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6. Read the text. Choose which word (a, b, c or d) best fits each space. New york city: nostalgia for the old neighbourhood

Life is made up of little things: some unimportant memories from childhood that, in fact, shaped your character. I (1)......... on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the 1950s-60s where family life was centred around old (2)......... of flats and small stores. Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had character. It was (3)......... with working families of Italian, German and Irish origin. We shopped together with all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced the way our family lived. I absorbed the street life. It gave me an (4)......... that I could not have received in any other place. To me, it was home.

In a recent walk around Third Avenue my eyes (5)......... signs of the old neighbourhood but couldn’t find any. If I hadn’t been born here and someone described the area, it would be (6)......... to believe. It wasn’t because a few buildings had changed – everything had changed. The transformation began in the late 1950s and 60s when corporations replaced the old neighbourhood. In the early 1960s, the houses were pulled down. Families were forced to (7)........., the small stores went out of business and the old neighbourhood was changed forever. And now there is a lack of character in the transformed neighbourhood.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

A) brought up

A) blocks

A) covered

A) knowledge

A) looked after

A) hard

A) stay out

B) grew up

B) houses

B) held

B) information

B) looked for

B) rough

B) take out

C) went up

C) groups

C) loaded

C) education

C) looked through

C) strange

C) move out

D) got up

D) sets

D) filled

D) training

D) looked at

D) heavy

D) go out

Unit II Вариант 1

1. Read the text. Use the words in capitals on the right to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Mind the correct grammar form.

Memories and reality

There is a well-known (1)........., “School days are the (2)......... days of your life”. We realize it’s true when we are worried about our (3)......... situation and are beginning to hate the (4)......... of working in an office or factory every day that you look fondly on the (5)......... times you had at school. When you are still at school you often focus on the negatives, like having to pay attention during a tedious chemistry lesson or feeling (6)......... in an exam because you don’t know any of the answers or (7)......... the questions. But it’s quite (8)......... to complain about things and then have great memories afterwards.

SAY

GOOD

FINANCE

BORE

EXCITE

HELP

UNDERSTAND

ACCEPT

2. Read the text. Use the words in capitals on the right to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Mind the correct grammar form. Jeans

These days, it seems that people all over the world wear jeans, but where did they come from? In 1870s, An American tailor called Jacob Davis (1)......... many customers who were farmers. Their clothes often needed repairs and David had the idea of (2)......... strong trousers for them. He (3)......... any money, so he

(4)......... to speak to a local merchant, Levi Strauss. He asked him to help in business and blue jeans (5).......... Denim (6)......... for their jeans , which is

(7)......... than most other materials. Since then, jeans (8)......... popular all over the world, particularly with young people.

HAVE

MAKE

NOT HAVE

GO

BEAR

USE

STRONG

BECOME