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Задание 1 № 2403

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A1).

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1) is earned2) was earning3) has earned4) had earned

Задание 2 № 1802

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A2).

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1) has planned2) was planned3) was planning4) had been planned

Задание 3 № 1803

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A3).

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1) had spent2) was spent3) was spending4) had been spending

Задание 4 № 304

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A4).

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1) was never talked2) had never talked3) is never talked4) is never talking

Задание 5 № 485

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A5).

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1) wrote2) have been written3) will write4) am writing

Задание 6 № 726

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A6).

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1) has certainly affected2) will certainly affect3) will certainly be affected4) is certainly affected

Задание 7 № 2349

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A7).

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1) are spoken2) have been speaking3) speak4) had spoken

Задание 8 № 428

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A8).

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1) to2) for3) with4) of

Задание 9 № 189

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A9).

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1) a2) an3) the4) -

Задание 10 № 1510

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A10).

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1) а2) an3) the4) -

Задание 11 № 2413

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A11).

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1) In2) At3) With4) By

Задание 12 № 312

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A12).

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1) а2) an3) the4) -

Задание 13 № 2415

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A13).

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1) a2) an3) the4) -

Задание 14 № 1814

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A14).

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1) a2) an3) the4) -

Задание 15 № 1275

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A15).

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1) on2) in3) at4) by

Задание 16 № 1816

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A16).

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1) in2) out3) on4) up

Задание 17 № 2419

Прочитайте предложение. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

The football match was played on a new pitch to... .

1) a thousand spectator2) thousand spectators3) thousands of spectators4) thousands spectators

Задание 18 № 2241

Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

Most of people (1) worry (2) about the effect of pollution (3) on the environment (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 19 № 1879

Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

If I’m off for a couple of days (1), I usually have over two hundreds emails (2) in my inbox (3) when I get back (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 20 № 2422

Прочитайте предложение. Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

The international organisation donated money which (1) have been used to support (2) a range of projects globally (3) with its focus on education (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 21 № 1041

Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

There is (1) the responsibility (2) of the individual to ensure that (3) personal belongings are not left unattended (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 22 № 82

Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

I was eager (1) to ask her out (2) but I was scaring (3) she might refuse (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 23 № 383

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A23).

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1) remain2) maintain3) use4) defend

Задание 24 № 84

Укажите номер подчеркнутого фрагмента, в котором допущена ошибка.

There's (1) quite natural to experience a certain amount (2) of anxiety on your first day (3) at work (4).

1) 12) 23) 34) 4

Задание 25 № 1225

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A25).

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1) make2) do3) receive4) know

Задание 26 № 506

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A26).

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1) end2) solve3) do4) cope

Задание 27 № 2250

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A27).

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1) set up2) set to3) set off4) set down

Задание 28 № 388

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A28).

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1) practise2) accept3) approach4) follow

Задание 29 № 329

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A29).

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1) noticed2) known3) intelligent4) aware

Задание 30 № 390

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A30).

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1) put2) dress3) wear4) take

Задание 31 № 2433

Прочитайте текст. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Заполните пропуск (A31).

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1) paying2) wasting3) spending4) having

Задание 32 № 1052

Выберите ответную реплику, подходящую по смыслу к предложенной реплике-стимулу.

Are you all right?

1) None at all.2) That's quite all right.3) Oh, all right — can't complain.4) Oh, that's good.

Задание 33 № 1713

Выберите ответную реплику, подходящую по смыслу к предложенной реплике-стимулу.

Could you lend me some money?

1) I refused outright.2) Why should you?3) I'd rather you didn't.4) I hate to say 'no', but I can't.

Задание 34 № 34

Выберите реплику-стимул, подходящую по смыслу к предложенной ответной реплике.

Thanks. That‟s very kind of you.

1) Would you like tea or coffee?2) How do you do?3) Shall I take these books to your room?4) How are things?

Задание 35 № 2198

Установите соответствие между репликами-стимулами и ответными репликами. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа. Одна ответная реплика является лишней.

