Amazing facts about your body

1. _______ more than 100 types of cancer; any part of the body can be affected.

2. _______ more bacteria in your mouth than _______ people in the world.

3. _______100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.

4. _______ enough iron in your body to make a metal nail 3 inches long.

5 . Inside your belly button _______ thousands of bacteria that form an ecosystem the size of an entire rainforest.

6. You’re a little richer than you might think. Inside all of us _______ around 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of which is in our blood. Sadly, you’d need the blood of around 40,000 people to collect enough gold to make one 8g coin.

7. In each kidney, _______ one million filters that clean around 1.3 liters of blood every minute and push out close to 1.5 liters of urine every day.

8. _______ more than 300,000,000 capillaries in your lungs and if they were stretched out tip to tip they would reach approximately the distance between Atlanta and LA.

15. Fill in the gaps with the proper form of the verb to be or with there + to be.

Once upon a time _______ (1) a little boy. His name _______ (2) Conradin and he _______ (3) often ill.

‘The boy _______ (4) not strong,’ said the doctor. ‘His life _______ (5) very short.’

Conradin’s parents _______ (6) dead. His only relative _______ (7) his aunt, but she _______ (8) often unkind to him. She _______ (9) rude and cruel. Conradin _______ (10) very much afraid of her. The boy _______ (11) terribly unhappy in this lonely, loveless world.

The only thing that kept him alive _______ (12) his imagination. His real, everyday life in his aunt’s colorless, comfortless house _______ (13) narrow and uninteresting. But inside his small, dark head _______ (14) a different world, which _______ (15) bright and colorful. In the bright world of his imagination Conradin _______ (16) strong and brave. It _______ (17) his own world, and _______ (18) no place for his aunt in it.

The garden _______ (19) no fun. _______ (20) nothing interesting to do. But behind some trees, in a forgotten corner, _______ (21) an old shed. For him it _______ (22) something between a playroom and a church. _______ (23) ghosts and animals from his imagination in the shed. But _______ (24) also two living things there. In one corner _______ (25) a box with an old, untidy-looking chicken. This chicken _______ (26) the boy’s dearest friend. And in a dark, secret place at the back of the shed _______ (27) a large wooden box with bars across the front. This _______ (28) the home of a very large ferret with long, dangerous teeth and claws. It _______ (29) difficult to describe the feeling that the boy had for the ferret. He _______ (30) most terribly afraid of the ferret, but he loved it with all his heart. It _______ (31) his wonderful, terrible secret. Conradin gave the ferret a strange and beautiful name. It _______ (32) Sredni Vashtar. This ferret _______ (33) Conradin’s god.

(after Sredni Vashtar by Saki)

16. Fill in each of the gaps with one suitable word.

There _______ (1) all kinds of fairy-tales about witches. But _______ (2) is not a fairy-tale. It _______ (3) about REAL WITCHES.

The most important thing you should know about REAL WITHCES _______ (4) this: their magic powers _______ (5) very frightening.

Luckily, there are _______ (6) a great number of REAL WITCHES in the world today. But there are still quite _______ (7) to make you nervous. In England, _______ (8) are probably about one hundred of them altogether. Some countries _______ (9) more, others have not quite _______ (10) many. _______ (11) country in the world is completely free from witches. _______ (12) are witches everywhere. There’s probably one _______ (13) in your street this very moment.

A witch is always _______ (14) woman. I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most _______ (15) are lovely. But the fact is _______ (16) all witches are women. There is _______ (17) such thing as a male witch.

On the other hand, a ghoul _______ (18) always a male. So indeed _______ (19) a barghest. Both _______ (20) dangerous. But neither of them _______ (21) half as dangerous as a REAL WITCH.

A REAL WITCH _______ (22) the most dangerous of all the living creatures on earth. What makes her doubly dangerous _______ (23) the fact that she doesn’t look dangerous. Even when you know all her secrets, you can still never _______ (24) quite sure whether _______ (25) is a witch you are gazing at or just a kind lady.

Kindly examine the picture opposite. Which lady _______ (26) the witch? That is _______ (27) difficult question, but it _______ (28) one that every child must try to answer. _______ (29) is no way of telling for sure whether a woman _______ (30) a witch or not. But there _______ (31) a number of little signals you can look for, like quirky habits that all witches _______ (32) in common.

A REAL WITCH _______ (33) always bald. There _______ (34) a single hair growing on a witch’s head. A REAL WITCH _______ (35) a wig to hide her baldness. _______ (36) is a first-class wig. And it _______ (37) almost impossible _______ (38) tell a really first-class wig from ordinary hair.

