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Full name:_____________________________________________
VERSION №17
1.Listening
Listen and fill in gaps
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 .
My grandmother was the daughter of a farmer who lived near a country town. When she was young, she used to complain that life provided her with few opportunities of meeting interesting people and offered her the chance of pursuing her education. But that was fifty years ago. We still live in the same farmhouse. We still relish the peace of the countryside and the quiet of the woods, but our life is very different from that of our grandparents. Why is this? What has made our life so different? The reason is, of course, that discoveries and inventions made since their time have immensely extended the range of our eyes and ears. One might almost claim that these inventions can bring the whole world to us in our homes.