Task Three

Out of 4 variants A,B,C,D choose one of the most suitable to the contents of the given example:

1. My father broke his glasses so he couldn’t read the newspaper.

A) My father was not able to read the newspaper he had broken his glasses.

B) My father could have read the newspaper if he hadn’t had to wash the glasses.

C) My father won’t go to work tomorrow because he must go to the optometrist.

D) My father cut himself on some broken glass.

2. I found it very difficult to learn that poem by heart.

A) It was hard for me to learn the poem.

B) I learned that difficult poem.

C) I found the poem after a difficult search.

D) It was hard for me to find a good poem to learn by heart.

Task Four

1. Read the text:

New York is a city where almost all languages of the world are spoken. The city makes a great impression on all visitors because of its many high buildings, theatres and museums, its hotels and expensive shops, its beautiful bridges and monuments. The city is situated on Manhattan Island where most of skyscrapers are. This island is connected by six long bridges with the other four districts which constitute New York, the largest city of the United States. Today there are more people living in New York than in Australia, Peru and Sweden.

2. Choose the most suitable headline for the text:

A) The Manhattan Island.

B) The History of New York.

C) New York.

3. Which of the following statements correspond to the contests of the text:

А) В Нью-Йорке говорят только на английском языке.

В) Большинство небоскребов находится на Манхеттене.

С) В Нью-Йорке живет столько же людей, сколько в Австралии, Перу и Швеции.

Task Five

Read the text. Translate it.

The Last Leaf After O’Henry

When Behrman was a young man, he decided to become a great artist. For forty years he tried, but didn’t even become a good at least. Now he was more than sixty. Sometimes he sold his paintings, but never had any money because he drank. In the whole world he loved only two people – Johnsy and Sue, and he thought ha had to take care of them. Both girls lived in a small room downstairs and Johnsy was ill and very weak. “I’ll paint a masterpiece,” he often told them. “And then we will go away from this dirty little room.”

“She is so ill,” Sue used to say. “And she is full of strange ideas. She counts the leaves on that old vine, and she thinks that when the last leaf falls, she will die too.”

Johnsy was sleeping when Sue came into the room Behrman. They went to the window and looked out. For five minutes Behrman looked at the vine, then he went to the door and went away without a word.

During the night, a cold rain began to fall, and the wind became stronger and louder. Sue sat near Johnsy’s bed; she didn’t sleep all night. Very early in the morning, she saw that Johnsy’s eyes were opened and she was looking out of the window. When Sue looked she saw that there was only one leaf on the vine.

Slowly the day passed. Every minute seemed an hour. At the end of the day, the north wind came again, and it brought the cold autumn rain. It rain all night, and in the morning the too girls looked out of the window together.

The leaf was there. “The leaf taught me to believe in life” , Johnsy said. The doctor came in the afternoon, and when he went away, he said to Sue: “Her chances are much better. If you take care of her, you will win.”

A few days later, Sue came to Johnsy’s bed and sat down. “I have something to tell you, dear,” she said. “Mr. Behrman died in the hospital today. Pneumonia. They found some green and yellow paint in his room. Do you see that leaf? It isn’t on the vine. Behrman painted on the wall behind the vine. He painted it that terrible night, when the last leaf fell. It is his masterpiece.”