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6Не успели мы обновить свою антивирусную программу, как она обнаружила новый тип вируса.

7Едва они купили новый компьютер, как он загрузил множество игр. Теперь он настоящий компьютерный фанат!

8Люди совсем не осознавали, что технические и прикладные науки станут основополагающей частью жизни в 21 веке.

9Я совсем не знал, что эксперимент будет проводиться на животных.

10Я никогда не слышал об этом уникальном беспроводном Интернет соединении.

11Едва я кликнул на пиктограмму, как увидел полноэкранную версию.

12-Не успел он купить мобильный телефон последней модели, как приобрел новейшую цифровую камеру. Он всегда тратит деньги впустую!

13-Я не думаю так. Ни при каких обстоятельствах аналоговые видеокамеры не могут сравниться по качеству с цифровыми.

14Он настоящий знаток техники!

Level 4

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No sooner I had got a new job than I became a real technic. Little anyone knew that our company dealt with modern technologys and software engineering. Hardly I bought an all-purpose wonder robot when it became my reliable assistant. Not until I bought it I realised how useful it was: it listened to all my problems, took care of my home, looked after my pets, prevented burglars from steeling things and reminded me of all the things I had to do every day. The robot was program to understand spoken instructions. At no time I realise that it was my best friend!

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KEYS

ACCORD 1

Level 1

1Have been looking for, have found

2Has never bought, prefers

3Is borrowing

4Have gone

5Have been shopping around, haven’t bought

6Are going

7Closes

8Are swarming with

9Thinks about

10Cost

Level 2

1 B; 2 C; 3 A; 4 D; 5 A; 6 C; 7 B; 8 D; 9 C; 10 B; 11 C; 12 D; 13 A

Level 3

1I have bought a new blouse, but as I have put on weight recently, it is two sizes too small now.

2All the film long Juliett Binosh’s character wears flowery dresses and woolen jackets.

3Vendors in this shop are always waiting on their customers so slowly!

I’m tired of waiting!

4Tom has worked in a hi-fi store for four years. Now he is thinking of starting his own business.

5Sarah has been working at the lingerie department for two years already.

6I buy jeans very cheaply in the sales.

7My favourite V-neck sweater has given and become baggy. Tomorrow

I’m going to buy a new one.

8The choice of fabrics at this drapery department is getting better and better.

9I’ve never worn striped trousers before.

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10 He’s been looking for a proper ring in the jewelers’ for two weeks already.

Level 4

Gina’s wardrobe is full of clothes and shoes: lots of glamorous tunics, checked shirts, spotted blouses, numerous dresses made of silk, cotton, velvet and denim, tartan skirts, pleated skirts; glace shoes and suede shoes, gloves of different colours, bags, belts …

But she is never satisfied with the choice she has. The most frequently repeated words of hers are: “I have nothing to wear!” She is going to have a great birthday party next Saturday. She’s been preparing for it since

Monday. Tomorrow morning she is going to the shopping centre to buy a smart dress. It’s going to be her million’s one, I believe…

ACCORD 2

Level 1

1used to wear, was, found

2had been planning, hadn’t told

3started, were playing

4had read, was

5were, had been jogging

6was, had ever seen

7were knocked out

8were you going

9became

10was always asking

Level 2

1B; 2A; 3C; 4A; 5D; 6B; 7A; 8C; 9B; 10B.

Level 3

1 When I saw some badminton on TV I thought if there was a club or an association in my area.

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2The current champion was knocked out of the race because of an injury.

3At 4 o’clock we had been playing lawn tennis for nearly 3 hours.

4When asked what I’d rather play – hide-and-seek or snakes-and- ladders, I would answer – lacrosse!

5When I first played polo, I had never heard about this game before.

6I was thinking of taking up scuba-diving until I found out how expensive the equipment is.

7The football match had to be called off (cancelled) because the pitch was flooded. It had been raining for already 2 days.

8The referee blew the whistle and the most important match I’d ever played began.

