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  1. Прослушайте аудиофайл « Twins».

  1. Заполните пропуски словами, соответствующими содержанию текста.

Образец: I often have … telling which is which. - I often have difficulty telling which is which.

  1. Both of these things increase the… of two babies developing from the same egg.

  2. Sometimes twins are separated at birth and only meet again when they are ...

  3. One pair only met each other after 40 years … and found that their wives had the same name.

  4. One was very … from an early age and wore glasses.

  5. He … the local accent and … with trains.

5.Прослушайте текст и передайте содержание предложений на русском языке.

Образец: They all have twin children. У них у всех есть дети близнецы.

  1. The answer is, they all have a brother or sister who was born on the same day as them – a twin.

  2. Both of these things increase the probabilities of two babies developing from the same egg.

  3. One was very short-sighted from an early age and didn’t wear glasses.

  4. Both pairs had different tastes in music and food, and even thought their voices sounded the same sometimes.

  5. One of the twins said that her sister would take the words out of her mouth, while the other said this never happened to her.

  1. Расположите предложения в том порядке, как они употребляются в тексте.

A

Non-identical twins often have very different lifestyles.

B

Studying twins can help us know if illness is related to genetics or upbringing .

C

Identical twins say they sometimes read each other’s thoughts .

D

There were fewer twins in the past because women didn’t use fertility treatments.

E

Some twins take similar decisions in life even when they live completely separate lives.

F

Identical twins sometimes have very similar personalities.

G

An American university is studying thousands of twins from the moment of their birth.

  1. Ответьте на вопросы.

  1. What do the singer Alanis Morissette, the supermodel Gisele Bundchen and the ex-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan all have in common?

  2. Why are there more twins about these days?

  3. Why do scientists love twins?

  4. What kind of situations can happen to twins?

  5. What characteristics do twins have? What is peculiar about them?

ПИСЬМО

1. При заполнении стандартных форм особенно важно правильно записать свои имя и фамилию. Для этого нужно знать правила транскрипции и транслитерации. Перейдите по ссылке http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9, изучите представленную информацию и запишите свои имя и фамилию на английском языке.

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