the first one. The reviews on her first book had been excellent, and the publisher was in a 30 ______ to publish Heroes, her second book, in time for Christmas that year. Celesta hadn’t 31 ______ them her recently finished fourth book. Julie and Hadson, her editor, still wanted to 32 ______ it. And Celesta wanted to see how the next one did. If it was as successful as she hoped, she was going to ask for a lot more money on the next contract. The second thing that happened that summer was that totally by 33 ______, through the creative writing professor, she got a summer job in Washington working for a major publisher for two months. The professor called her and asked if she’d be interested, and Julie wanted the 34 ______. It was a different publisher than her own, and she wanted to learn more about the business. She discussed it with Celesta that night, who encouraged her to do it, and she 35 ______ the next day. It was an internship so the pay was minimal, but she had the money from her book deal, and still more than enough of what her father had left her. It was going to be an exciting summer for her. Julie loved being in Washington and learning more about publishing, and writing a completely different kind of book than she wrote before, 36 ______her first two books had terrific reviews.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Sunday Gloria Wald sat back in her chair with a small sigh. She was trying to relax listening to her favourite classical music. She had to 30 ______ that she was tired today. Sundays always tired her. Sometimes she thought she did more work at home than she did at the office. She always spent Sundays answering her personal correspondence, looking over the books kept by the cook and the housekeeper. She made lists of what she had noticed needed to be 31 ______ around the apartment and of items needed to complete her wardrobe. 32 ______, she had to plan menus for the week. It was tedious work, but she had done it for years, even before she’d begun to run the business. Once she’d taken over from her husband, she had still spent her Sundays 33 ______ to the household. She was also 34 ______ care of her grandson on the nurse’s day off. Those Sundays had been precious, a few hours with her grandson without anyone interfering, anyone taking him away. She 35 ______ those days. A tiny bright tear crept into her lashes. How she loved that child. She would have done anything for him. And she had. She 36 ______ to maintain the family business empire for him, carried the legacy from one generation to the next. It was her most valuable gift for him. And she had come to love the business almost as much as she loved her grandson.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Henry It was impossible for Henry to get to his office in half an hour. The wind was howling, and the cars were stuck in snowdrifts. Не couldn’t 30 ______ a day like that. The buses had been somewhere around Park Avenue, where they sat huddled like frozen dinosaurs, as one left the flock only very rarely to 31 ______ up a few brave travellers. The travellers rushed from doorways frantically waving their arms, sliding wildly to the curb. They mounted the buses with damp eyes and red faces, and in Henry’s case, icicles on his beard. It had been absolutely impossible to get a taxi. He had given 32 ______ after fifteen minutes of waiting and started walking south from his street. Henry often walked to work. It was only eighteen blocks from door to door. Today he soon 33 ______ that the biting wind was brutal, and he had only gone four more blocks when he had already been out of breath. A friendly doorman 34 ______ him to wait in the lobby. Henry thought that the other, more sensible souls when they caught their first glimpse of the blizzard that morning had 35 ______ not to go to work at all. Henry was sure that the store would be half empty. But he wasn’t the type to sit at home twiddling his thumbs or watching serials. And it wasn’t that he went to work because he was too compulsive. The truth was that Henry went to work six days a week simply because he loved the store very much, 36 ______ often, like today, he didn’t have to come.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. A new house When Martha got to the Mansfield Mansion by taxi the next morning, she stood at the gate for a long moment. She was trying to absorb the fact that this was now her home. She couldn’t relate to it, or even understand it, as the realtor opened the gate and she walked into the courtyard, 30 ______ up at the elegant windows and the dignified architecture. She had to 31 ______ it was one of the most beautiful houses she’d ever seen. Walking through it took her breath away. There was room after room of century-old grandeur, remarkable workmanship, exquisite moldings and carvings. She enjoyed the graceful splendor of the ballroom – 32 ______ she had no idea what they’d do with it. She couldn’t imagine living in a house that size. And in defiance of all reason, the house had begun to feel like theirs by the time she had gone floor to floor, opened every closet and explored every nook and cranny, and figured out which rooms to put the children in. And she earmarked a room on the floor above, with an amazing 33 ______ of the lake, as her office. She began 34 ______ lists of what they needed – electronics, Wi-Fi, Internet connections for all of them. She noticed that most of the antique curtains were still in surprisingly good 35 ______ and decided to continue using them. She had come to the conclusion that the house didn’t need any work, 36 ______ paint and a lot of furniture.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. A new house When Martha got to the Mansfield Mansion by taxi the next morning, she stood at the gate for a long moment. She was trying to absorb the fact that this was now her home. She couldn’t relate to it, or even understand it, as the realtor opened the gate and she walked into the courtyard, 30 ______ up at the elegant windows and the dignified architecture. She had to 31 ______ it was one of the most beautiful houses she’d ever seen. Walking through it took her breath away. There was room after room of century-old grandeur, remarkable workmanship, exquisite moldings and carvings. She enjoyed the graceful splendor of the ballroom – 32 ______ she had no idea what they’d do with it. She couldn’t imagine living in a house that size. And in defiance of all reason, the house had begun to feel like theirs by the time she had gone floor to floor, opened every closet and explored every nook and cranny, and figured out which rooms to put the children in. And she earmarked a room on the floor above, with an amazing 33 ______ of the lake, as her office. She began 34 ______ lists of what they needed – electronics, Wi-Fi, Internet connections for all of them. She noticed that most of the antique curtains were still in surprisingly good 35 ______ and decided to continue using them. She had come to the conclusion that the house didn’t need any work, 36 ______ paint and a lot of furniture.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30–36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30–36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Sandy Sandy called Dan Atkins the following week, to give Berta Canning, her literary agent, plenty of time to get in touch with him and send him the manuscript he could read. She hoped he would 30 ______ to help her to edit her first book. And when Dan Atkins answered, he seemed as though she’d woken him out of a sound sleep. She 31 ______ profusely, and he didn’t sound happy to hear from her. There was a long silence and then he told Sandy to come on Saturday. He explained that he lived near the university campus where he 32 ______ to teach. She wasn’t looking forward to meeting him, but she didn’t want Berta to be angry with her either. So, she bicycled over to his address on Saturday. When Sandy got there, he took forever to answer the bell. She was 33 ______ about to leave when he opened the door. She followed him upstairs to a large living room that would have been lovely if he tidied it once in a while. There were stacks of books everywhere, a pile of papers, a mountain of manuscripts on the desk and half eaten food on the coffee table. He obviously lived alone and needed a housekeeper desperately. He was as untidy as his living room. He had a long, unkempt beard, a mane of wild white hair that 34 ______ Sally of Albert Einstein. He was wearing jeans, a sweater with holes in it, and tennis shoes. Sandy could 35 ______ figure out his age. He seemed to be about seventy, 36 ______ Berta told her later that he was only sixty. He said that he liked her book.