Read the text below. For questions (22-31) choose the correct answer (A,B,C,D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.
Presidential Correspondence
Today In today’s fast-paced world, communicating with the President is easier than ever before. In 1993, President Clinton became the first President in history to have a public e-mail address. The same year, the White House (22) ..... its first web site. Since then, electronic mail (23) ……..to the White House from all across the globe. In fact, there are some very special offices within the White House that help the President stay in touch with people across America and around the world. The Office of Presidential Letters and Messages is one of the (24)..... in the White House. There, skilled writers and editors help the President respond to those who (25) ... to him by carefully bringing together his policies and initiatives in the letters (26) ... his signature. They also help him stay in touch with groups across our country (27) ... preparing some 6,000 messages that he sends each year for events he is unable to attend.
Ever wonder who helps the President type all those thousands of letters, messages, proclamations, and other official documents? One of the best-kept secrets in the White House is the lightning speed at which the staff of the Office of Presidential Support (28) …type and print a document for the President’s signature. They say that the fastest typist can type (29) … 100 words per minute! (30) ... the computer age has taken over the days of the typewriter, Presidential Support has had it all: manual typewriters, electric typewriters, robotype machines that used paper tape, magnetic tape typewriters, plus numerous other pieces of automated word processing equipment designed (31) … speed, volume, and accuracy.
| 22 | A | had launched | B | was launched | C | launched | D | was launching |
| 23 | A | had come | B | has come | C | came | D | to come |
| 24 | A | busier | B | the most busy | C | busy | D | busiest |
| 25 | A | wrote | B | have written | C | were writing | D | writing |
| 26 | A | to bear | B | bear | C | bearing | D | is born |
| 27 | A | by | B | B for | C | so | D | among |
| 28 | A | might | B | had to | C | ought | D | can |
| 29 | A | most | B | more than | C | the more | D | many |
| 30 | A | During | B | Nowadays | C | As | D | For |
| 31 | A | to increase | B | increase | C | increasing | D | to be increased |
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Read the text below. For each empty space (32-42) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.
New York City isn't the capital of New York State, but residents of the "Big Apple" compensate for that fact by (32) _____ their city the capital of the globe. There's a good case to be made: New York is the home of the United Nations and an astoundingly (33) _____ population, as well asthe largest investment market in the world.
So many movies, books, plays, and television shows have been created about New York that even its street names are (34) _____ nationwide. Wall Street is famous for finance, Madison Avenue means advertising, and Fifth Avenue (35) _____ world-class shopping. New York's neighborhoods are also icons. Greenwich Village, or The Village, has fostered a lot of the world's great writers; Soho is an enclave of artists, Harlem has a priceless musical (36) ______. The city is a feast for art lovers. The Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art line Fifth Avenue. And no trip is (37) _____ without a visit to the Museum of Modern Art.
Most of New York's skyscrapers are (38) _____ on the island of Manhattan. Cultural landmarks (39) _____ Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Mac Square Garden, and the elegant Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where visiting presidents and royalty (40) _____. New York's four other boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Bronx – don't always get their due.
New York City's secret is the ongoing infusion of energy and talent it gets from the rest of the country and immigrants from (41) _____ the world. Moss Hart caring, "The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its (42) ______ gates and treasures, not caringwho they were or where they came from."
| 32 | A) considering | B) Loving | C) Thinking | D) saying |
| 33 | A) famous | B) Diverse | C) Great | D) large |
| 34 | A) prominent | B) Notorious | C) Glorious | D) known |
| 35 | Adreams about | B) insists on | C) good at | D) stands for |
| 36 | A) hermitage | B) Instruments | C) Heritage | D) plays |
| 37 | A) done | B) Full | C) Ready | D) complete |
| 38 | A) attracted | B) Located | C) Placed | D) based |
| 39 | A) consist | B) Govern | C) Include | D) invade |
| 40 | A) reside | B) Stay | C) Play | D) speak |
| 41 42 | A) around A) gates | B) Over B) window | C) All C) door | D) through D) passage |
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Variant 2
Task 1 1E 2В 3F 4С 5G
Task 2 6D 7B 8B 9B 10C
Task 3 11 F 12 G 13A 14C 15E 16B
Task 4 17H 18G 19F 20C 21A
Task 5 22 C 23 B 24 D 25 B 26 C 27 A 28 D 29 B 30 C 31 A
Task 6 32A 33B 34D 35D 36C 37D 38B 39C 40B 41A 42 A
VARIANT 3
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