Пробный ЕГЭ 2018 по английскому языку №1 Онлайн

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Canada

Imagine yourself sitting in a café one day in your home town, when on the next table you hear some people speaking English with a strong North American accent. A_______________________ , you lean over and say, «Hi! Are you American?» «No,» comes the immediate answer. «Canadian!» Calling a English-speaking Canadian an American can be as bad as telling a Scotsman that he’s English or a Swiss person he’s German. In spite of a common language, there are differences B_______________________. «No,» many Canadians will tell you with insistence, «We’re not Americans! We’re Canadians» In the same way as Quebecers are determined to keep their identity, Canadians from the other provinces are determined to keep Canada’s identity. Although the Canadian way of life is more and more like the American way of life, C_______________________, and many Canadians, particularly Quebecers, are worried about the survival of their own differences. Canadians use metres and kilometres and measure temperatures in Celsius; Americans use feet and miles, and measure temperature in Fahrenheit. The USA has states, Canada has provinces. Yet about 80% of Canadians live within 150 km. of the U.S. border, and this has had a bad effect D_______________________ . Like most European countries, Canada has a national health service, and a good social security system; E_______________________have to be paid for by high taxes, so the cost of living in Canada is high. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of Canadians often get in their cars and drive over to the USA to go shopping. This is one cause of economic problems in Canada. Over half of Canada’s imports come from the United States, and Canada has F_______________________.

1. a trade deficit with the USA

2. on the Canadian economy

3. in culture and national feeling

4. but good welfare services

5. being a friendly person

6. lots of details are different

7. question of shopping

Three man in a boat
We roamed about sweet Sonning for an hour or so, and then, it being too late to push on past Reading, we decided to go back to one of the Shiplake islands, and put up there for the night. It was still early when we got settled, and George said that, as we had plenty of time, it would be a splendid opportunity to try a good, slap-up supper. He said he would show us what could be done up the river in the way of cooking, and suggested that, with the vegetables and the remains of the cold beef and general odds and ends, we should make an Irish stew.It seemeda fascinating idea. George gathered wood and made a fire, and Harris and I started to peel the potatoes. I should never have thought that peeling potatoes was such an undertaking. The job turned out to be the biggest thing of its kind that I had ever beenin. We began cheerfully, one might almost say skittishly, but our light-heartedness was gone by the time the first potato was finished. The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left –at least none worth speaking of. George came and had a look at it –it was about the size of a pea-nut. He said:“Oh, that won’t do! You’re wasting them. You must scrape them.”So we scraped them, and that was harder work than peeling. They are such an extraordinary shape, potatoes –all bumps and warts and hollows. We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes. Then we struck. We said we should require the rest of the evening for scraping ourselves.Inever saw such a thing as potato-scraping for making a fellow in a mess. It seemed difficult to believe that the potato-scrapings in which Harris and I stood, half smothered, could have come off four potatoes. It shows you what can be done with economy and care.George said it was absurd to have only four potatoes in an Irish stew, so we washed half-a-dozen or so more, and put them in without peeling. We also put in a cabbage and about half a peck of peas. George stirred it all up, and then he said that there seemed to be a lot of room to spare, so we overhauled both the hampers, and picked out all the odds and ends and the remnants, and added them to the stew. There were half a pork pie and a bit of cold boiled bacon left, and we put them in. Then George found half a tin of potted salmon, and he emptied that into the pot.He said that was the advantage of Irish stew: you got rid of such a lot of things. I fished out a couple of eggs that had got cracked, and put those in. George said they would thicken the gravy.I forget the other ingredients, but I know nothing was wasted; and I remember that, towards the end, Montmorency, who had evinced great interest in the proceedings throughout, strolled away with an earnest and thoughtful air, reappearing, a few minutes afterwards, with a dead water-rat in his mouth, which he evidently wished to present as his contribution to the dinner; whether in a sarcastic spirit, or with a genuine desire to assist, I cannot say.We had a discussion as to whether the rat should go in or not. Harris said that he thought it would be all right, mixed up with the other things, and that every little helped; but George stood up for precedent. He said he had never heard of water-rats in Irish stew, and he would rather be on the safe side, and not try experiments.Harris said:“If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it’s like? It’s men such as you that hamper the world’s progress. Think of the man who first tried German sausage!”It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One’s palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.And it was nourishing, too. As George said, there was good stuff in it. The peas and potatoes might have been a bit softer, but we all had good teeth, so that did not matter much: and as for the gravy, it was a poem –a little too rich, perhaps, for a weak stomach, but nutritious.

A. What wasGeorge’s suggestion?
1)getting settled in the Shiplake islands
2)gathering wood
3)cooking an Irish stew
4)making a fire

The ITA has also agreed rules with the Postmaster General about certain classes of programmes, in which advertisements may not be inserted. The discussions about__________________ continue, but British people are fond of their TV and receive a lot of fun watching it. (ADVERTISE)