Вопрос № 1072089 - Английский язык

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1_______.
Democracy requires that all people be as free as possible to develop their own capacities. 2_______. That would result in chaos. 3_______. Government in a democracy works to promote that kind of equality.
4_______. People who are out of work or unable to feed their families often become more concerned about security than about voting.

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Almost in every culture in the world there is a celebration of thanks for rich harvest. 1_______.
In 1620, a religious community sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. They settled in what is now known as the state of Massachusettes. 2_______. They arrived too late to grow a rich harvest. Moreover, half the colony died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn. Indians showed them also how to grow other crops and how to hunt and fish.
In the autumn of 1621 they got a beautiful harvest of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins. 3_______.
In following years many of the colonists celebrated the harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States gained independence, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole country. 4_______. Then, after the Civil war, Abraham Lincoln suggested the last Thursday in November to be the day of thanksgiving.

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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.

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The most popular sport in England is football. A lot of people support their local clubs at matches on Saturday afternoons or watch the matches on television.
1_______. Each division contains twenty teams. There are two main prizes each season. 2_______. The final of this competition takes place every May at the famous Wembley stadium, in London.
Some of the best-known clubs in England are Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. 3_______. Some people say that the league is too big and that the players get paid too much. 4_______.

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At last it’s here: tomorrow is Exam Day. You have done lots of revision and you’ve had plenty of useful practice with past papers. You’ve finished the course. So what should you do now? Probably the least advisable course of action would be to carry on studying late into the night, trying to learn things you should have learned long ago and waking in the morning with an awful headache. A far better idea is to practise, as a singer or a musician does, what you already know. In order not to feel sleepy the next day, go to bed early and get up at your usual time. You may be a little bit nervous, but that is probably just a sign of your determination to do well in the exam.
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For the past 100 years, the immense stretch of barren American desert has been growing smaller. Three generations ago, the wasteland extended from the Mississippi Valley in the east almost to the Pacific Coast. But men learned that the prairies could grow maize and that the grass lands could feed cattle and sheep or yield wheat. As they continued to cultivate the desert, the size of the desert area decreased.
Today, there are still 60 to 70 thousand square miles of desert. In the 600 miles between Salt Lake City and Reno, Nevada, there is nothing but dead lakes, dry rivers, snakes and small animal life, enormous mineral wealth, and the inhuman beauty of the desert.
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As they continued to cultivate the desert …