Formulate the purpose of a batter

Have you ever done any writing? If so, what do you find to be the most difficult aspect?

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a post-office

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
The best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
an example of argumentation

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Билет № 32

All British citizens (including citizens of the Irish Republic resident in the UK) may vote, provided they are aged eighteen or over, are registered, and are not disqualified by insanity, membership of the House of Lords or by being sentenced prisoners. Voting is not compulsory, and a general election normally attracts about 75 per cent of the electorate, a decline in participation of about 8 per cent since 1945. The candidate in a constituency who gains most votes is returned as Member to the Commons. In this ‘first-past-the-post’ system, other candidates, even if they come close to the winner, will not get a seat in Parliament.
1. Write out two examples of condition and underline the markers of condition.
2. List the conditions of which British citizen can vote.
3. Find the false statement and correct it.
a) Members of the House of Lords can’t take part in a general election.
b) Fewer people participate in general election nowadays then in the forties.
c) Two candidates who gain most votes become MPs.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

We assume that people will kill ___ they find themselves in a situation where their own survival is threatened, and nobody needs lessons to learn how to die. What is less obvious is that practically anybody can persuaded and manipulated ________________ that he will more or less voluntarily enter a situation wherein he must kill and perhaps die. Yet if that were not true, battles would be impossible, and civilization would have taken a very different course (if indeed it arose at all).
1. Fill in the gaps with linking words or expressions.
2. Summarize the paragraph in 2-3 sentences.
3. Put the parts of the sentence in the correct order.
A. but it is a safe assumption
B. five thousand male human beings
C. they belonged to an army
D. it can never be proved
E. were ever gathered together in one place
F. that the first time

What do you think about smart young ladies - high school or college graduates- who do not really want a career or even a job , they just want to marry and raise a family. Is that bad? Explain why.

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a table

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
It is necessary to study Latin.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
to identify the idea

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Билет № 33

The British population is already one of the oldest in Europe, and it is slowly getting older. In 1990 the median age in Britain was thirty-six but it will rise to forty-one by 2020. At the end of the 1990s the number of pensioners will begin to rise rapidly, and the workforce will shrink. One result will be that by 2020 there will be twice as many people aged eighty-five or over as in 1990. A disproportionate number of the old, incidentally, choose to retire to the south coast and east Anglia, creating regional imbalances.
1. What sort of report does the paragraph come form?
2. Fill in the table with the data form the paragraph.

3. Write out an example of comparison / contrast and underline the marker of comparison / contrast.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous American pediatrician, reassured several generations of anxious parents in his best selling Baby and Child Care. He wrote ‘Your baby is born to be a reasonable friendly human being’. Today’s parents are not sure this is enough. There is a growing number of American professional parents with obsessive ambitions for their children. The Age of Spock is over! Why have a merely ‘normal’ baby when you can have an improved model, a Better Baby? In world of baby care common sense has given way to competition and connoisseurship.
1. Rewrite the first sentence of the paragraph as a formal definition.
2. Find and write out an example of rhetorical question.
3. What is common sense opposed to by the author of the paragraph?

Ability to memorise can be improved, not by lengthy practice in memorising, but by learning better methods of remembering. Do you know such methods?

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
a criminal

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
Our lives depend on progress.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
an expanded definition

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Билет № 34

In societies wholly dedicated to the principle of social equality, privileged private education is forbidden. But even here people are rewarded according to their abilities. In fact, so great is the need for skilled workers that the least able may be neglected. Bright children are carefully and expensively trained to become future rulers. In the end, all political ideologies boil down to the same thing: class divisions persist whether you are ruled by a feudal king or an educated peasant.
1. Write a definition of private education.
2. Which type of relationship does the underlined word express?
In some societies private education is forbidden. But even here people are rewarded according to their abilities.
3. Paraphrase the sentences using the words in brackets.
a. So great is the need for skilled workers that the least able may be neglected. (because)
b. Class divisions persist whether you are ruled by feudal king or an educated peasant. (to destroy)

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

If you were ever in trouble at college or school; ever at the wrong end of a sacking (even if you knew it was an unfair one) or dealings with the police; ever failed to pay off a hire purchase agreement (even if it was because the goods were faulty); or have ever seen a psychiatrist – all this information is likely to be on record somewhere. On record, and, in our increasingly technological times, more accessible than ever to third parties who may use it as evidence against you.
1. List the types of negative information which is likely to be on record.
2. Write the opposites:
a. to succeed
b. to employ
c. Faultless
3. Put the parts of the sentence in the correct order.
A. Lady Diana Spencer’s credit card spendings
B. approached recently by a British
C. to track down details of all
D. an American computer expert was
E. in the period before
F. magazine asking her
G. the royal engagement

All members of the teaching profession are certainly aware of the fact that teaching can be both rewarding and disheartening. In your opinion, which tendency prevails? Give your reasons why.

Write a definition to the word. You may use any definition structure:
an oven

Give no less than five reasons to support the statement:
Public transport is more convenient than private.

Give the Russian equivalent to the English word combination:
to list the reasons

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Билет № 35

If you ask foreigners to name typically English dishes, they will probably say ‘Fish and chips’ and then stop. It is disappointing, but true, that there is no tradition in England of eating in restaurants, because our food doesn’t lend itself to such preparation. English cooking is found in the home, where it is possible to time the dishes to perfection. So it is difficult to find a good English restaurant with reasonable prices.
1. Find and write out an example of effect. Underline the marker of effect.
2. Translate into Russian.
a. If you ask foreigners to name some typically English dishes, they will probably say ‘Fish and chips’ and then stop.
b. English cooking is found in the home, where it is possible to time the dishes to perfection.
3. Find and correct the false statement.
a. The English have no tradition of eating in restaurants.
b. There are a lot of good English restaurants with reasonable prices.
c. Fish and chips is a typical English dish.

Do you agree or disagree with the following quotation? Use reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and other getting it.

Again quoting the encyclopaedia: a euphemism is a ‘figure of speech in which something of an unpleasant, distressing, or indelicate nature is described in less offensive terms’. For example, to describe Uncle George as a sex maniac might not endear you to Auntie Mabel but she would be proud to hear him referred to as a manly man.
1. Find and write out an example. Underline the marker of example.
2. Rewrite the definition of a euphemism as naming.