Выберите верный вариант ответа на вопросы:

1. What job did he do?

1. He was a businesman.

2. He did not do anything.

3. He played the drums in a band.

4. He taught in a school.

2. Did Charlie and his father have an amusing time together when they met?

1. Yes, they did. Sometimes.

2. Yes, they did. Always.

3. They rarely had an amusing time together.

4. No, they did not. Never.

Вопрос № 2.

2. He did not do anything.

Вопрос № 3.

4. No, they did not. Never.

TEXT 6

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Today Hermes has a very successful and promising business. It continuous to strive its traditional excellence in fourteen product divisions such as Leather, Scarves, Ties, Menswear, Women fashion, Perfume, Watches, Stationery, Footwear, Gloves, etc. The use of high quality materials and appraised time-consuming handcraftsmanship is well known.

Professional craftsmanship, originated from the creation of meticulous leather saddles, has been spread into every branch of product making. General Hermes sales are made up of around 30% leather goods, 15% clothes, and 12% scarves. Every Hermes leather bound datebook, porcelain teapot, silk waistcoat is made under the company’s watchful eyes.

Whether it is a jacket of meltingly soft leather or a Kelly bag, Hermes purchase will be stylish and appropriate for a lifetime.

Hermes is also highly recognized for its handmade luggage and handbag collections. Hermes does not use assembly lines; only one craftsman may work on one handbag at a time. Due to the labor intensive nature of Hermes production methods and the use of rare materials (sometimes including exotic skins as well as precious metals), one bag can take 18 to 24 hours to create. The construction of any Kelly bag, for example, requires 18 hours of work by a single artisan. Used for all Hermes leathercrafting, the finest leather animal skins reside in the leather storage facility in Paris. Such leathers include those of alligator from Florida, buffalo from Pakistan, crocodile from Australia, shark from Thailand, lizard from Malaysia, and oxen, deer, calf, goat, and ostrich from all over the world. The leathers are professionally treated (dyed in every color, pattern, and texture imaginable) and handcrafted into stylish accessories in the end. When Hermes leather goods require repair, owners can bring the item back to any Hermes store where it can be shipped to the factory in Paris for repair.

Bags made popular through high-profile clientele include the “Kelly Bag” named after Grace Kelly for her many appearances with it (first introduced in the 1930s), and the Constance shoulder bag (with a double strap and large H clasp) and the Trim shoulder bag preferred by Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis. Both Kelly and Constance bags remain in consistent demand and there is generally one year waiting list for these bags.

Another famous handbag, the Birkin, was named for actress Jane Birkin, who co-designed the bag with company president Jean-Louis Dumas after complaining that her Kelly bag was not practical for everyday use. The bag remains the most requested. The wait of a special order Birkin can be up to six years, based on the type of leather or skin requested.

Выполните задания к тексту.

1. Выберите наиболее подходящий заголовок текста

1. Hermes Business

2. Hermes Advertisement

3. Hermes Sales

Выберите правильный ответ на вопросы:

2. What has been spread into every branch of product making?

1. professional craftsmanship.

2. strict management.

3. everyday control.

3. What is Hermes highly recognized for?

Hermes is highly recognized for …..

a. its handmade luggage and handmade collections.

b. its very expensive goods.

c. its shoe sales.

Завершите предложения фразой из текста:

4. The construction of any Kelly bag requires 18 hours of work …

a. by a single artisan.

b. by assembly line.

c. by a group of craftsman.

5. The leathers are professionally treated and handcrafted into …

a. stylish accessories in the end.

b. summer shoes.

c. comfortable trainers.

6. “Kelly Bags” were named after Grace Kelly for her …

a. many appearances with it.

b. activities.

c. behavior.

