SPOTLIGHT 7 I. Fill in the word.
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1. What can we do to the problem of unemployment?
2. Where did you the money? I can’t find it.
3. Let’s use a to find our way home.
4. Let’s the city before it gets dark.
5. I love my flat. It’s nice and .
6. Stop your eyes.
7. I was by her beauty.
II. Translate the words (phrases) from English into Russian.
1. a magnifying glass
2. incredible adventures
3. a faithful companion
4. to strike a match
5. a powerful gust of wind
6. to solve the mysterious case
7. a great imagination
8. a nephew
9. an American ambassador
10. to overcome great obstacles
III. Choose the correct item.
1. Larry got a job after / until he finishes school.
2. First he had dinner, then/ when he listened to the radio.
3. When/After I was younger, I used to write stories.
4. Suddenly/As soon as the rain stops, let’s go for a walk.
5. We played in the park until/then it got dark.
IV. Write negative and interrogative sentences.
1. Sherlock Holmes smoked a pipe.
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(?)
2. Hercule Poirot caught a lot of criminals.
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(?)
V. What did/didn’t Emma use to do when she was seven? Write sentences.
1. play hide-and-seek (√)
2. watch cartoons (√)
3. read comics (x)
4. drive a car (x)
VI. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple.
1. Agatha Christie … (write) over thirty novels.
2. After they heard the noise, the men … (hide) behind some trees.
3. … (you /feel) that gust of wind?
4. Hercule Poirot … (be) a Belgian detective.
5. He … (stop) talking when I entered the room.
6. I … (lose) my wallet on the bus.
7. … Brian (win) the competition? – No, he … .
8. The professor and Axel … (find) a mysterious message.
We are told not to judge people by their appearance. There are sayings like "Appearances are deceitful" or "Don't judge a book by its cover". But let me ask you what is the first thing that we do when we meet a new person? We judge! Some people immediately attract our attention and some make us look away.
I think judging someone by their appearance is our human instinct, a survival instinct. For example, if I got lost somewhere and needed to ask for directions and there were two people to choose from: a guy with lots of piercings and tattoos or a man wearing a suit and a pair of glasses, I would probably go for the man in the suit.
In fact it isn't bad to judge someone by their appearance, if you are able to give that person a chance to show their inner world. We should always be open to the possibility that our first judgment could be wrong.
1. The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France.
2. It was a present on the 100th anniversary of the United States.
3. The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
4. It was completed in France in July 1884.
5. In 350 pieces, the statue then was shipped to New York, where it arrived on 17 June 1885.
6. The pieces were put together and the opening ceremony took place on 28 October 1886.
7. The Statue of Liberty is 46 m high (93 m including the base).
8. The statue represents the goddess of liberty.
9. She holds a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left hand.
10. On the tablet you can see the date of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776).
11. Every year, the Statue of Liberty is visited by many people from all over the world.