Reading Read the text and answer the questions. Use short answers. Lakebaikal

Writing a letter

You would like to attend a training course. Write a letter to your company manager. In your letter, you should say:

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  why you would like to attend this course?
  
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  why it would be beneficial for you and the company?
  
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  suggest how to arrange time for it.
  

Speaking: Favourite writer

Reading
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question mark the correct letter A, B, C or D.
THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN BRITAIN TODAY.
Almost a hundred years ago the position of women in Britain was not__1____to men. Women spent almost all of their lives in _2_____of children. They had no right to vote. They could not even own property in marriage. Women got the right ­­­_3_____ after the First World War. Other rights ­­­_4_____ more slowly.Today women are­­­_5_____ not really equal in all respects.

In some industries women make up around half the labor force. The food and clothing industries are examples. How _6_____ women often get less money _7_____men even when they do the _8_____ job. The pay difference can be as great as twenty percentage. In 1900 the only professional jobs open to women were in teaching. There were no women lawyers, _9_____ or architects.

Today women seem to have the _10_____ professional changes in education as teachers and professors in medicine as doctors and in journalism.

A same A take care A to vote A follow A ever A ever A then A interesting A houses A good

B High B taking care B to discuss B followed B yet B never B that B fewer B engineers B best

C several C taking place C to marry C follows C still C do C than C equal C better C better

D equal D take place D to live D is following D already D old D those D same D closes D worse