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UUSE OF ENGLISH

Read the text below. For questions (6—17) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

ADVERTISING

         Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (7) ___ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (8) ___ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money (up to $1 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot) to (9) ____ us that their products are the best.

         Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (10) ____ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (11) ____ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”.

         Nonetheless, the sales campaign was effective; people came. In the 1700s famous (12) _____ were involved in the advertising business, (13) ____ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications, and Paul Revere, who advertised his handmade false teeth. But it was not until the late 1800s, with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, that advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (14) ____ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

         Creating a good ad isn’t as (15) _____ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokesperson. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. In the 1980s Chrysler’s Lee Lacocca (16) ____ viewers, “If you can find a better car, buy it.” Another is to hire an athlete. Still another option is to create (17) ___ characters, such as the dancing California raisins, the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

         A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (18) ___ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

	A	B	C	D
7	installs	inherits	influences	introduces
8	effect	infect	affect	protect
9	assume	retail	remember	persuade
10	win	attract	invade	involve
11	contained	consisted	located	contributed
12	numbers	members	figures	peoples
13	along	among	between	through
14	stayed	remained	created	resulted
15	slight	easy	light	heavy
16	urged	learned	studied	proclaimed
17	unforgettable	unforgivable	undesirable	uninviting
18	suppose	consider	hope	believe

II. USE OF ENGLISH

Read the text below. For questions (6—17) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Native English Animals

By Nicola Jane Soen

         Now England has hardly any predatory animals in the wild, but has it always been that way? Not according to ancient rhymes. England was once a country where predatory animals freely roamed and so danger lurked.

         Many centuries ago bears, wolves, lynx, etc, ranged the forests and woodlands. Also wild boar, Elk and Aurochs (wild bulls) were (6) ___. However, although some of these species hung on till medieval times, most of these animals were long gone by that time. The last English wolf in England was (7) ___ killed and the population extinct by the 16th century, although in Wales it is thought to have lasted a few centuries (8) ____. The great Auroch herds did not last nearly as long and were sadly gone as early as the 9th Century, although on the continent it lasted for many, many (9) ____ centuries.

         There was an even bigger size herding animal in Britain in the early centuries. The Giant deer species called Megaloceros, with an antler span of up to 3 meters; it was possibly (10) ____ by the time Neolithic man was making wooden stockades. But the antlers were often found, and perhaps used for digging with.

         Lynx is thought to have gone by the 10th Century, in England at least. It is thought that the Neolithic settlers mingling with peoples already present or taking over, came from the continent and brought their own animals; cattle, (11) ____ dogs and cats, pigs and also goats with them and built the wooden stockades to protect them.

         In Saxon England land was cleared of the forest and a large communal area was used (12) _____ farming; this was divided into strips called furrows. However by Medieval times the rich landlords had claimed a lot of land and planted hedges (13) ____ their boundaries. This may have meant farming was easier, but for the poor it meant they were beggared and starving, (14) ____ the loss of their land meant the loss of their livelihoods.

         Land by the Thames was taken from the people in medieval times and given over to sheep farmers for the trading of wool, which by then had become an important industry that provided (15) ____ for the crown.

         So by now most of the original predatory or herding wild animals had been (16) _____ by non-native species. Thankfully there is now a program that is re-releasing our original, surviving animals back into their own natural habitat. We (17) ____ desperately that this is successful.

	A	B	C	D
6	rich	plentiful	many	brimful
7	credible	maybe	possible	probably
8	longer	later	more	earlier
9	more	past	less	last
10	dead	obsolete	extinct	vestigial
11	schooled	captured	educated	domesticated
12	to	for	out of	of
13	to mark	to show	to exhibit	to label
14	like	as	that	so
15	pay	fee	income	rent
16	survived	transferred	carried	replaced
17	dream	hope	think	sure

17. Write a letter of information (50–60 words) to Emily. Include the following:

• how the school year is scheduled;

• what languages the students learn;

• what Ukrainian students are like.