Вопрос № 223962 - 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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London Bridge. This fabled 1_______ across the Thames River, noted in story and rhyme, has a colourful and continuous history that dates back to Roman times. The first London Bridge was 2_______ by Romans sometime after 43 AD and some of its wooden remains have been uncovered on the north side of the river. During its life the 3_______ structure was renewed several times. At one time, one of these 4_______ was washed away by a flood, and another was torn down by invading Vikings in 1014.

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Glass has been made into practical or decorative objects since ancient times. Glass blowing was probably developed in the first century BC in Syria. With this technique the possibilities for shaping glass into different forms became endless.
The Roman Empire used glass more than any other ancient civilization. Romans adopted the technique from the Syrians and glass soon became fashionable.

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The age of space exploration began in 1957, when Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union. The first successful manned flight took place in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin was shot into space. This triggered the ‘space race’ between the USA and the USSR, culminating in the moon landing in 1969. After this, there was something of an anticlimax and the number of manned missions dropped off, largely due to the end of the space race. Nevertheless, space probes like Pioneer and Voyager continued to be sent out in order to explore the neighboring planets such as Mars and Venus. The American shuttle and the Russian Mir Space Station were also ground-breaking, as they developed the practicalities of the space travel.

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1. cast iron
2. a plastic box
3. a steel pipe
4. an iron bolt

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1. a copper wire
2. an aluminium tin
3. a glass vase
4. a rubber tyre