II . Ответьте на следующие вопросы.
1. Why do they recommend to buy puppies when they are 6 or 8 weeks old?
2. What happens if puppies don't establish a relationship with a human being till they are three months old?
3. Why don't dogs need fruit or vegetables?
4. What is the most essential rule that you have to observe if you want to have a happy and healthy dog?
III . Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.
1. If puppies are kept in kennels until they are 3 months old they may be too aggressive to become good pets.
2. Dogs require a well-balanced diet like cats.
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A visitor from Barcelona arrives at Madrid government office in mid-afternoon, and is surprised to find only the cleaning lady there. «Don't they work in the afternoons?» he asks. «No,» she replies, «they don't work in the mornings. In the afternoons they don't come.»
Lazy Madrid, busy Barcelona: it is just one of many stereotypes about Spain's great rivals. Mostly, the stereotypes are born of Barcelona's bitterness at its second-class status. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a proudly autonomous region, but Madrid is the capital of Spain. This causes resentment. It makes Barcelona the largest city in Western Europe not to be a national capital.
Over the years governments in Madrid did their best to limit Barcelona's political power. Barcelona has the liberalism that often characterizes port cities. An old-fashioned seriousness in Madrid, isolated high up on Spain's central plateaus, contrasts with the light-heartedness of Barcelona, open to Europe.
These old caricatures still hold true. No visitor to government buildings in the two cities can fail to be struck by the contrast between them. In Madrid, there are ancient wooden floors, antique furniture and walls covered with paintings by Spanish old masters. In Barcelona, designer chairs and tables are evidence of the place's obsession with modernism. And yet, these days, the similarities between the two cities are as striking as the contrasts. Madrid is hardly lazy any more. Nor is it old-fashioned. Indeed, it has become almost outrageously modern. To judge by the local cuisine1, you would think the place was a port: although far from the sea, seafood is a miraculous Madrid speciality.
As banks and businesses have been drawn to Madrid, it has become as much a commercial and industrial centre as an administrative one. Barcelona, meanwhile, has been experiencing a rise in bureaucracy.
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The rivalry between Madrid and Barcelona is bound to remain fierce, not least on the soccer field, when Real Madrid and Barcelona compete for Spanish supremacy. 1 cuisine—кухня
Test № 20
I . Определите, верны ( True ) или неверны ( False ) следующие утверждения.
1. According to the old Catalan joke, people at a Madrid government office are lazier in the morning than in the afternoon.
2. Barcelona is the largest city in Spain.
3. Visitors to Madrid find that it is hardly lazy any more.
4. Nowadays Barcelona doesn't feel competitive with Madrid.
II . Ответьте на следующие вопросы.
1. What was the policy of Madrid towards Barcelona for many years?
2. Which of the two rivals has traditionally been more oriented towards Europe?
3. What are Madrid's government buildings decorated with?
4. Why can one think, to judge by the local cuisine, that Madrid is a
port?
III . Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.
1. Barcelona has liberalism which is usually characteristic of big cities.
2. These days similarities between the two cities are more striking than the contrasts.
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What is a hero? This not an easy question to answer. When we look closely at the life stories of many popular heroes, we find that they are not always very good or very likeable people. They have become heroes because of their actions, not because of their characters. People may be famous while they are alive, but after they are dead, stories are told and songs are written which make them into heroes.
The British hero who still remains larger than life is, of course, Robin Hood. Historians tell us that little — if any — of his story is true, but people love the idea of an outlaw1 who stole from the rich to give to the poor and they continue to believe it. In 1991, the Robin Hood Festival attracted 100,000 tourists to Sherwood Forest. They wanted to see Robin's favourite hiding-place, the «Major Oak» — a tree which was planted a couple of hundred years after the hero's death. They crowded into St. Mary's Church, where Robin married Maid Marian — a marriage between a fourteenth-century hero and a woman who was added to the story two hundred years later (in a church which was completely rebuilt four hundred years later). They queued to get into The Tales of Robin Hood, an exhibition about the life of the outlaw who, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, never existed.
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Villains2, like heroes, are the subjects of stories and songs which often have little to do with historical facts. Just as heroes are always stronger, braver and more heroic than they are in real life, villains are always more wicked, more cruel and more villainous. For example, there are stories about Blackbeard the Pirate which tell us that he acted with great cruelty to his own men when he was drunk and could cut a man in two with one blow of his sword. In fact, Blackbeard probably encouraged these stories to make himself more frightening to the captains and crews of the ships he attacked. There are just as many stories which say that he avoided battles and showed some kindness to his enemies, but we like our villains to be black-hearted and that is the way we remember him.
Test № 21
I . Определите, верны ( True ) или неверны ( False ) следующие утверждения.
1. Historians often make into heroes people who were famous while they were alive.
2. According to historians, Robin Hood married Maid Marian in St. Mary's Church.
3. Blackbeard was much more cruel in reality than in the stories about him
4. People like villains and heroes to be black and white.
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