РЕПЛИКИ-СТИМУЛЫ

ОТВЕТНЫЕ РЕПЛИКИ

1. Let’s meet at 7, shall we?

2. Please send my love to your mother.

3. Can I use your laptop?

4. Do you mind if we stay for another week?

A. Never mind.

B. Yes, no problem.

C. I don’t mind it at all.

D. Certainly I will.

E. Agreed.

1) 1D2BЗЕ4A2) 1B2DЗС4A3) 1E2DЗВ4C4) 1E2B3A4C

Задание 36 № 2378

Расположите реплики так, чтобы получился связный диалог. Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа.

A. I see, there are a lot of our old school mates. Have you spoken to some of them yet?

B. Yes and there are so many people that I haven’t met for ages.

C. It’s a great party, isn’t it?

D. I can’t but agree. He hasn’t changed at all. But look, that’s Jack over there. He’s waving to us.

E. He is still the same, he just likes talking about himself and he doesn’t seem to be interested in what anyone else has to say.

F. I bumped into Adrian and we had a brief chat. Well no, he chatted and I listened.

1) CDEFBA2) FBCADE3) FABCDE4) CBAFED

Задание 37 № 2439

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания к нему (A37—А42).

Выберите один из предложенных вариантов ответа в соответствии с содержанием приведенного текста.

How did the writer feel after her courses of evening classes?

§ 1. Having decided in later life that it might actually be quite nice to master another language, rather than dusting off my schoolgirl French, I opted for Spanish. Three years of half-finished evening classes later, thanks to the enthusiastic teacher’s efforts I could order in a restaurant and ask directions, but my conversational skills were limited to asking everybody how many brothers and sisters they had. The only true way to master a language is to live and breathe it for a period of time. I’d thought of taking a language ‘immersion’ course (курс языкового погружения) abroad, but two little words always stopped me: home stay. Then I saw that tour operator Journey Latin America had started offering Spanish courses in Peru, amongst other places. The opportunity to realise two long-held ambitions in one holiday — to improve my Spanish and to see Machu Picchu — proved irresistible.

§ 2. My misgivings disappear the moment I am met by my home-stay family, the Rojas, at Cusco airport. They greet me warmly, like an old friend. Carlos is an optician and Carmucha owns a restaurant. With their four children they live in a comfortable house right in the centre of town. Then I’m taken to a family friend’s birthday party, where I understand nothing apart from the bit where they sing ‘Happy Birthday’. By the end of the evening my face aches from holding an expression of polite, but uncomprehending interest, and I fall into bed wondering what I’ve let myself in for.

§ 3. The following morning, I’m off to school and get to know my new group mates. We’re aged between 19 and 65, each spending up to a month studying before travelling around Peru. We have all clearly got to know about our new families. We’re all keen to meet our teachers and see which class we’ll be joining, but after sitting the placement test, we learn that as it’s not yet high season and the school is not too busy, tuition will be one-on-one. Although some find the prospect frightening, to my mind, this is a pretty impressive ratio — though even in high season the maximum class size expands to only four pupils.

§ 4. As the week unfolds, I slip into a routine. Four hours of classes in the morning, back home for lunch, then afternoons free for sightseeing.

§ 5. As the week wears on, a strange thing starts to happen: the dinner-table chatter, which at first was so much ‘white noise’, starts to have some meaning and, wonderfully,! can follow the thread of the conversation. What’s more, I’ve started to dream in Spanish!

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1) unable to perform simple tasks in the language
2) disappointed at her slow rate of progress
3) critical of the attitude adopted by her teacher

Задание 38 № 518

Прочитайте текст. Ответьте на вопросы.

What does the writer suggest about Holsenbeck's attitude towards Americans in the third paragraph?

§ 1. 'Art for art's sake,' is a translation of a French quotation which expresses a philosophy about what art should be. What is meant by the phrase is that a true piece of art should be able to stand alone, to do nothing more than to please the eye. Bryant Holsenbeck, an artist from North Carolina, USA, takes the idea behind the quote a step further: while she does create art of great beauty, she also creates art that carries a valuable message.

