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Before going to a theatre you should book a ticket at a box-office. The most expensive seats are in the stalls, boxes and the dress-circle. The seats in the balcony, pit and the upper circle are less expensive, they are cheap. Then at the entrance to the theatre the attendant tears your theatre ticket in half.

1. The seats in the balcony are less expensive.

2. The seats in the boxes and the dress-circle are cheap.

3. Before going to a cinema you should book a ticket at the entrance.

4. The most expensive seats are in the pit.

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The first Theatre Royal Covent Garden was built in 1732 on a piece of land which had formerly been a part of a convent garden. It was more a theatre of drama than opera. Yet many of Handle’s operas were performed here for the first time.

1. The first Theatre Royal Covent Garden was built in 1732 in the centre of London.

2. The first Theatre Royal Covent Garden was more a theatre of opera than a theatre of drama.

3. The Theatre Royal Covent Garden is the largest theatre in the world.

4. The first Theatre Royal Covent Garden was more a theatre of drama than opera.

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The cloak-room is much less used in English theatres than in those in the Northern Countries. Generally there is only one cloak-room, which is for the people in the stalls and the dress circle, as in these seats evening dress is customary, especially on first nights and at the opera. Many ladies wear evening cloaks, which they keep on during the performance, while men put their hats and over-coats under the seat on the carpeted floor.

1. There are some cloak-rooms, which are for the people in the stalls.

2. Many ladies wear evening cloaks, which they keep on during the performance.

3. There are no the cloak-room in English theaters.

4. Men put their hats and over-coats on the seat.

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Most of the famous actors of the day and many singers appeared at Covent Garden. The great Russian Shaliapin sang at Covent Garden. The composers Gounod and Berlioz came to see their operas performed. Now the theater is one of the few well-known opera houses open for eleven months in the year and it employs over 600 people both of the Opera Company and the Royal Ballet.

1. Now the theater is one of the few well-known opera houses open for eleven months in a year.

2. Famous actors and singers didn’t appear at Covent Garden.

3. Over 100 people are employed both by the Opera company and the Royal Ballet.

4. The composer Berlioz didn’t want to come to see his operas performed.

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This school year, nearly half of all American elementary students are expected to learn math the way children do at Fernangeles Elementary: not in neat rows of desks, repeating times tables and memorizing theorems, but through trial-and-error problem solving, often in groups with little direct instruction and almost always with a calculator nearby. Advocates call it “interactive” or “inventive” math and insist that it sets American schoolchildren on the way to becoming “mathematically powerful”.

1. At Fernangeles Elementary school children learn English.

2. At Fernangeles Elementary school children learn math through trial-and-error problem solving.

3. At Fernangeles Elementary school children learn math with teachers.

4. At Fernangeles Elementary school children learn math with a lot of direct instruction.