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| I remember my uncle Thomas very well. My mum says I can’t because I was a little girl, only three at the time. But my memories of him are still very vivid. Uncle Thomas was a sailor. When he returned from his last trip, he brought several large __________________ with him. Inside there __________________ bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. “What is it for?” I asked my uncle. He __________________ me a broad smile and said: “Have your breakfast first and then come to the backyard. You__________________everything with your own eyes.” When I came to the backyard, Uncle Thomas __________________ an instruction manual. It took all his attention because the manual__________________in Spanish, a language my uncle didn’t know very well. All in all, it took__________________a couple of weeks to assemble the object from the parts. To all my questions he said that it was a machine that __________________ fly like a bird. I was probably the only one in the family who took his words seriously. They could never believe that soon we were going to see one of the__________________airplane flights in the country. | BOX BE GIVE SEE READ WRITE HE CAN ONE |
ГРАММАТИКА 17-25 (OGE) – 57
| English, Welsh, Scottish…all these languages sound familiar. But I'm sure you __________________ of Cornish. I wish I__________________it, like my Granny does. Cornish is a Celtic language, used in Cornwall, a county in south-eastern England. __________________ ago, when the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain, many Celts moved to the mountain areas. Some Celts even __________________ the country completely and settled in France. Speakers of Cornish stayed in the south-west. There the language __________________ until the late 1700s. But the number of speakers got smaller and the language almost disappeared. At the beginning of the __________________ century, academics became interested in Cornish and started to study the ancient texts. From those old documents they managed to restore the language! Nowadays, if you visit Cornwall, you will hear a lot of it. The language is offered as an option in many universities, and students __________________ choose to learn it. Like I did. I think it’s the __________________ language I have ever learnt, but it’s interesting and it sounds very nice. I believe the Cornish language __________________. | NOT/HEAR KNOW CENTURY LEAVE SPEAK TWENTY THEY DIFFICULT SURVIVE |
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ГРАММАТИКА 17-25 (OGE) – 58
| In 2010, a terrible earthquake hit the Haitian city of Léogâne. It was the __________________ of January, my birthday. It was a normal day in the morning. I __________________ for my party when the earthquake hit. My first thought was that everybody was going to die. I __________________ what was happening. It was the __________________ day of my life so far – I have never felt that scared! After the earthquake I asked my wife: "How are we going to go on living?" "I have no idea", she said. "But we're lucky. Our house is still standing, and thousands of people lost everything, even their__________________". Shewasright. We had to help the others, so we decided to start a charitable fund. At first we__________________ it the name of ‘Hope’ but then changed it. Now our fund __________________ 'Seeds for Change'. We work with small farmers and provide people from rural areas with everything necessary for farming. They say it helps them a lot. Their gratitude is the best award for __________________. If we manage to involve more people in our fund, we __________________ more impressive results in the future. | TWELVE PREPARE NOT/UNDERSTAND BAD LIFE GIVE CALL WE GET |
ГРАММАТИКА 17-25 (OGE) – 59
| Jenny loved climbing. It was a strange hobby for a girl and her family wanted her to stop it, but Jenny __________________ to anybody. "Thereare still several trees in the garden I haven’t climbed yet," Jenny said. One day, she__________________ the apple tree in the yard, when she suddenly slipped and fell down. Jenny __________________ a terrible pain and started to cry. Her mum came outside and saw that her hand was swollen and looked dark. "I wish you __________________ some other hobby!" she said. "Jenny, please, promise __________________ that you'll never do this silly climbing again!" Jenny nodded. Her mother took Jenny to the doctor. It turned out that two of the bones __________________. For the__________________ time Jenny had a cast on her arm, from her fingers down to her elbow. For several weeks, Jenny had to have the cast on. It was a huge relief to get it off, finally. At last she could get back to her favourite __________________ which were running, swimming, and climbing. But now climbing was out – Jenny was determined to stick to her promise. “If I break my promise, mum __________________ upset. And I don’t want her to feel like this.” | NOT/LISTEN CLIMB FEEL HAVE I BREAK ONE ACTIVITY GET |
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