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21. The principal invited all girls to the bathroom and …
A) gave a lecture about the problems with lipsticks.
B) showed how the cleaner gets rid of the lip prints.
C) asked them to help the cleaner to clean the mirror.
D) made them clean the mirror every night.
22. What does the word LEAVING in the text mean?
A) Saying goodbye B) Going away C) Making D) Forgetting
23. What happens when the cleaner erases the lip prints every time next day?
A) The school principle checks out the mirror. B) Pupils put little red lips.
C) Teachers use their lipstick. D) Girls thank to the cleaner.


There are linguists who believe that one basic language will eventually be discovered behind every language we now speak. There have been several attempts to create a one-world language. Esperanto is probably the best known. Invented in 1887 by a Pole called L.L. Zamanhoff, it was based on Romance language vocabulary and aimed to provide a universal second language. It has about a hundred speakers in fifty countries. Before Esperanto there was Volapuk, invented in 1879 by the German Johann Martin Schleyer. In 1928, there was Novial, invented by the Dane Otto Jespersen, and there has also been Interglingua in 1903.
24. The text is about …
A) dictionaries of some European languages. B) languages invented at different times.
C) German inventors of the 20th century. D) famous Europeans of the 19th century.
25. The first universal language was …
A) Novial B) Volapuk C) Esperanto D) Interlingua
26. Why were there discovered several languages such as Esperanto and Volapuk?
A) There was necessity for some languages to be used in science.
B) To study how different languages came out.
C) Some linguists wanted the language which can be understandable for all.
D) Because Romance language needed new vocabulary.
27. According to the text Interlingua …
A) is the first invented language. B) was invented 16 years after the invention of Esperanto.
C) invented after Novial. D) was the language invented by Dane Otto Jespersen.


People living in Swindon in England are losing their possessions to an unusual kind of burglar – a two-year-old black cat called Frankie. Frankie has a collection of more than thirty soft toys, but his owner, Julie Bishop, didn`t buy them for him. In fact, she isn`t sure where they have come from, but it seems likely that Frankie has stolen them from other houses in the neighbourhood. They are the kind of toys people usually keep inside their homes for their cats to play with, so Mrs Bishop thinks Frankie gets them by going through the cat flaps that most cat owners have in one of the doors to their houses. Mrs Bishop says Frankie doesn’t usually take very long to find a new toy: “Sometimes he goes out and ten minutes later he`s back with something. He gives us a big meow to let us know when he`s brought them in. At first, it was quite funny, but now it`s obvious somebody`s bought all these toys for their pet and now they don`t have any – they`re all here!”