Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) About 44 years later oil was found there. And again people came, but few of them found the riches they were looking for, as it had been taken away by those who had come in the twenties of this century when they were drawn from their Oklahoma or Texas homes.
B) The capital of the United States is Washington.
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A) Any handy bank, or hillock or slanting lawn may be used for egg-rolling but in some districts there are traditional sites.
B) Thus, the customary ground at Preston, in Lancashire, is Avenham Park where, on Easter Monday, very large crowds of Lewes, Sussex, is noted for its Guy Fawkes celebrations, now a highly organized event attracting thousands of visitors.
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A) In 1961, for instance, it gave a comprehensive view of Arnold Schoenberg whereas 1962 saw a similar treatment given to the music of the famous Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovitch.
B) A great number of his works ranging from symphonies and operatic excerpts to string quartets, songs and piano pieces were included in the programme.
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A) It is full of contrasts. In San Francisco you would like to wear your overcoat sometimes.
B) The north-western part of California has a very pleasant climate.
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A) It was named in honour of the first President whose name was George Washington.
B) The population of Washington are over 3 million.
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A) It were the home of the New York professional hockey team, the Rangers, and its professional basketball team, the Knickerbockers.
B) The new cultural center in the city is the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which was built in the 1960s.
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A) Leading Soviet artistes, among they David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, and the conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvenski, were heard not only in the music of Shostakovitch, but in music from the general repertory.
B) In 1969 the theme of the festival was a country - Italy.
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A) The best known of the more than 30 museums in the city is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
B) Its magnificent collection of European and American painting contains the works of many of the greatest masters of world art.
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A) The Festival was a success, and has been held annually ever since.
B) The festival is quite international in its character giving as a rule a varied representation of artistic production from a number of countries, and over the past few years it has had a definite theme, that is the work of one or two composers was studied in depth.
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A) The guy awarded the first prize has the honour of being the first to be cast upon the huge bonfire, the other prize-winners following in order of merit.
B) Coffee and hot-dogs are in plentiful supply, and a grand time has had by the thousands of onlookers.
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A) The headquarters of the United Nations is located in New York.
B) There are eight public holidays a year in Great Britain, that is days on which people need not go in to work.
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A) The second best known museum are the Museum of Modern Art.
B) Madison Square Garden, with a capacity of 18,900 people, have been the center of boxing, hockey and basketball events.
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A) The south-eastern part of the state have miles of light brown sand dunes like those of the Sahara.
B) Go over to the mountains to the west and you come into the garden and fruit country which attracted a lot of people since the gold rush in 1848.
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A) There are torchlight processions and pageantry, with official Bonfire Societies to help with the various displays.
B) The traditional tar barrel is still a feature, but it now ends its fiery career safely in the river.
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A) There is an extremely well-organized celebration at Winchester, Hampshire.
B) College students and many other organizations in the city prepare elaborate guys, for which prizes is awarded.
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Norfolk children were supposed to go out before sunrise, and any demand for largesse after the sun had risen could be refused on the grounds that the asker was “sunburnt”.
Выберите возможные варианты: Among the newer buildings one of the most imposing is the National Gallery of Art.
Выберите возможные варианты: And the whole of this city, with its long wide avenues, with shady trees on both sides, its low buildings and its crowds of government officials, is unlike New York with its sky-scrapers and its noisy streets.
Выберите возможные варианты: For over a hundred years New York has been the nation's leading financial and commercial center. It is also the center of fashion, theater and culture.
Выберите возможные варианты: The greatest of these rapids is the Niagara Falls.
Выберите возможные варианты: The Mississippi together with the Missouri form the longest river in the world (7,300 km).
Выберите возможные варианты: The northern part of the USA embraces the region of the five Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) which are connected by natural channels cut by rapids.
Выберите возможные варианты: These rivers are unsuitable for navigation. They are cut by rapids, and so serve as an immense source of electric power.
Выберите возможные варианты: Washington has wooded areas and red-brick houses.
Выберите возможные варианты: In 1834, in order to hide the marks of the fire, the brown stone walls of the president's home were painted white - and it has been the "White House" ever since.
Выберите возможные варианты: The central lowland between the two main mountain ranges makes up the basin of the Mississippi River. Its main tributaries are the Missouri and Ohio Rivers.
Выберите правильный вариант: Among them the Edinburgh International Festival has now firmly established its reputation as one of the foremost events of its kind in the world.
Выберите правильный вариант: The post-war years have seen a great growth in the number of arts festivals in Britain and other European countries.
Выберите правильный вариант: "The United States of America" is the name of the country composed of 50 states joined in a federal republic, and its citizens are known as "Americans".