9Clark had never seen such a large golf course until he went to Scotland.

10The competitions had finished and medals had been awarded by the time I got to the stadium.

Level 4

Childhood

Childhood used to be quite different from what it is today. Young people didn’t use to have so much leisure time. Today’s children may complain about their schoolwork but their great-grandparents would go out to work at a very young age. They had often left school by the time they were 13 and found a job. This meant they had little free time for hobbies and leisure activities, especially when they had been working hard all day. It meant they had to grow up very quickly. And that was sad reality.

ACCORD 3

Level 1

1is washing, am cooking

2are you going to sweep, comes, will clean

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3will live / will be living

4will have been papered, tiled, will only have to

5will sell

6will have been painting, will be tired

7go on, will end up, will leave, will be able

8are moving

9are going to put, won’t have t

10will be built

Level 2

1B; 2C; 3C; 4D; 5A; 6B; 7C; 8D; 9B; 10D; 11B; 12A; 13D; 14A

Level 3

1As soon as the repair works are over and we come back to the flat, I’ll buy a lot of plants and put them on the window-sills. I think they will

make the flat cosy.

2-Are you going to put your washing machine into the bathroom or the kitchen?

-I haven’t thought about it yet, I think, I’ll put it into the kitchen, there is enough room for everything. And I’ll hang a wall-length mirror in the bathroom and have a Jacuzzi installed there.

3By the time we’ve saved enough money to buy a new flat, our children will have become grown-ups and we will be too old.

4If he doesn’t turn off the computer now, he will have been playing “The Sims” for three hours. I can’t understand how one can spend so much time on building, furnishing and cleaning a virtual house sitting in a dusty room with dirty dishes!

5The maid comes on Wednesday. She will vacuum-clean the flat and dust the furniture.

6We have settled out everything. The wall between the hall and the sitting room is being demolished.

7In a minute I will have been ironing your shirts for half an hour. I am absolutely exhausted! Are you going to help me some day? Dust the

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furniture, vacuum-clean the carpets, take the rubbish away and cook dinner! Am I asking for too much?

8They are buying a house in Provence and are going to take up winemaking. I think they will be happy at last.

9I have no idea how much time it will take them to move to town from the country. And how are they going to live there? They won’t have any conveniences, they will have to spend much time in the garden growing

foodstuffs for there will be no supermarkets.

10 But there won’t be endless traffic jams and dirty air. They won’t have to be nervous because of the neighbours, that don’t let them sleep at night.

At last they will be able to have a dog, that they have been dreaming of for so many years.

Level 4

-Darling, in two days your mother is visiting us, we must have the house clutter free so let’s divide the duties.

-Ok, but I won’t cook under any circumstance!

-But your mother will have been missing your cuisine for already a year soon! Do you want her to suffer so much?

-I don’t want her to find fault with my cooking one more time. I am ordering food, that’s decided. What about cleaning?

-I am dusting and washing up. Will you vacuum-clean, please? My back’s aching.

-A woman vacuum-cleaning? What nonsense! Ok, I’ll have a try and check if I can do it as well as you.

-Thanks a lot. Maybe you’ll like it as I like ironing. I am going to buy a couple of plants. She always says she likes them on the windowsills.

-A good idea and I’ll put curtains instead of jalousie.

-Do you know how long she is going to stay with us?

-No idea. I hope she’ll get tired of us in a day. If she doesn’t, I think I’ll have a nervous breakdown having to do exercises every morning in the balcony.

-Hush, she is phoning… Oh, my God, her train comes in half an hour!

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ACCORD 4 Level 1

1 had been trying

2 didn’t want

3 had to

4 the next day

5 would have been described

6 was counting, would phone

7 had called, could

8was

9had come

10had set up

Level 2

1A; 2B; 3 A; 4C; 5D; 6A; 7C; 8A; 9B;10A; 11A.

