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Вопрос №7880
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Enforcing the law 1. Governments have many ways to be sure that citizens obey the law. They explain to the public what the law is and try to provide social support for law and order. They use police forces to investigate crimes and catch criminals. They use…
Вопрос №7883
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова The main symptoms of tetanus are stiffness of jaw, spasms and convulsions, difficulty in swallowing. The cause of the disease is a bacillus. The incubation period is from 5 days to 2 weeks. The disease is not communicable from…
Вопрос №7884
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Landmark Inventions of the Millennium 1. The last 1,000 years have produced an incredible number and variety of scientific and technological breakthroughs – but which of these were the most important? Narrowing a list of the thousands of inventions made since…
Вопрос №7892
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Who Are Currency Speculators? 1. They are financial swashbucklers, ready to throw down fortunes betting that a certain currency may rise or fall. Among the most successful swashbucklers are George Soros and Julian Robertson, who each control multibillion- dollar…
Вопрос №7896
There are cultural reasons for learning a language of another country: it helps one understand its culture. It is a fundamental truth that cultures define themselves through languages, and language becomes a peephole look at the nation’s culture, its traditions and its history. Italian film…
Вопрос №7898
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Cesare Lombroso 1. Professor Lombroso is a criminologist whose views, though not altogether correct, caused a lot of interest and made other people look into the problem of crime in a more scientific way. He is regarded as the father of the scientific study of…
Вопрос №7910
Прочитайте текст According to Greek legend, the Olympic Games were started by Hercules, son of Zeus, in honour of his father. The first Olympic Games about which we have information were held in 776 BC on the plain of Olympia. Games had taken place before this date but had consisted mainly of…
Вопрос №7912
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания THE “FIVE M’S” 1. Production management’s responsibilities are summarized by the “five M’s”: men, machines, methods, materials, and money. “Men” refers to the human element in operating systems. Since the vast majority of manufacturing personnel work in the…
Вопрос №7926
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту. When most people think of agriculture, they perceive it as farmers producing animals and crops. Agriculture is often thought of as “cows, sows, and plows” or “weeds, seeds, and feeds”. But agriculture has changed. For years…
Вопрос №7928
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Charter schools of the USA 1. Charter schools are public schools that are independent of any local school district. National surveys of charter school have found high levels of satisfaction among parents, pupils and teachers associated with then. Charter schools…
Вопрос №7934
Прочитайте текст We use metals for a variety of engineering purposes. Some metals have ductile properties. If a metal is ductile, it can be pressed into a new shape. Copper is an example of this. It is a ductile metal because it can be stretched into another shape. Lead can be also pressed into a…
Вопрос №7942
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Insurance 1. Insurance plays a central role in the functioning of modern economies. Life insurance offers protection against the economic impact of an untimely death; health insurance covers the sometimes extraordinary costs of medical care; and bank deposits…
Вопрос №7943
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Insurance 1. Insurance plays a central role in the functioning of modern economies. Life insurance offers protection against the economic impact of an untimely death; health insurance covers the sometimes extraordinary costs of medical care; and bank deposits…
Вопрос №7947
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture 1. The architecture of Byzantium, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the culmination of Early Christian architecture. This style can be traced back to the period after 330 BC. The art characteristic of the developed Byzantine…
Вопрос №7948
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture 1. The architecture of Byzantium, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the culmination of Early Christian architecture. This style can be traced back to the period after 330 BC. The art characteristic of the developed Byzantine…
Вопрос №7953
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова The main symptoms of tonsillitis are fever, cough, sore throat. The cause of the disease is a streptococcus. The incubation period is 2-5 days. The patients of all ages are susceptible to the disease. To treat the patient with…
Вопрос №7954
Прочитайте текст Veronique Feldmann “I work in the Supplements Department. I’m the Advertising Coordinator, and my work is to produce the advertising supplements. A supplement is like a newspaper inside a main newspaper and we call it a “sponsored section” because it is financed by the advertisers…
Вопрос №7958
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Privatization 1. Privatization is the process by which the production of goods or services is removed from the government sector of the economy. This has been done in a variety of ways, ranging from the public sale of shares in a previously state-owned…
Вопрос №7962
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова. Madame Tussaud’s is the most popular and talked about wax museum in the world. There are wax models of the famous and infamous, both living and dead, from every walk of life. David Beckham, Madonna, Elvis Presley, the Beatles…
Вопрос №7963
The British people are probably the greatest newspaper readers in the world. This explains the fact that there are quite a lot of editions of different kind. Generally, all the newspapers are divided into two groups. On the one hand, there are “quality” newspapers, which publish analytical articles…
Вопрос №7971
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова The boy complained of a bad headache, vomiting and a sore throat. His pulse was rapid. The inflammation of the throat was associated with the enlargement of the glands of the neck. The patient was noted to have loss of appetite…
Вопрос №7972
Прочитайте текст We build because we need shelter. We need shelter from sun, rain, wind and snow. Not much that modern people do takes place outdoors. Our activities mostly take place indoors. For these activities we may need air that is warmer or cooler than the air outdoors. We may also need less…
Вопрос №7975
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Fashion 1. The concept of fashion implies a process of style change, because fashions in dress, as well as in furniture and other objects, have taken very different forms at different times in history. Most people follow fashion to some extent, because fashion…
Вопрос №7976
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. How Batteries Work 1. An electrical battery is a combination of one or more electrochemical cells, used to convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first Voltaic pile in 1800 by Alessandro Volta, the battery has become a…
Вопрос №7978
