Task I. Reading. Read the text and answer the questions:

The Mill Boy and the Painted Shoes.

In one of the museums of Holland you can see a pair of wooden shoes with funny ducks, chickens and pigs drawn on them. Those shoes helped to discover the great artist Rembrandt.

This is the story.

One day Rembrandt was not attentive at the lesson. He was discovered drawing chickens, ducks and pigs on his cousin’s wooden shoes. She was delighted with them, but the teacher was very angry with Rembrandt. He sent a note to his uncle about the matter. The next day the uncle came to see his mother and then they all went to see his father to the mill. The father was shown one of the wooden shoes and all eyes were turned on Rembrandt. To his surprise his mother said in a very kind voice: “Would you really like to be a painter?” Little Rembrandt could not believe his ears and he was very happy. His father said” “Your teacher thinks that you are a talented boy” He is struck by your masterly drawings and he advised us to send you to Leyden to study painting”

Some years later Rembrandt became famous all over the world.

Answer the questions;

1. Where did little Rembrandt draw funny ducks, chickens and pigs?

2. Who noticed his talent?

3. Was his mother angry with Rembrandt?

Write out from the text three sentences in Passive:

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The Klyazma is a river in the European part of Russia, in the Moscow and Vladimir regions; the most abundant left tributary of the Oka.

The river is associated with the development of the North-East of Russia, the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality (XII century).

The Klyazma river originates near the town of Solnechnogorsk of the Moscow region. The length of the river is 686 km, the basin area is 42.5 thousand km2 – the 1st in length and the 2nd in area of the basin (after Moksha) tributary of the Oka [*]. The river basin stretches from West to East, is asymmetric, and the left-Bank part of the basin is three times larger. It flows into the Oka river 90 km from its mouth. From the right Bank fall Sudogda and Suvorowi. Main left-Bank tributaries: Ucha, Vorya, Kirzhach, Peksha, Nerl, Uvod, Teza, Lukh. In the lower part of the river basin there are many swamps, about 15

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Sport is very important in our life. The general belief is that a person who goes in for sports can’t be weak and ill. Physically inactive people get old earlier that those, who find time for sport activity. And of course good health is better than good medicine.

People all over the world are fond of sports and games. In our country sport is being widely popularized as well. The most popular kinds of sport are football, volleyball, basketball, tennis, figure-skating, aerobics, ping-pong and swimming. A lot of people are fond of jogging. In schools and colleges sport is a compulsory subject. Many young people attend sport sections. Some of them dream to become professional sportsmen.

As for me, I can’t imagine my life without sport. In summer I go jogging every morning and when I have free time I attend swimming pool. In winter I like to skate with my friends. It’s fun. Also I’m fond of aerobics. First of all aerobics helps to keep myself fit. It also attracts me because it resembles dancing.

In conclusion I’d like to say that I’m absolutely sure that doing sports is the best way to keep fit. Sport makes our bodies strong, it prevents us from getting too fat, and makes us more self-organized and better disciplined.