Вопрос № 857246 - Английский язык

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Like many other very old cities, London was never planned. It grew around two centres – a fort the Romans built on one bank of the Thames, and an abbey, founded later on the other bank. As time went by, the place round the Roman fort developed into the City of London, the country’s business centre, the abbey is now known as Westminster Abbey.
By the middle of the first century AD London had already been in existence for about a hundred years. Roads leading to other towns had changed into streets, market grounds became squares. London was growing …
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During the 19th century various institutions of higher education were founded in the industrial towns and cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Their buildings were of local brick, so they got the name “redbrick” universities. They contrasted chiefly with Oxford and Cambridge. At first they prepared students for London University degrees, but later they were given the right to award their own degrees.

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Football is the most popular sport, followed by baseball and basketball. In general, football is played in the fall, basketball in the winter and early spring, and baseball from early spring through early fall. The big prize in professional football is to win the Super Bowl. For basketball teams, it is the NBA (National Basketball Association) Championship, and in baseball, the World Series.

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 I suppose all of us one time or another in our childhood had a hobby of some kind – collecting stamps, coins, football cards, and so on. As we got older our interests may have turned to sports of one kind or another. 1_______. When he was little, he kept all the tickets of all the games he had been to, and stuck them in an album. 2_______. He had absolutely no interest in doing athletics or going cycling like his other friends. Even on a beautiful summer’s day, when the rest of us were outside doing some gardening, he would be indoors, watching a football match on TV or video. 3_______. I used to go diving too, but I haven’t got much time for it now. 4_______.

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This year my family went on a trip to Malaysia for three weeks. We visited all sorts of different places. The weather is normally between 35 and 45°C all day and night. 1_______. When you go to the poorest towns, you get lots of beggars on the streets who follow you about for ages in search of any spare money or food. 2_______. We went on river tours which took us through the floating markets where people came alongside you, standing on wooden boats selling merchandise, for cheap prices. On a snake farm I held a python snake. 3_______. We saw enough lizards, monkeys, crocodiles and snakes on the road or in the rivers. If one gets the chance to go there I would recommended them to jump at the chance. 4_______.

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1_______. He has spent endless days under the hot Egyptian sun, patiently sifting through sand, rock and mud, looking for clues in the palace he is excavating. 2_______. The site is very impressive, covering over forty thousand acres and he has made some unexpected discoveries. 3_______. It has been widely assumed that the Egyptians used slave labour, as it was more economical but now appears that they used a combination of highly skilled and unskilled workers. 4_______.