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. How Batteries Work 1. An electrical battery is a combination of one or more electrochemical cells, used to convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first Voltaic pile in 1800 by Alessandro Volta, the battery has become a…
Вопрос №7979
Прочитайте текст In 1872 the Russian scientist Professor of skin diseases A.G. Polotebnov published his article on penicillium glaucum. He observed the same phenomenon which had been described by V.A. Manassein a year before. Professor A.G. Polotebnov used penicillium glaucum in his practice…
Вопрос №7980
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Technology 1. Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, and crafts, or is systems or methods of organization, or is a material product of these things. The word technology comes from the Greek technología meaning craft and the study of…
Вопрос №7990
Прочитайте текст The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States. It is more than 3, 700 kilometers long. The Mississippi begins as a small creek and at the Gulf of Mexico it is nearly two kilometers wide. In some places it is very deep and in other places it is shallow. The river…
Вопрос №7991
Прочитайте текст Early men did not have clocks. They told time by the sun and the shadows of trees. At first, they used sticks placed in the ground instead of trees. They made marks on the ground, and the shadows from the sticks told the time of the day. Later, men began to use sundials. Some…
Вопрос №7997
Прочитайте текст James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Naismith was a Canadian, but lived in the United States. He was a teacher at Springfield Training School. He taught sports and found there were no interesting games to play indoors in the winter months. So he thought of a game. Nasmith’s…
Вопрос №8009
Прочитайте текст и выберите утверждение, соответствующее содержанию текста The telephone rang and Dr Jones took up the receiver. His patient’s servant asked him to come to their place. ‘I can do nothing with the old man,’ he said and the doctor agreed to come at once. He had thought much about his…
Вопрос №8010
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Landmark Inventions of the Millennium 1. The last 1,000 years have produced an incredible number and variety of scientific and technological breakthroughs – but which of these were the most important? Narrowing a list of the thousands of inventions made since…
Вопрос №8011
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Landmark Inventions of the Millennium 1. The last 1,000 years have produced an incredible number and variety of scientific and technological breakthroughs – but which of these were the most important? Narrowing a list of the thousands of inventions made since…
Вопрос №8026
Although many kinds of people working in or studying legal affairs are referred to as lawyers, the word really describes a person who has become officially qualified to act in certain legal matters because of examinations he has taken and professional experience he has gained. Most countries have…
Вопрос №8027
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Modern Architecture 1. Modern architecture is the term universally applied to the style of building, which evolved a number of countries after the First World War as the International Style and which has culminated in the current design of glass, concrete and…
Вопрос №8030
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture 1. The architecture of Byzantium, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the culmination of Early Christian architecture. This style can be traced back to the period after 330 BC. The art characteristic of the developed Byzantine…
Вопрос №8035
Прочитайте текст The Egyptian pyramids are huge structures which are almost 4,600 years old. The Pyramid of Cheops consists of 2,300,000 stones. Each of the stones weighs 2.5 tones. According to the usual explanation large blocks of stone were cut in the mountains and then transported with the help…
Вопрос №8036
Benjamin Franklin is acknowledged to be the founder of the theory of atmospheric electricity. He was the first to prove that the lighting was an electrical phenomenon. Franklin developed a new theory of electricity that he called positive and negative. He finally invented a means of protection…
Вопрос №8037
Colloids exist in nature in the cells of plants and animals, in the sap of certain plants, among which is the rubber tree, and in the class of foods are called proteins. Colloids have recently come to be of tremendous importance in certain manufacturing processes, including the making of glass…
Вопрос №8039
There is no federal educational standard in the USA. Schooling and educational programmes are the responsibility of each state; this is why one can find great differences in education from state to state. No uniform demands exist on education in schools or universities throughout the nation. In…
Вопрос №8040
There is no federal educational standard in the USA. Schooling and educational programmes are the responsibility of each state; this is why one can find great differences in education from state to state. No uniform demands exist on education in schools or universities throughout the nation. In…
Вопрос №8046
Прочитайте текст и определите, какой из заголовков соответствует тексту I am a nurse. I work in a therapeutic hospital. Many doctors and nurses work at the hospital. Our hospital is very large. Work at the hospital begins at 6 o’clock in the morning. The nurses begin to take the patients’…
Вопрос №8049
Прочитайте текст Anna, 18 “I work in a factory. My working hours are 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., Monday to Friday. I have a one-hour lunch break at 12.30. The routine is the same every day. My job is very boring but the pay is quite good. My colleagues and I don’t really talk to each other, but I have…
Вопрос №8056
Прочитайте текст After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used…
Вопрос №8059
Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова. Pregnancy is a period of excitement, expectancy and a bit of fear and nervousness for the future mother. It should be an exciting experience, and for that, love and consideration of the family as well as knowledge of what to…
Вопрос №8070
Прочитайте текст и выполните задания. Special education 1. Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of…
Вопрос №8086
Прочитайте текст We live in a detached house in the old part of the city. It has three floors and a basement, which I use as a study. It’s got a small front garden and a lovely view over the bay. Many people dream of buying a cottage in the country where they can escape to at weekends. Others even…
Вопрос №8087
Прочитайте текст и восстановите пропущенные слова под номером 4 OUR FAIR LADY Audrey Hepburn-Ruston was born in Brussels on May 4, 1929 in the family of a wealthy English banker and a Dutch baroness. Her parents divorced when she was six. Audrey's greatest love was music. She wanted to be a dancer…
Вопрос №8091
Прочитайте текст Cricket is often called the English national game. The exact date of its origin is not recorded, but it is known that the game was played at Guildford Grammar School during the 16th century, and by the beginning of the 18th century it was popular both in the villages of England and…
Вопрос №8097
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопрос: What happened in the house next door to Bill and Lora’s on a Friday night? It was quite late on a Friday night. Bill and Lora were having supper in their new house. They did not take much notiсe when they heard some noise in the house next door. From the…