A) the author got permission

B) the author reached success.

C) the author earned money enough to live on.

3. The author of the story was a…

A) fisherman.

B) writer.

C) publisher.

4. The author had…

A) a sore throat.

B) heart trouble.

C) a fever.

5. The text prompts that the writer is…

A) successful.

B) infamous.

C) lazy.

6. … advised to write a new book.

A) The author’s wife.

B) The author’s friend.

C) His doctor.

Variant 13

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

Population a few shown does problem than

Depiction show up consists in poverty

The United States is more diverse than usually (1) in

Films. A usual film features a cast of white people, and maybe

(2) characters from other races, too. About two-thirds

Of the (3) is White, but the other one-third, which

(4) of minorities, (5) not correspond to what

Is shown in the theatre.

Additionally, the (6) of poverty is usually not depicted

in films. More (7) 15% of the US population lives

(8) and that is usually ignored. The last major inaccuracy

Is the (9) of religious life. The vast majority of Americans

Are religious, and this does not usually (10) in films.

3 Comment on the following issues.

People often keep their favourite animals as pets.

• Mention if you have ever kept a pet and what problems you had.

• Explain why lots of people keep animals as pets, and why some like

To have unusual animals.

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VARIANT 14

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

Britain seems not to be so progressive when it comes to learning foreign

Languages. More than half of other Europeans can speak at least

one foreign language, and often two. However, 66% of the British population

Has absolutely no knowledge of any language apart from English

and 51% think that it would be too difficult.

Compare these figures with Luxembourg, where only 2% could not

speak a foreign language. Or Sweden, Denmark and Holland, where 80%

of the population can speak English. However, 56% of the Portuguese,

53% of the Spanish and 51% of the French spoke only their own languages.

18% of Britons claimed some knowledge of Spanish and 10%

Some German. But it was not true. The British Tourist Centre (BTC)

Carried out a little experiment: they hired researchers to pretend to be

Monolingual Spanish and German speakers. They had to contact hotels

To ask questions about accommodations. Eighty-five percent of the hotels

were unable to answer even one question in Spanish, and 90% were unable

To answer anything in German.

True False

Britain is considered to be the leader of Europe

When it comes to learning foreign languages.

Less than half of other European countries can

Speak another foreign language.

More than half of the British population know

Two foreign languages.

Lots of British people think that learning

Foreign languages is very difficult.

Not all other European countries were as good

At languages as Sweden, Denmark and Holland.

Two per cent of the people in Luxembourg

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