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Wildlife and lobsters are sabject to certain prohibitions and restictions

A New Year resolution is always doing comething bad

A popular way of celebrating the New Year is to go to a New Year's drinking party

Alaska is a U.S. state

All the U.S. has subarctical climate

Guy Fawkes Night is one of the most popular festivals in Great Britain

Halloween is one of our oldest and most colorful holidays

In England the New Year is not as widely or as enthusiastically observed as Christmas

In the dialogue above, Mustafa is from Morocco

Most Americans like sports

Myde park is in Manchester

The center of theatrical activity in Britain is London

The city of Rome invented the Halloween story

The early Romans had many gods and goddesses

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, which receives financial assistance from the Arts Council

The U.S. doesn't border on Canada

The U.S. doesn't have an independence day

The U.S. fought for independence from Russia

The United States is the world's largest country

The United States of America consists of 1 state and 50 federal districts

American jazz is a conglomeration of sounds borrowed from such varied sources as American and African folk musik, European classical music, and Christian gospel songs

Andy Warhol was a pop Artist and a filmmaker

Andy Warhol was a Russian ballet dancer

Classical music is the music of the past, up to including the works of 18th century composers

He was a child of the Russian ghetto, born in the town of Vitebsk in 1887

Leary always acted on the legal side of the law

London is the theatrical with 100 theatres in the West End and suburds

Massurrealism, while empowered by the mass media is created through the traditional media

Spielberg is rich

Steven was the child of an electrical engineer father, Arnold, and concert pianist mother, Leah

The "silent era" was the era of Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, and Jodie Foster

The arts of the historic era have never been connected with the prehistoric cultures

The director chooses the best bits, cuts the film and puts the bits together

The Tretyakov Gallery, founded by Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov (1832-1889) is a treasury of Indian art

Timothy Leary is still alive

Timothy Leary never smoked marihuana, tried psilocybin mushrooms or used LSD

Timothy Leary was a professor who was a passionate advocate of drug use and psychedelic experiments and experiences

Under the direction of their father, Michael and brothers Jermaine, Jackie, Tito and Marlon formed the "Jackson 75"

Vanessa Mae is Half - Thai, half - Chinese and Singapore - born

Whoopi Goldberg married Michael Jackson in 1981

1841 the London Library in St. James Square was ___– a library of about 600,000 volumes, mainly devoted to the humanities and fine arts.

In international affairs the Queen, as head of state, has the power to declare war and make peace, to recognize foreign states and governments, to conclude treaties and to annex or cede territories.

For advice on such matters the Queen has her own ___.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) But although I approve of the idea of a monarchy, I don’t approve of the monarchy we have in Britain at the moment.

В) I’m against them personally, if you like.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Do the speaker approve of the British monarchy?

В) Do the speaker approve of monarchies in general?

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Does he feels sorry for the British Royal Family?

В) How does he compare monarchs and ‘soap operas’ (popular television dramas)?

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth inherited a tattered realm: dissension between Catholics and Protestants tore at the very foundation of society; the royal treasury had bled dry by Mary and her advisors.

В) Continental affairs added to her problems - France had a strong foothold in Scotland, and Spain, the strongest European nation at the time, posed a threat to the security of the realm.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth lacking the fanaticism of her siblings, who enabled her to devise a compromise that, basically, reinstated Henrician reforms.

В) She were, however, compelled to take a stronger pro-Protestant stance when events demanded it

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth's reign was one of the more constructive periods in English history

В) Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh was instrumental in expanding English influence in the New World.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth's religious compromise lay many fears to rest and de-fused a potential powder keg.

В) Fashion and education come to the fore because of Elizabeth's penchant for knowledge, courtly behavior and extravagant dress.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth, "Gloriana," the last of the Tudors, died without left an heir at seventy years of age after a reign that had exceeded all realistic expectations for it and qualifies her to be considered in the top rank of British monarchs.

В) Fashion and education come to the fore because of Elizabeth's penchant for knowledge, courtly behavior and extravagant dress.