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Помогите пожалуйста с тестами: Philip and Michael Philip Masters was a millionaire now. 1___________ , everyone in the club was aware that he had built up his own business from scratch after he had left his first job as a kitchen salesman. “Ready-Fit Kitchens” had started in a shed at the end of Philip’s garden. Later, he 2______________ in building a factory on the other side of town that employed more than three hundred people. Ten years later, the financial press speculated that Philip’s business was worth a couple of million. When five more years later the company was taken over by the John Lewis Partnership, Philip got seventeen million pounds. 3____________ businessmen were as lucky as he was. Philip was married for more than twenty years. He had fallen in love with Sally at first 4__________________ . Now Sally was chairman of the regional branch of the Save the Children Fund. Their son had just won a place at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Michael was the boy’s godfather. Michael Gilmour could 5______________ be a greater contrast. On leaving school, where Philip had been his closest friend, he 6_______________ to find a permanent job. He started out as a trainee with Watneys, but lasted only a few months. Then he started to work as a reporter with a publishing company. He drifted from job to job. 7_____________ Philip, he married his childhood sweetheart, Carol West, the daughter of a local doctor. They had a daughter. Michael seemed to have settled down at last. 1. A) Therefore B) Moreover C) However D) Although 2. A) fulfilled B) succeeded C) managed D) achieved 3. A) Little B) Many C) Much D) Few 4. A) view B) sight C) look D) glimpse 5. A) simply B) nearly C) hardly D) merely 6. A) lacked B) missed C) failed D) lost 7. A) Like B) Alike C) Familiar D) Similar
Сопоставьте заголовки и тексты: A. The creator of the Christmas card D. The ancestor of the Christmas card B. The place of creation E. What are Christmas cards like? C. Displeasure of some people F. Christmas cards for children 1. Today, we send millions of Christmas cards every year. But in fact the Christmas card is a relatively modern invention. In the Middle Ages, European wood engravers produced prints with religious themes. But the first real Christmas card, as we understand the term today, was designed in London, England in 1840. It went on sale in 1843. 2. The designer was John Callcott Horsley, a well known British painter and member of the Royal Academy. He designed the card at the suggestion of his friend Sir Henry Cole, who was the first director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Horsley produced 1,000 cards and offered them for sale at Is (one shilling) each. 3. They were printed on stiff card and coloured by hand, with the greeting: «A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You». The card showed three pictures: in the centre, a family party; to one side the hungry receiving food; to the other side the poor being clothed. Puritans immediately denounced the card, since it showed people drinking in the family party. But with most people the idea was a great success and the Christmas card quickly became very popular. 4. Christmas cards were not the first greetings cards. Since 1796, with the improvements in printing, merchants had been sending cards to their customers offering «best wishes» for the New Year. In many countries, Christmas cards gradually became even more popular than New Years cards. 5. As Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ, cards often show scenes of his nativity. Others show images associated with Christmas such as wintry scenes of snow-laden pines, Father Christmas (Santa Claus), stars, candles or holly. The traditional greeting written on a Christmas card is «Merry Christmas», but many other greetings are also used, such as «Happy Xmas» or «Happy Noel».
