The train pulled into the station at 9:43 a.m. The centre of Fort William, I quickly learned, is but a street of fishing and hiking shops, with a spiky Victorian church, a handsome stone hotel, and a lake running alongside it. Before I took a cab to the hotel, I wandered up High Street to find the local paper and a cup of tea. A few hours later, I found myself standing up to my knees in the River Lochy, fishing with the expert assistance of a local guide, Martin Brown. The hotel staff was quite helpful and had arranged the outing with Martin. My aim was to learn the basics of fly-fishing. While Martin effortlessly handled yards and yards of fishing line so that his fly touched a small pool across the river, I splashed my fly into the river a few yards off. My first few casts were a mess, but I gradually improved. Soon, I hooked something. The rod grew heavy and lively. Eventually, I got very cold feet and aching arms and some sense of the pleasures of fishing, just as I had hoped.
That evening, after Martin dropped me off at the hotel, I found a place to sit among the armchair atolls in the oceanic great hall. Later, I was summoned to my table in one of the dining rooms, walls hung with prints. My meal was unassuming but tasty. I had a bit of meat pie, and a bit of cheese.
The following morning, I struck out on the well-marked walk that takes just a few hours but plunges you immediately into the grandeur of the Highlands. In the distance I saw an odd sight: a group of hikers dancing madly about the stream, waving their arms and shaking their heads.
I spread my coat on the grass and settled down to my picnic superior crab sandwiches provided by the hotel. In a moment, I was on my feet, slapping my face and rubbing my hair while grabbing up my sandwiches with a free hand. I had forgotten the bane of the Highlands: flies, which are particularly active in late summer.
At Fort Williams excellent West Highland Museum, housed in a late Georgian building on Cameron Square, you can learn how people left a mark on this ancient landscape. They worked its trees and stones, leaving beautiful ax heads from the Stone Age, Celtic jewellery, the blade of a bronze sword. There are suggestions of myth and magic, the cement that connected people to their surroundings and the darker world beyond: amulets, cures, and trophies. And there are objects so rare and weird that they seemed to have dropped from the world beyond: so-called drift-seeds, which floated ashore from the West Indies and were turned into charms, odd-shaped or queerly colored pebbles that drew fevers, or brought a loved one home.
It was not yet dark when the London sleeper slid out of Fort William Station. I did not brood for long on the triumphs and tragedies of Highland history. When I next opened my eyes, I saw the huddled rooftops of suburban London, and a cheerful attendant, passing me a cup of tea.
12 The author decided to spend a holiday in the Highlands to
1) ride an exclusive train.
2) spend some time on his own.
3) get away from the busy capital.
4) see what the Highlands are known for.
Ответ:
13 It in Paragraph 3 (and a lake running alongside it) refers to the
1) lakeshore.
2) street.
3) shop.
4) church.
Ответ:
14 Which statement about the authors fishing experience is FALSE?
1) His fishing skills slowly improved.
2) His attempts to catch something were useless.
3) The experience was quite satisfying.
4) The guide showed him how to throw the line.
Ответ:
15 Unassuming in Paragraph 4 (My meal was unassuming but tasty) most probably means
1) heavy.
2) healthy.
3) modest.
4) inexpensive.
Ответ:
16 Hikers behaved strangely because they were
1) attacked by insects.
2) performing a ritual.
3) impressed by the Highlands.
4) having an argument.
Ответ:
17 What did the author NOT see at the museum?
1) Old textiles.
2) Magic stones.
3) Parts of weapons.
4) Ancient charms.
Ответ:
18 How can the authors weekend experience be described?
1) Thought-provoking.
2) Eye-opening.
3) Time-consuming.
4) Pressure-free.
Ответ:
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Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика
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Forest therapy
19 The Japanese are a very wise nation. Many Japanese people lead a very busy life and they need effective means to fight stress. Forest therapy __________________ one of them for a long time.
BE
20 The Japanese enjoy __________________ to local forests at the weekend.
GO
21 They spend there no __________________ than three hours walking and listening to birds singing. Scientists consider this kind of therapy very good.
LITTLE
Snow
22 Snow is beautiful. People all over the world, especially __________________, love looking at it or even playing with it.
CHILD
23 There are many interesting facts about snow. For instance, snow is colourless it just looks white to us. A long time ago people __________________ to make artificial snow.
LEARN
24 The __________________ snow maker was patented in 1961 by Alden Hanson.
ONE
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Denis Matsuev
25 Denis Matsuev is a Russian classical pianist. Born in Irkutsk in 1975, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians. His mother is a piano teacher and his father is a pianist and a __________________.
COMPOSE
26 Matsuevs talent became obvious in his early childhood. He was only three years old when he managed to __________________ on his piano at home a melody which he had heard on television.
PRODUCE
27 In 1990 young Denis won a prize at the New Names Charitable Foundation __________________ in Irkutsk and got a scholarship from the foundation to study music in Moscow.
COMPETE
28 Matsuev toured the world with other young gifted musicians from Russia discovered by the foundation. In 1994 he took part in his first __________________ piano contest in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was awarded the Grand Prix.
NATIONAL
29 His musical career quickly progressed. He is now a world-famous pianist with __________________ awards and a massive fan base.
VARY
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At the library
It was early morning. Jason stood in the library at Norwood House, 30 ______ up at the painting above the fireplace. What an extraordinary portrait it was, of a handsome man in the prime of his life. The great Horace Winton. His grandfather. His mother, Horaces eldest daughter, Laura, had always 31 ______ him that he would grow up to look like her father. She had been proved right.