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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Good Queen Bess, as she came to be called, maintained a regal air until the day she died.

В) This regal figure surely had her faults, but she excelled at rising to challenges and emerging victorious.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) How does he compare monarchs and presidents?

В) Which monarchies does he praise?

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) I simply don’t believe this.

В) I would love to swop my job for their job any day.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) I think I would be in favour of a monarchy of the sort you find in other countries in Northern Europe: in Scandinavia, in Holland, for example, perhaps in Belgium.

В) Because those royal families set a good example.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) I think now I accepting the idea of a royal family, because they can function and operate outside politics.

В) What I mean by that is that they’re not going to be touched by political scandal, in the way that a president, for example, might be, President of the United States, for example.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) I think the problem we have with our monarchy is that they are greedy, I would say.

В) They do lazy.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) In 1620, a group of people left England in America.

В) They had decided to make homes for themselves in the new land across the ocean.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) In 1776 the thirteen young American colonies united and began a war against England for freedom and independence, which was called the War of Independence.

В) They won the victory and a new nation was born which became the United States of America.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) In the 11th century England was conquered by the Normans, who had come from the north of France.

В) The conquerors were cruel, and they robbed and killed the natives without mercy.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) July 4, 1776, is still celebrated as "the birthday" of the American nation, and is called Independence Day.

В) The leaders of the new state decided they would form a republic which would have no king but would have a President, who was to be chosen every four years.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Many of them had to run away into the forest to seek for shelter and safety.

В) They became outlaws.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) She inherited her father's supremacist view of the monarchy, but showed great wisdom by refusing to directly antagonize Parliament.

В) She acquired undying devotion from her advisement council, who were constantly perplexed by her habit of waiting to the last minute to make decisions.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) She sent an army to aid French Huguenots a 1572 massacre wherein over three thousand Huguenots lost their lives.

В) She sent further assistance to Protestant factions on the continent and in Scotland following the emergence of radical Catholic groups and assisted Belgium in their bid to gain independence from Spain.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) She used the various factions playing one off another until the exhausted combatants came to her for resolution of their grievances.

В) Few English monarchs enjoyed so political power, while still maintaine the devotion of the whole of English society.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Soon more and more European settlers coming and more colonies were forming.

В) The American colonies grew more bigger and bigger, they prospered, but they were for a long time ruled by England, and all the riches of the new country belonged to England.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a synonym for the era which she dominated, was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

В) Elizabeth's deft political skills and strong personal character were directly responsible for putting England on the road to becoming a true world economic and political power and restoring the country's lost sense of national pride.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) The leaders of the new state decided they will form a republic which would have no king but would have a President, who was to be chosen every four years.

В) As their settlements were called "colonies", the people called "colonists".

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) The situation came to head in 1588 after Elizabeth rejected a marriage proposal from Philip II of Spain.

В) The indignant Spanish King sended his much-feared Armada to raid England, inadvertently providing Elizabeth with an opportunity to put on public display those qualities of heart that one might expected to find in those days, in a small, frail woman.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) The situation with Mary Queen of Scots was most vexing to Elizabeth.

В) Mary, in Elizabeth's custody beginning in 1568, gained the loyalty of Catholic factions and instituted several-failed assassination/overthrow plots against Elizabeth.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) They display their wealth in a very ostentatious and vulgar way.

В) They keeps their wealth and their treasures well away from the public.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) They does contribute to the public good.

В) They’re modest.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) They ruined their houses and took their possessions.

В) The Saxons suffered very much from the Normans and hates their new masters.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) They usually work hard.

В) You know, you hear, in England you hear all the time, ‘Oh, don’t you feel sorry for the Royal Family.’

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Those early settlers built their first colonies and began to explore the new country which they called New England.

В) As their settlements were called "colonies", the people called "colonists".

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Well, I suppose I does approve of the monarchy, of the idea of a monarchy.

В) I used to disapprove of royal families in general.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Who of the adjectives in the Introduction does he associate with the British monarchy?

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

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) After irrefutable evidence of Mary's involvement in the plots came to light, Elizabeth sadly succumb to the pressure from her advisors and has the Scottish princess executed in 1587.

В) The persecution of continental Protestants forced Elizabeth into war, a situation which she desperately tried to avoid.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) Elizabeth proved the most calm and calculating, employed capable and distinguishing men to carrying out royal prerogative.

В) Her first order of business was to eliminate religious unrest.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) The English won the naval battle handily, aided by some fortuitous inclement English Channel weather, and emerged as the world's strongest naval power, setting the stage for later English imperial designs.

В) Elizabeth was a master of political science.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

А) They hoped they will have a better life there.

В) After a stormy voyage across the Atlantic, their small ship, the "Mayflower", reached the shores of the new land.

"Great Britain" often is used to mean the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and ___ Ireland".

16 Scottish representative peers also ___ the House of Lords.

A daughter who succeeds to the throne becomes ___ and acquires the Crown’s powers as though she were king.

A daughter ___ succeeds to the throne becomes Queen Regnant and acquires the Crown’s powers as though she were king.

A Parliament has a maximum duration of ___ years, but it is not fixed, and the government of the day may dissolve it and call for a general election at any time during the term.

All the amendments adopted by the ___ become an integral part of the Constitution.

Amendment 1: Freedom of___; the right to petition the government.

American colonists fought ___ their British colonists in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s.

Among the ___ are a Committee of Finance, of Foreign Relations, of Aeronautical Space Science, of Armed Services, etc., President Woodrow Wilson summed up the importance of the committees when he said, “Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work.”

Anglo-Russian relations covers the relationship ___ the countries of Russia and the United Kingdom and their predecessor states.

Animals and humans must have ___ between mainland Europe and Great Britain via a crossing.

As recently ___ 8,000 years ago Great Britain was joined to the continent.

Beefeater or the Queen's Guard are considered ___ be symbolic of Englishness.

Before a bill that has passed all its stages in both Houses of Parliament becomes a law it must receive the ___.

Britain has a ___ parliament.

Britain is actually governed by ___.

Britain’s monarchy is the oldest, ___ back to the 9th century.

British Commonwealth is a free association of sovereign states comprising Great Britain and a number of its former dependencies who

By 12 o’clock on January 20, the participants of the Inauguration ceremony and guests take their places on a rostrum especially erected in front of ___.

Ceremonial activities have always been associated ___British kings and queens and, in spite of changing attitudes, many traditional ceremonies still take place.