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Something wholesale

My father’s office was on the fourth floor. Now he was sitting behind the large shiny desk which he had occupied since the departure of Mr Lane. As usual, on the top of his desk there stood a large jug of barley water. My father was now seventy-five years old. A serious operation had reduced him to a shadow of his former self. He had undergone it in an East End hospital while the bombs were raining down. His former pugnacity had largely evaporated. Previously he had been a man of impressive physique; he was now extremely thin and fragile, like a piece of old lace. But he was still exceptionally handsome, and in a suit of thick flannel, with a rose in his buttonhole and a fresh complexion, he looked like a small boy whose preparatory school had given leave to attend the wedding of an elder brother.

Ответьте на вопрос:

Did his father lose his weight?

1. Yes, quite a lot

2. Not a bit

3. Yes, a little bit

4. Not in the slightest

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Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moscow State University was established in 1755. More than 40 000 students (graduate and postgraduate) and about 7 000 undergraduates study at the university, and over 5 000 specialists do the refresher course here. More than 6 000 professors and lecturers, and about 5 000 researchers work for the faculties and research institutes. Every year Moscow University enrolls about 4 000 international students and postgraduates from all over the world. Moscow University campus is an extremely complex system, with its 1 000 000 m2 floor area in 1 000 buildings and structures, with its 8 dormitories housing over 12 000 students and 300 km of utility lines. MSU library system is one of the largest in Russia, with its 9,000,000 books, 2,000,000 of them in foreign languages, and the average number of readers 55,000, using 5,500,000 books a year.

Содержанию текста соответствует утверждение

In Moscow University campus there are _____.

a) eight hostels b) twelve hostels c) ten hostels d) nine hostels

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Students now taking longer to finish studies

In the USA some university students nowadays are spending more and more time in university before graduating. In American universities, many students pay their own fees, and this means more time working and less studying. Alan Chester is a 25-year-old journalism student from Ohio who is taking six years to complete his undergraduate degree. In order to pay tuition fees and other expenses he works four days a week in the university kitchen, while in the university holidays he does a full-time job. “I’m finding it difficult at the moment to study and pay my bills at the same time,” he admits. “But I’m trying my best and I’m managing to keep the wolf from the door”. Alan’s parents understand his decision to take longer to graduate. “They know what I’m going through, and they help me as much as they can. It’s hard, but I’m learning to look after myself, and I’m experiencing stuff that might be useful one day when I’m a journalist.”

Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

Some university students nowadays are spending more and more time in university before graduating because they

1. like it.

2. have to work to pay the tuition fee

3. find it useful

4. want to get experience