Вопрос № 1072086 - Английский язык

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In the north of Moscow, and visible for miles around, rises the giant reinforced tower of Moscow’s TV centre. The tower was built in 1968 to a design by D. Burdin, M. Shkud and L. Shchipakin. Altogether 533-m high, the TV tower has an observation platform and a restaurant at the height of 328 metres. The restaurant revolves slowly round the tower and offers a splendid circular view of Moscow. Despite its enormous size the tower seems amazingly light. It replaced the old iron-girder tower in Shabolovka Street, built by the engineer I. Shukhov. Yet, unlike its predecessor, this TV tower does not play a purely functional role but is at the same time a most important architectural landmark. The multistory building of the TV centre stands alongside the tower.

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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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Some people believe that effects of television on our life are negative. 1_______ Many children watch it for more hours each than they do anything else. Some children begin to get queer ideas of reality from the violence on many programmes. 2_______. In some countries a child views several thousand murders on TV before he or she is twelve years old.
3_______. It is similar to drug or alcohol dependence. 4_______. To some people television becomes more real than reality and makes their own lives seem boring.

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At present the British royal family is headed by Queen Elizabeth. When the Queen was born on the 21st of April 1926, her grandfather, King George V, was on the throne and her uncle was his heir. 1_______.
As a child she studied constitutional history and law as well as art and music. 2_______. As she grew older she began to take part in public life. 3_______. The marriage of the young Princess Elizabeth to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh took place in November 1947. 4_______.

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Ireland is strong and rich in music. 1_______. The harp has always been a very important musical instrument in Ireland. 2_______. In the seventeenth century it became more than that. One very famous harper was O’Carloan. 3_______. When O’Carloan was about sixteen years old his eyes failed and he became blind. With the help of a kind, rich lady he learned to play the harp. 4_______. People have saved a lot of his music and harpers still play O’Carloan’s beautiful songs.

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Many people look on Christmas as the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. 1_______. In those days the sun meant so much to primitive man that when it began to go lower each day till December 23, people thought the sun was going to die out and they were worried. 2_______.
On December 23 the sun stayed in the sky longer and after that the nights were becoming shorter and shorter. When this happened, the primitive man was very happy. He even felt he wanted to celebrate it. 3_______.
Now Christmas tree stands in everybody's living-room at Christmas. 4_______. Candles at Christmas also go back to those times. People believed then that their light helped them to forget the darkness of winter.