Выберите и напишите вместо пропуска правильное слово:

7. Every Hermes … will be stylish and appropriate for a lifetime.…

a. purchase

b. employee

c. holiday

8. Used for all Hermes leathercrafting, the finest leather animal skins reside in

…storage facility in Paris.

a. the leather

b. food

c. clothes

Выберите верный английский вариант данного словосочетания:

9. использование редких материалов

a. the use of rare materials

b. the use of exotic skins

c. the use of fine products

Выберите верный русский вариант данного словосочетания:

10. high quality materials

a. материалы высокого качества

b. материалы редкого свойства

c. материалы высокой прочности

TEXT 7

FINDING THE CRIMINAL

The police find most criminals because somebody tells them who the criminals are. They find other criminals by using science and their computers. When there is a bank robbery, the police first look through their computers for the names of bank robbers they know about. Then they go and talk to any of these robbers who are not in gaol.

They ask them where they were at the time of the robbery. If any of these people cannot give a good answer, the police will often use science to find out if one of them is the robber. Many criminals leave something of themselves at the place of the crime, like a fingerprint or a hair. Or they take something away on their shoes or clothes, like dirt or animal hair. If they leave behind some of their blood or a hair or a piece of skin, it will have their DNA inside it.

Everyone's DNA is different in the same way that their fingerprints are different. Therefore, if a criminal cuts himself during a robbery or leaves a hair, or even a small piece of skin, scientists can find out what his DNA is. The police can then ask the person they think is the robber to give them one of his hairs or some blood and see if it has the same DNA. Many criminals are in gaol today because of this kind of evidence.

Words

сriminal – злоумышленник, правонарушитель, преступник

science – наука, область науки

robbery – кража, грабеж

gaol – тюрьма

fingerprint – отпечаток пальца

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) - ДНК, дезоксирибонуклеиновая кислота

evidence – доказательство, подтверждение, свидетельство

Exercise1. Выберите верный вариант ответа

The passage is about … .

1 computers.

2 a bank robbery.

3 DNA

4 how the police use science to find criminals.

5 leaving fingerprints on object.

Exercise 2. Дополните предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста

1. The names of all known bank robbers are on the police … .

2. If there is a bank robbery, the police will … to all the known bank robbers who ... .

3. When a criminal leaves the place of a crime, he or she … .

4. Every … of our bodies has our own … in it.

5. Many criminals are in gaol today because the police have … .

Exercise 3. Дополните предложения, используя слова в рамке

fingerprints blood DNA evidence

criminal crime dirt robbery

1. Every piece of our body has our … in it.

2. We all have red … inside our bodies.

3. The police look for all kinds of … to find criminals.

4. Every time people touch something with their hands they leave their … on it.

5. Have you ever met a … ?

6. What … is John Smith in gaol for?

7. There is too much … on the floor. Clean it up, please.

8. There was a bank … yesterday.

Exercise 4. Выберите слово из двух предложенных, чтобы заполнить пропуски

1. … all over the world are looking for ways to make us live longer. (scientists / Police)

2. Do you want to eat rice or something … ? (other / different)

3. The teacher asked him where France was. He took a long time to … . (answer / go)

4. There are laws against … in all countries. (DNA / crime)

TEXT 8

COMPUTER CRIME

Computers can help many workers. They can also help thieves. There was one thief who worked in a United States bank. He paid for everything he needed by cheque. Then he told the computer not to take any money from his account for the cheques he wrote. The bank's computer did what he said. It gave the shops money for his cheques, but it did not take any money from his bank account. One day the computer broke down. People had to do the computer's work. They soon found out what was happening.

Another thief who worked for a bank saw people filling in deposit forms. Many of these people did not know their account numbers, so they wrote only their names on the forms. They left an empty place for their account numbers. The thief wrote his own account number in this place. When the computer read these forms, it looked only at the account numbers. It did not look at the customers' names. It paid the money on these deposit forms into the thief's account. Then there was the bank worker who told the bank computer to take ten cents off every customer's account each month and put it into his own account. For a long time the bank's customers did not notice that they were losing ten cents every month. But then someone did notice and told the bank. That was the end of that little game!

No one really knows how much computer crime is costing the banks, but some people believe it is millions of dollars a year.

Words

сrime – преступление, злодеяние, правонарушение

thief- вор, похититель

cheque – чек

account – счет, расчет, подсчет

deposite form – форма (документ) при заполнении депозитного вклада

to fill in – заполнять (форму)

customer – клиент, заказчик, покупатель

Exercise 1. Выберите верный вариант ответа

The passage is about … .

