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XII. Прочитайте текст и укажите, верны (True) или нет (False) следующие за ним утверждения.
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TOP CITIES
Have you ever walked around a city and thought, “this is Paradise”? Or maybe, “this is the ugliest, most polluted, dangerous place I’ve been to and I can’t wait to get out”?
Most of us have. And that’s why most of us want to know about the place before we go there. One thing we can do is to read a good guide book. Another is to look at a new survey conducted by William Mercer, one of the world’s largest Human Resources consultancies.
Mercer decided to judge some of the world’s great cities. They produced their results by giving marks for various criteria. They included political, economic and social environment, healthcare, education, recreation and transport infrastructure.
So, which are the best cities to live in, and which should we avoid? In joint first place were Vancouver, Berne, Vienna and Zurich while Sydney, Geneva, Auckland and Copenhagen came second. Swiss cities occupied three of the top ten places, making it the single most successful country of all those surveyed.
New York was used as the base city with a score of 100, which put it in 50th place. Overall, US cities suffered because of high crime rates. The highest ranked city was Honolulu with 104 points.
For Londoners, the news was not too bad. London was slightly ahead of New York with 101.5. Its poorest scores – six out of ten – were awarded for its climate and traffic. Bottom of the list was Brazzaville, in the Congo, where there has been a civil war for many years.
The Mayor of London said that it was unfair to compare large international cities with small cities since smaller ones were much easier to run. “You have to look at cities of five million people plus. On that basis we’re much better than Tokyo and New York,” said he.
1. William Mercer is a Human Resources Manager at a consulting firm.
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2. To judge some of the world’s greatest cities, they assessed many factors, including economic and political situation in the country.
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3. Vancouver was at the bottom of their list.
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4. Swiss is a very comfortable country to live in.
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5. London rank was lower because of its notorious climate and bad criminal situation.
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6. Some people think that the judgment was not fair because we can’t compare big cities with smaller places.
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Грамматический тест № 2 (Впишите букву правильного ответа ‘a’, ‘ b’ или ‘c’)
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| IV. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого. | IV. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого. | ||
| V. Выберите соответствующую форму сказуемого в Past Simple или Present Perfect Tense. | VI. Определите время сказуемого. | ||
| VII. Выберите соответствующий вспомогательный глагол в следующих отрицательных предложениях. | VIII. Выберите соответствующий модальный глагол. | ||
| IX. Выберите соответствующий модальный глагол или эквивалент. | X. Выберите соответствующую форму неопределенного местоимения. | ||
| XI. Выберите соответствующую форму производного неопределенного местоимения. | XII. Прочитайте текст и укажите, верны (True) или нет (False) следующие за ним утверждения. | ||
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Тема «Мой город»
The Capital of the Urals
Ekaterinburg is one of the largest and most dynamic cities in Russia. It is situated in the Urals on the border of Europe and Asia and has all the best traditions of European and Asian cultures.
Its population is about 1.5 mln people. Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723 by order of Peter the Great and under direct supervision of two statesmen: V.N Tatischev, a Russian historian and geographer, and V.I de Gennin, the best metallurgical engineer in Russia in the 18 century. Our region was chosen because of its natural resources.
The official date of the city’s foundation is November 18, 1723. It got town status in 1796. Between 1924 and 1991 the city was known as Sverdlovsk, after the Bolshevik party leader Yakov Sverdlov.
Today Ekaterinburg is a large industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia and the Urals.
The main industries are machinery, metal processing and ferrous and non-ferrous metals. There are lots of industrial enterprises, firms and joint stock companies. The city ranks third in the scientific sphere. Thousands of students study at its universities, academies and colleges. The biggest and most famous universities are Ural Federal University (on base of Ural State University and Ural State Technical University), Ural State Pedagogical University, Ural State University of Economics, etc.
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Ekaterinburg is famous for its theatres, among which are some very popular theatre companies: Opera and Ballet House, Musical Comedy Theatre, Drama Theatre, Kolyada Theatre, etc. The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is also very popular in Russia and in Europe. There are more than 30 museums and art galleries in the city.
In the 21 century Ekaterinburg is becoming one of the most attractive and comfortable cities in Russia and it is enhancing its role as the economic, commercial, cultural and scientific capital of the region. Modern Ekaterinburg is the city of wide streets, big shops, hotels, fine parks and squares. The citizens of Ekaterinburg are proud of their native city.
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Country and people
The United States is a large country with many different natural wonders. It goes from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the islands of Hawaii in the Pacific, and from cold, snowy northern Alaska to sunny Florida in the southeast. The US has almost every kind of weather. Also, it has many kinds of land – rocky coasts, dry empty deserts, and powerful rivers, lakes of all sizes, high mountains, great forests, sunny beaches, and lands of endless winter.
More than 250 million people live in the U.S. The people of the United States are a mixture of many different nationalities.
The United States is a young country. Its written history is a few hundred years old. It is sometimes, in fact, called the “New World”. Over the last four hundred years millions of people have come to start a new life in this “New World”.
Americans are not afraid of new ideas. They built the first skyscrapers and they put the first man on the Moon. They like to be modern. They like exciting, modern cities, new houses, and new cars.
At the same time, Americans love old things. They like to visit historic houses and museums. They build old pioneer houses and remember the days of the “Wild West”. Americans are interested in old traditions, but they are good at making new traditions too.
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The stars and stripes
The “Stars and Stripes” is a popular name for the red, white, and blue flag of the United States. This is also the name of the national anthem of the United States.
Every country has its own flag. In 1776, the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The United States was born. George Washington was the general of the American Army. He decided that the United States needed a flag, too.
There is a story that General George Washington asked Betsy Ross to make the flag. She used three colours: red, white, and blue. The colour red was for courage, white was for liberty, and blue was for justice. She sewed thirteen red and white stripes and thirteen white stars in a circle on a blue square. The thirteen stars and stripes stood for the number of states at the beginning of the United States. On June 14, 1777, Congress voted this flag to be the national flag.
Later, new states joined the United States. This was a problem for the flag. In 1818, Congress made another law about the flag. The thirteen stripes stayed the same, but for each new state there was a new star. Today, there are fifty stars on the flag. Hawaii was the last star in 1959.
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New York City
New York is the largest city in the United States. More than eight million people live there. New York has very tall buildings. It is the city of sky-scrapers. It is also the biggest port in the world. Thousands of ships come to the port of New York each year.
New York is a very cosmopolitan city. People from many countries came to live in New York. Three-quarters, or 75 percent, of the people in New York City come from five groups. The groups are: blacks, Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, and Irish. The other quarter, 25 percent, comes from all over the world.
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New York City is the center for culture in the United States. It has the finest museums and the best art galleries in the country. If you want to see a play, there are many theatres you can go to on Broadway. The street called Broadway is the center for theater in the United States.
People call New York City the “Big Apple”. Jazz musicians in the 1920s gave New York this name. When a musician says he is going to the Big Apple, it means he is the best. Today, New York is still the US center for art and business.
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