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A) How long did it take him to construct the Cathedral?
B) What outstanding English men are buried there?
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) What is one of the most interesting monuments in the city?
B) Who were it designed by?
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A) What outstanding English men buried there?
B) What is West End?
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A) What river does it stand on?
B) What was entry to London from the sea guarded by?
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A) What words comprise the history of the Tower?
B)What did London grow out of?
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A) Where does working people live?
B) What buses can be seen in the streets of London?
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A) Shops for men, too, abound: hosiers, tailors, hatters, sports equipment — a man can be very well tailored in the City if he knows where to go, and at less cost than in the West End.
B) But apart from such specialities the shops are generally for day-to-day needs, mass supplies for a mass population.
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А) All day the streets are full of people, hustling along, mostly on business; but at lunch-time they are thronged.
В) For lunch-time is not only the time when people eat; they shop, and windows-shop.
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А) Gazing in shop windows, pricing, comparing, is the recreation of a great part of the feminine population — and of the male population too.
В) Another area — round by St. Paul’s — nowhere at lunch-time can one see a greater congregation of women and girls shoppers and shop-gazers than round the windows of the stores there.
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А) Here, there is also the National Gallery with its wonderful collection of works from the British, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish schools.
В) Now we going down Whitehall, and turn to the right to a quiet street.
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А) In South Kensington there are several large museums.
В) The Victoria and Albert Museum has a magnificent collection of fine and applied arts.
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А) Let us go sightseeing in London and visit the principal places of interest.
В) We’ll start our tour from Trafalgar Square, who is the geographical centre of London.
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А) London full of parks and green spaces.
В) Hyde Park, originally a royal hunting forest is largest park in London.
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А) London is the home of the nation’s commerce and finance, the main centre of its legal system and press.
В) London has the largest university and the greatest possibilities for entertainment and for sport in the country.
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А) London is very different, it have many faces.
В) There are a lot of traffic in the streets of London
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А) One seventh of the population of the United Kingdom are Londoners.
В) Over 10 million people lives in Greater London.
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А) Silversmiths are to be find, and booksellers, and art shops.
В) But Cheapside has not for ages been the street of the Goldsmiths, though Goldsmiths’ Hall, that great centre of craftsmanship, lies at the back of it.
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А) The built up area of the Greater London stretch for 50 kilometres from east to west.
В) Many districts are linking with particular activities.
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А) The Hall of Human Biology enables visitors to learn about their bodies and the way they work.
В) Exhibits in the Science Museum display the discovery and development of such inventions as the steam engine, photography, glass-making, printing and atomic physics.
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А) The Houses of Parliament is a beautiful building with two towers: the Clock Tower with Big Ben and the Victoria Tower with the national flag over it.
В) Opposite the Houses of Parliament has the Westminster Abbey.
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А) The Natural History Museum contains plants, animals and minerals.
В) The Hall of Human Biology enables visitors learning about their bodies and the way they work.
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А) The river and its bridges, the streets with their buses and cars, the railways, are essential to the transport of bodies and packages.
В) But the City is also the nerve centre of the financial market, and the transmission of quick and accurate information is essential to its efficient functioning.
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А) The Trafalgar Square is also a historical place.
В) In the middle of it is the famous Nelson Column, which was built in memory of Admiral Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar.
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А) There are no parks, but there is a number of small spaces, mostly converted graveyards, which offer pleasant oases in spring or summer.
В) Such are Postman’s Park in Aldersgate Street, the gardens of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the tiny plot behind St. Mary Aldermary, and St. Botolph Bishopsgate with its tennis court.
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А) There is a gallery where children can experiment with working models.
В) The Museum of London in the City presents the biography of London, from the founding of London by the Romans to the Greater London of today.
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А) Today the General Post Office is in Newgate Street, lead to the west.
В) And not far away is Faraday Building, which links the globe by telephone, radio and cable.
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А) But there’s only one house, isn’t it?
В) But it’s the Houses because British Parliament has two Houses — the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
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А) By the way, what’s the beautiful building over there?
В) It are the Houses of Parliament.
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А) Fleet Street was once famous for its showmen, waxworks, giants, dwarfs, strange animals, panoramas.
В) Today it is synonymous with the world of English journalism, and has been called the Street of Ink.