1 catching thieves

2 people losing their jobs to computers

3 the history of computers

4 the crimes that people do with computers

5 angry bank customers

Exercise 2. Выберите верный вариант ответа на каждый вопрос

1. One thief told the computer not to take any money from his … .

a) customers b) friends c) bank d) deposit forms e) account

2. The three thieves in the passage … .

a) worked in the same bank

b) worked in banks

c) did not fill in their account numbers

d) made millions of dollars a day

e) did not use computers

3. How many thieves in the passage went to gaol?

a) one b)two c) three d) we don’t know e) none

4. How much do some people believe banks are losing every year because of computer crime?

a) ten cents a customer b) millions of dollars c) a few cents

d) a thousand cents e) nothing

Exercise 3. Выберите верный вариант ответа на вопрос «Как, по вашему мнению, клиенты банка помогли одному из воров в тексте?»

a) The left money in the bank.

b) They told him their account numbers.

c) They did not write their account numbers on deposit forms.

d) They let him take ten cents off every deposit.

e) They let him use computers.

Exercise 4. Дополните предложения, используя слова в рамке

cheque account customers deposit form

computers cost crimes notice

1. Bank … put their money in the bank and then take it out when they need it.

2. When people want to put money in a bank, they fill in a … .

3. Every bank has thousands of different … numbers.

4. Many people today pay for things by … .

5. Some people do not … when there is something wrong with their bank account.

6. Most banks use … nowadays.

7. There are many different kinds of … .

8. Some things … a lot of money.

TEXT 9

HIJACK!

Some people are afraid of flying. They are worried that the plane will crash or that someone may hijack it. A person who hijacks a plane usually says he will blow up the plane if he does not get money. Sometimes hijackers do not want money, however. They want other things. They sometimes want their friends let out of gaol or to go to another country.

The first hijacking happened on the 16th June 1948 on a plane travelling from Macau to Hong Kong. Some men with guns told the pilot they wanеed money. The pilot fought them but the hijackers shot him. The plane trashed into the sea and nearly everyone in it died. Only one man lived. His name was Wong-yu Man. When the police brought the plane out of the sea, they looked at it very carefully and found bullet holes in the walls of the plane; they knew then that there had been a hijack.

A policeman sat near Wong-yu Man's bed in the hospital. Before long, Wong-yu started to talk in his sleep. 'Where are my men?' he said. 'Are they all right? Did they get the money?' The policeman wrote everything down. He knew Wong-yu's words meant something. He thought Wong-yu was one of the hijackers. He was right. When Wong-yu came out of hospital, he went to gaol for a long time.

Exercise 1. Выберите верный вариант ответа.

The passage is about … .

1. a plane crash.

2. haw to hijack a plane.

3. Chinese police.

4. the first hijacking

5. planes and traveling.

Exercise 2. Выберите верный вариант ответа

1. When they fly, some people are afraid ... .

a) the plane will crash or be hijacked.

b) their friends will go to gaol.

c) someone will get a lot of money

d) the police will take them to gaol

e) the pilot will become ill

2. The first hijacking happened in Macau in ... .

a) July 1948 .

b)March 1938

c)March 1948

d) June 1948

e) June 1928

3. The plane crashed because

a) the police shot the plane

b) the pilot got sick .

c) the hijacker blew up the plane

d) the hijackers shot the pilot

e) the hijackers died

4. The police thought the crash was unusual because ...

a) Wong-yu Man was still alive

b) they found bullet holes in the plane

c)Wong-yu Man went to hospital

d) they could not find the plane

e) nearly everyone died

5. The word ‘men’, in line 12, refers to … .

a) the police

b) the hijacker/s friends in gaol

c) the pilots of the hijacked planes

d)everyone on the plane

e) the other hijackers.

Exercise 3. Закончите предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста

a. Some people do not like to fly because they think … .

b. People who hijack planes usually want … .

c. In 1948, some men hijacked a plane traveling … .

d. The police found out that Wong-yu was the leader of the hijackers because he said … .

e. The police knew that the plane had been hijacked because they found … .

