Определите верны (T) или неверны (F) высказывания

A. Two hundreds of years ago, families worked for themselves: they looked after animals and grew food.

B. Some of the largest companies are oil companies like Exxon Mobil, and car companies like Ford can make more than 1000 billion dollars a year.

C. The value of world trade is about 4,000 billion dollars a year, and it is growing fast.

II

Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Present Simple или Present Continuous

June:  Hi, Mum!

Mum: Hello, June. Where 1) are you calling(you / call) from?

June:  I __________ (be) at work at the moment. My boss __________ (have) lunch with his wife now. He __________ (often/take) her to lunch on Tuesdays.

Mum: Well, why __________ (you/phone)? Is there anything wrong?

June:  No, I just want you to know that I __________ (come) home next Saturday. Mum : What time __________ (your train/arrive) in Leeds?

June:  It __________ (leave) London at 11 o'clock and __________ (arrive) in Leeds at 2 o'clock.

Mum: See you on Saturday then.

Поставьте глаголы в скобках в правильную форму

I remember when I went (go) abroad for the first time. I __________ (just/leave) school. I __________ (study) very hard for my final exams and I __________ (feel) that I needed a holiday. A friend of mine __________ (want) to come as well so we __________ (look) at some brochures from the travel agent's. We __________ (read) for about an hour when my friend __________ (find) the perfect holiday - two weeks in Hawaii. We __________ (be) very excited about it. Finally the day of our holiday __________ (arrive). We __________ (just/leave) the house when the phone __________ (ring). I __________ (run) back into the house, but the phone __________ (stop) by the time I __________ (reach) it. When we __________ (arrive) at the airport we __________ (sit) in the cafeteria. The airline __________ (just/make) an announcement. Our flight was delayed for eight hours. We __________ (get up) very early and rushed to the airport, all for nothing.

Перепишите газетные заголовки, используя пассивный залог

1. RARE BIRD FOUND IN REMOTE COUNTRYSIDE

2. QUEEN WELCOMED TO AUSTRALIA YESTERDAY

3. NEW JERSEY TO BE HIT BY BAD WEATHER TOMORROW

4. FIVE PEOPLE INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT

5. EXPERIMENTS BEING CARRIED OUT ON MOON ROCKS

6. POP CONCERT CALLED OFF YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF RAIN

A rare bird has been found in the remote countryside

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ВАРИАНТ 2

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Money

Before money, people could not buy and sell. There was trade; but it had to be two-way trade: people exchanged goods. For example, they exchanged food for clothes. With money, buying and selling became two things that could happen at different times and with different people. A person could sell food to somebody on one day and get money for it; a week later, he or she could use the money to buy clothes from a third person.

There have been metal coins for thousands of years. Some of the earliest coins were used in Turkey, and they were made of electrum (gold and silver). But this caused problems. People used to take very small bits of metal from each coin. Each coin was then a bit smaller, so people wanted more coins for their goods, and prices went up.

Metal coins were used by the Greeks thousands of years ago. The Greek drachma was made of silver. For hundreds of years, it was the most common kind of money for trade in Europe and parts of Asia. The Greeks even put drachma into the mouths of dead people: they believed the money would pay for their journey to the next world.

The Romans also used silver coins (the denarius) and gold coins (the aureus). But the emperor Nero decided to put less gold and silver into the coins in order to make money for himself. After that, nobody wanted to use the coins, and this had a very bad effect on the Roman economy. The world had learned a lesson: money only works if people believe in its value.

Coins can be heavy. (For example, the people of Yap, an island in the Pacific, used stone coins; the biggest were about four metres across!) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, people did not want to carry large bags of coins with them, so they left the coins with traders. The traders gave them 'notes': these were just pieces of paper with a promise in writing to pay back the gold and silver coins. Soon, people started to use the notes themselves as money. Later, governments began to control money. They made their own notes for people to use.

In 1950, the first credit card was made. It was the Diners Club card, and it could only be used in 200 restaurants in New York. Today, most shops, hotels and restaurants in the world take credit cards, so people do not have to carry a lot of coins and notes with them when they travel.