§ 2. Through her work, Holsenbeck aims to show how wasteful people have become in today's society. She has been involved in many art projects, widely diverse in both theme and scope. Whatever her subject, all of Holsenbeck's art has one thing in common; it is all constructed from 'stuff that people simply throw away because they had thought it was rubbish.

§ 3. Holsenbeck's main philosophy is that nothing is really 'just trash'. She believes that the fact that American

landfill sites (мусорная свалка) are so full of recyclable items says allot about American culture. She has said that, 'Americans create more garbage, perhead, than any other culture, yet we are blind to our waste.' Holsenbeck has made it her calling to 'make the blind see' and she does this through her art. By working within communities, she feels that she can open the eyes of people. She can also show them that the throw-away culture in which we live needs to change and if it doesn't, the world will soon find itself in a terrible situation indeed. Holsenbeck feels that when a person gets involved in her communal art projects, they become more aware of the fact that what they throw away has an impact on the environment. With Holsenbeck's designs, this impact is a positive one because from the garbage come works of great beauty.

§ 4. One of Holsenbeck's recent projects was a vast labyrinth created from old unwanted shoes. The labyrinth was a group effort and Holsenbeck had the children of the community where it was constructed write their concerns about the planet, and life in general, on the individual shoes. Once the labyrinth was completed, an open invitation was extended to community members of all ages to walkthrough the labyrinth, read the children's messages, and learn what it is that threatens today's world.

§5. Holsenbeck's work has been recognised across the US. Wherever she goes, and whatever she does, her message remains the same, 'My installations are both meditations and questions. Where does all this 'stuff' come from? Where does it go? What do we do with it? Why is it here? Let's hope people start getting Holsenbeck's message.

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1) She thinks they need to be made aware of something.
2) She believes they know they are doing something bad.
3) She feels that they cannot be helped.

Задание 39 № 459

Прочитайте текст. Ответьте на вопросы.

Octopuses are good at escaping because

§ 1. Ask a biologist what the most intelligent creatures are on Earth, and they'll probably come up with a fairly similar list: larger mammals such as horses, dogs, dolphins, pigs, the great apes as well as some birds like crows and ravens. But now some scientists believe that one of the most intelligent beings on Earth is in fact the octopus — which doesn't belong to any of these groups.

§ 2. Every schoolchild knows that octopuses have eight legs and can shoot ink while trying to escape from enemies. But there are many other unusual things about octopuses. For example, if an octopus loses a leg, it can grow a new one. It also has three hearts and complex eyes, which seem to belong to a mammal rather than a Sea creature. Octopuses also seem to be experts at escaping — they have extremely soft, flexible bodies and can escape through holes not much bigger than their eyes.

§ 3. However, even until quite recently, little was known about octopus intelligence. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, octopuses usually live at the bottom of river mouths and seas - areas which are not attractive to researchers. Secondly, they are not social animals so it can be difficult to study their interaction with others. Perhaps most importantly, octopus intelligence is not easy for humans to understand. Octopuses seem like strangers. Scientists need to have a lot of imagination to be able to understand what an octopus is thinking!

§ 4. In the 1950s, the US Air Force sponsored scientists to study the way octopuses use their brains. They hoped that they could use this knowledge to help them build better computers. However, their brains were so complex that the scientists quickly gave up. And even today the octopus brain is a mystery. Octopuses have a very complex nervous system and recent research suggests that they have some of their intelligence inside each arm, which means that each arm can 'think' for itself. It also appears that they have good memories, perhaps similar to a cat's. Some Octopuses in laboratories seem to play with objects as if they were toys — a sure sign of intelligence. Others could pick up complicated skills like opening jars.

§ 5. Perhaps the most striking thing about octopuses is their ability to change their colour and body pattern. They do this to camouflage themselves and also to communicate with others. They can completely change their appearance in less than a second. A scientist once observed an octopus that changed its appearance nearly 1,000 times during seven hours of feeding!

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1) they can change the shape of their body.
2) they choose surprising places to hide in.
3) they have very small eyes.

Задание 40 № 460

Прочитайте текст. Ответьте на вопросы.

