Ordinary Level Listening №1 Listen and decide which of the facts are true (T), false (F) or not stated (NS). 1) Local people in New Zealand used the kauri (название дерева) to build their houses. 2) Kauri trees grow in North Island. 3) There are a lot of wooden houses in Wellington. 4) All kauri trees have names. 5) The kakapo parrot lives only in New Zealand. 6) The kakapo parrot can live up to nine years. Reading №2 Read the text and complete it with the parts of the sentences below. There is one extra part. Amelia was born in her grandparents’ house in Kansas. Her parents didn’t have any money, but 1) … and sent her to the best schools. At 20 she decided to study nursing and worked in a hospital in World War I. When Amelia was 23, she visited an airshow and went up in a plane. At that moment, she knew that 2) …. In 1920 flying was dangerous and people didn’t think 3) …. But Amelia had flying lessons, and a year later, she broke her first record – she flew up to 14,000 feet. The next year she became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic. She was now famous, and 4) … to talk about her experiences. And in 1935, when she was 38, she became the first person to fly alone across the Pacific. When she was nearly 40, Amelia wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. She began the 29,000 mile flight (полёт) in Miami on 1 June 1937. On 2 July she was nearly at the end of her journey (путешествие), when 5) … near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. a) it was an activity for women b) she wanted to be a pilot c) she bought a new plane d) her grandparents were rich e) she and her plane disappeared f) she travelled around the world Use of English №3 Choose the right word in brackets to complete the sentences. 1) Have you got (much/ many) information about the coming competitions? 2) Can I have a (pair/ piece) of paper to write a note? 3) It’s the second time Brian (drove/ has driven) a car. 4) Bob (tells/ says),”I like swimming”. 5) Mary, have you made this cake (yourselves/ yourself)? 6) There are a lot of (endangered/ dangerous) animals in the world. Something must be done to prevent them from dying out. 7) I (play/ have been playing) the piano for five years. 8) (Birds/ Insects) have three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings. Advanced Level №4 Use the derivatives of the words in bold to complete the text. Healthy and Unhealthy Ways In my opinion, a lot of people are 1) CARE enough about their lifestyles. They eat a lot, sleep rather little and 2) PRACTICAL don’t take any exercise. As a result many of them suffer from almost all imaginable diseases. The 3) HARM ways include eating meals 4) QUICK and having fast food regularly. Such people forget about relaxation and are always busy. Nowadays these habits have become really 5) DANGER. On the other hand, more and more people say “No” to junk food and this kind of food is becoming 6) POPULAR. Lots of people see and understand how risky unhealthy ways are. №5 Use the words in bold in the appropriate forms to complete the sentences. People 1) USE language as a means of communication for thousands of years. Each language has 2) IT history. Most of the present-day European languages are Indo-European and they have a lot of similar words. Modern linguists believe that once people 3) SPEAK one original language. 4) THAT people lived in a cold climate. They 5) BE able to work with some metals. 6) THEY civilization existed in Eastern Europe about 3,000 years ago. It 7) BREAK up about 2,500 years ago. Nowadays nobody 8) KNOW why Indo-Europeans left their homes.

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