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Контрольная работа №5

Учебник Upstream Upper Intermediate

Virginia Evans, Bob Obee

Unit 5. Modern living

Do you agree/disagree with the following citation? Explain your opinion.

“If you are not in fashion you’re nobody.” Lord Chesterfield

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Translate the sentences into English

1) Что ты думаешь об этой книге? – Я нахожу ее очень интересной.

2) Что мне нравится больше всего – так это сюжет фильма.

3) Меня совершенно не волнуют эти отзывы.

4) У меня нет определенного мнения по поводу этого вопроса.

5) Я нахожу этот фильм ужасно скучным.

6) Ты никогда не угадаешь, кто вчера мне звонил!

7) Он вел себя довольно глупо по отношению к нам.

8) Она прекрасно украсила свою комнату.

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The idea for Big Brother is said ___ have come during a brainstorming session at the Dutch-based international Italian television production firm Endemol ___ March 10, 1997. The first version of Big Brother ____ broadcast in 1999 on Veronica in ____ Netherlands. Since then the format ____ become a worldwide TV franchise, airing in many countries in a number ___ versions.

_______each country has made its own adaptations of the format, the contestants are confined ____ a specially-designed house where their every action is recorded ____ cameras and microphones and they are ____ permitted contact with the outside world. In most countries that have produced Big Brother, the contestants have been _____ as "housemates"; however in the American and Canadian version they are referred to ____ "houseguests". The term Big Brother originates _____ George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. ______ living together under continuous observation (which is the chief attraction of the contest), the program relies ____ four basic props: the stripped-bare back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the "Diary/Confession Room" (in which the housemates convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations, and reveal their nominees ____ eviction). Contestants are required to evict one of their ____ on a regular basis; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks. ______, the UK version introduced weekly evictions; all versions of Big Brother now follow this format.

____regular intervals, the housemates privately nominate a number of fellow housemates whom they wish evicted from the house. The housemates with the most nominations ____ then announced, and viewers are given the opportunity to vote via telephone for whom they wish ____ see evicted. The exceptions to this process are in the American and Canadian versions, in _____ the housemates vote to evict each ______. After the votes are tallied, the "evictee" leaves the house and is interviewed ____ the host of the show (usually in the presence of a studio audience). In _____ cases, two housemates may be evicted simultaneously (a "double eviction"); rarely, no housemates will be removed that week. ____the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner for the particular series and receives prizes (often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and—in some editions—a house).