Independent work variant Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words

2.Listen to the text and write ten or more questions according to it.

Don’t you think books ______________________ thing in the world? I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t reading a book. ______________________ memories of being in my school library when I was about five years old. I have been ______________________ bookworm since then. You’ll usually see me ______________________ buried in a book. I ______________________ of books. Novels are great ______________________ know other worlds and cultures. A good book is one where you never want the ______________________ . I also like autobiographies because I think it’s interesting ______________________ people’s lives. Encyclopedias are cool too – you can learn everything about everything in these. ______________________ books to the Internet. Books need to be in your hand and ______________________ .

3.Write a short essay on the topic: “My native town ”.(200-250words)
4. Speak on the topic: “Uzbekistan”
Variant 17

1. 
   Read the text and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.
   

As we know about 90 per cent of the ___1___of the United Kingdom lives in urban areas. A number of important cities grew rapidly in the 1700’s and early 1800’s, during the Industrial Revolution. But today, many of those cities ___2___London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds - are in declined. They are faced with such problems as falling employment, rising crime and pod housing. They are losing population as people move ___3___the inner cities into the suburbs and beyond. Greater London’s population, for example, peaked at about 8 - million in 1939 and has been falling ever since. In 1991, it totalled about 6 - million. The industries that supported the growth of the large cities have ___4___or disappeared. New industries, ____5___electronics, have developed outside the cities, many near motorways or near research establishments and universities.The British ___6___in 1988 launched an urban renewal program called. «Action for cities». The purpose of ___7____ is to revive the inner cities by means of new housing and new development. The government also established areas _____8____enterprise zones to attract new business to inner cities. Business within enterprise zones receives tax cuts and other advantages. But people continue to move away to find ____9___and the inner cities do not attract enough private investment.The cost of such basic services as street lighting and road repair is increasingly falling upon fewer people. And ___10___of these people are the members society who can least afford such costs - the elderly, single-parent families, the poorly paid and the unemployed.

1. a) peoples b)animals c)guests d)population
2. a)includes b) except c)including d)consists
3. a) into b) from c) out d) onto
4. a)decline b) declining c) declinedd)been declined
5. a) such as b) such c) as d) same
6. a)country b)girls c)governmentd)children
7. a) party b) programc)the programd)table
8. a) calledb) is callingc) call d)has called
9. a) things b) jobsc) dreamsd)people
10. a) much b) many c) the most d)___