А. Decide if the following sentences are true or false. Justify quoting from the text. The Queen receives many letters per day.
The important papers and documents for the Queen to read, approve and sign come inside a ‘blue box’.
The Queen has lunch with many important people.
All of the Queen’s engagements are inside London so she always travels by car.
The name of the Prime Minister is Tony Blair.
The Queen likes to organise receptions at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen likes to own and breed dogs.
The Queen is often the last person to go to bed at night.
В. Now that you have read the text answer the questions:
How many letters does the Queen receive every day?
Does she read them all?
What is the ‘red box’?
Who does Queen see before her lunch?
What does the Queen do in the ‘engagements’?
When does the Queen meet with the Prime Minister?
Does she go to the cinema or to a concert?
Name one of the Queen’s private interests.
Would you like to be the Queen of a country? Why/why not?​

In the tundra, you can see the polar bears, reindeer, musk muskox, tundra wolves, arctic fox, arctic hare and lemmings. In the vast taiga zone inhabited by grizzly bears, Canadian lynx, cougars, wolves, fox, wolverine, caribou, elk, red deer, moose, marten, sable, beaver and otter. In the mountainous areas there are bighorn sheep and mountain goats and bison remained in the reserves. In the steppes of the main inhabitants are rodents: field mice, moles and gophers. Numerous lakes along the coasts of the country and settle in the colony a wide variety of birds. In fresh waters and coastal waters they are inhabited by numerous species of fish.

Insects are one of the oldest wildlife of our planet. Today, according to scientists the number of known species of insects has reached nearly two million different species. And every year on this list is added about seven thousand species of insects that have been previously zoologists do not even have a clue . Settling insects gradually , over time, occurred throughout the earth. You can meet them in tropical countries of Africa, and in the temperate latitudes of the Northern Europe. Even in the polar regions and arid deserts insects have adapted to life. There are also domestic insects that are adapted to live in close proximity to humans . Anyone with a child known types of insects such as butterflies , bees , beetles , bugs, flies, mosquitoes and many others. Every child is faced with leaving them in the first to the garden for a walk. Perhaps these are the first representatives of the wildlife encountered by the kid in your life . Structure of the insect is very interesting little child , as it is divided into three notable parts: head , abdomen and chest. Each insect has three pairs of legs and one , and sometimes two pairs of wings . Also, all the insects peculiar antennae on his head, that perform their function senses. In human terms insect life is very short and therefore its development is very fast . The whole cycle of formation lasts no more than six weeks and consists of four periods . Adult insects lay eggs from which larvae emerge in the future , and after some time of larvae formed pupa . And only from the pupa appears already Adult , shaped , viable insect. Insect life is very diverse and fascinating to watch , especially nice to look for insects such as bees and ants , whose activities are , in addition, are useful to humans.