Speak a foreign language

Besides England, Portugal speaks the lowest

Number of foreign languages.

The BTC experiment concluded that less than

18% of Britons spoke Spanish or German.

Ninety per cent of the hotel staff could not

Answer questions in German.

The researchers from the BTC asked the hotel

Workers about learning foreign languages.

Variant 14

2 Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box.

Researchers difference have found could

Are what running after repeatedly

In the Chinese zodiac, rats (1) considered witty, imaginative

And curious. Now scientists (2) discovered another

Attribute.

They have (3) that rats can be helpful. The

(4) placed a free-roaming rat in an arena with a caged rat.

In a few days, the free rats realized they (5) push the door

Open and release the caged rat.

After figuring this out, they did so (6), day after day.

They then did (7) we refer to as a celebration. The

Trapped rat was (8) around the arena, and the free rat ran

(9) the trapped rat.

There was also a (10) in the behaviour of male rats and

Female rats.

3 Comment on the following issues.

There are thousands of professions in the world.

• Explain the importance of different professions.

• Specify what professions are the most important to the well-being

Of society and why.

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VARIANT 15

1 Read the text and mark () the following statements «True» or «False».

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, the flowers were blossoming

And the grass was richly green. The people of the village began

To gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around

Ten o’clock. In some towns there were so many people that the lottery

Took two days. But in this village, where there were only about three

Hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours. The children

Assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, but

Their talk was still of the classroom, books and teachers.

Soon the men began to gather, watching their own children, speaking

Of planting and rain, tractors and taxes. The women, wearing faded

House dresses and sweaters, came shortly after their men. They greeted

One another and exchanged bits of gossip as they went to join their

Husbands. Soon the women, standing by their husbands, began to call

Their children. But the children didn’t want to come, so they had to be

Called four or five times.

(From «The Lottery» by Shirley Jackson)

True False

The flowers were in full bloom on that day.

The people of the village began to gather

Around the post office and the riverbank.

The lottery didn’t start exactly at ten o’clock.

The lottery in the village took two days.

There were not many people in the village, and

That allowed the lottery to go quickly.

The lottery was held in one of the classrooms

Of the local school.

The women began gathering for the lottery

Before the men.

The women wore old dresses and warm

Sweaters.

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