Вопрос № 604857 - Английский язык

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A: What’s your hobby?
B: I am fond of reading books.
A: And who is your favourite writer?
B: I like to read books of many authors and Arthur Conan Doyle is among them.
A: And what is your favourite story or novel written by Conan Doyle?
B: I like almost all his stories and novels, but prefer to read a collection of detective stories under the title “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”.
A: Oh, Sherlock Holmes is known all over the world as the most famous detective of all times.
B: 1_______. All the stories with Sh. Holmes are the most popular…
A: Sorry for interrupting you. 2_______, in one of his stories, Conan Doyle “killed” Holmes.
B: It was then when he was tired of writing detective stories. But public didn’t like it. Conan Doyle had to write another story in which Holmes came back.
A: Did Conan Doyle write only detective stories?
B: Besides detective stories, Doyle also wrote historical novels, war books. 3_______ his fantastic stories “The Lost World”, “The Poisoned Belt”?
A: Not quite, I would like to read them once again.
B: I have one of them, “The Poisoned Belt”, at home. Come to me, and I’ll give it to you.
A: 4_______!

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1. I know he is telling the ____ we must believe him.
2. Cowardice and ____ are the worst qualities in people.
3. Everybody knows that he is a ____ man.
4. The article sounds rather ____. I can’t believe even one word of it.

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1. The British are great ____.
2. As almost everywhere else in the world, the game which attracts the ____ attention is football.
3. A great ____ of people play and watch tennis.
4. Tennis ____ at Wimbledon are known all over the world.

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1. Mass media (that is the press, the radio and television) play an ____ role in the life of society.
2. Mass media inform, educate and ____ people.
3. Millions of people watch TV and read ____ in their spare time.
4. People listen to the radio while ____ a car.

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1. Today English is the ____ of the world.
2. The native ____ of English live in Great Britain, in the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand.
3. English is the ____ international language of communication.
4. When____ a foreign language you are to learn the culture and history of the people who speak this language.

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1. ____ became a part of our life.
2. Thousands of people travel every day either on ____ or for pleasure.
3. Of course, travelling by air is the fastest and the most ____ way.
4. Travelling by train is slower than travelling by plane, but it is ____ expensive.