Выберите правильный вариант: A bang on the knocker and the sound of hastily retreating footsteps warned the inmates of the house that one of these secret packages had arrived, but the giver, or his messenger, took care to be out of sight before the door could be opened.
Выберите правильный вариант: Alaska is separated from Russia by only about 50 miles across the Bering Strait.
Выберите правильный вариант: All the public holidays, except Christmas Day and Boxing Day observed on December 25th and 26th respectively, are movable, that is they do not fall on the same date each year.
Выберите правильный вариант: Anonymous gifts of all kinds, ranging from mere trifles to quite expensive objects, were laid upon the doorsteps of houses.
Выберите правильный вариант: Another train of thought identifies Father Christmas with an old Germanic goddess Helda.
Выберите правильный вариант: At first it was hand-made, with little paintings of hearts and flowers, and a short verse composed by the sender.
Выберите правильный вариант: At one time, the presents bought and given on this anniversary were more numerous, and often more valuable, than those given at Christmas.
Выберите правильный вариант: Bank holidays are not statutory public holidays, but their observance is no longer limited to banks.
Выберите правильный вариант: Besides public holidays, there are other festivals, anniversaries and simply days, for example Pancake Day and Bonfire Night, on which certain traditions are observed, but unless they fall on a Sunday, they are ordinary working days.
Выберите правильный вариант: Christmas is celebrated universally as the birth of Christ.
Выберите правильный вариант: Countless generations of young people have acknowledged St. Valentine as the friend and patron of lovers, and, according to a country tradition which was known at least as early as the fourteenth century, so have the birds.
Выберите правильный вариант: Even the smaller children are allowed to stay up until it is really dark, so that they can admire the rockets that burst in the sky and send down a shower of many-coloured sparks.
Выберите правильный вариант: For example, scholars believe that the decorating of the traditional Christmas tree is related to similar traditions in far away places such as Russia and India.
Выберите правильный вариант: For many generations these were made in the homes and local shops, but for safety reasons these were banned and only factory-made ones are permitted.
Выберите правильный вариант: George Washington chose the place located midway to keep at close touch as possible between the states.
Выберите правильный вариант: Good Friday and Easter Monday depend on Easter Sunday which follow on the first Sunday after a full moon or after March 21st.
Выберите правильный вариант: Hawaii, which became the 50th state in 1959, is situated in the Pacific Ocean halfway between the west-coast states and the Far East.
Выберите правильный вариант: He has been compared to both the Celtic Spirit of Winter and the Norwegian god Odin.
Выберите правильный вариант: He is, indeed, rather a misty figure altogether.
Выберите правильный вариант: Helda, dressed in white fur, handed out presents at Yule.
Выберите правильный вариант: However, it has its origins in the older, pre-Christian mid-winter festival called Yule.
Выберите правильный вариант: In Norwich, and elsewhere in the country, until towards the end of last century, St. Valentine’s Eve was a great present-giving anniversary for adults as well as children.
Выберите правильный вариант: In the days before Guy Fawkes Day, some children may be seen going about the streets with their faces blackened, and wearing some kind of disguise.
Выберите правильный вариант: In the North the U.S. is bordered by Canada, and in the South it borders on Mexico.
Выберите правильный вариант: In the Roman Martyrology there are two martyrs of that name, one a Roman priest who perished in A.D. 269, the other an Umbrian bishop who was executed in A.D. 273.
Выберите правильный вариант: Interestingly enough the myth of the Norwegian god involves him flying across the sky in a chariot.
Выберите правильный вариант: It could be a serious matter, leading to matrimony, or it could be a kind of game.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is in the very centre of the city. Not far from the Capitol is the Library of Congress. It holds five million books.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is not clear which of the two is really the lovers’ saint and so far as we know, there is no historical reason why either of them should be so regarded.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is said that in 1812 when England was at war with America, the British captured the city, and some of the buildings, including the Capitol and the house of the president, were set on fire.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is true that nothing whatever is known about St. Valentine that would suggest such a patronage.
Выберите правильный вариант: It is washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the East, and by the Pacific Ocean in the West.
Выберите правильный вариант: Like many similar customs, this was a morning activity, the earlier the better.
Выберите правильный вариант: Major highlands are the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Rocky Mountains in the west.
Выберите правильный вариант: Many Christmas traditions come from earlier times and other cultures.
Выберите правильный вариант: May Day falls on the first Monday in May.
Выберите правильный вариант: Most of these holidays are of religious origin, though it would be true to say that for the greater part of the population they have long lost their religious significance and are simply days on which people relax, eat, drink and make merry.
Выберите правильный вариант: Nothing in or on the parcel indicated whence it had come, for secrecy was considered essential, and a great part of the fun of St. Valentine’s Eve consisted in trying to identify the unknown giver.
