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  1. Read the stories and put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses.

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(drive) (be / catch) (decide)

A Frenchman Robert Alois (1)

(make) S125.000 at the roulette table in Monte Carlo last week. But this (2) (have)

nothing to do with his gambling skills. He was awarded the money in compensation because a steel ball (3) (flow) off the wheel

and hit him in the eye.

Britons (1) (be) still very honest,

reports The Guardian. Last week, motorists on the M65 (2) (astonish)

when they (3) (see) that £10,000 in

cash (4) (come out)

of a motorbiker's backpack. Dozens of drivers

  1. (stop) to

pick up the cash until the police arrived. But the “marvellous thing", (6) (say) a

police spokeswoman, was that by the end of the day, every single note (7)

(hand back).

A motorist near Denver (1) at a high speed when he (2) by a speed camera. He (3)

to play a joke on the police by mailing a photograph of two $20 bills to pay his $40 fine. But he

  1. (change) his mind and

  2. (pay) up in real cash after the police (6) (send) him a photo of a pair of handcuffs (наручники).

Two spinsters (старые девы) who (1)

(bake) cakes for their local church for 18 years (2) (just leave) $27 million to a

Charity, which (3) (support) youth

projects and schemes for the homeless. All these years they (4) (live) modestly in a flat

in north London. But neither friends nor neighbours

  1. (know) that the ladies

  2. (be) rich investors who

  3. (turn) their in herited (унаследованное) wealth into multimillion pound fortunes.

  1. Put the sentences in the correct order and read the fable.

  • Express the moral of the fable in one short sentence.

THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS —a) One day a countryman going to the nest of his coose found there an egg all yellow and glittering.

  1. But on second thoughts he took it home, and scon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold.

  2. As he grew rich he grew greedy.

■ d) Every morning the same thing occurred and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.

  1. When he picked it up it was heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away...

  2. Thinking that he would get all the goose's gold at once, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

  3. ...because he thought a trick had been played on him.

Ijessons 7-8 No shortcuts to success

  1. -

    enthusiastic

    sclf-confident

    generous

    ambitious

    cheerful

    pessimistic

    selfish

    reliable

    narrow-minded

    tolerant

    snobbish

    considerate

    obstinate

    greedy

    flexible

    domineering

    lazy

    ■ Put the adjectives from this box into two groups: positive and negative.

+ —

i - _ I I

Choose the most suitable word.

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