He is described as an unusually serious and

Thoughtful person.

He can be sharply sarcastic.

He has a warm smile and a charming manner.

Variant 16

2 Complete the text with the words from the box.

Most twice borrowed down habit show

Turn collecting surrounded carelessly

The (1) of reading is one of the greatest resources of

Mankind; and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more

Than if they are (2). A borrowed book is like a guest in

The house; it must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it

(3), you cannot mark it, you cannot (4) down

The pages. And then, some day you really ought to return it.

But your own books belong to you; they are for use, not for

(5); you should own no book that you are afraid to mark

Up, or to place on the table, wide open and face (6). Everyone

Should begin (7) a private library in youth; the instinct

Of private property can here be cultivated with every advantage and

No evils.

Books have the advantage of being separate personalities, so that if

You sit alone in the room, you are (8) with close friends.

You do not have to read them all. (9) of my indoor life is

Spent in a room containing six thousand books; and I have to answer the

invariable question, ≪Have you read all of these books?≫ ≪Some of them

(10).≫ This reply is both true and unexpected.

(From «Owning Books» by William Lyon Phelps)

3 Comment on the following issues.

Imagine that you are given a chance to go on a one-day tour to Great

Britain or the USA.

• Name the places where you would choose to go and why.

• Compare the place you would like to visit with a similar one in

Ukraine.

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VARIANT 17

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

The Tale Of Two Pebbles

Many years ago in a small Indian village a poor farmer had borrowed

A large sum of money from a village moneylender. The moneylender was

Old and ugly, and he promised to forget the farmer’s debt if he could

Marry his beautiful daughter Myra.

Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified and didn’t want

to agree. ≪Let Providence decide the matter!≫ the cunning moneylender

suggested. ≪I’ll put a black pebble and a white pebble into a money

Bag. Then Myra should pick one pebble from the bag. If she picks the

Black pebble, she will become my wife and I’ll forgive you the debt. If

She picks the white pebble she doesn’t need to get married and the debt

will still be forgiven.≫

They were standing on a pebble path and the moneylender bent over

To pick up two pebbles. But Myra noticed that he had picked up two

black pebbles and put them into the bag. ≪Now pick a pebble from the

bag!≫ he said.

Myra put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without

Looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it became lost among

All the other pebbles.

≪Oh, how clumsy of me!≫ she said. ≪But never mind, if you look

Into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble

I picked.≫

True False

The characters of the story lived in a small town.

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