Sharing Music with Friends

Brenda is a nineteen-year old full-time college student, and she earns money working part time as a waitress. Brenda loves to listen to music like most young people, but she can’t 1_______________the high CD prices that record companies 2__________________for popular CDs. Brenda says that the prices of CDs are ridiculously high at $17 to $20 each and there are only two or three good songs on each CD.

She 3_______________an apartment with three other roommates. She pays her own 4_______________and she also pays most of her 5_____________. Her solution to expensive CDs is to download or copy music from the Internet. Brenda and millions of other people are called “downloaders” because they download free file-sharing software and music. When Brenda later gives, shares, or trades her music files free over the Internet, she is also an uploader. She considers herself an active music uploader, but the music industry considers her a 6_______________. From 2001 on, the Recording Industry Association of America has sued and fined dozens of file-sharing services, for uploading music files, and hundreds of people, for 7_______________the law by downloading music.

1. A) provide B) supply C) afford D) allow

2. A) offer B) charge C) suggest D) propose

3. A) leases B) lends C) hires D) rents

4. A) lessons B) classes C) tuition D) education

5. A) costs B) fees C) expenses D) payments

6. A) thief B) cheater C) burglar D) bandit

7. A) undermining B) disobeying C) breaking D) ruining

Задание 4.Письменное высказывание: напишите личное письмо. Перенесите готовое письмо в Бланк для ответов.

You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen-friend Robert who writes:

Yesterday my mum won a cooking competition…

Write a letter to Robert.

In your letter

- tell him about your mom`s hobby

- ask 3 questions about the cooking competition

Write 100–140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

Вариант ХХХХ

Задание 1. Чтение.

Установите соответствие между заголовками A–H и текстами 1–7. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний. Перенесите ответы в Бланк для ответов.

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3) When the story in which Holmes died was published in a popular magazine in 1893, the British reading public was outraged. More than 20,000 people canceled their subscriptions. The demand for Holmes stories was so great that Conan Doyle brought the great detective back to life by explaining that no one had actually seen Holmes go down the Reichenbach Falls. The public, glad to have new tales, bought the explanation.

4) Caviar refers to the salted eggs of the fish species, sturgeon. At the beginning of the 19th century, the United States was one of the greatest producers of caviar in the world. Because of overfishing, commercial sturgeon harvesting was banned. Today, mostly through farm-raised varieties, caviar production has returned in America. Some American caviar is very high in quality and has been compared favorably to wild Caspian caviar.

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6) When the eruption of Vesuvius started on the morning of 24 August, 79 AD, it caught the local population completely unprepared. The catastrophic magnitude of the eruption was connected with the long period of inactivity that preceded it. The longer the intervals between one eruption and another, the greater the explosion will be. Luckily, the frequent but low-level activity of Vesuvius in recent centuries has relieved the build-up of pressure in the magma chamber.

7) Iron Age Britain can only be understood from the archaeological evidence. There are few spectacular ruins from Iron Age Britain. Unlike in Classical Greece or Ancient Egypt, in Iron Age Britain there was no construction of major cities, palaces, temples or pyramids. Rather, it was an essentially rural world of farms and villages, which had no economic or religious need to build palaces, cities, major tombs or ceremonial sites.

A) A happy comeback

B) Dangerous when rare