Imagine that you are being given an opportunity to write a book and

have it published worldwide.

• Think what it would be about and how you would call it.

• Describe what the cover of your book would look like.

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Variant 29

1 Read the text and mark () the following statements «True» or «False».

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted

so many physicians and was getting his treatment done. But the

ache was even more severe than before. At last a monk who was supposed

to be an expert in treating such patients was called for by the millionaire.

The monk understood his problem and said that for some time

he should concentrate only on green colours and to let his eyes fall on

any other colours.

The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels

of green colour and directed that every object his eye was likely to

fall on be painted in green colour just as the monk had directed.

When the monk came to visit him after a few days, the millionaire’s

servans ran with buckets of green paint and poured on him since he was

In red dress lest their master see any other colour and his eye ache come

back. Hearing this, the monk laughed and said, ≪If only you had purchased

a pair of green spectacles, you could have saved these walls and

trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large

share of his fortune. You cannot paint the world green.≫ Let us change

our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape

the world, let us shape ourselves first.

True False

1 The millionaire in this story was blind.

2 He didn’t do what doctors told him to.

3 At last he asked the monk as a medical expert.

4 The monk’s advice was to look at green objects.

5 The millionaire invited painters to paint the

house in different colours.

6 The monk came to the millionaire wearing

green.

7 The monk poured green paint on the servant.

8 The monk said he didn’t actually mean to paint

everything green.

9 The millionaire bought a pair of green

spectacles in order to see the world green.

10 According to the moral of the story, the world

starts changing after our attitude to a situation

is changed.

62 Variant 29

2 Complete the text with the words from the table.

Cultures are divided into ≪low-context≫ and ≪high-context≫. In

low-context cultures (1) as North America, Britain, Sweden and

Germany, people say things very plainly, and rely on clear verbal communication.

High-context cultures such as France, Japan, Spain, Saudi

Arabia, China and South Korea often use silence or (2) signals

to communicate.

Shaking hands is often the most common form of (3) people,

but even this can create problems. In Japan, people bow to each other.

In England, people shake hands firmly while in Italy and France people

shake hands all the time but not as firmly as the English.

People from ≪low-context≫ cultures tend to (4) into other peoples

eyes, but in ≪high-context≫ cultures such as China and Japan, this

can be interpreted as aggressive behaviour.

One thing that the British and the Americans do share when meeting

each other, however, is the desire to break the ice by making a joke.

Cultures and peoples vary so much, though, that it is impossible to

please all of the people all of the time. The best thing you can do under

these confusing circumstances is to be polite to (5) you meet.

A B C D

1 as well soon so such

2 loud sound hand mime

3 offending salute greeting compliments

4 look watch see observe

5 everyone anyone none nobody

3 Comment on the following issues.

Exercise creates stronger, happier, and smarter people. Dwell upon:

• whether you agree or disagree with that statement;

• what you can do to make your lifestyle healthier.

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VARIANT 30

1 Read the text and mark () the following statements «True» or «False».

Once upon a time there lived a young man and his wife. They lived

poorly but happily as they loved and respected each other greatly. One

day, the wife, who was beautiful and had very long hair, asked him to

buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed.

The man felt very sorry but he had to say no. He explained that he

did not even have enough money to fix the strap of his watch he had

just broken.

The wife did not insist on her request.

The man went to work and passed by a watch shop, sold his damaged

watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife.

He came home in the evening with the comb in his hand ready to

give it to his wife.

He was surprised when he saw his wife with a very short haircut.

She had sold her hair and was holding a new watch band.

They looked at each other and tears flowed from their eyes, not for

the nobility of their actions, but for the sincerity of their love.

True False

1 The man and his wife were old and unhappy.

2 They didn’t have much money.

3 The wife had a short haircut.

4 The wife wanted her hair to grow longer and

look neat.

5 The man couldn’t afford to buy a comb.

6 The man had broken his watch.

7 The man went to a watch shop to buy a new

watchstrap.

8 The man earned some money and bought

a comb for his wife.

9 The wife sold her hair in order to make

a present for her husband.

10 They cried as they were sorry about their

poverty.

64 Variant 30

2 Complete the text with the words from the box.

daily up behaviour destroys far

keep back eggs until hatched

Have you ever observed the (1) of birds in the face of

trouble?

For days and days they make their nest, sometimes gathering materials

brought from (2) away.

And when they have completed the nest and are ready to lay

(3) , the weather or the work of humans, or some animal,

destroys it, and it falls to the ground, all that they have done with so

much effort. Do they stop and leave their work? No way! They start

building the nest again and again (4) they have eggs in

the nest again.

Sometimes, and very often before the chicks are (5) , an

animal, a child, or a storm (6) the nest once again, but this

time with its valuable contents. It hurts to go (7) and begin

again... Even so, the birds do not stop, they continue to sing and build, and

(8) singing and building.

Do you sometimes get the feeling that your life is not what you had

dreamed? Do you sometimes want to say: ≪Enough, the effort is not

worthwhile, it is all too much for me≫?

Are you tired of it all? Do you feel that the (9) struggle