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Список вопросов базы знанийАнглийский язык Практическая грамматика (курс 1)Вопрос id:1746262 Дополните предложение: To achieve this, they must acquire education within the family and, later, within ?) her local health authority has refused to pay for it. ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. ?) of winter and the heralding of the rebirth of spring and summer. ?) the institutions of the society as a whole. Вопрос id:1746263 Дополните предложение: To nontraditional people these customs, if continued to courtship, may seem ridiculously old-fashioned, and it is ?) then the cancer returned in a much more serious form. ?) her local health authority has refused to pay for it. ?) to include substantial parts of the metropolitan county of Greater London, which was formed in 1965. ?) frequently difficult in the modern era to make meaningful distinctions between “going out,” dating, and courting. Вопрос id:1746264 Дополните предложение: Usually the mate is the person's intended spouse, and the traditional definition ?) of the term has this implication. ?) would cost £75,000. ?) her local health authority has refused to pay for it. ?) if his behaviour is like that of a majority of his fellows. Вопрос id:1746265 Дополните предложение: Wealthy parents rely less than in the past on nannies to raise their children, and lower- and middle-classparents have ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. ?) caused considerable debate over priorities in the health service. ?) to include substantial parts of the metropolitan county of Greater London, which was formed in 1965. ?) greater access to preschool facilities than formerly. Вопрос id:1746266 Дополните предложение: Yet in modern Western societies the practice ?) the latter practice generally being followed also by business organizations. ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. ?) of parental match making is regarded by children as interference in their affairs. ?) and somewhat difficult to define. Вопрос id:1746267 Дополните предложение: Yet too precise a definition is a hindrance rather than a help. In different ?) and somewhat difficult to define. ?) would cost £75,000. ?) contexts the word modern means subtly different things. ?) was given chemotherapy and the treatment, seemed to be successful. Вопрос id:1746268 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Even programs specially made for the very young, can stunt development and intellect unless the parent | watch TV not more than two hours a day. | Children under two years old should watch no television at all, and toddlers should | sits and watches with the child, explaining what is going on. | The American Academy of Pediatrics, which has 55,000 members, spent two | years examining the impact of television on children, including numerous studies linking violence on the screen to aggressive behavior. |
Вопрос id:1746269 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Members of the Academy came to a conclusion | with parents and other adults for healthy development of brain and development of social, emotional and cognitive skills. | Parents should also make sure that there are no screens | of any sorts in the children's bedrooms. | They say that babies and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions | that parents of children under two should play with them rather than allow them to watch television. |
Вопрос id:1746270 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Keeping children in front of the screen to make them quiet not only discourages them | from exercising the brain but stops from exercising their bodies, helping to create young couch potatoes. | The scientists don't want to say that children can | become violent overnight by watching violence on the screen, but they are influenced by it. | The bedroom is a place where kids can reflect on | what happened during the day, where they can sit down and read a book. |
Вопрос id:1746271 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | A grand wedding is important for the groom as his | price which can run up to $ 40,000 are hallmarks of the custom, even though Comoros is one of the world's poorest nations. | The dazzling jewelry, nine days of feasting and dancing and the bride | of gold jewelry, Mohamed Yousouf arrives at his bride's home to claim her for their "grand wedding." | Wearing beautiful clothes and holding up 2.5 kilograms | spending will determine his social position and privileges. |
Вопрос id:1746272 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | The tradition arose long ago from the customs brought by immigrants from Africa, | pray in the front row in mosques, sit in seats of honor at weddings and share food with men who have married in similar way. | Grande Comore, like its sister islands, is totally | dependent on imports of everyday necessities. | Such grooms receive a furnished house, supplied by the bride, and are allowed to | India and Oman on the Saudi Peninsular. |
Вопрос id:1746273 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Most of the gold items used at grand | weddings are bought by grooms in the duty-free shops in Dubai. | Yuosouf, 47, was able to collect enough money | the groom., as well as buying him silk robes, satin overcoats, hand-made slippers that indicate to all he has staged a grand wedding. | The bride and her family are often in dept because of building a house for | for a grand wedding only by leaving 25 years ago to take low-paying job in France, the former colonial power. |
Вопрос id:1746274 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | After all, where else can you see world leaders, | Tussaud's has entertained and amazed people of all ages, nationalities and from all walks of life. | For more than two hundred years Madame | movie stars, sporting heroes and other celebrities. | Employing the best sculptors to create the most life-like reproductions, Madame Tussaud's is | particularly famous for its attention to details. |
