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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. ?) the institutions of the society as a whole. ?) of winter and the heralding of the rebirth of spring and summer. ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. Вопрос id:1746263 Дополните предложение: To nontraditional people these customs, if continued to courtship, may seem ridiculously old-fashioned, and it is ?) frequently difficult in the modern era to make meaningful distinctions between “going out,” dating, and courting. ?) to include substantial parts of the metropolitan county of Greater London, which was formed in 1965. ?) her local health authority has refused to pay for it. ?) then the cancer returned in a much more serious form. Вопрос id:1746264 Дополните предложение: Usually the mate is the person's intended spouse, and the traditional definition ?) her local health authority has refused to pay for it. ?) of the term has this implication. ?) if his behaviour is like that of a majority of his fellows. ?) would cost £75,000. 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 ?) greater access to preschool facilities than formerly. ?) 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. ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. Вопрос id:1746266 Дополните предложение: Yet in modern Western societies the practice ?) the latter practice generally being followed also by business organizations. ?) and somewhat difficult to define. ?) of parental match making is regarded by children as interference in their affairs. ?) received a bone marrow transplant from her younger sister. Вопрос id:1746267 Дополните предложение: Yet too precise a definition is a hindrance rather than a help. In different ?) was given chemotherapy and the treatment, seemed to be successful. ?) contexts the word modern means subtly different things. ?) would cost £75,000. ?) and somewhat difficult to define. 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 | sits and watches with the child, explaining what is going on. | Children under two years old should watch no television at all, and toddlers should | watch TV not more than two hours a day. | 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 | that parents of children under two should play with them rather than allow them to watch television. | They say that babies and toddlers have a critical need for direct interactions | 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. |
Вопрос id:1746270 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | The scientists don't want to say that children can | from exercising the brain but stops from exercising their bodies, helping to create young couch potatoes. | Keeping children in front of the screen to make them quiet not only discourages them | 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 | Wearing beautiful clothes and holding up 2.5 kilograms | of gold jewelry, Mohamed Yousouf arrives at his bride's home to claim her for their "grand wedding." | A grand wedding is important for the groom as his | spending will determine his social position and privileges. | The dazzling jewelry, nine days of feasting and dancing and the bride | price which can run up to $ 40,000 are hallmarks of the custom, even though Comoros is one of the world's poorest nations. |
Вопрос id:1746272 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | The tradition arose long ago from the customs brought by immigrants from Africa, | India and Oman on the Saudi Peninsular. | Grande Comore, like its sister islands, is totally | 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. | Such grooms receive a furnished house, supplied by the bride, and are allowed to | dependent on imports of everyday necessities. |
Вопрос id:1746273 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Yuosouf, 47, was able to collect enough money | for a grand wedding only by leaving 25 years ago to take low-paying job in France, the former colonial power. | Most of the gold items used at grand | weddings are bought by grooms in the duty-free shops in Dubai. | The bride and her family are often in dept because of building a house for | the groom., as well as buying him silk robes, satin overcoats, hand-made slippers that indicate to all he has staged a grand wedding. |
Вопрос id:1746274 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Employing the best sculptors to create the most life-like reproductions, Madame Tussaud's is | 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. | After all, where else can you see world leaders, | particularly famous for its attention to details. |
Вопрос id:1746275 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | The costumes are | with actual people, and each takes about 6 months to complete. | Most figures are sculptured from sittings | after attentive study of old portraits and sculptures. | All the historic characters have been created | re-created as accurately as possible. |
Вопрос id:1746276 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | 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. | 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. |
Вопрос id:1746277 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | 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, | Robespierre, which is currently on display. | In a recent study they discovered that the | 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 | the hands. | The wax used for the | because wax shrinks. | Figures are made 2 % bigger than real life | figures is similar to candle wax. |
Вопрос id:1746280 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Despite repeated requests from the press, this | under lock and key by Madame Tussaud's. | 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 | head is made in silicon rubber which allows movement. |
Вопрос id:1746281 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | A spokesperson for Madame Tussaud's says men | glass screen in the Chamber of Horrors because people couldn't stop abusing him. | However, the attention from the public isn't always friendly - for instance, Hitler had to be put behind a special | most photographed by women is Brad Pitt. | The figure most photographed by men is Naomi Campbell, and the | and women like different figures. |
Вопрос id:1746282 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | By the way, research by Madame Tussaud's has | more confident, relaxed and productive. | It had brought them peace, helped become | revealed that women are stronger than men. | 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 | get more out of their lives and make the world a better place. | Jack Canfieldt, one of the enthusiasts in this field, | are responsible for the condition we are in. | Dozens of scientists, teachers, doctors, actors and other professionals help others | 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 | through the flowerbed, and it cut all the flowers. | As he was teaching him how to turn the mower, | his wife, Jan called to him to ask a question. | 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. | He had put a lot of time | put her hand on his shoulder and said, 'David, please remember... we're raising children, not flowers!' | 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. |