One thing that suggests that octopuses are intelligent is that

§ 1. Ask a biologist what the most intelligent creatures are on Earth, and they'll probably come up with a fairly similar list: larger mammals such as horses, dogs, dolphins, pigs, the great apes as well as some birds like crows and ravens. But now some scientists believe that one of the most intelligent beings on Earth is in fact the octopus — which doesn't belong to any of these groups.

§ 2. Every schoolchild knows that octopuses have eight legs and can shoot ink while trying to escape from enemies. But there are many other unusual things about octopuses. For example, if an octopus loses a leg, it can grow a new one. It also has three hearts and complex eyes, which seem to belong to a mammal rather than a Sea creature. Octopuses also seem to be experts at escaping — they have extremely soft, flexible bodies and can escape through holes not much bigger than their eyes.

§ 3. However, even until quite recently, little was known about octopus intelligence. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, octopuses usually live at the bottom of river mouths and seas - areas which are not attractive to researchers. Secondly, they are not social animals so it can be difficult to study their interaction with others. Perhaps most importantly, octopus intelligence is not easy for humans to understand. Octopuses seem like strangers. Scientists need to have a lot of imagination to be able to understand what an octopus is thinking!

§ 4. In the 1950s, the US Air Force sponsored scientists to study the way octopuses use their brains. They hoped that they could use this knowledge to help them build better computers. However, their brains were so complex that the scientists quickly gave up. And even today the octopus brain is a mystery. Octopuses have a very complex nervous system and recent research suggests that they have some of their intelligence inside each arm, which means that each arm can 'think' for itself. It also appears that they have good memories, perhaps similar to a cat's. Some Octopuses in laboratories seem to play with objects as if they were toys — a sure sign of intelligence. Others could pick up complicated skills like opening jars.

§ 5. Perhaps the most striking thing about octopuses is their ability to change their colour and body pattern. They do this to camouflage themselves and also to communicate with others. They can completely change their appearance in less than a second. A scientist once observed an octopus that changed its appearance nearly 1,000 times during seven hours of feeding!

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1) they were smarter than US Air Force computers.
2) their brains are similar to cats'.
3) they learn how to do complicated tasks.

Задание 41 № 461

Определите значение указанного слова в тексте.

attractive (§ 3)

§ 1. Ask a biologist what the most intelligent creatures are on Earth, and they'll probably come up with a fairly similar list: larger mammals such as horses, dogs, dolphins, pigs, the great apes as well as some birds like crows and ravens. But now some scientists believe that one of the most intelligent beings on Earth is in fact the octopus — which doesn't belong to any of these groups.

§ 2. Every schoolchild knows that octopuses have eight legs and can shoot ink while trying to escape from enemies. But there are many other unusual things about octopuses. For example, if an octopus loses a leg, it can grow a new one. It also has three hearts and complex eyes, which seem to belong to a mammal rather than a Sea creature. Octopuses also seem to be experts at escaping — they have extremely soft, flexible bodies and can escape through holes not much bigger than their eyes.

§ 3. However, even until quite recently, little was known about octopus intelligence. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, octopuses usually live at the bottom of river mouths and seas - areas which are not attractive to researchers. Secondly, they are not social animals so it can be difficult to study their interaction with others. Perhaps most importantly, octopus intelligence is not easy for humans to understand. Octopuses seem like strangers. Scientists need to have a lot of imagination to be able to understand what an octopus is thinking!

§ 4. In the 1950s, the US Air Force sponsored scientists to study the way octopuses use their brains. They hoped that they could use this knowledge to help them build better computers. However, their brains were so complex that the scientists quickly gave up. And even today the octopus brain is a mystery. Octopuses have a very complex nervous system and recent research suggests that they have some of their intelligence inside each arm, which means that each arm can 'think' for itself. It also appears that they have good memories, perhaps similar to a cat's. Some Octopuses in laboratories seem to play with objects as if they were toys — a sure sign of intelligence. Others could pick up complicated skills like opening jars.

§ 5. Perhaps the most striking thing about octopuses is their ability to change their colour and body pattern. They do this to camouflage themselves and also to communicate with others. They can completely change their appearance in less than a second. A scientist once observed an octopus that changed its appearance nearly 1,000 times during seven hours of feeding!