Level 3

1 He alleges that money makes the world go round but I’m afraid he is mistaken.

2 Having made sure that the heads of the enterprise would do nothing to help share-holders, they decided to act on their own.

3 The mother asked where the money saved for a new TV set was.

4 I’ve never thought if it’s difficult to have a good credit standing.

5 Margaret maintained that the unemployed would have been paid a benefit by the end of the next week.

6 She hesitated if she should take a credit or put the purchase off till better times.

7 Involved into our talk she said that real estate was quite a bargain.

8 The article said that some tourists had tried to haggle in a Finnish supermarket. I hoped those hadn’t been Russian tourists.

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9 The financial inspector explained to us that if we had paid too much tax we should be given a tax rebate.

10 I thought that if I had become a financier, all the shades of the economic science would represent no problem for me.

Level 4

1 Bob Geldorf urged the TV viewers to send a donation because children were dying.

2 She grumbled that the company had spent a fortune on that computer and it was always breaking down.

3 James explained to Hilary that he might be a little late that evening because they were having the Congress on Economics.

4 Tom asked Paul if he had read a scandalous article in The Sun about the NTM bank.

5 The head of the department wondered why the unemployment benefit had been delayed that month.

6 The bank clerk warned Adam that he shouldn’t have his account overdrawn for a long time.

7 She complained that mortgage was beyond her those days.

8 She explained that her new credit card had cost her about $200 already.

9 My friend wondered how long I had been saving.

10The greens were eager to learn if there were any charity appeals for current world disasters.

11He reminded the clerks not to forget to introduce new interest rates to clients.

ACCORD 5

Level 1

1had been stolen, didn’t go

2have been robbed

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3have been smuggled, have/has made up

4had been broken into, was not locked, locking

5was accused, asked

6commit, be sent, be executed

7will be considered

8were arrested

9had killed

10was killed, had lent

Level 2

1A; 2C; 3A; 4D; 5C; 6B; 7C; 8A; 9B; 10C; 11D;12B

Level 3

1After the investigation the suspect was found guilty and sent to hard labour.

2Being recognized by the witnesses at the identification parade he pleaded guilty.

3The crime was prevented thanks to the timely actions of the police.

4I think he will be accused of illegal possession of weapons.

5The singer was shot not by a killer, but by a fanatic, who thought that a person wasting his talent on worthless songs had to be stopped.

6The spy had been caught and sentenced to life imprisonment before he managed to transfer the secret information.

7“Off his head!” – cried out the queen and the servant who had eaten her cake was immediately executed.

8While the person accused of a series of ritual murders was being tried, another crime of this kind was committed.

9After a new evidence had been revealed, the suspect was found innocent and released.

10He hasn’t been accused yet but the press is already writing that he has been sentenced to a two year imprisonment.

Level 4

Sometimes you might hear a person saying: “By whom on Earth has this stupid law been brought in!” But have you ever thought how absurd a law

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can be? For example in France you are not allowed to address a pig as Napoleon. I wonder who will get humiliated if you do?

In Singapore littering is considered an extremely serious offence and if you want to get rid, for example, of a chewing gum, look for a litter box otherwise you will be sentenced to a fine of several thousand dollars and your portrait will be printed in a local newspaper. If dying is in your plans, never go to the Houses of Parliament in London because it has been prohibited for already long time to die in there.

During 1950s in Indiana, USA it was strictly banned to rob from the rich and give that money to the poor. In Thailand it has not been permitted to criminals not to inform their victims at least 24 hours with oral or written notice in which all the details of the crime being planned are given.

And to cover it all, if a nuclear device is being detonated by someone within the city limits in Chico, California, the criminal will surely be fined for 500 dollars. The question is – by whom?

So when going abroad be very careful to study their laws otherwise you may put yourself into trouble.

ACCORD 6

Level 1

1Who/that

2Who/that, who/that

3- / which

4that /which

5whose

6which

7who, which/that

8which

9whose, who/that

10who/that

11who/that, which/that

12who, -/ whom

Level 2

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