Выберите правильный вариант: November 5th is a day on which traditionally children are allowed, under proper supervision, to let off fireworks, to make a bonfire and burn on it the figure of a ragged dummy (a “guy”) made of old clothes, straw, and - if possible - one of father’s oldest hats.
Выберите правильный вариант: Present-giving on this day was not confined to sweethearts.
Выберите правильный вариант: Since it saved much mental effort and careful handwork, its popularity was immediate and lasting.
Выберите правильный вариант: Sometimes they have a little cart or an old pram, and in it there is a guy; they ask the passers-by to spare “a penny for the guy”.
Выберите правильный вариант: St. Valentine’s Day, February 14th, has been a customary day for choosing sweethearts and exchanging love-tokens from time immemorial.
Выберите правильный вариант: Such pleasant proofs of devotion are not yet quite extinct, and the hand-written and hand-painted Valentine can still be seen occasionally though its verses are now rarely original.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Capitol, where the Congress meets, is a very high and beautiful building with white marble columns.
Выберите правильный вариант: The carnival is noted for the many thousands of “squibs” which are used.
Выберите правильный вариант: The commercial card appeared in the nineteenth century, complete ready-made sentiments and decorations, embossed, brightly coloured and gilded, and later on, lace-edged, perfumed and packed in a neat box.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Guy Fawkes Carnival held at Bridgewater, Somerset, on the Thursday nearest to November 5th, is believed to date back unbroken except for the war years, to the original event in 1605.
Выберите правильный вариант: The largest among them are the Colorado and the Columbia rivers.
Выберите правильный вариант: The main part of the United States consists of several physical divisions, including highlands and lowlands regions.
Выберите правильный вариант: The method of choosing sweethearts on St. Valentine’s Day varied in different times and places.
Выберите правильный вариант: The most important cities of the USA are: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and others.
Выберите правильный вариант: The mountains are crossed by streams which flow through deep canyons and fall into the Pacific Ocean.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Rocky Mountains extend from Mexico to Canada.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Spring Bank Holiday falls on the last Monday of May, while the Late Summer Bank Holiday comes on the last Monday in August.
Выберите правильный вариант: The term bank holiday applies also to Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Easter Monday, New Year’s Day and May Day and dates back to the 19th century when by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 and a supplementary act of 1875 these days as well as the Monday in Whit week and the first Monday in August, August Bank Holiday, were constituted bank holidays, i. e. days on which banks were to be closed.
Выберите правильный вариант: The traditional bringer of presents, Father Christmas, also has his roots in other characters.
Выберите правильный вариант: The Valentine card that we know today came into being during the eighteenth century when the expensive gifts of earlier years had gone out of fashion.
Выберите правильный вариант: The White House, the residence of the president, is the oldest public structure in the capital and one of the most beautiful.
Выберите правильный вариант: There is a law in Washington against building structures higher than the Capitol; therefore it presents different appearance from New York with its sky-scrapers.
Выберите правильный вариант: There was a common belief that all birds choose their mates on February 14th, a pleasant, if slightly inaccurate notion which still survives in some districts as a tale told to children.
Выберите правильный вариант: They are: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday.
Выберите правильный вариант: They were given money, fruit, or in some districts, specially-made cakes known as Valentine Buns.
Выберите правильный вариант: This chariot is drawn by an eight-legged horse, similar to Santa’s reindeer and sleigh which are also believed to fly through the air.
Выберите правильный вариант: This theory that the original gift-giver was a woman is reinforced by the fact that in seventh century Saxon England, Christmas Eve was known as Mother’s Night.
Выберите правильный вариант: Today Washington is a city which attracts a lot of tourists by its fashionable hotels, restaurants and sightseeing, the Lincoln Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the White House and others.
Выберите правильный вариант: Until very recently, children used to go about singing.
Выберите правильный вариант: Washington is not a very large city, but it is very important as the capital of the USA.
Выберите правильный вариант: Washington was founded in 1791. It became the capital of the United States of America.
Выберите правильный вариант: When November 5th comes, many people feel that they should give their dog a sedative, for some dogs get very nervous when they hear loud bangs, and the evening of Guy Fawkes’ Day is sure to be noisy if there are children living in the neighbourhood in England.
Выберите правильный вариант: With the coppers they get they buy fireworks.
Заполните пропуск: About 239 million people live there. The USA consists ________ 50 states.
Заполните пропуск: Accordingly, the day on which final separation was officially voted was July 2, although the 4th, the day on which ________ Declaration of Independence was adopted, has always been celebrated in the United States as the great national holiday - the Fourth of July, or Independence Day.
Заполните пропуск: After 110th Street it passes through Harlem and slum tenements ________ the Harlem River.