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1) interesting
2) lovely
3) impressed

Задание 42 № 282

Выберите правильный вариант перевода в соответствии с содержанием текста.

The free evening events, called "First Saturdays', are Lehman's way of reaching out to people. (§ 4)

§ 1. It is Saturday night at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. In the galleries devoted to African art, children are playing hide-and-seek while the parents sip beer from plastic cups. Some teenage girls head through the sculpture exhibition to a temporary dance floor where a DJ is playing reggae music. Watching the scene is Bryan, a young teacher from a local school. What brings him out tonight? 'I'm here for the reggae, of course,' he says. When I heard they were playing that I thought, "I have to be there," and obviously a lot of people feel the same way.' Besides the DJ, the museum has laid on gallery talks, a Martin Scorsese film, a puppet show and a samba band.

§ 2. The Brooklyn Museum of Art wasn't always so trendy. For decades, it put on excellent exhibitions that few came to see. Had it been over in the city's fashionable Upper East Side, of course, the museum would have been packing them in. Even when they put on dull exhibitions, New York's top museums can count on a steady stream of visitors — mostly tourists. But Brooklyn, one of New York's toughest districts, isn't on the standard tourist route. When the museum was built, it was in a wealthy suburb, but these days the surrounding streets are home to recent immigrants, mostly poor folk from the Caribbean.

§ 3. Two years ago, in an effort to revive itself, the museum appointed a new director, Arnold Lehman, who was born in Brooklyn. Lehman was convinced that the museum should forget about trying to attract visitors from the other side of town and try to appeal instead to people from the surrounding area.

§ 4. The free evening events, called 'First Saturdays', are Lehman's way of reaching out to people. The great thing for me is when you see teenage boys looking at art in the galleries without being handcuffed to their parents,' he says. What's more, the annual number of visitors to the museum has roughly doubled since the scheme was introduced. Similar institutions across the country are now calling, wanting to know how much it costs to throw a good party'. The answer, incidentally, is about $25,000 per event. 'And worth every penny,' says Lehman.

§ 5. The real achievement of First Saturdays is more significant and profound than the increased visitor numbers suggest. Most people visit art museums because they want to have a special 'artistic' experience. The Brooklyn Museum of Art has introduced thousands of people to the idea that museum-going can be a perfectly ordinary part of their lives.

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1) Бесплатные вечерние программы под названием «Первые субботы» — это способ, которым Леман пытается привлечь людей.
2) Свободные вечера, которые называются «Первые субботы», — это путь, который приводит Лемана к людям.
3) Вечерние развлечения в свободное время, так называемые «Первые субботы», — это метод, которым Леман пользуется, чтобы быть популярным среди людей.

Задание 43 № 2385

Прочитайте тексты (1—4). Ответьте на вопросы (А43—А48). В бланке ответов поставьте метку (х) в клеточке, соответствующей номеру текста, отвечающего на вопрос.

Where do people get their inspiration for work?

1 — Corinne Day: Photographer

2 — Jan Kaplicky: Architect

3 — J. B. Ballard: Novelist

4 — Peter Molyneux: Computer Game Creator

Wich person is unhappy about the effect of the media on people’s ability to think?

1. Corinne Day: Photographer

I get my ideas for photographs anywhere, at any time; I don’t have to be specifically doing anything. I keep a diary at home and write down any t houghts I have, and then when a job comes up, I see if there is anything in it that applies. It’s almost impossible for me to switch off. When I was abroad recently, I wanted to get away from taking photographs, so I didn’t take my camera with me. But I could still see pictures all the time and wished I had brought it.

2. Jan Kaplicky: Architect

Success in my job depends on the people you have around you and how good they are. There are engineers, model- makers, photographers — architecture is not a one-man product. I come into the office every day. I like to arrive at 8 a.m., as this is a very peaceful period when I can think about things before the usual routine starts and other people arrive. The initial idea for a job comes to me just like that sometimes. Having lots of ideas for one problem is not a sign that you are creative; that’s just a waste of energy. But I do think a lot of creativity depends on your relationships with other people.

