A Lawn Chair Pilot Larry Walters wants to be a pilot. He wants to A an airplane. But Larry is not a B man. He doesn’t have an airplane. He has only a lawn chair. Larty ties 45 big balloons to his lawn chair and then sits C on the chair. The lawn chair goes up. For a few minutes everything is fine. The view from the lawn chair is beautiful. Larry can D houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying! The lawn chair goes up very E . Larry is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to go down a little.” With a small gun Larry shoots 10 balloons. Unfortunately, Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. The chair goes up and up. “I’m flying in a lawn chair and I want to come down!” Larry flies in the lawn chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the lawn chair comes down, and Larry is back on the ground. Larry says, “For 45 minutes I was a pilot — the pilot of a lawn chair.” A 1) drive 2) ride 3) fly 4) lead B 1) rich 2) famous 3) misery 4) popular C 1) down 2) at 3) into 4) in D 1) watch 2) see 3) notice 4) look E 1) far 2) high 3) slow 4) tall Maid Marian Maid Marian was the pretty A lady Robin wanted to marry. She lived in Nottingham with her family. Marian helped B people too and often went to the forest to tell Robin about the C things the Sheriff did. The Sheriff sent his soldiers to arrest Maid Marian. “Do you know the outlaw called Robin Hood?” D the Sheriff. “No, I don’t,” said Marian. “I think you know him very E said the Sheriff. “Take her to the dungeon!” Robin received a secret message from Marian saying she was a prisoner in Nottingham Castle. “We must save her,” said the men. ’’Tomorrow is Nottingham Fair and the archery contest. Then tomorrow we will go and save Maid Marian and win the contest!” “We can dress as jugglers and clowns,” said Little John. They wore unusual suits for clowns and jugglers. The men looked so funny that everybody laughed! A 1) little 2) tiny 3) young 4) small B 1) happy 2) poor 3) excited 4) rich C 1) wicked 2) kind 3) funny 4) boring D 1) told 2) promised 3) called 4) asked E 1) good 2) well 3) badly 4) long After School Tom could not concentrate for the rest of the morning (which was not unusual). He tried really (A) but the confusion inside him was too great. In the geography (B) he turned lakes into mountains, mountains into (C) , rivers into continents, until everything was complete chaos. In the spelling class he made (D) in the simplest words, and he messed up his reading in the (E) class. At last the school bell rang. He ran to Becky. They went into the school-house which was empty and sat down. Tom gave Becky his pencil and guided her hand across the page. They drew a beautiful house. 1. last; 2. reading; 3. mistakes; 4. class; 5. hard; 6. pencil; 7. rivers. Huckleberry Finn On his way to school Tom met Huckleberry Finn, the (A) boy whose drunken father had abandoned him and left town. Huck was (B) by all the other boys because he was free to do what he liked, and hated by all the mothers because he was lazy, vulgar and (C) . Of course, Tom was not (D) to play with him so, of course, he played with him (E) he could. Tom admired him more than anyone. 1. allowed; 2. envied; 3. whenever; 4. anyone; 5. lawless; 6. raining; 7. homeless.
- В книжном магазине мы можем купить книги про животных , детективные книги , книги про страшные истории , книги для учёбы , книги для маленьких детей
In a chemist shop we can buy some medical things like cough pills , headache pills , some mixtures , nerve pills , syringes
- В аптеке мы можем купить медицинские вещи , как таблетки от кашля , таблетки от головной боли , микстуры , таблетки от нервов , шприцы
In a music shop we can buy some musical instruments , music books , pencils and pens and some diaries
- В музыкальном магазине мы можем купить музыкальные инструменты , нотные тетради , карандаши и ручки и дневники
In a sport shop we can buy some weights , expanders , clothes for sports , ski and snowboards
- В спортивном магазине мы можем купить гири , эспандеры , одежду для спорта , лыжи и сноуборды
Самое известное и впечатляющее спортивное событие, которое проходит во Франции – Тур Де Форс. Это ежегодная многоэтапная велосипедная гонка, которая берет свои корни в этой стране. Гонщики из разных стран мечтают поучаствовать в этой гонке тоже. Самый известный гонщик Франции – Ланс Армстронг, чья победа была окружена слухами и противоречиями.