Тема Чтение текстов с полным пониманием и выстраиванием логической последовательности (Гуманитарно-социальный профиль)
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In 1937 the McDonnald brothers, Dick and Mark, opened a little restaurant in California. 1_______. In 1945 they had 20 waiters. All the teenagers of the town ate hamburgers there. 2_______. They put the price down from 30 to 15 cents. There were no more waiters — it was self-service. 3_______.
In the 1960s the McDonald's company opened hundreds of McDonald's restaurants all over the States.
4_______. Now the McDonald's company opens a new restaurant every 8 hours. There are more than 14,000 restaurants in over 70 countries - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
1_______. It was founded in 1753 on the collections of Sir Hans Sloane. 2_______. Today the museum has two departments – the Museum of Mankind and the Natural History Museum. 3_______. It includes marbles from the Parthenon, the Rosetta Stone that provided the key to Egyptian hieroglyphics, ancient works of art in stone, bronze and gold, a collection illustrating Western Asiatic civilizations. The Natural History Museum contains five principal collections on the history of plants, minerals and the animal kingdom. 4_______ - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
Alexei Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. 1_______. He began to draw early and in 1838 he entered the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. He graduated from it in 1850, and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting. 2________. The Rooks Have Come Back was painted by Savrasov near Ipatiev Monastery in 1871. 3_______. Using a trivial episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame. 4_______ - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
There are no countries in the world where such a great variety of flora and fauna can be found as in Russia. 1_______. The highest mountains in our land are the Altai, the Urals and the Caucasus. 2________. The longest of them are the Volga, the Ob’, the Yenisei, the Lena and the Amur. 3_______.
On the Russian territory there are 11 time zones. The climate conditions are rather different: from arctic and moderate to continental and subtropical. 4_______. Oil, natural gas, different ores, ferrous and non-ferrous metals and other minerals are there in our country - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a famous Russian writer, chemist and astronomer who made a lot in literature and science.
1_______. He studied at the University of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. After studying in Germany at the University of Marburg and Freiberg, Lomonosov returned to St. Petersburg in 1745 to teach chemistry and built a teaching and research laboratory there four years later.
2_______. He wrote a grammar that reformed the Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with modern language. 3_______. He also revived the art of Russian mosaic and coloured-glass factory. Most of his achievements, however, were unknown outside Russia. 4_______ - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest novelists in the English literature. 1_______. Charles Dickens was born in London in 1812. His father was a clerk and had eight children. His father always spent more money than he received. When Charles was 10 years old, his family was put into prison for his father's debts. 2_______. He worked at the blacking factory ten hours a day. Charles hated it and never forgot the experience. He used it in many novels, especially in "David Copperfield" and "Oliver Twist".
At the age of 15 he was lucky to get a job in a London lawyer's office though he didn't like this job. When he was 16, he started to work for a newspaper. 3_______. "The Pickwick Papers" was his first great work which made him popular. His books became very popular in many countries, and he spent much time abroad. 4_______. These meetings were very successful.
He never stopped writing and travelling, and he died very suddenly in 1870 - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
1_______. Sports in England take many forms: organized sports, which attract huge crowds to encourage their favourite teams to victory, athletic games for recreation and some others. Some sports are called spectator, when the number of spectators is greater than the number of people playing in the game. 2_______.
The game peculiarly associated with England is cricket. 3_______. Cricket is slow, and a spectator, sitting in the afternoon sun after his lunch, may be excused for a little sleep for half an hour. 4_______ - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
Everyone knows that tea is the most popular drink in Britain. 1_______. The Dutch brought the first tea to Europe in 1610. 2_______. At that time a pound of the cheapest tea cost about one-third of skilled worker's weekly wages. 3_______. Later, tea-drinking developed into a fashionable social ritual. Tea parties were popular at home and soon the ritual of "afternoon tea" was firmly established.
4_______. Tea in Britain is brewed in a teapot. Then one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot are added. Most people in Britain prefer a rich, strong cup of tea with milk, and sugar is sometimes added to taste - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
The Coca-Cola story began in Atlanta in 1886. 1_______. Two of the ingredients were the South American coca leaf and the African cola nut. 2_______. Finally, Dr. Pemberton's partner Frank Robinson suggested the name Coca-Cola. Thirty years later the famous Coca-Cola bottle design first appeared. For many years only Coca-Cola was made. 3_______. The recipe of Coca-Cola is a secret. Today they sell Coca-Cola in 195countries. 4_______. It has the most famous trademark in the world - Расположите пропущенные предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получился связный текст.
There are many superstitions in Britain. But one of the most widely held is that it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house. 1_______. The person who opens an umbrella in fine weather is very unpopular.
It's very unlucky to walk under a ladder. If you must pass under a ladder you can avoid bad luck by crossing your fingers and keeping them crossed until you've seen a dog.
The number 13 is said to be unlucky for some. 2_______.
The worst misfortune that can befall you is breaking a mirror. That will bring you seven years of bad luck. 3_______.
And at last there is a superstition of touching wood for luck. 4_______