Exercise 4. Дополните предложения одним из предложенных ниже слов:

Bullet hijacker gaol crashed hospital

1. The man who didn’t die went to … .

2. The plane … into the sea.

3. Wong-yu was a … .

4. The police found … holes in the plane’s walls.

5. The police took the thief to … .

TEXT 10

THE CURSE OF THE RING

Rudolph Valentino was a famous film actor in the United States in the 1920s. He acted in silent films. They were called 'silent' because they had no sound.

In 1922, Valentino went to a jeweller's shop to buy a ring. He saw a beautiful silver ring in the shop, but the jeweller did not want to sell it to him.

'It'll bring you bad luck,’ he said. 'It has a curse on it’.

'I don't believe you,’ Valentino replied. 'I don't believe in bad luck.’ He bought the ring and put it on.

In the same year, Valentino made a film called ‘The Young Rajah'. For the first time in his life, he made a film that few people liked. Valentino put the ring away for several years. His next two films did well and Valentino forgot about the curse of the ring. Then, in 1926, he put the ring on again. Suddenly he fell ill, and a few hours later he died.

Valentino left the ring to a friend in his will. As soon as she was given the ring, she fell ill. She gave the ring to a young artist called Russ Colombo, and she immediately got better. However, Mr. Colombo died when his car was in an accident. He had the ring on at the time.

Then a thief stole the ring. A policeman, who had a gun, saw him. The policeman shot the gun into the air to frighten the thief, but he accidentally shot and killed him. By now, many people believed that the ring was dangerous. No one wanted to wear it. The ring was put in a bank. Although the bank had never had a robbery before, just after the ring arrived, thieves robbed the bank twice. In one robbery several people died.

No one knows where the ring is now. No one wants to know!

Words and expressions to the text

сurse – проклятие

jeweller's shop – ювелирный магазин

bad luck – невезение, несчастье, неудача

Exercise 1. Выберите верный вариант ответа

The passage is about

1. Rudolph Valentino's films.

2. a famous jeweller.

3. a ring that brought bad luck.

4. a bank robber.

5. an accident.

Exercise 2. Дополните предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1. Rudolph Valentino wanted to buy ... .

2. The jeweller told him ... .

3. Valentino put the ring on and his next film did badly When he put it on again in

1926, ... .

4. The ring went to someone who fell ill and she gave it to an artist who ... .

5. The last thing anyone heard of the ring was when it was in a bank. The bank ...

Exercise 3. Дополните предложения, используя слова в рамке

thief will artist accidentally

policeman jeweller ring frighten

1. The … made beautiful things in gold and silver.

2. This picture was painted by a famous … .

3. A … stole my computer from my house.

4. You can't … me!

5. I like the … on Helen's finger. 6. I have just made my … and left all my money to my friend, Jack.

7. Did James hit John … or did he mean to do it?

8. If you get lost, look for a … to help you.

Exercise 4. Выберите одно слово из двух предложенных ниже, чтобы заполнить пропуски

1. I like the ... of birds singing. sound/noise

2. John has had an … . He’s fallen off his horse. accident robbery

3. If you … someone, you want them to have bad luck. curse/frighten

4. My father liked us very much so he left us everything in his … . will/curse

TEXT 11

The most commonly spoken

The language used by more people as their native language than any other is Mandarin ( мандаринское наречие китайского языка ), spoken by an estimated 68 per cent of China’s population. The next most commonly spoken language, and the most widespread, is English, with an estimated 300 million native speakers. Nearly twice as many use it as a second or a third language.

The English language contains about 490000 words plus another 300000 technical terms, the most in any language, but it is doubtful if any individual uses more than 60000. British people who have had a full 16 years of education use perhaps 5000 words in speech and up to 10000 words in written communication. Shakespeare used a vocabulary of about 33000 words.

