Список вопросов базы знаний

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A) Between the 20th and 60th Streets it is a street of shops and department stores. - предлог

B) After 110th Street it passes through Harlem and slum tenements to the Harlem River. - существительное

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A) Temperatures seldom fall below -15°C in the winter or rise above 35°C in the summer.

New York City consists of five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklin, Manhattan, Queens and Richmond. – наречие

B) The most important industries are manufacturing, printing, publishing, food, chemical and primary metals industries. - прилагательное

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A) A landlady who had fed and clothed the young man when he was too poor to pay her, suddenly found herself an owner of an apartment building, without any idea who bought it in her name. - существительное

B) Unlike most corporate bosses, Ricardo Semler likes to boast about all the things he does not do at the company. - существительное

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A) At the height of Softbank's stock market success, Son had stakes in more than 400 Internet companies around the world and planned to increase the number to 800 by 2005. - существительное

B) He wanted to create a new kind of the web of manufacturing and trading cartels that defined the Japanese economy in the 1980s. - прилагательное

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A) Fifth Avenue starts at the Washington Arch. - глагол

B) The avenue continues straight uptown u and divides Manhattan streets into east and west. - существительное

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A) Greek businessman Aristotie Onassis was the ruler of an empire larger and more powerful than most countries. – существительное

B) He had no title or official position, but he regularly bought and sold prime ministers, cardinals, ambassadors and kings. - прилагательное

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A) Harlem covering the north central section of Manhattan is almost a city within a city. - существительное

B) Early in the 20th century, as a result of racial antagonism in other sections of the city, the blacks moved to Harlem and formed a majority of the population. - глагол

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A) He had married, had three children and was one of the most prominent men in Greece. - местоимение

B) During those years Onassis patiently sat back and let Nicolas build his little empire. - местоимение

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A) He was one of the two or three wealthiest men in the world and his power was legendary. - прилагательное

B) He owned the largest fleet of cargo ships, an airline, newspapers, banks, steel mills, gold mines. - наречие

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A) He went to other banks and lending institutions, but for reasons he could not understand, they refused to help him. - причастие

B) The day after he went bankrupt Nicolas committed suicide. - глагол

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A) However, the market turned, and Softbank's share price had started a plunge. - существительное

B) Now no one knows what the future will hold for Son. It will not, however, be the future he planned as the markets work against him. - прилагательное

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A) In an interview, Massayoshi Son said that the Softbank had a 300-year investment plan. - глагол

B) His aim for Softbank was to hold a stake in almost every online venture in the world. Investors believed him between 1997 and February 2000, the value of Softbank on the Tokyo stock exchange rose from f. 1,5 billion to f. 123 billion. - прилагательное

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A) It is 15 years since he signed a cheque, and 14 years since he had his own office. - предлог

B) "We had a party recently to celebrate 10 years since I had taken a decision," he says. - существительное

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A) It is the home of the New York professional hockey team, the Rangers, and its professional basketball team, the Knickerbockers. - прилагательное

B) The new cultural center in the city is the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which was built in the 1960s. - прилагательное

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A) It was this provocative approach that turned Mr. Semler into a cult figure in the management theory. - причастие

B) The book of his ideas, entitled Maverick, has sold more than 1 million copies in 22 languages since 1993. - местоимение

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A) New York City has long been a major transportation center. - прилагательное

B) Its harbor is one of the largest of the world's ports. - прилагательное

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A) New York is a city of banks. Wall Street is the financial heart of the city. - существительное

B) The New York Stock Exchange is located at 11 Wall Street. - существительное

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A) New York is a city of islands consisting primarily of two islands (Manhattan and Staten), part B) of a third island (Long Island) and part of the mainland. - прилагательное

It is situated at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers with New York Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. - союз

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A) New York is the most populous city in the United States and one of the biggest cities in the world. - существительное

B) New York has a humid climate with sudden changes of weather. - глагол

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A) Onassis had an idea of opening a small stand on the docks to serve hot food to the workers on the night shift. - существительное

B) He had scraped half the money for the enterprise, but when it had become successful, Nicolas had forced him out of the business and had taken it over to himself. - наречие

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A) Onassis has accepted his fate without a protest and had gone ahead to other enterprises. - прилагательное

B) Over the next twenty years Nicolas had gone into the meat-packing business and had become rich and successful. - числительное

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A) Onassis owned a bank with which Nicolas did business, and the bank encouraged Nicolas to borrow money for expansion at interest rates that Nicolas could not resist. - прилагательное

B) Nicolas borrowed a big sum of money, and in the process of expansion his loan was suddenly called in by the bank. - существительное

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A) Puerto Ricans form the second largest group within Harlem, living mainly in the eastern part of the district (Spanish Harlem). - прилагательное

B) Most of the houses in Harlem are in a dreadful need of repair. - прилагательное