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With reference 1)…your advertisement in today’s Morning News, I am interested 2)…applying for the 3)…of manager with your company. Could you please send me 4)… and an application 5)…

Letter 2

I would like to apply 6)… the position of personal assistant to chief accountant with your company.

I 7)…my application form. I am at present working 8)…a secretary in the accounts office at TC Industries. My duties include 9)…and copy typing and dealing 10)…correspondence and telephone 11)…twice a week. I have been going to evening classes in bookkeeping and I intend to 12)…an examination in three months.

I am applying for the position because I would like an 13)…to make more use of my training. I would be 14)…for interview at any time.

I hope that you will 15)…my application 16)….

It's been nearly 35 years now since I left my parents' home at 19 and entered into a life without television. In all the time I have never had a tv in any place I've —1 called home.

I have read more than 2,000 books, seen more than 1,000 movies, spent 5,000 hours in conversation with some 10,000 people, spent thousands of hours in public service to my community, traveled to 18 countries and learned bits — and snatches of 15 languages.

I am less inclined to talk in sitcom cliches, less likely to mention brand names, and less likely to be afraid to go outside at night. I know far more about world events, speak better English, know more of my neighbors, have more — opinions about everything, and am more inclined to help a stranger in need.

You will probably laugh a little at that list, but there is a clear relationship between the amount of tv viewing one does and all of the qualities I've described. After all, being the audience for a tv is a passive act; scientists told the Los Angeles Times that on average, a child watching television slips into the passive brain state within 30 seconds of beginning to watch television. Most adults I know seem to start out that way.

For me, watching television is an exercise in observation; I am aware of camera angles, staae-settina. editing and message-shaping more than of what tv tries to sell me; indeed, it doesn't take much to become a sophisticated tv viewer — all you have to do is turn it off for a while to see how empty and manipulative it is when you turn it on again.

That unreality was never more painfully real than the time I watched Mike Wallace recap key moments of the '70s during a New Year's Eve broadcast. The most powerful of the images was of the terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. I re-experienced the horror of the murders of the Israeli athletes growing more deeply involved in the story with every passing second.

With no warning, a Miller Beer commercial suddenly blared onto the screen, and it was as though a fully-loaded garbage truck had plowed into my gut. I almost vomited with the shock _ and sense of violation.

Admittedly, I have spent a few great moments in front of the tube. Live [laiv] coverage of the Detroit riots in 1966, the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby in 1963, and the end of President Reagan's first State of the Union address might qualify, though.

Each of those events, I would note, was broadcast live, free of commercial interruption. But I suspect that television executives would decide whether to show Jack Ruby's act today. That's another problem with tv: It's carefully controlled and information is fed to Americans by just a few huge corporations, and thev seem unable to understand it.

April 23-29 is National TV-Turnoff Week, and I urge everyone who wants to see another world in this lifetime — namely, this L one — to join those of us who have learned how to live in it.

1. The television was on, but nobody _________ it.
a) watches b) watched
c) watch d) was watching

2. It was the ________ tree in the forest.
a) tall b) taller
c) more tall d) tallest

3. He seems very lonely at school, and has _______ friends.
a) any b) none
c) no d) some

4. They haven’t got ________ children.
a) no b) some
c) none d) any

5. It _______ outside. I don’t like to walk in such weather.
a) rains b) is rain
c) is raining d) is rained

6. They got married _______ last March.
a) in b) on
c) - d) at

7. The moon _______ round the earth.
a) is going b) was going
c) goes d) have gone

8. Most of the Earth’s surface ________ by water.
a) covers b) covered
c) are covered d) is covered

9. I ________ to the theatre this evening.
a) go b) am going
c) will go d) will be going

10. This road _______ tomorrow.
a) isn’t used b) won’t be used
c) doesn’t use d) didn’t use

11. We must all make a personal _______ to work for the future of our planet.
a) decide b) decided
c) decision d) decidedly

12. The Master’s course, _______ I took in 1990, is no longer taught.
a) where b) what
c) which d) who

13. I _____ in an armchair at the moment.
a) sitting b) ‘m sitting
c) sit d) sits

14. It’s a secret. You _______ tell anyone.
a) couldn’t b) mayn’t
c) mustn’t d) can’t

15. Barbara is _______ Spanish. She speaks very well.
a) good in b) fluent in
c) fluent at d) not interested in

16. Good friends are normally _______ on doing the same things.
a) like b) love
c) wish d) keen

17. What is this machine used _______?
a) in b) on
c) for d) with
18. It has been really nice seeing you again. Let’s try and _______.
a) lose touch b) keep in touch
c) get to know d) fall out

19. Our relationship has finished, so she is my _______ now.
a) wife b) spouse
c) ex-girlfriend d) stepsister

20. Do you worry _______ your weight?
a) about b) on
c) for d) -

21. I sometimes have to _______ after my sister’s children at the weekend.
a) take b) keep
c) talk d) look

22. I take _______ my mother physically: we are both tall and slim.
a) after b) for
c) on d) up

23. My mother always ________ me off for not practicing the piano enough.
a) told b) said
c) spoke d) talked

24. What activities and hobbies are you good _______?
a) at b) in
c) on d) about

25. The town is so busy. It’s much _______ it was a few years ago.
a) more touristy than b) touristier than
c) most touristy d) more touristier than

26. A professional is to be _______, ambitious, curious, intelligent and open-minded.
a) hard-working b) thoughtful
c) outgoing d) ignorant
27. I’d like to _________ better because she seems very friendly.
a) lose touch b) have a lot in common
c) enjoy her company d) get to know her

28. Who in your family do you __________? – My father. Everyone says that.
a) carry on b) look after
c) take after d) look up to

29. The company made a _________ of $ 50,000 this year.
a) record b) profit
c) discovery d) job

30. How many languages are you fluent ______?
a) at b) in
c) on d)

back”

2She thought, “He said he would return. I am sure he is alive.”

3“Who sent you here to me?” the rich man asked.

4Then he said: “I can give you 50 thousand pounds, if Lloyd George goes with your expedition to the South Pole. And if you leave him there, I shall give you another 50 thousand pounds.”

5“Robin Hood will come”, he said.

6“He will take part in the competition and we shall catch him”, he said.

7“A woman who did so much to honour the memory of one husband, deserves soon to get another”, said my aunt’s friends.

8One day King Lear called his daughters and said to them: “I am very old and tired. I cannot be the king of Britain any more. I want to divide the country into three parts and give one part to each of you. Each of you will be the queen of her part of the country. But first you must tell me how much you love me. Then I shall know which of you must get the better part.”

9Goneril said: “Dear father, I love you very much. I love you more than my eyes, more than my beauty. No child loves his father more than I love you. ”

10She said: ”I don’t understand why my sisters say that they love you more than anything else. They are married. Don’t the love their husbands? You are my father and of course I love you. But when I marry, I shall love my husband too. ”

11“I am asking for 5 pounds because I thought it would be hard for people to say ‘no’ to that. I’ve only got 30000 pounds so far. So Ive got to speed up” says Dominic. – D. says that he is asking for 5 pounds because he thought it would be hard for people to say ‘no’ to that. He had only got 30000 pounds so far. So he had got to speed up

12“There was a tradition in my family to keep old toys” says Sergei – Sergei says that there was a tradition in my family to keep old toys