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The First Day at School

Do you remember your first day at school? It was probably 1 ____ confusing. Now, to 2 ____ this
confusion, many primary schools in England have a special teacher who welcomes new pupils. She
is 3 ____ a reception class teacher. The children are 4 ____ with the idea of school and if they have been
good, they can’t understand why they have to go to school. They imagine that school is optional. When
the child goes to school on his first day and watches his mother leaving he thinks that she is deserting
him. The teacher must 5 ____ him that at the end of the day his mother will be back and take him home.
The children are not the only people that are disturbed by going to school. The teacher sometimes has as
much difficulty in 6 ____ with the mothers. They hang around and dislike leaving the child without their
protection.

The best way to 7 ____ with the situation is to get the child used to the idea of school. Before the
beginning of term, the mother should take her child to see the teacher and to look 8 ____ the school. The
first day should be something to emphasize the regularity of school.

1. А) enough; Б) rarely; В) rather; Г) equally

2. A) escape; Б) defeat; В) beat; Г) avoid

3. A) named; Б) called; В) said; Г) told

4. A) afraid; Б) threatened; В) endangered; Г) risked

5. A) convince; Б) prove; В) explain; Г) announce

6. A) managing; Б) guiding; В) coping; Г) handling

7. A) face; Б) deal; В) touch; Г) consider

8. A) through; Б) about; В) after; Г) round

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Looking for a job

My new home was a long way from the center of London but it was becoming essential to find a job,
so 1 ______ I spent a whole morning getting to town and applying to London Transport for a job on the
tube. It turned out that they were looking for guards, not drivers. This 2 ______ me. I couldn’t drive a car
but I could probably guard a train and perhaps continue to write poems between stations. “Yes, I would
be a tube guard,” I thought. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis.

The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other 3 ______, for the intelligence test. I must have done
all right because after half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. The
examiner sat at a desk. You were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous
occupant had been 4 ______. Sometimes the person was rejected quickly and sometimes after quite a
 while. Obviously the longer interviews were the most successful ones. Mine was the only one that lasted
a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job, “Why did you
leave your job before that? “And the one before?” I can’t 5 ______ my answers, except they were short at
first and grew shorter as we continued. His closing statement 6 ______ a lack of sensitivity, which helped
to explain why as a psychologist he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed
this test and we are unable to offer you a position.” Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I
thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such a job 7 ______ exactly this sort of elementary
responsibility a dreamer like me is unlikely to have. But, I was still far short of self-understanding as well
as short of cash.

1. A) finally  B) at the end C) lastly  D) in conclusion

2. A) comforted  B) matched  C) fitted  D) suited
3. A) friends  B) members  C) candidates  D) nominees
4. A) declined  B) dismissed  C) accepted  D) abandoned
5. A) recall  B) memorize  C) forget  D) remind
6. A) discovered  B) revealed  C) disguised  D) opened
7. A) expects  B) offers  C) demands  D) asks

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Among the e-mails waiting for me at work one morning was one from a HE
member of my staff. It was sent from his personal
e-mail address and there was only his home phone number. Thinking
 
something was wrong, I immediately called __________________.

A sleepy female voice answered and told me he was at work and COME
 
__________________ home late in the evening.

The __________________ moment was when I remembered that I had BAD

recently asked staff members to give me their home numbers. I went
 
right down to the employee’s office to apologize for my call.

__________________, however, he thanked me. I had awakened his LATE

daughter, who had an exam that morning but had forgotten to set her
 
alarm. Thanks to my call, she hadn't missed the exam.

A lesson on efficiency

I remember my last year at school very well. There were three boys NAME
__________________ William in my class.
 
 
 Miss Fisher, one of the teachers, called them all William, and we NOT KNOW
__________________ which one she was talking to.
 
 

One day, during a lesson on efficiency, she thundered, “William, put that gum you
__________________ in the wastepaper bin at once!” All three of them started to CHEW
rise, paused, then walked to the front of the class to dispose of their gum. The
teacher beamed. “Three for one! Now that's efficiency.”

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Does the plan work?

Brad was a student in my after-school tutoring session. He was working LITTLE

__________________ than diligently.
 
 

 “Brad,” I said, “I talked to your mom, and she wants you to stay for the full hour, EASY
so you may as well get something done.” “She wants you to keep me every day
for an hour?” he complained. “She wants you to learn it’s __________________
to work during regular class hours than to give up after-school time.” Brad
seemed to agree.
 
 

 “So,” I continued, “why not get your work done now so you can bring your marks GET
up and get your mom off your back?” “No!” he replied in horror. “If I
__________________ good marks now, she'll think this plan is working, and
she'll keep me in here until June!”

The purpose of education

A famous professor greeted the first year undergraduates at the beginning of the TELL
academic year. He __________________ them in his opening remarks:
 
 

 “Nothing you learn here at the university will be of slightest use to you LATE
__________________, but one thing.
 