3. J. B. Ballard: Novelist

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. The environment is so full of television, you hardly need to do anything. Children make you see what reality is all about. Mine were a huge inspiration for me. Watching them creating their separate worlds was a very enriching experience. As for learning to be creative, I think there are a lot of skills that you need to be born with. I wrote from a pretty early age, eight or nine, and I’ve always had a very vivid imagination.

4. Peter Molyneux: Computer Game Creator

Perhaps the greatest difference between people who are creative and people who are not is that the former always think their idea will work. They never think, ‘That's not going to work, that’s a stupid idea’. But a lot of the time I don’t know where my ideas come from. I can remember incredibly clearly the time I saw my first computer game, in a shop window. From that moment on it was as if I’d found my aim in life. I find the computer game is very creative. It brings together many different disciplines: the logic of programming, mathematics, storytelling... The general idea for a game is easy, the real challenge always comes about six months later when you have to design all the parts of the game, and consider things like how many pieces of information players can take before they get confused.

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Задание 44 № 2267

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1 — Sometimes, though, they get injured too.

2 — And Jack, a film maker, photographer and adventurer, was a diving legend.

3 — They have teeth that tear into flesh like hacksaws

4 — Ideally, a cruising shark would turn and follow the line to the boat.

I had been invited by Jack and his son John to participate in a film they were making about shark diving. I had been diving and writing about the ocean for a decade and had frequently found myself in the water with sharks. Never intentionally. They just appeared, unwanted. The idea of swimming with them seemed dangerous. Still, Jack McKen- ney had asked me to participate. (A43)____

To attract the sharks, we laid out plastic boxes wired together and filled with frozen fish. Once dropped over the side, the boxes lay half in and half out of the water: As the bait thawed, a long line of blood and fish followed us. (A44)____

The stars of the film promised to be blue sharks. Fast and slim-bodied with pointed snouts, they grow to 12 feet in length and are known to attack humans. (A45)____I thought someone was welcoming our visitors by pounding rapidly on a large bass drum. Then I realised that the fierce pounding was the beating of my own heart.

The shark cage sat on the deck. It was mainly constructed from wire. The idea was to swim into the cage once under the water. The only hand-held weapon I was given was a broom handle.

By the time I got to the cage, five sharks were swimming around us. As they glided past, they seemed curious, and'I felt like something hung up in a meat market. (A46)____Strangely, proximity seemed to calm my fear.

We began to hand-feed the sharks as they cruised by the cage. Several times, I offered a fish, then yanked it away at the crucial moment. Then I felt guilty about teasing the monsters and began to want more contact.

I decided to go outside the cage. (A47)____“They tend to hit some part of your body that is not moving. Usually this means the head.”

Outside the cage and checking in all directions, I moved to where Jack was shooting one particular shark for the film. (A48)____It put on a slight burst of speed and glided in my direction. I had ten seconds to get my own broom handle in position, and when the shark was a foot away, I hit it firmly, on the snout. The shark twisted away, and disappeared into the depths. Relieved, I realised the mildest show of aggression seemed to put these fellows off their feed.

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Задание 45 № 105

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Which of the call-centre workers says that she finds the equipment that she works with reassuring?

1. Claire Lippold, 23, works for the Bat Conservation Trust

I did a degree in biology, and studied bats as part of my thesis. When I saw the ad for this job, I thought it would be perfect for me. We get about ten thousand calls a year, many from people worried that if they have bats in their attics they can't have any building work done. They need the right advice, because the law protects bats. We're contracted by an organisation called Natural England to arrange a service whereby anybody with bats on their property can have a specialist volunteer come out and give information and advice about the creatures they're living with. Generally, once they have the information, they're happy.

2. Anthea McNufty, 26, works for NHS Direct, the phone-in helpline operated by the National Health Service

Having worked in nurse training for a while, I found I missed the patient contact I'd enjoyed doing nursing itself. When I saw this job, I thought of it as a way of getting some of that contact back - without the cleaning up! I remember the dread of what the calls might be about on my first day, but they give you so much training before you're let loose that you can handle it. It was a bit difficult not having the physical clues I'd have been able to pick up on the wards. But you very quickly get used to working with the computer, it makes you feel safe.

