The clock struck six, and having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm. Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect

I. Choose the right version.

People who work in the US Senate are called senators and people who work in the House of Representatives are called…

a) housemen b) congressmen c) members of Parliament

There are … senators than congressmen in the US Congress.

a) more b) a lot of more c) fewer

The US President’s term is …

a) 2 years b) 4 years c) 6 years

The British Prime Minister is the leader of the party with majority seats in …

a) the House of Lords b) the House of Commons

… makes laws in the UK.

a) The House of Commons b) The House of Lords c) The Cabinet

The Cabinet of the British Government consists of …

a) the members of Parliament b) about twenty ministers

The Russian President is elected by …

a) the people b) the Supreme Court c) the Duma

The Duma consists of … deputies.

a) 540 b) 450 c) 400

In Russia … can declare laws unconstitutional.

a) the President b) the Supreme Court c) the Constitutional Court


II. Circle the correct words in the sentences.


The first ten amendments to the (Constitutional/ Constitution) are called the Bill of Rights.

The Congress is a meeting of (representatives/represents) from all states.

I’m no (judge/judicial) of music but I know what I like.

The members of the House of Lords (opposition/oppose) decisions of the House of Commons.

The Cabinet determines government (policies/politicians).

1. Watch out ! You …………………….. out of the window!
1. will fall
2. are going to fall
3. are falling
4. fall
2. If you press that button, the door ………………..
1. opens
2. is to open
3. is opening
4. would open
3. Are you ready? The ceremony …………… begin.
1. will
2. is going to
3. is about to
4. is to
4. I’ll help you ………….. I have to work at the weekend.
1. until
2. unless
3. as soon as
4. after
5. If it …………….. next week, we probably won’t go skiing.
1. won’t snow
2. doesn’t snow
3. wouldn’t snow
4. don’t snow
6. If I ……………. you, I wouldn’t hesitate!
1. were
2. am
3. will be
4. would be
7. The Queen ……………… here in one hour. Are we prepared for the visit, gentlemen?
1. arrive
2. is to arrive
3. is about to arrive
4. arriving
8. To switch on the machine ..….. only press the red button.
1. one
2. they
3. you
4. somebody
9. I …………… tell you if I could, but I really can’t.
1. would
2. should
3. will
4. may
10. She ………………. her children from school and drove away.
1. picked up
2. was picking up
3. had picked up
4. has picked up
11. When he arrived home, nobody was there. All the guests ………………
1. has left
2. were leaving
3. was leaving
4. had left
12. Could you tell me .............................? I’d like to discuss something with you.
1. are you free tomorrow
2. if you are free tomorrow
3. if are you free tomorrow
4. you are free tomorrow
13. To cut off the electricity, you have to ………………… at the mains.
1. turn it up
2. turn it off
3. turn it on
4. turn it down
14. They make sunshine …… energy here. Let’s see how they do it.
1. from
2. into
3. up
4. over
15. In which word is the sound in bold different?
1. want
2. got
3. won’t
4. doll

Относительно названия города Синбирска существует много различных предположений и разъяснений. Одни производят его от чувашскаго языка, на котором слово „Синбирск означает будто-бы „белая гора" или „обитать, жить, почему название Синбирск означает „обиталище людей . Третьи предполагают, что слово „Синбирск" скандинавского происхождения, от слов «Sinn» — путь, дорога и «Biarg» — гора, или «birg» — береза, так что по этому словопроизводству «Синбирск» означает или «придорожная береза» или «горный путь» Есть филологи, производящие название Синбирска от мордовскаго языка, на котором слова,»сююн» и «бир» означают «зеленые горы».Другие говорят, что на тюрском языке слово „сын означает „гробницу „надгробный памятник, а "биp" значит „один". Так что „Синбирск, в переводе с тюркского языка на русский, означает „одиночная могила"

white hands, of which she was rather vain. Fifteen- year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way. She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared to see everything, and were by turns fierce, funny, or thoughtful. Her long, thick hair was her one beauty, but it was usually bundled into a net, to be out of her way. Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it. Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smooth- haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed. Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excellently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved. Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least. A regular snow maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners. What the characters of the four sisters were we will leave to be found out. The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm. Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect upon the girls, for Mother was coming, and everyone brightened to welcome her. Meg stopped lecturing, and lighted the lamp, Amy got out of the easy chair without being asked, and Jo forgot how tired she was as she sat up to hold the slippers nearer to the blaze. "They are quite worn out. Marmee must have a new pair." "I thought I'd get her some with my dollar," said Beth. "No, I shall!" cried Amy. "I'm the oldest," began Meg, but Jo cut in with a decided, "I'm the man of the family now Papa is away, and I shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of Mother while he was gone." "I'll tell you what we'll do," said Beth, "let's each get her something for Christmas, and not get anything for ourselves."

