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1.Banks are interested in keeping most of their money in circulation so that it
should bring them profit.
2.In 1913 H. Ford began to use assembly-line techniques in his plant.
3.Many countries in Asia have an absolute advantage in manufacturing
electronic goods.

For most visitors,the first taste of England is touchdown at Heathrow International Airport which is only a 220 taxi fare front the heart of the city. As soon as one gets off the plane,the busy, commercial atmosphere of London immediately becomes apparent. First on the list is a trip to the college chosen while overseas as the place to study English in Britain.
Most colleges are located close to the city and are surprisingly modern and welcoming. They are always within easy travel distance of the bus route or a tube station.
On intake day, students gather in the common room of their chosen college and are given an orientation to the programme they are about to embark upon.

WHAT MAKES ALL PEOPLE KIN
People all over the world are very fond of sports and games. That is one thing in which people of every nationality and class are united.

The most popular outdoor winter sports are shooting, hunt­ing, hockey and, in the countries where the weather is frosty and there is much snow — skating, skiing and tobogganing. Some people greatly enjoy figure-skating and ski-jumping.

Summer affords excellent opportunities for swimming, boating, yachting, cycling, gliding and many other sports. Among outdoor games football takes the first place in public interest; this game is played in all the countries of the world. The other games that have firmly established themselves in favour in different countries are golf, lawn-tennis, cricket, volley-ball, basket-ball, and so on. Badminton is also very popular.

All the year round many people indulge in boxing, wres­tling, athletics, gymnastics and track and field events. Scores of young girls and women go in for callisthenics.

Among indoor games the most popular are billiards, ta­ble tennis, draughts and some others, but the great interna­tional game is chess, of course. The results of chess tournaments are studied and discussed by thousands of enthusiasts in different countries.

SPORTS AND GAMES POPULAR IN ENGLAND

— What would you say are the most
popular games in England today?

— Well, I suppose football, that
is, soccer or rugger, and cricket.

— What are the other outdoor
games?

— Oh, there's tennis, hockey,
golf, and so on. Tennis is played all the year round — on hard courts or grass
courts in summer, and on hard or covered courts in winter.

— What about horse-racing?

— I should say that is one of the
most popular sports in Great Britain. Then there are, of course, walking-races,
run­ning, swimming and boxing.

— I've been told that there are
no winter sports in En­gland.

— Well, you see, the English
winter isn't very severe as a rule, and we don't often have the chance of
skiing, skating or tobogganing, but winter is the great time for hunting,
provid­ed the ground is not too hard.

— Is there any golf to be had
near London?

— Oh, yes, any amount. There are
dozens of good golf-links within an hour or so of London. You ought to join a
golf club if you're keen on the game.

— I think I shall if I get the
chance. What about indoor games?

— Well, there's chess, billiards,
cards, table tennis... By the way, do you play billiards?

— Well, I do, but of course, I'm
not a professional or a champion, just an ordinary amateur, and not a very good
one at that,

Tradition
We all know when New Year is, right? Well, actually, it depends which calendar you use. Russians are lucky, they celebrate twice.

People counted time in many different ways until the Romans changed everyone to their system of counting time from the date Rome was founded. After Rome conquered Egypt, Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar based on a Babylonian model. It had 365 days divided into 12 months with an extra day every fourth year.
Then, in 527 AD, a Roman abbot, Dionysius Exiguus, brought in the Anno Domini calendar numbering the years from Jesus' birth. However, every 131 years the calendar would be out by one day, since the distance the earth travelled around the sun grew shorter from 365,2422 to 365,2419 days. Over the centuries this became a problem, as Easter was later and later in the year.
Pope Gregory XIII used the calendar of astronomer Christopher Clavius to make reforms. Clavius used mathematics and astronomy to calculate the new calendar. Most countries accepted the calendar straight away, but Britain only adopted the modern calendar, in 1752, and Orthodox Russia was forced to adopt the new changes when the Bolsheviks came to power, in 1917.
In many countries however, including Russia, both the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar are used. So, for the Russians, Christmas is on 7th January with Father Frost and other traditions and New Year is on 1st January, but they celebrate a second New Year on 13th January. The first one is the New New Year and the second one is the Old New Year.
New Year's Day on 1st January in Russia is a public holiday and is celebrated with fireworks and elaborate large meals and other festivities. The Old New Year by the Julian calendar is informally observed. For many this is a nostalgic family holiday ending the holiday season.
The Old New Year tradition also features in popular culture and art. Mikhail Roshchin wrote a comedy drama for the stage, in 1973, called The Old New Year, which played in theatres for many years. It was also a TV film released by Mosfilm studios in 1980 which featured famous actors and music by Sergei Nikitin, with lyrics by Boris Pasternak

More and more students at school and university are using the internet to cheat* in their coursework. In Britain, about 25 % of students copy material from the internet when they write their homework. In the USA there is a similar problem. One report showed that about 54 % of students copy from the internet when they prepare for the lessons.
Of course, students rightly use the internet to help them research a topic when they are doing coursework or writing an essay. But some of them also copy and include material from the internet into their own essays without indicating that they are using someone else's work. For example, a student who has to write an essay on Shakespeare can find lots of different essays on particular plays and themes in Shakespeare and copy one of them. So they no longer have to read books in libraries, take notes and plan their own essay.
The internet has certainly helped students to avoid the hard work of writing an original essay, but it is not the only reason why cheating is increasing. In recent years, students' attitudes to school and university have changed. In the past, students had a more idealistic attitude towards a university education. University broadened their minds. Nowadays, a lot of students are more practical in their attitude. They are only interested in passing the exams. They want a degree only to help them get a good job.
Teachers and examiners want to stop cheating in school and university, but they do not agree about how to solve the problem. Some teachers think a student's final grade shouldn't depend on his/her coursework. They think that it is better to have traditional (time-limited) written exams that are held in an examination room. Another way to stop cheating is to have an oral exam at the end of the course. If students cannot answer questions about their coursework, this could indicate that they have cheated. At the same time, the oral exam would give the examiner a better idea of students' real knowledge of the subject.

meals in England are: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, or in simpler houses, breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. In England mealtimes are as follows: breakfast time is between 7 and 9 a.m., lunch time is between 12 and 2 p.m., dinner is between 7 and 10 p.m.

Usual breakfast is porridge, bacon and eggs, marmalade with buttered toast and tea or coffee. For a change you can have a boiled egg, cold ham or perhaps fish.
Englishmen generally have lunch at one o'clock p.m. The businessmen usually find it impossible to come for lunch and so they go to a cafe or a restaurant. Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal, but for some people it has become a tradition. At this time everything stops for tea in England. People often come in for a chat with their cup of tea. Some English families like to have the so called "high tea". They have it between 5 and 6 o'clock.
The main meal of the day is called dinner. Dinner is eaten either in the middle of the day or in the evening. The midday meal usually consists of two courses — a meat course with a lot of vegetables and a soup.