Вопрос № 223900 - Английский язык

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An example of interaction between electric charges is lightning. During an 1 _______ storm, water and ice particles collide inside cumulonimbus clouds. As a result, the positive charges move to the top of the clouds and the negative 2 _______ move to the bottom. The movement generates static 3 _______. When the negative charges flow back to the positive charges they produce heat and emit light. Lightning is an electric discharge in the air. Thunder is a 4 _______ of pressure that occurs when the hot and violent lightning expands the cold air.

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Many people 1_______ Benjamin Franklin as a writer, statesman, and patriot who did much to establish the United States of America. Franklin, however, was also a 2_______ scientist who carried out important experiments in electricity, and the inventor of the lightning rod and a stove that is still in use today. He also 3_______ the use of the electrical terms “positive” and “negative”. In his 4_______ experiment, Franklin showed that lightning was the same form of energy as static electricity. He did this by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. He put his finger near a key attached to the metal kite string, and a spark jumped between them.

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1_______. The first passengers were a hen, a duck and a sheep. They went up in a basket on September 19th, 1783.The balloon flew for about three kilometers. 2_______. They travelled nine kilometers in twenty-five minutes.
3_______. The balloonists were two Englishmen in India. The biggest hot-air balloon is the Gerald A. Heineken. 4_______.

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About 80 per cent of British people live in the houses. Detached houses are usually in expensive suburbs, quite far from the town centre, near to the countryside. Semi-detached houses are often in suburbs which are nearer the town centre. Terraced houses and block of flats are mostly found in town centres. They can either be very small two-storey houses with one or two bedrooms or large houses with three to five floors and four or five bedrooms.
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Terraced houses and block of flats _______.

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About 67 per cent of the people in Britain own their houses or flats. Most of the rest live in rented accommodation. People in Britain buy houses or flats because there is not enough rented accommodation and what there is can be expensive.
Most British houses have a garden and many British people spend a lot of time in it. Most gardens, even small ones, have flowers and a lawn. If you don’t have a garden, it is possible to grow flowers and vegetables on an allotment, which is a piece of land rented from the local council.
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Most gardens, even small ones, _______.

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Aristocratic families and successful industrialists often built themselves beautiful country houses called stately homes. Some of the most beautiful are in Derbyshire, a hilly country in the North-West.
Many stately houses are open to the public to help owners pay for them. Alton Towers, owned by the Earl of Shrewsbury, was developed in the 1980s into a kind
and is now the most visited paying attraction in the whole of Britain.
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Some of the most beautiful _______.