Сопоставить. a) it is becoming one of the necessities all over the world b) travelling as a hobby c) winning people’s hearts on both sides of the atlantic d) not to be worse than those around you e) life and music f) the nation turned into pupils g) they want to see it with their own eyes 1. money can buy happiness — but only if you are richer than your neighbours. sociologists found that it was not quite true to say that being wealthy will not make a person happy, according to today’s research. but it depends on a person’s ability not to live worse than his or her neighbour. researchers in the us are sure that most of people are in a non-stop wealth race with their neighbours. 2. a lot of young britons go travelling thanks to the films they watch or books they read. a research has shown that as many as 45 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds say that fiction greatly influences their choice of holiday places. for instance, new zealand has had a big rise in tourism from the uk since the first of the lord of the rings trilogy. it is clear that more and more young people wish to visit the parts of the world which have been made famous by writers and film directors. 3. james blunt has been nominated the best male singer and songwriter. his way to success hasn’t been easy. he was born into a military family, became a pilot at the age of 16 and joined the army. finally he found himself in a studio in los angeles, where he recorded his multimillion selling album “back to bedlam”. james draws his personal lyrics from his life, making them touching and honest. 4. jem, the best female singer, is from wales, great britain, but became a success in the us before her home country. her debut album went straight to the top of the charts, her name appeared in lots of newspapers. she seems to be a sweet and easy-going girl but at the same time she is very strong and fairly ambitious. with both the us and the uk at her feet, she is going to be a megastar. 5. you can be a japanese manager on business in brazil, a mexican computer scientist at a conference in india, or a norwegian tourist in an italian street market, there is one thing you are likely to have in common — you are probably speaking english. “there’s never before been a language that’s been spoken by more people as a second than a first language,” says englishlanguage expert david crystal, author of english as a global language. 6. britain has a growing english language teaching industry. they say that by 2020 it will be the uk’s biggest export, giving the income of 20 billion pounds a year. one of the fastest growing markets is china. though chinese is the world’s top language as it has the largest number of native speakers, the chinese themselves want to learn english. li yang, an ex-newsreader even developed a new method of teaching it. the language is taught in big stadiums to classes of thousands.

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