and indeed three or four of the twenty staff-members did sometimes use it after respectable hours.

That morning Martin had isolated a new strain of staphylococcus bacteria from the carbuncle of a patient in the Lower Manhattan hospital, a carbuncle which was healing with unusual rapidity. He had placed a bit of the pus in broth and incubated it. In eight hours a good growth of bacteria had appeared. Before going wearily home he had returned the flask to the incubator.

He was not particularly interested in it, and now, in his laboratory, he removed his military blouse, looked down to the lights on the blue-black river, smoked a little, thought that he was a dog not to be gentler to Leora, and damned Bert Tozer and Pickerbaugh and Tubbs and anybody else who was handy to his memory before he absent-mindedly wavered to the incubator, and found that the flask, in which there should have been a perceptible cloudy growth, had no longer any signs of bacteria — of staphylococci.

"Now what the hell!" he cried. "Why, the broth's as clear as when I seeded it! Now what the — Think of this fool accident coming up just when I was going to start something new!"

He hastened from the incubator, in a closet off the corridor, to his laboratory and, holding the flask under a strong light, made certain that he had seen aright. He fretfully prepared a scope. He discovered nothing but shadows of what had been bacteria: thin outlines, the form still there but the cell substance gone; minute skeletons on an infinitesimal battlefield.

He raised his head from the microscope, rubbed his tired eyes, reflectively rubbed his neck — his blouse was off, his collar on the floor, his shirt open at the throat. He considered:

"Something funny there. This culture was growing all right, and now it's committed suicide. Never heard of bugs doing that before. I've hit something! What caused it? Some chemical change? Something organic?"

...A detective, hunting the murderer of bacteria... he rushed upstairs to the library, consulted the American and English authorities and, laboriously, the French and German. He found nothing.

He worried lest there might, somehow, have been no living staphylococci in the pus which he had used for seeding the broth — none there to die. At a hectic run, not stopping for lights, bumping corners and sliding on the too perfect tile floor, he skidded down the stairs and galloped through the corridors to his room. He found the remains of the original pus, made a smear on a glass slide, and stained it with gentian-violet, nervously dribbling out one drop of the gorgeous dye. He sprang to the microscope. As he bent over the brass tube and focused the objective, into the gray-lavender circular field of vision rose to existence the grape-like clusters of staphylococcus germs, purple dots against the blank plane.

"Staph in it all right!" he shouted.

Then he forgot Leora, war, night, weariness, success, everything as he charged into preparations for an experiment, his first great experiment. He paced furiously, rather dizzy. He shook himself into calmness and settled down at a table, among rings and spirals of cigarette smoke, to list on small sheets of paper all the possible causes of suicide in the bacteria — all the questions he had to answer and the experiments which should answer them. [...]

By this time it was six o'clock of a fine wide August morning, and as he ceased his swift work, as taunted nerves slackened, he looked out of his lofty window and was conscious of the world below: bright roofs, jubilant towers, and a high- decked Sound steamer swaggering up the glossy river.