Вопрос id:1746275 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Most figures are sculptured from sittings | after attentive study of old portraits and sculptures. | The costumes are | with actual people, and each takes about 6 months to complete. | All the historic characters have been created | re-created as accurately as possible. |
Вопрос id:1746276 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Her figures of French writer Francois Voltaire and | US statesman Benjamin Franklin are on display today. | In the 1770 Marie Grosholtz (later to become Madame Tussaud) began | and infamous people of the time but didn't know how they looked so were intrigued enough to see their wax portrait figures. | In those days wax portrait figures were like the cinema or TV today - people knew the names of the famous | making her wax portrait figures. |
Вопрос id:1746277 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | In a recent study they discovered that the | Robespierre, which is currently on display. | During the French Revolution she was asked to make death masks of | Chamber of Horrors is twice as popular among women as among men! | She also made a death mask of one of the leading revolutionaries, | some of the prominent figures who were executed, such as Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. |
Вопрос id:1746278 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | However, the spirit of Marie continues to live on, | descendants are no longer directly involved. | Madame Tussaud worked at her exhibition until | her death in 1850 at the age of 89. | Her sons and grandsons continued with the business, but these days her | not least in the form of the figure she made herself. |
Вопрос id:1746279 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Each figure weighs about 15 kg - with 4.5 kg of wax used for the head and 1.4 kg for | figures is similar to candle wax. | The wax used for the | because wax shrinks. | Figures are made 2 % bigger than real life | the hands. |
Вопрос id:1746280 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Despite repeated requests from the press, this | head is made in silicon rubber which allows movement. | By the way, all vital statistics are accurate and kept | information is never disclosed. | The characters who move and speak are modeled in clay first of all, like the normal portraits, but the | under lock and key by Madame Tussaud's. |
Вопрос id:1746281 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | A spokesperson for Madame Tussaud's says men | and women like different figures. | However, the attention from the public isn't always friendly - for instance, Hitler had to be put behind a special | glass screen in the Chamber of Horrors because people couldn't stop abusing him. | The figure most photographed by men is Naomi Campbell, and the | most photographed by women is Brad Pitt. |
Вопрос id:1746282 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | By the way, research by Madame Tussaud's has | revealed that women are stronger than men. | It had brought them peace, helped become | more confident, relaxed and productive. | The idea of positive thinking is attracting more | and more people all over the world. |
Вопрос id:1746283 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | They try to persuade people that we ourselves | are responsible for the condition we are in. | Dozens of scientists, teachers, doctors, actors and other professionals help others | get more out of their lives and make the world a better place. | Jack Canfieldt, one of the enthusiasts in this field, | told a story in one of his books. |
Вопрос id:1746284 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | One day David, my next-door neighbor, was teaching his seven-year-old son | his wife, Jan called to him to ask a question. | As he was teaching him how to turn the mower, | through the flowerbed, and it cut all the flowers. | As David turned to answer the question, Кelly pushed the mower right | Кelly how to push the lawn mower around the yard. |
Вопрос id:1746285 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | When David turned back around he saw what | had happened and began to lose control. | As he began to raise voice to his son, Jan walked quickly over to him, | and effort into these flowerbeds making them the envy of the neighborhood. | He had put a lot of time | put her hand on his shoulder and said, 'David, please remember... we're raising children, not flowers!' |
Вопрос id:1746286 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Kids and their self-esteem are more important | a plate are already broken. | Jan reminded me how important it is as a parent | than any physical object they might break or destroy. | A window, a lamp, | to remember our priorities. |
Вопрос id:1746287 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He reminded us that we have two choices every morning when we wake up: we | love, peace and tender care. | Norman Peale was one of those who dedicated | can choose to feel good about ourselves or feel lousy. | He died at the age of 95 at home surrounded by | his life to the ideas of positive thinking. |
Вопрос id:1746288 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He always contended that positive thinkers get positive results because they | and ought to be removed as quickly as possible, Norman felt problems were a sign of life. | One day he was walking down the street and | saw his friend George. | In fact, rather than thinking of a problem as something that is negative | are not afraid of problems. |
Вопрос id:1746289 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | For 15 minutes George was telling him about | his problems. | It was evident from his look that he was | asked him how he was doing. | Naturally Norman | not excited about his life. |