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А) Hyde Park is the largest of London parks and is famous for its Speaker’s Corner which attracts a lot of tourists.
В) The West End is full of museums, art galleries, the best theatres, cinemas, expensive clubs and shops.
Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
А) Hyde Park, originally a royal hunting forest have been the largest park in London.
В) In summer the Serpentine canal which flows through the park is full of swimmers and rowers.
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А) In the west are the formal gardens of the Temple, and Fountain Court loved by Charles Lamb and Dickens and many since their days.
В) People come, however, not much time and opportunity for recreation, or even to stand and stare, but even in passing his — or her — eye will be catch by the windows-boxes which make any offices externally so gay and attractive.
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А) London is an ancient city.
В) London grew up around the first point where the Roman invaders found the Thames narrow enough to build a bridge.
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А) London is one of most famous capital cities of the world, and every year attract crowds of visitors from home and abroad.
В) Tourists come to explore the historic buildings, to see the museums and galleries, streets, parks and people.
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А) Many English kings and queens were crowned and are burried there.
В) Another interesting sight in the West End is Hyde Park.
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А) There is also green one-storeyed buses, they run from London to the countryside.
В) In London as everywhere in Great Britain, the traffic keeps to the left.
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А) This is the famous Downing Street and house No.10 are the residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
В) The Westminster is the most important part of London.
How _______ are you going to stay in London?
I advise you to see “Othello” by Shakespeare ______ this theatre.
I don’t really listen _________ much rock and pop these days.
I have been dreaming of __________ any play by Shakespeare in this country.
I think pop music is better today than ever_______ .
In the East End there are no magnificent parks and mansions and far from all the men here _________ a steady job.
In the Royal Air Force Chapel there is a monument to ________ who died during the Battle of Britain, the most famous and decisive air battle over the territory of Britain in the Second World War.
It is safe to say that the three _________ famous buildings in England are Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Record companies are __________ business to make a profit.
Ten or twenty years ago there _________ real artists writing real songs – now all you get is synthesizers and dance music.
The word massurrealism ______________ coined by American artist James Seehafer in 1992.
Very ________ people live in this village.
What important changes have ________ place in society since World War II?
What’s going to happen ______ the next ten or twenty years?
__________ most of London buses are the famous red double-deckers that have two decks for passengers.
___________ you pass the salt, please?
___________ you think it is possible to see everything in such a short time?
As for Christopher Wren who is now known as "the ___________ of London", he found his fame only after his death.
From far away you can see the huge _________ with a golden ball and cross on the top.
If you can’t have a good time it’s nobody’s fault but_________ .
In 200 years Henry III decided to pull ________ the Norman Abbey and build a more beautiful one after the style then prevailing in France.
In the 11th century Edward the Confessor after years spent in France ________ a great Norman Abbey.
I’ll _________ my best to see “Othello”.
I’m ________ in historical places.
Since the far-off time of William the Conqueror Westminster Abbey ______ been the crowning place of the kings and queens of England.
Some surrealist art also uses symbolism, or warps an object in some way, __________ Salvadore Dali’s paintings of a strange world.
Surrealism is art that is much __________ your dreams.
The Chapel is _______ stone and glass, so wonderfully cut and sculptured that it seems unreal.
The collection of Turner's paintings at the Tate _________ about 300 oils and 19,000 water-colours and drawings.
Today a person can see examples of surrealism everywhere without consciously _________ that one is looking at a surreal image.
Today the picture galleries of the National Gallery of Art exhibit works of all ________ European schools of painting which existed between the 13th and 19th centuries.
Westminster Abbey is a fine Gothic building, _________ stands opposite the Houses of Parliament.
What kind of shops can be __________ in the City of London?
What ______ modern art express today?
What _____________ massurrealism from some other forms of modern art?
Whispering _________ is called so, because if someone whispers close to the wall on one side, a person with his ear close to the wall on the other side can hear what is said.
Work on Wren's masterpiece began in 1675 after a Norman church, old St. Paul's, was destroyed in ________ Great Fire of 1666.
You should see Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square, ________ Tower and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
__________ you been to this theatre before?
__________is guarded by the Yeomen Warders popularly called 'Beefeaters'.