Besides, witches _______ (39) big nose-holes.

The eyes of a REAL WITCH _______ (40) different from yours or mine. In the middle of each eye _______ (41) is normally a little black dot. _______ (42) she is a witch, the big dot _______ (43) of a different color, and there _______ (44) fire in it.

Witches are _______ (45) actually women at all. _______ (46) are like women, that’s all. But in fact, they _______ (47) totally different animals. They _______ (48) demons in human shape. That is _______ (49) they ______ (50) bald heads and queer noses and peculiar eyes.

(after The Witches by Roald Dahl)

17. Fill in the gaps with there + to be or it/they+ to be in the Past Indefinite tense.

When dear old Mrs. Hay went back to London after staying with the Burnells, she sent the children a doll’s house. _______ (1) so big that it had to be left in the courtyard. No harm could be done to it; _______ (2) summer.

The doll’s house was a dark, oily green. _______ (3) two solid chimneys, fixed to roof. _______ (4) red and white, and the door was yellow. _______ (5) four windows, real windows!

The perfect, perfect little house! _______ (6) a smell of paint coming from the house. _______ (7) quite enough to make anyone seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl’s opinion. But who could possibly object to the smell? _______ (8) part of the joy, part of the newness.

_______ (9) a hook at the side. _______ (10) stuck. Pat opened it with a knife and the whole house front swung back. The girls gave a sigh of admiration. _______ (11) a sitting room, a dining room, a kitchen and two bedrooms.

The Burnell children thought _______ (12) wonderful; they had never seen anything like it in their lives. _______ (13) wallpaper on the walls. _______ (14) pictures on the walls, painted on paper, complete with gold frames. All the floors were red except in the kitchen. _______ (15) red chairs in the sitting room and green chairs in the dining room. _______ (16) tables, beds with real bedclothes, furniture, little plates. But what Kezia liked more than anything else was the lamp. _______ (17) in the middle of the dining-room table. _______ (18) a beautiful yellow lamp with white glass over it. _______ (19) even filled all ready for lighting, though, of course, you couldn’t light it. But _______ (20) something inside that looked like oil.

_______ (21) father and mother dolls and two children dolls. _______ (22) really too big for the doll’s house. They didn’t look as though they belonged. But the lamp was perfect. It seemed to smile at Kezia, to say, ‘I live here.’ _______ (23) real.

(after The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield)

18. Translate the text.

Д авным-давно жила-была девочка по имени Берта (Bertha). Она была очень хорошей девочкой. Она всегда была лучшей ученицей, никогда не опаздывала, была вежливой и аккуратной. Она не была красивой, но она была ужасно хорошей (horribly good)! У нее было три медали. Там была медаль «За вежливость», «За аккуратность» и медаль «Лучший ребенок в мире». Это были очень большие медали. Они всегда были у Берты на платье, и они звенели при ходьбе (clicked as she walked). Берта была единственным ребенком в мире, у которого было три медали. Когда Берта была однажды во дворце, король был очень доволен ей. Он был так доволен, что даже разрешил (allowed) ей погулять в своем саду.

Сады короля были весьма знамениты. Они были большие и очень красивые. Там было множество маленьких поросят. Там были черные поросята с белыми мордочками, белые поросята с черными мордочками, черные, серые и даже белые поросята. А вот цветов в саду не было. Это естественно, не правда ли? Там, где есть поросята, не бывает цветов. Зато там было множество других чудесных вещей. Там были озера с золотыми, голубыми и зелеными рыбками. Там были деревья с прекрасными птицами.

Итак, Берта была в саду среди прекрасных деревьев. Она была очень довольна и горда собой. «Я здесь, потому что я лучший ребенок в мире», - думала она.

И вдруг в королевском саду появился волк. Он был серый, с черным языком и злыми желтыми глазами. Волк был очень голоден. Берта была очень испугана. Ей было обидно. Все плохие дети в это время были дома, в безопасности.

Рядом с тем местом, где находилась в тот момент Берта, был большой миртовый куст (myrtle bush). Это было хорошее укрытие. Куст был густой, и запах у него был очень сильный. Берта спряталась за кустом. Ей было очень страшно. У нее тряслись (shook) руки и ноги. И ее медали тоже тряслись. Они тряслись и звенели. Волк понял, что за кустом кто-то есть. Он прыгнул туда и съел Берту. Остались только туфельки и три медали.

(after The Story-Teller by Saki)