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1a. Write sentences with when. Use the Past Simple and the Past Continuous.
1) They / play tennis / start / rain___________________________2) He / break / his leg / ski___________________________3) The boys / fight / their father / come home___________________________4) A dog / eat / my sandwich / I sleep / in the park___________________________5) We / study / in the library / the fire / start___________________________
1b. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
Last summer I 1) _____ (go) to Los Angeles to stay with my cousin for a few weeks. One afternoon we 2) _____ (have) lunch in a nice restaurant in the centre of the town when my cousin 3) _____ (get) a call on her mobile phone and went outside to talk. While she 4) _____ (speak) to her friend I suddenly 5) _____ (notice) a man in a black hat who 6) _____ (sit) at the next table. It was the actor Johnny Depp! He was alone, and I 7) _____ (decide) to take my chance. So I got up and 8) _____ (go) to his table. ‘Excuse me, could I have my photo taken with you?’ I asked. He 9) _____ (say) yes, so I 10) _____ (stop) a waitress who 11) _____ (pass) by and gave her my camera. She 12) _____ (take) the photo of me and Johnny, I thanked them both, and then I returned to my table. When my cousin 13) _____ (come) back, I 14) _____ (smile). ‘Why are you looking so pleased with yourself?’ she asked. ‘I had my photo taken with Johnny Depp’. ‘Johnny Depp? Where is he?’ ‘He is sitting over there. Look!’ She turned around to look and then started to laugh. ‘That’s not Johnny Depp!’ I 15) _____ (look) at the man in the black hat – he16) _____ (laugh) too.
2. SPEAKING (in spoken form)Tell about your favourite photo. Look at the questions and plan your answers. 1) What is your favourite photo?2) Who took it? When? Where?3) What was happening when you took the photo?4) Where do you keep it? Why do you like it?
3. SPEAKING (in spoken form)Prepare the text about the top Russian person. What was he or she famous for? Be ready to tell about him or her.
Home assignment #61. GRAMMAR the Present Perfect
1a. Complete the two biographies with the correct form of the following verbs:act / become / have / make (x2) / say / sell / win (x2) / write
Future winners of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?Many people have 1) _____ that Madonna is one of the greatest pop stars ever. She has 2) _____ over 15 albums and has 3) _____ 11 US number one songs. She has 4) _____ in lots of films and 5) _____ a number of awards. She has 6) _____ five books for children. Coldplay have 7) _____ only three albums but have 8) _____ famous around the world. They have 9) _____ more records than any other group in the last two years and have already 10) _____ a Grammy with Clocks in 2004.
1b. Rearrange the words to make questions.
1) had / has / How / Madonna / many / number / one / records___________________________________________________2) has / books / children / written / Who / for___________________________________________________3) many / have / made / How / Coldplay / albums___________________________________________________4) won / Have / Coldplay / awards / any___________________________________________________5) Coldplay / done / have / in / last / the / two / What / years ___________________________________________________
2. SPEAKING (in spoken form)
Read the article.
I think Robbie Williams should get a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has made some great CDs. He’s written lots of songs. He’s given concerts all round the world. He’s been number one in many countries, and he has written a book. I think he is a great singer.
Which musician or group in your country should get a Lifetime Achievement Award for their work? Why? Prepare your reasons. Look at the article for an example.

and having a drink, they go to a restaurant or a bar. There is usually a wide choice of beverages there to please everyone. A barman or a wine waiter offers the wine list where the guests can find any drink they ike. For those who don't drink alcohol there are soft (or long) drinks such as juice, lemonade, Coke, mineral water — still or 55 fizzy. Beer is very popular and it can be served bottled, draught or canned. For people who want something stronger there is a great variety of alcoholic (or short) drinks. For example, spirits: rum, vodka, whisky, brandy, cognac. Then come fortified wines: liqueur, port, sherry, vermouth; and table wines dry or sweet, white, red or rose. Guests can also order a cup of tea; coffee, black or white, hot chocolate.

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Head Waiter: Good evening, madam. Do you have a
reservation?
Guest: No, I don't but I'd like a table for one, please.
HW: Smoking or non-smoking?
G: Non-smoking, please, and not too close to the band if
possible. I don't like loud music.
HW: This way, please, madam. I'll show you to your table.
Your waiter will be with you in just one moment.
G: Thank you.
2) Wine Waiter: Good evening, madam, my name is Bob. I'm
your waiter for today. Would you like a drink while you are
looking at the menu?
G: Yes, please. Could I see the wine list? 56
WW: Certainly, madam, here you are.
G: Could I have the California Blush?
WW: Yes, madam. A glass or half a carafe?
G: Just a glass, please.
WW: Right away, madam.
G: Oh, and could I also have a glass of mineral water?
WW: Sure. Still or fizzy?
G: I'd like still, please.
WW: Shall I put lemon in it?
G: It would be fine! Thank you.