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Text 1

Choose the correct title for every part of the text, one of the titles is extra.

A – They became the pride of our region

B – The best kind of outdoor activity

C – Great international event

D – Festival of the North

E – Winter swimming

F – The program of the Festival

G – The participants and spectators

Sport in the murmansk region

Physical training and sport on the Kola Peninsula is one of the best kind of outdoor activity helping people to keep high vitality and vivacity.

The main sport event in the Kola North is traditional Festival of the North, this holiday has started in March of 1934. It is getting more popular and its program is getting more interesting. Polar Olympiad is famous not only in our country but also abroad.

Final stages of the 70th Festival of the North took place in 7 towns and districts of the region with the participation of more than 3000 sportsmen on 18 kinds of sport. There were more than 25 thousand spectators.

Different kinds of sport are included in the program of the Festival of the North. They are ski racing, biathlon, figure skating, hockey with puck and with ball, ski double event, racing on deer team, winter swimming, ice racing by cars in Murmansk, mountain skiing, freestyle, winter sport, ski jump in Kirovsk, skating in Olenegorsk, winter windsurfing, competitions on sport fishery in the Kola district.

Within the conduction of the Festival of the North were conducted official Championships and Cups of Russia on natural route, ski alpinism, rock climbing on artificial relief, ice racing the cars, which took place in 7 towns of the city.

In 1970 the Festival of the North was put into international calendar. On the North sport routs it is possible to meet representatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the USA, Southern Korea and the other countries. Marathon racing (50 km) is of great popularity.

Competition "Ski-track Calling" helps citizens to rest in wintertime. Murmansk is the winner for a long time.

A lot of sportsmen of the Murmansk region are well known for fans of sport. The world champion on biathlon became Petr Miloradov in 1983. Valery Ziganov took part several times in competitions of World Cup, was the winner of one of its stage, participator of two Olympic games, 10th champion on mountain skiing.

Champions of the USSR on mountain skiing Leonid Melnikov and Igor Kordiako, champion of winter Olympic games Lubov Mukhacheva (ski racing), twice prize winner of Olympic games Valery Kirienko (biathlon), world champion and champion of the Europe Lubov Panutina (nature route), winner of stages of the World cup and Championship of Europe and Russia Almaz Gismeev (kickboxing) and the others are well known.

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Text 2

Read the personal account below and put the events a–h in the correct order.

a) The weather improved.

b) The writer went to the carnival.

с) Brett came to stay.

d) It started to rain.

e) They had something to eat.

f) They watched the parade.

g) They got stuck in a traffic jam.

h) They talked to local people.

Although I've lived in London for several years, I'd never been to the Notting Hill Carnival, so when my American friend Brett came to stay, I decided to take him. Luckily, Brett was interested in going. He hadn't heard about the Carnival before, so I explained it was a huge Afro-Caribbean street procession which always took place in August. Brett was impressed, especially when I added that it was second only to Rio in size. "So why haven't you gone before?" he asked. I smiled feebly and muttered something about being too busy.

On the day of the Carnival we set out early. An hour later we were stuck in traffic and it began to rain heavily. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea", I said uneasily. "Everyone seems to be going". But by the time we arrived the rain had stopped and the streets weren't too crowded. We both felt relieved. For a while we just stood watching the parade go by. The costumes were incredibly colourful; people were wearing impressive outfits, blowing whistles and dancing to the music of live bands. "We have multi-cultural festivals in Washington, but nothing like this", said Brett enthusiastically.

Eventually the clouds disappeared and the sun came out. We were hungry now, so we quickly made our way to the food stores to get some delicious Jamaican curry. The rest of the afternoon was spent drinking tea punch, chatting to friendly locals and dancing to calypso music. At the end of the day we were tired, but happy. It was definitely the best carnival I've ever been to!

Text 3

Read the text about London and complete the notes.

Number of languages spoken Percentage whose mother tongue is not English Most common languages Least common language Biggest number of languages in one school

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