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 | 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. | Norman Peale was one of those who dedicated | love, peace and tender care. |
Вопрос id:1746288 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | 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 | and ought to be removed as quickly as possible, Norman felt problems were a sign of life. | He always contended that positive thinkers get positive results because they | are not afraid of problems. |
Вопрос id:1746289 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | For 15 minutes George was telling him about | his problems. | Naturally Norman | not excited about his life. | It was evident from his look that he was | asked him how he was doing. |
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 | was perfect. | Its every detail | 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. |
Вопрос id:1746291 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Its architecture | was harmonic. | It had a sunny look | of cheerfulness. | I still remember | its unforgettable design. |
Вопрос id:1746292 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Its design | was extraordinary. | The house was the incarnation of the architect's genius | its beauty. | It seemed timeless, ageless, confident in | and seemed to be aware of it. |
Вопрос id:1746293 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | It was designed by famous Sir Christopher Wren, the | one who had designed St. Paul's Cathedral in London. | It was full of pride | and dignity. | It had the look of | triumph over ignorance and chaos. |
Вопрос id:1746294 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | It had been | of the city. | Sir Christopher Wren did not like the bright lights | called "Fullcircle". | The house had the most unusual name - it was | built in 1660. |
Вопрос id:1746295 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | He had been a sensitive, gentle man, brilliantly | educated and rather much-travelled. | He had never in | his life been a hypocrite. | He spoke several languages and wrote in Latin | and Greek. |
Вопрос id:1746296 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | He knew how | marvelous creature. | He had been responsive, sincere and honest all | through his life. | He was a | to put people at ease. |
Вопрос id:1746297 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | His dinner was always rather simple but | perfectly cooked. | Everyone who came in contact with him | certainly enjoyed his company and tremendously admired him. | Of course, he knew everything about his | 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 | faced it bravely. | He couldn't avoid witnessing it and | viewed the life positively. |
Вопрос id:1746299 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | He was totally | and he lived by them. | He had to stand to injustice, cruelty, humiliation, | misery and despair. | He had his own principles | his own man. |
Вопрос id:1746300 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | After his death some of his cousins moved | afraid of challenging life. | Later some other family bought the house | into the house. | He was not | the Penbrokes. |
Вопрос id:1746301 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | They were fond of hunting, going out, | upon those who had any. | They did not take | care of the library. | They despised education and looked down | arranging parties and receptions. |
Вопрос id:1746302 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | They almost destroyed the house: ugly | curtains, uncomfortable chairs, no style, no taste, no imagination. | But the house | was a unique masterpiece. | No one denied they were affectionate, tender-hearted | people, but unfortunately, all of them were awfully silly. |
Вопрос id:1746303 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | The masterpiece was to influence the | people living in it. | The Penbrokes were like actors moving on | the stage following some unseen stage-manager. | It couldn't be | destroyed. |
Вопрос id:1746304 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | I could feel gentle, unnoticed influence | of its spirit. | The house seemed to smile at all modern | than a building. | It was more | ideas imposed on it. |
Вопрос id:1746305 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | Some days ago I came across Mr. Penbroke and | him saying this to me. | I wish you had heard | of incredible beauty. | It was real art, a masterpiece | was amazed by the way he had changed. |
Вопрос id:1746306 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | I’m going to read | foreign languages. | Dear friend, you cannot even guess how enormously | every book about Sir Wren. | I am doing my best to catch up with | I adore country life in this remote corner of the world. |
Вопрос id:1746307 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | I keenly | Мr. Penbroke. | I believe he had great spirit: it is still alive | feel it. | It was a new | inside the house. |
Вопрос id:1746308 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | He had | remarkable character and many interests. | He had become a charming person of | developed. | It was not the Мr. | Penbroke I had known. |
Вопрос id:1746309 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | This amazing news was published by | numerous newspapers and magazines across the world several years ago. | Greek and Latin are | of great interest to me now. | Now he was a sensitive, responsive gentleman, | who could feel people and be of great interest to them. |
Вопрос id:1746310 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | On the 24th of September 1990 the crew saw a young woman on the iceberg wearing | an old- fashioned dress. | She said that her name was Vinny Coats, she was a passenger of the | "Titanic" and managed to save herself on the night of the shipwreck. | A Norwegian catching trawler was working in the | Northern Atlantic. |
Вопрос id:1746311 Дополните предложения: Левая часть | Правая часть | The woman did not want to believe that 78 | previous day, and that the date was the 15th of April 1912. | The woman was sure that the "Titanic" had left Southampton the | was holding a handbag with a ticket to the "Titanic". | The captain of the trawler said that the woman | years had passed since that day. |
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