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1. Прочитайте и переведите текст на русский язык. Письменно ответьте на вопросы.

The house of my dream

Everyone likes dreaming. Dream is a hope for better things. It helps us to overcome the difficulties of our daily routine. A dream depends on people, on their education, nationality, character and other things. People imagine they have a lot of money, own family, an expensive car. Other people imagine themselves to be presidents of different countries or whole planets, etc.

I’d like to tell you about the house of my dream. I’d like to have my own house on the bank of a beautiful river with crystal water, surrounded by high mountains, covered with green forest of evergreen trees.

I would live there with my wife and two children. I imagine my house to be a 2 storeyed building. Near the front side it has a facade with columns and steps up to the front door. There are also two balconies and a terrace in my house. The windows are in the shape of arches. Through them you can see a wonderful landscape. There are lots of fir trees and flowers around the house. And you can walk in the shade of these trees listening to the birds singing.

As you come through the front door, you find yourself in a large hall with an open fireplace. One of the doors leads to the living room. This room faces the south, so it’s very sunny and has a lovely view of the whole valley. In the middle of this room there’s a thick Persian carpet.

There are few units of furniture in this room. On the left there’s a leather sofa and small table nearby, on the right you can see home cinema and satellite receiver. There are two arm­chairs in the corner of this room. In the living room we spend our evenings chatting with each other, children play with a kitten.

Then a wide staircase takes you to the first floor where there are four bedrooms. My children’s rooms are really vast. The wallpapers are very colourful in bright shapes. Also there are lots of toys to play with.

In the basement there is a big garage for our cars. We have got two cars: one for me and one for my wife.

Behind the house there is a swimming bath, covered with glass. There are some plastic armchairs around the swimming bath. Our house looks peaceful and calm and the calmest room is my study. Next door to the study there is our library. It is a huge room with thousands books on history, astronomy, physics, science fictions, fantasy, poetry, etc. Someone might think that it is an antagonism, because everything we want to read we can receive via Internet, but I like real books, to handle them in my hands, to read them page by page. As for my children, they prefer associating with their friends.

2. Заполните пропуски соответствующей формой глагола to be.

1. Ben … my friend. Where … he now? 2. I … in my room now. 3. … Tom and Sally your kids? Yes, they … . 4. My cousin … not at home the day before yesterday. 5. Our friends … in Moscow last week. 6. Who … present at tomorrow’s conference? 7. My father … fond of sports when he was younger. 8. … you interested in music? Yes, I …. 9. Mary and I … in the cinema long ago. 10. … it cold or hot last summer in your region?

3. Вставьте в пропуски необходимые артикли: определенный, неопределенный или нулевой.

1. Is Paris in ... United Kingdom? 2. He has got... camera. 3. We go to ...beach in summer. 4. Christopher Columbus crossed… Atlantic Ocean. 5. He plays ...tennis. 6. My father isn't at... home. 7. Paula comes from ... Canada. 8. It's ... glove Michael Jackson wore in the "Bad" video. 9. This is ... old pair of trousers. 10. He lives in ...Colorado.

4. Задайте по 3 вопроса к каждому предложению.

1. Angela went to London last year. 2. The students will be taught English next year. 3. Mike rarely does his morning exercises. 4. Nora has been to England recently. 5. She is having a rest now. 6. Helena had baked a cake before she saw her guests in.

5. Употребите прилагательные, данные в скобках, в нужной степени сравнения.

1. This sentence is (difficult) than the first one. 2. The cat is much (happy) in its new home. 3. This piece of homework is as (bad) as the previous one. 4. Winter in London is (foggy) than in Paris. 5. This was (large) power station I have ever seen. 6. He bought the toys at (near) shop. 7. Her illness was (serious) than we thought before. 8. It’s becoming (hard) and (hard) to find a job. 9. As the day went, the weather got (bad). 10. Everest is (high) mountain in the world.

6. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на конструкции типа the more …the less.

1. The warmer the weather, the better I feel. 2. The more I got to know him, the more I liked him. 3. The more goods you will sell, the more your profit will be. 4. The longer she waited, the more impatient she became. 5. The higher the prices, the better the goods. 6. The more tired you are, the harder it is to concentrate. 7. The sooner we leave, the sooner we will arrive. 8. The more expensive the hotel, the better the service.