Вопрос id:1746290 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Norman Peale said that if you didn't have any problems you had to get on your knees | I climbed the hill above the river and came across a splendid house. | Once late afternoon in October Linda and | and ask the Lord to give you some problems. | Its every detail | was perfect. |
Вопрос id:1746291 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It had a sunny look | of cheerfulness. | Its architecture | was harmonic. | I still remember | its unforgettable design. |
Вопрос id:1746292 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Its design | and seemed to be aware of it. | The house was the incarnation of the architect's genius | was extraordinary. | It seemed timeless, ageless, confident in | its beauty. |
Вопрос id:1746293 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It was full of pride | one who had designed St. Paul's Cathedral in London. | It had the look of | and dignity. | It was designed by famous Sir Christopher Wren, the | triumph over ignorance and chaos. |
Вопрос id:1746294 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It had been | called "Fullcircle". | Sir Christopher Wren did not like the bright lights | of the city. | The house had the most unusual name - it was | built in 1660. |
Вопрос id:1746295 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He had never in | and Greek. | He spoke several languages and wrote in Latin | educated and rather much-travelled. | He had been a sensitive, gentle man, brilliantly | his life been a hypocrite. |
Вопрос id:1746296 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He knew how | to put people at ease. | He was a | marvelous creature. | He had been responsive, sincere and honest all | through his life. |
Вопрос id:1746297 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | His dinner was always rather simple but | perfectly cooked. | Of course, he knew everything about his | certainly enjoyed his company and tremendously admired him. | Everyone who came in contact with him | century: pain, death, ignorance, fear. |
Вопрос id:1746298 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He was spiritually strong and an | excellent fighter. | He had always | viewed the life positively. | He couldn't avoid witnessing it and | faced it bravely. |
Вопрос id:1746299 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | He had to stand to injustice, cruelty, humiliation, | misery and despair. | He had his own principles | and he lived by them. | He was totally | his own man. |
Вопрос id:1746300 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Later some other family bought the house | into the house. | After his death some of his cousins moved | the Penbrokes. | He was not | afraid of challenging life. |
Вопрос id:1746301 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | They despised education and looked down | upon those who had any. | They did not take | arranging parties and receptions. | They were fond of hunting, going out, | care of the library. |
Вопрос id:1746302 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | No one denied they were affectionate, tender-hearted | curtains, uncomfortable chairs, no style, no taste, no imagination. | But the house | was a unique masterpiece. | They almost destroyed the house: ugly | people, but unfortunately, all of them were awfully silly. |
Вопрос id:1746303 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | The Penbrokes were like actors moving on | the stage following some unseen stage-manager. | It couldn't be | people living in it. | The masterpiece was to influence the | destroyed. |
Вопрос id:1746304 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It was more | ideas imposed on it. | I could feel gentle, unnoticed influence | than a building. | The house seemed to smile at all modern | of its spirit. |
Вопрос id:1746305 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It was real art, a masterpiece | him saying this to me. | I wish you had heard | was amazed by the way he had changed. | Some days ago I came across Mr. Penbroke and | of incredible beauty. |
Вопрос id:1746306 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | Dear friend, you cannot even guess how enormously | I adore country life in this remote corner of the world. | I’m going to read | every book about Sir Wren. | I am doing my best to catch up with | foreign languages. |
Вопрос id:1746307 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | I keenly | feel it. | It was a new | inside the house. | I believe he had great spirit: it is still alive | Мr. Penbroke. |
Вопрос id:1746308 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | It was not the Мr. | Penbroke I had known. | He had become a charming person of | developed. | He had | remarkable character and many interests. |
Вопрос id:1746309 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | This amazing news was published by | who could feel people and be of great interest to them. | Now he was a sensitive, responsive gentleman, | of great interest to me now. | Greek and Latin are | numerous newspapers and magazines across the world several years ago. |
Вопрос id:1746310 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | A Norwegian catching trawler was working in the | Northern Atlantic. | On the 24th of September 1990 the crew saw a young woman on the iceberg wearing | "Titanic" and managed to save herself on the night of the shipwreck. | She said that her name was Vinny Coats, she was a passenger of the | an old- fashioned dress. |
Вопрос id:1746311 Дополните предложения: | Левая часть | Правая часть | The captain of the trawler said that the woman | previous day, and that the date was the 15th of April 1912. | The woman did not want to believe that 78 | was holding a handbag with a ticket to the "Titanic". | The woman was sure that the "Titanic" had left Southampton the | years had passed since that day. |
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