(from The Guinness Book of Records)

1 Insert the necessary words

1. The most commonly spoken language is......

a) Chinese b) Mandarin c) Russian

2) There are about ....words in the English language.

a) 800000 b) 60000 c) 5000

3) The British use.....words in their speech.

a) 68 b) 33000 c) 5000

4) In his words Shakespeare used.... words.

a) 60000 b) 33000 c)490000

2 Choose the right answer to the question: «What is the most widespread language in the world?»

a) Spanish

b) Turkish

c) Welsh

d) English

3 Choose the right answer to the question: «What language do many people in the world use as their second or third language ?»

a) Mandarin

b) Russian

c) English

d) Swedish

4 Choose the sentence with a false information

a) Mandarin is the language of many Chinese.

b) Many technical terms are English.

c) The Shakespeare vocabulary is about 60000 words.

d) There are about 800000 words in the English language.

TEXT 12

People as they are

Almost every nation has a reputation of some kind. The French are amorous, gay, fond of champagne; the Germans are dull, formal, efficient; the Americans are boastful, energetic, gregarious and vulgar. The English are cold, reserved, rather haughty people. The English don’t yell in the street, make love in public. They are steady, easy-going and fond of sport and animals.

There are, however certain kinds of behavior, manners and customs which are peculiar to the nation. The English are a nation of stay-at-homes. There is no place like home, they say. «The Englishman’s home is his castle», - is a saying known all over the world; and it is true that English people prefer small houses perhaps with a small garden. The fire is the focus of the English home. What do other nations sit round? The answer is they don’t. They go out to cafes or sit round the cocktail bar. For the English it is the open fire, the toasting fork and the ceremony of English tea.

What’s the difference between an American and a European really? There’s the rhythm of life of course. In Europe there are people who have lived in the same house and been in the job for twenty, thirty, forty years. That’s not the American way of life. They love change, they call it «the spirit of adventure», a spirit that they think is more characteristic of America than of Europe. There is a very interesting remark in a book by an English writer.He wrote: «We in England, and the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Russians, have all got one thing in common – we are descended from the men who stayed behind. In the States they are descended from the folk who moved away». And so they still like to «move away», to change homes and jobs.They seem to be constantly pulling down old and often quite beautiful houses or throwing away things merely because they are old. They have nonne of the Englishman’s sentimental love for things because they are old.

However, any nation has its own peculiarities. The southerner differs from the northerner, the easterner differs from the westerner.

Vocabulary

efficient – рациональный

boastful – хвастливый

gregarious – общительный

vulgar – простей, грубый

reserved – скрытый, сдержанный, замкнутый, необщительный

haughty – надменный, высокомерный

yell = cry

easy–going – добродушно-весёлый, беспечный, беззаботный

peculiar – свойственный

peculiarity – свойство, характерная черта

stay-at-home – домосед(ка)

descend – происходить

descendant – потомок

direct (lineal) descendant – прямой потомок

southerner – южанин(ка)

northerner северянин(ка)

easterner – житель Востока

westerner – житель Запада

1 Indicate whether each of the statements is true or false

1) All peoples have the same peculiarities.

2. The English prefer to go out to cafes and sit round the cocktail bar.

3. The Americans like to change their jobs and homes.

4. «The spirit of adventure» is a characteristic feature of a European.

5. All nations differ from each other.

2 Match the words with their meaning

1 easy-going A having or showing a high opinion of oneself.

2 gregarious B happy and full of fun.

3 haughty C doing smith with much effort.

4 reserved D pleasant, relaxed, tolerant.

5 gay E liking the company of others

6 inuisitive F happy state of mind, cheerful mood.

7 good-humored G gay, bright, merry.

8 hard-working H kind and affectionate.

9 light-hearted I slow to show feelings or opinion.

10 warm-hearted J liking, showing a fondness for, having (too much)

interest in other people’s affairs.

3 Match the people with their characteristics

People Characteristics

the Italians boastful, gregarious, vulgar, reserved, haughty,

the Russians easy-going, stay-ofhome, dull, efficient, cold,

the English warmhearted, sport lovers, animals’ lovers, music

the Americans lovers, gay, bright, good-humoured, good-tempered,

the French inquisitive , mysterious, lighthearted,

the Germans hardworking