 

If you work hard, if you train your brain, you should be able to understand when a TALK
man __________________ nonsense. And that, in my view, is the main, if not the
sole, purpose of education.”
 
 

Education for everyone

Thomas Jefferson made a considerable contribution to the development of HAVE

education. He hoped that one day all young people on our planet
__________________ the right to education.
 
 

Today, his dream __________________ true. At the global level, the United COME
Nations recognises the right of everyone to education.
 
 

Although education is compulsory in most places, school attendance is optional, CHILD

therefore some parents choose home-schooling for their __________________.

My job in a restaurant

I was seventeen, when I __________________ a job in a local fast food GIVE

restaurant.
 
 

Training was for three days. During the __________________ two days I ONE
watched videos about my job. During the last day of orientation, I had to be at the
restaurant to see how things got done.
 
 

I began work on Saturday, which was the __________________ day of the week. BUSY
 
 
 My present job __________________ with cooking. I work for a computer NOT CONNECT
company. I like it, but I miss communicating with people.
 
 

The bank job

When Emma started working in a big bank, she THREE

was always afraid someone might rob her. On the
__________________ day, a man who looked
 
suspicious entered the bank.

He walked straight to Emma who was sitting FALL

behind bulletproof glass. Then he placed a note
under her window. Being very scared, Emma
__________________ on the floor under the
 
counter and hit the alarm button.

The guards came and the man ARREST

__________________. Then Emma read the note.
It said, “Would you have lunch with me?”

My summer job

I like my summer job in a small food store. It NOT BE

 
__________________ boring.

It’s like running a marathon from 7 in the morning till 12 at MANY

noon. I have to make sandwiches for the customers. Usually
 
I make __________________ than fifty sandwiches a day.

I __________________ this job by my dad’s friend. My GIVE

dad thought that I should do something instead of
 
playing computer games every day.

It’s the __________________ week I’ve been in the store THREE

and I want to go on.

Where’s our teacher?

One school had a very strict head teacher. Once he __________________ around  
the school when he heard a terrible noise coming from one of the classrooms.
WALK
 
 
Opening the door, the teacher __________________ a noisy young man in the SEE
centre of the classroom.
 
 

He was __________________ than the others and he was making the most noise. TALL
The head teacher ordered him to leave the classroom immediately.
 
 

 “Any more questions?” he asked the students. “Yes, sir,” the  

__________________ replied. “Can we have our teacher back?”
CHILD

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Chemistry or no chemistry

I was planning a career in biology but was not looking forward to taking chemistry SCIENCE
in my first year at Carleton University in Ottawa. However, the professor of
chemistry was a famous __________________.

 
 
 

He made the course interesting with his many small __________________

explosions and crazy quizzes. CHEMISTRY

 
 

Once, he posed the question: “What in the world isn't chemistry?” and offered a
prize to the student who answered __________________. CORRECT
 
 
 

A couple of weeks passed. __________________, he announced in class that the FINAL

contest was over. A student had gone to his office to ask if she could try her hand at
 
the question. “What in the world isn't chemistry?” she asked.
“My __________________ with my last boyfriend – that wasn't chemistry.” RELATION
 
 

By default, she became the __________________.

WIN
 

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My company

In 1978 I was chairman of Cooper’s, a company which ran 127 vehicles of various weights and sizes.
We A22 ______ in transporting goods by road.
My father had founded the firm in 1931, starting out with three vehicles – two of them driven by
horses. By the time we became Cooper & Son in 1967, the company had A23 ______ in obtaining seventeen
big trucks and delivered goods all over the north of England.
My father insisted that I leave school the moment I passed my O levels. “I’ll teach you more about the
real world in a month than you’d learn from any of those university types in a lifetime,” he  A24 ______ to
say. I followed his advice and never A25 ______ it. I left school a few weeks after my sixteenth birthday.
The next morning I joined Cooper’s as an apprentice, and spent my first three years at the depot under the
watchful eye of Buster Jackson, the works manager. He taught me how to take the company’s
trucks A26 ______ and, more important, how to put them back together again.
After graduating from the workshop, I spent five years in different departments. When my father
retired in 1977 – at the age of seventy – I took over as chairman. Then I began to set in motion some ideas
I’d been working on for the past decade, A27 ______ I knew my father didn’t approve of them. I
never A28 ______ him, but Europe was only the beginning of my plans for the company’s expansion.
 
 
    1)  concentrated     2)  focused     3)  specialized     4)  devoted

 
    1)  achieved     2)  succeeded     3)  managed     4)  fulfilled

 
    1)  kept     2)  held     3)  used     4)  took

 
    1)  dissatisfied     2)  disappointed     3)  displeased     4)  regretted

 
    1)  away     2)  apart     3)  along     4)  among

 
    1)  although     2)  moreover     3)  however     4)  therefore

 
    1)  spoke     2)  said     3)  told     4)  talked