I. Найдите слова из первой колонки в тексте и соотнесите с их значением во второй колонке.

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soft instead pleasure narrow behind

not wide at the back of not strong in place of something else gladness, satisfaction

II. Дополните предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста и подчеркните правильный вариант ответа.

1. When Mr. Holland was forty he was a) thin b) fat c) strong.

2. It was a) difficult b) easy c) necessary for Mr. Holland to learn to ride a bicycle.

3. Mr. Holland practiced a) in the evening b) in the morning c) on his birthday.

4. He a) enjoyed b) hated c) couldn’t stand riding a bicycle.

5. At the traffic lights he met a) his friend b) a policeman c) a man without a driving licence.

III. Соответствуют ли следующие утверждения содержанию текста? Если да, запишите букву t (true), если нет – буквой f (false).

1. When Mr. Holland was young he was very fit.

2. Mr. Holland didn’t like being fat.

3. Mr. Holland’s wife advised him to ride a bicycle

4. Mr. Holland believed that a bicycle would help him to get thinner.

5. The police took Mr. Holland’s driving licence away.

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English for science

I. Соотнесите слово в колонке а с его определением из колонки в. Запишите свой выбор в колонке с.

A	B	C
to compress	a) to turn into gas or vapour	1. b
propulsion	b) to push together in a small space	2.
unique	c) driving forward	3.
valuable	d) the only one of its type	4.
to evaporate	e) to produce, e.g. electricity	5.
to generate	f) important, worth a lot of money	6.
principle	a) substance used for killing insects	7.
charge	b) the smallest particle of a substance which can exist on its own	8.
pressure	c) the electricity contained by a body or a battery	9.
insecticide	d) a law of nature, usually with uses in science or technology	10.
thrust	e) the force of a substance on another substance	11.
molecule	f) a pushing force	12.
violent	a) substance used for cleaning	13.
flood	b) small amount of a substance, usually taken for testing	14.
sample	c) power needed to do work	15.
to grind out	d) sudden and powerful	16.
energy	e) to shape by rubbing together	17.
detergent	f) overflow of water on to land which is usually dry	18.

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minute	a) slowly, little by little	19.
horizontal	b) very small	20.
organism	c) very small pieces	21.
particles	d) substance which combines with acids to form salts	22.
gradually	e) flat, level	23.
alkali	f) any living thing, plant or animal	24.
to create	a) path of one body around another	25.
theory	b) outside of a body or the top of a liquid	26.
surface	c) idea which explains or tries to explain facts or events	27.
to revolve	d) waste organic substance, usually from households	28.
sewage	e) to make, cause	29.
orbit	f) to go round and round	30.
ancient	a) instrument which changes the voltage of a current	31.
spectrum	b) process of sending out heat, light or X-rays	32.
to expand	c) very old, belonging to past times	33.
transformer	d) to grow bigger in volume	34.
fall-out	e) different colours which light consists of	35.
radiation	f) radio-active particles in the atmosphere	36.