1. Выберите верный вариант:

The passage is about ……….. .

1. a wonderful wedding

2. the customs of a western wedding

3. weddings around the world

4. how to get married

2. Сопоставьте слова и выражения в двух колонках:

a. married 1. mother's or father's mother

b. grandmother 2. people getting married

c. wedding 3. holiday after getting married

d. honeymoon 4. having a wife or husband

2. Дополните предложения, используя слова в рамке:

Borrows groom bride customs dress

Wedding party confetti honeymoon

a. Different countries have different wedding …. .

b. A … is a woman who is getting married at a wedding.

c. The bride often … something from a friend to keep the old custom.

d. The bride marries the … at a wedding.

e. My sister bought a new … to wear at her friend’s … .

f. We bought some … to throw at the bride and groom.

g. We had a good … after the wedding.

h. Where did the married couple go for their honeymoon?

TEXT 3

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THE CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN

The Church of England is a Protestant church and official state religion of England (although membership is not, of course, compulsory). The Queen is the Head of the Church of England and she, with the advice of the Prime Minister and others, appoints the senior members of the clergy - the archbishops, bishops and deans.

The Church is divided into two provinces -Canterbury and York - each with its own archbishop and the Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior official in the Church of England. The two provinces are divided into a number of dioceses, each with its own bishop; and the dioceses are further split into parishes. There are 13,250 pari­shes in England alone, and every parish has its own church, all except for the very smallest with its own priest or vicar. The Church of England does not yet allow women to become vicars. This is the cause of major argument raging in the Church at the moment, but it is possible that the situation will change within the next few years.

The Church of Scotland is recognized as the official religion of Scotland. It is a protestant church and is a Presbyterian organization. This means that there is no hier­archy of archbishops and bishops. The Church of Scotland is governed by its ministers (parish priests) and elders (elected representatives), all of whom are considered to hold equal rank. Women are allowed to become ministers in the Presbyterian church.

About 10 per cent of the population of Britain are Roman Catholics including more than one third of the population of Northern Ireland. Recent years have seen attempts to create some form of unity between the Catholic Church and the Church of England, but there are many problems, not least of which is that whereas the Church of England appears to be gradually accepting the idea of admitting women to the priesthood, this is totally unacceptable to the Roman Catholic Church.

To sum up: a recent unofficial survey indicated that approximately two-thirds of the population profess a belief in God (although not necessarily a Christian one). The sta­tistics present a rather different picture however: 17 per cent of the adult population of Britain are practising members of a Christian church. This can be further broken down as follows: 13 per cent of the English, who include a wide mixture of all Christian faiths; 23 per cent of the Welsh, who are mainly Free Church (not officially recognized, e.g. Methodists, Baptists, the United Reform Church); 37 per cent of the Scottish, who are mainly Church of Scotland or Free Church; and 80 per cent of the Northern Irish, who are mainly Protestant and Roman Catholic, actually belong to a church.

The average Sunday attendance at Church of England services is only about 2 per cent of the population. So it is clear that only a minority of the British regularly practise the state religion. "Unofficial" religions such as Catholicism and the Free Churches have more regular adherents; and in some areas it is possible for non-Christian belie­vers to out-number Christians.

Выберите верный вариант ответа на вопросы:

1. In which churches can women become priests?

1. Church of Scotland

2. Orthodox

3. Roman Catholic Church

4. Church of England

2. Which is the smallest?

1. a diocese

2. a county

3. a province

4. a parish

3. Who is the senior official of the Church of England? 1. the Archbishop of York

2 the Queen

3. the Archbishop of Canterbury

4. the Prime Minister

4. How is the Church of Scotland governed?

1. by its priests and elected members

2. by the Pope

3. by the archbishop

4. by the Queen

5. What statement is wrong?

1. 2/3 of the population of Britain believe in God.

2. 10% of the population of Britain are Roman Catholics.

3. 8O % of the Northern Irish belong to a church.

4. the population of Britain consists mostly of atheists.

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In ancient times the most important examinations were (1)..., not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of saying poetry aloud or giving speeches. Modern examinations, however, are written. Two types of tests are commonly used in modern schools. The first type is sometimes called an "objective" test. It is meant to deal with facts, not personal opinions. To make up an objective test the teacher (2)... a series of questions each of which has only one correct answer. Along with each question the teacher writes the correct answer and also three three statements that look like answers to students who have not learned the material properly.

For testing some kinds of learning, however, such a test is not very satisfactory. A lucky student may guess the correct answer without really (3)... the material. For a clearer picture of what the student knows, most teachers use "essay" tests which require students to write long answers to broad general questions.

One (4)... of the essay test is that it reduces the element of luck. Another advantage is that it shows the examiner more about the student's ability to put facts together into a meaningful whole. It should show how deeply he has thought about the subject. Sometimes, though, essay tests have disadvantages too. Some students are able to write rather good answers without really knowing about the subject, while other students who actually know the material have trouble (5) ... their thoughts in essay form.

1. Выберите верный вариант ответа, чтобы заполнить пропуск (1) в тексте:

1. spokesman

2. spoken

3. speaker

4. speaking

2. Выберите верный вариант ответа, чтобы заполнить пропуск (2) в тексте:

1. writ

2. writes

3. writing

4. written

3. Выберите верный вариант ответа, чтобы заполнить пропуск (3) в тексте:

1. know

2. knowledge

3. knowing

4. knowingly

4. Выберите верный вариант ответа, чтобы заполнить пропуск (4) в тексте:

1. advance

2. advantageous

3. advanced

4. advantage

5. Выберите верный вариант ответа, чтобы заполнить пропуск (5) в тексте:

1. expressive

2. expressing

3. expression

4. express

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Charlie Yates was seventeen years old, and although he had left school, he preferred living in the comfort and convenience of his parents home to living alone. He said that he was trying to find a job, but there never seemed to be one that he thought good enough for him. His father wanted him to leave home and earn some money, but his mother loved Charlie very much and wanted him to stay, so she never interfered with what he might want to do.

Charlie did not wash his hair very often, he shaved once a week, and he could not bear wearing shoes, so his feet were nearly always dirty.

His father did not see him very frequently, because he worked quite a distance from home and was in the habit of leaving the house early, before Charlie got up; and when he got home in the evenings, Charlie was usually somewhere else, amusing himself with a few of his friends, or playing the drums in a band. Also, Charlie's father often had to go abroad on business.

But Mr Yates sometimes saw his son at weekends, and then he was always angry with him. He used to say to him: "Why ever don't you shave every day? Who ever would give you a job with your dirty hair? Where ever are your shoes?" and so on.

"But Father," Charlie always said, "I don't care about those things. All my friends are like me nowadays, and if I changed, I wouldn't be popular with them any more."

One Saturday morning, while Charlie and his father were having their usual argument, his father said to him, "You should be ashamed to live like that. I was brought up quite differently. When I was seventeen, my father never allowed me to do any of the things that you do all the time. I was forbidden to stay out till three o'clock in the morning, and come down to breakfast at ten, and walk about the house with dirty feet, and grow a beard, and wear gold chains, and behave like a ..."

He went on and on until Charlie said kindly, "Poor Father. My grandfather died before I was born, so I never met him, but he must have been a terrible old gentleman."

"Not at all!" Mr Yates objected angrily. "For your infor­mation, I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!"