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Full name:_____________________________________________
VERSION №11
1.Listening
The Joneses are a typical English 1.______________. Mother Sally is 35 and she is a part-time secretary. Father Mike is 37 and works in an 2._____­­­­­­­_________. Sally is a very busy with her job and the housework, so she doesn’t have time for any3.­­­­______________. Mike likes doing things in the garden and4. _____________ things in the house, but he sometimes goes to the pub with his friends. They have two children: Jason, who is seven and likes football and video games, and his sister, Jane, who is six, and likes playing with her Barbie dolls. They have a cat 5._____________ Snowy.
There is no work or school on Saturday and the family 6.___________goes somewhere for the day- a walk in the country or a day at the beach. On Sundays , they visit friends and family. In the Summer, they go on holiday to Spain for two 7.______________.
The family has dinner together at 8. ______________ past six. The children’s favourite dinner is chicken and chips, but Sally prefers spaghetti. On Sundays, they always have traditional roast beef or roast lambs. Sally 9.____________ and Mike cuts the meat.
After dinner, they watch TV. They enjoy comedy programmes and soap operas and they always 10.____________ the lottery results. One day they will win and move to a bigger house.
2. Reading.
Read the text .
Maria Lopes was born in Peru. She grew up in a small village. She began school when she was six years old. She went to elementary, but she didn’t go to high school. Her family was very poor, and she had to go to work when she was thirteen years old. She worked on an assembly line in a shoe factory.
When Maria was seventeen years old, her family moved to the United States. First they lived in Los Angeles, and then they moved to San Francisco. When Maria arrived in the United States, she wasn’t very happy. She missed her friends back to Peru, and she didn’t speak one word in English. She began to study English at night, and she worked in a factory during the day.
Marie studied very hard. She learned English, and she got a good job as a secretary. Maria still studies at night, but now she studies advertising at a business school. She wants to work for an advertising company some day and write commercials.
Maria still misses her friends back home, but she communicates with them very often over the Internet. She’s very happy now, and she’s looking forward to an exciting future.