3. Agnes Thomson, 60, works for a major broadcasting company

Yesterday, I got lots of calls relating to weekly programmes, though there was quite a contrast: the radio show for the blind, 'In Touch", and "Watchdog' on TV. The 'In Touch' callers had heard of some new equipment and wanted further details. Watchdog is a consumer programme and people generally call me because they have a problem with a product from a company we've covered on the show. Quite often people phone to complain spontaneously, and when we call them again within ten days with a response, which we promise to do in some cases, they've forgotten what made them cross.

4. Caroline Hickman, 34, works for a company with a wide range of household products

I really get a lot out of the work. We have such a wide range of products - from beauty and haircare through to nappies (nenehuku) and household cleaners - that no two calls are ever the same. With laundry products, for example, we get lots of Specific queries - people want to know what to use with certain types of material. We can't always go into details of all the settings of different brands of machine, though. We also get a lot of calls about skincare from people who want to know about specific ingredients in our products. You also get fascinating insight into the country's lifestyles. For instance, we tend to get lots of calls about cleaning products on a Monday, presumably because people buy them over the weekend, then, towards Friday we'll get haircare and beauty because they're planning a night out.

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Задание 46 № 1966

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1 — Fortunately, some media stars are beginning to resist the pressure to look skinny.

2 — Forget the ‘perfect’ people you see pictured in the media.

3 — They often spend huge amounts of time and money trying to look good.

4 — Most of them prefer girls with a bit of shape.

«Body image» is the picture you have in your mind of your size, shape and general appearance — and how you feel about it. Where does this image come from? Lifestyle adviser Anne Banks examines the issues.

Do you love what you see in the mirror? No? Then you are not alone. Almost everybody worries about what other people think, and we all get stressed out about the size of our feet or the shape of our nose.

It’s the images we see in the media that are mostly to blame. (А43)__ Whether it’s a hunky actor in designer jeans and trendy jacket or a stunning model in an elegant dress, they’re sending the same message: «If you look like me, your life will be perfect».

But appearances can be deceptive. Compare today’s magazine covers with those of fifty years ago. (A44)__ Not any more! Nowadays, blemishes are removed from photographs with the help of a technique called «airbrushing». A photographer or designer can straighten teeth, alter skin colour, and even change a hairstyle. That perfect face is just a trick of the camera after all!

The «perfect» body shapes aren’t natural, either. Go down to any gym and you’ll find young men «pumping iron» in an effort to live up to some masculine ideal that says that «real» men should be strong and muscular. Body builders, desperate to increase the size of their muscles, often eat food with far more calories and protein than is natural, which is a danger to their health. (A45)__

It’s the same for the girls. We all know of celebrities who go on starvation diets so that they can wear «size zero» clothes. They end up ruining their health. The irony is, naturally curvy girls who diet until they’re stick-thin actually end up looking awful. Ask boys! (A46)__ Unfortunately, some girls are so obsessed with their weight they just don’t

realise!

(A47)__ These include pop singers like Mis-Teeq, Jamelia, and Rachel Stevens. Rachel Stevens doesn’t want

to be stick-thin. «There’s always been this pressure to be skinny, but you’ve got artists now like J-Lo and Beyoncé who are really curvy and look absolutely stunning», she says.

So come on boys and girls, take control of your life! We hr mans come in all shapes and sizes and there’s no «correct» to look. It’s what you say and do that really matters. (A48)__ They’re not what they seem! Anyway, why waste

your time trying to live up to somebody else’s ideal? Being fit and healthy is far more important. Just believe in yourself! After all, if you like yourself as you are, everyone else will pro oably end up liking you, too!

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Задание 47 № 2270

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1 — The shark, a six-foot male, seemed mildly annoyed by all the attention.

2 — But gradually my heartbeat settled to a mild thud.

3 — With this in hand, I hesitantly slipped into the sea and swam towards the open cage door.

4 — Jack had advised me to be careful about sharks approaching from the rear.