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Задание 1

Установите соответствие между заголовками A-F и текстами 1-5. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

1. Joke                                                                D. Fairy- tale
2. Poem                                                              E. The most popular fiction
3. Gardening                                                      F. Retrospection

1.  I sit and wait

Does an angel contemplate my fate?

And do they know?

The places where we go

When we are grey and old?

1. -      What your husband needs, Mrs. Lopez, is a complete rest. I have prescribed sleeping pills.

• Very well, doctor. How should he take them?
• He shouldn`t, take them yourself.

1. I  claim to smoke for pleasure but I realize that slowly I am losing control and I hate that. I feel I`m already cooked.

• What kind of person are you really?
• I follow my first instincts. In a retrospect I am a “Why do you do that” type of person.
• If you are leaving in emergency what three things would you take?
• A toothbrush, a change of underwear, and my camera with a flash.

1. The genre of detective stories is one of the most popular nowadays both in Britain and in Russia. Detective stories together with romances are sold in millions of copies all over the world. That is what we prefer.

1. If you want your flower to grow constantly within summer, water them regularly and fertilizer in a proper way as the instruction demands.

Задание 2

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1-6 частями предложений, обозначенными буквами A-G. Одна из частей в списке A-G лишняя. Занесите букву, обозначающую соответствующую часть предложения, в таблицу.

William Blake (1757-1827) is today regarded as one of the most original English writers and artists, 1___________________________________________.

Born in London, he spent most of his years in the centre of the capital, but 2___________________; the streets of the metropolis became for him windows to infinite time and space.

Blake`s visions began early, and throughout his life he experienced what was, for him, direct contact with spirits of the long-dead, with angels, God and the devil. While modern psychiatry would consider Blake to have been under the spell of hallucinations, 3___________________________.

He was also not shy in describing the sources of his inspiration to his friends and colleagues. The eccentric reputation he thus gained did little to help him to commercial success; for most of his life his work was neglected, 4____________________________________.

But while his work was often out of step with his time, few of the best artists of his day doubted his technical ability. Trained as an engraver, he pushed forward the boundaries of that art by his own innovations, and combined it with his poetry to such an extent 5_____________________________. Among the best known (and easiest to understand) of his hand-illustrated books are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, 6________________________________________________.

1. and he often lived near to poverty  
2. yet during his lifetime he was largely ignored and often called mad
3. that one cannot be properly understood without the other
4. for him the vision were real and directly inspired and guided his art
5. his visionary powers transformed everything around him                                                        
6. which contain some of the simplest and most beautiful lyrics in the English language  
7. he never quite left home