Заполните пропуск: All over Europe rationing and restrictions were the order ________ the day, and hundreds of towns lay in ruins.
Заполните пропуск: As to population, it ________ the fourth largest country in the world.
Заполните пропуск: Between the 20th and 60th Streets it ________ a street of shops and department stores.
Заполните пропуск: Each player marked his ________ her egg with an identifying sign, and then watched to see how it fared as it sped down the slope.
Заполните пропуск: Early in the 20th century, as a result of racial antagonism in other sections of the city, the blacks moved to Harlem and formed a majority ________ the population.
Заполните пропуск: Edinburgh ________ indeed Scotland had never previously known.
Заполните пропуск: Egg-rolling is a traditional Easter pastime which still flourishes ________ northern England, Scotland, Ulster, the Isle of Man, and Switzerland.
Заполните пропуск: Fifth Avenue starts at the Washington Arch. The avenue continues straight uptown and divides Manhattan streets ________ east and west.
Заполните пропуск: Harlem covering the north central section ________ Manhattan is almost a city within a city.
Заполните пропуск: If it reached the bottom unscathed, the owner could expect good luck in the future, but ________ it was broken, misfortune would follow before the year was out.
Заполните пропуск: In some districts, this is a competitive game, the winner being the player whose egg remains longest undamaged, but more usually, the fun consists simply ________ the rolling and eating.
Заполните пропуск: In the Hebrides, formerly, it provided an opportunity ________ divination.
Заполните пропуск: It explained why the Congress on July 2 “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) had resolved that “these United Colonies are, and ________ right ought to be Free and Independent States.”
Заполните пропуск: It takes place on Easter Sunday or Monday, and consists of rolling coloured, hard-boiled eggs down a slope until they are cracked and broken after which they are eaten ________ their owners.
Заполните пропуск: It ________ in this setting that the festival was planned.
Заполните пропуск: Its founders had many difficulties to face, not the least ________ them being the fact that this was something.
Заполните пропуск: New York is a city of banks. Wall Street is the financial heart of the city. The New York Stock Exchange is located ________ 11 Wall Street.
Заполните пропуск: Nor have been the problems solved even today, for example the King’s Theatre where operas and ballets ________ staged during the festival is completely for the purpose, and the administration finds it increasingly more difficult to get companies to perform there.
Заполните пропуск: Puerto Ricans form the second largest group within Harlem, living mainly in the eastern part of the district (Spanish Harlem). Most of the houses ________ Harlem are in a dreadful need of repair.
Заполните пропуск: Similarly, at Connel Ferry in Argyllshire, where it was customary for young men to roll their eggs in one place, and for young women to roll theirs in another, the man or girl whose egg went farthest and most smoothly would ________ the first person to marry in that particular group.
Заполните пропуск: The 50 stars - white on a blue field represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent 13 original English colonies, which ________ 1776 became free and independent of England.
Заполните пропуск: The Declaration of Independence in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced ________ separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
Заполните пропуск: The Festival was inaugurated in 1947. Glyndebourne Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler’s Wells Ballet were only ________ few of the participants of this first venture.
Заполните пропуск: The flag ________ the United States is called 'Stars and Stripes'.
Заполните пропуск: There are 60 bridges and 4 tunnels in the city, most of which connect the boroughs to each other. Some of the bridges are privately owned and toll is ________ be paid.
Заполните пропуск: This is evidently the older form ________ the custom, since egg-rolling does not appear to have been originally a game to be lost or won.
Заполните пропуск: West of the Rocky Mountains we find the State ________ California.
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Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: It staged on the Esplanade against the background of a floodlit castle.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: An attraction for those visitors who enjoy a colourful if rather noisy spectacle is the Military Tattoo which has become a regular feature of the Edinburgh Festival.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Each of the 59 American states established its own holidays.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: One of the items on the programme was the Florence Opera, which performed four operas including, very appropriately, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarta.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: One of the reasons for the festival’s success is that it is easy for the visitors to make their arrangements, since Festival programmes are published as early as March, and the booking opens soon afterwards, at the beginning of April.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The Festival Society which takes care of all these matters not only arranges for the visitors’ tickets but also reserves accommodation.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The name of the holiday (e.g. Confederate Memorial Day) goes on the calendar (last Monday in April) for a state (Alabama, Mississippi), yet this does not mean that businesses are always closed or children let out of school.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The federal government, through the President and Congress, can legally set holidays only for federal employees and for the District of Columbia.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: This pompous military display strikes, however, a discordant note in the framework of a festival devoted entirely to arts.
Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: Three eminent Italian conductors - Abbado, Erede, and Giulini conducted concerts with Italian music in them.