Английский ЕГЭ - банк заданий - страница 52

Birds are _____ creatures — the only living beings that have feathers. Feathers keep a bird warm and protect it from the wind and rain. Its wing and tail feathers allow a bird to fly. (AMAZE)

Some birds also have very colourful feathers. This helps them to attract mates or blend in with their _____. This is called camouflage. (SURROUND)

All birds lay eggs. It would be _____ for birds to carry their developing young inside their bodies like mammals do — they would become too heavy to fly. (MANAGE)

All birds have a beak for eating. Hunting birds, such as hawks and eagles, have _____ hooked beaks. (POWER)

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War and Peace, a novel by Leo Tolstoy, is a picture of Russian life set against a background of Napoleon’s invasion. It is one of the _____ novels of world literature. (GREAT)

Considerable parts of the book __________ to Tolstoy’s theory of history. (DEVOTE)

However, the greatness of War and Peace ___________ in its philosophy or in any contribution to the facts or theory of history. It depends on the building of a vast panorama of the whole society out of innumerable minute realistic details. (NOT LIE)

What do you know about Moscow? It _____ the capital of Russia for a long time. However, when it was first mentioned in historical records around 1147, it was nothing more than a tiny town of little importance. (BE)

Muscovites today consider Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy their city’s founding father, but it was only recorded that he dined with friends in the town of “Moskov”, _____ after the local Moscow River. (NAME)

It remains unclear exactly when this town was established. A small fortress was built on Borovitsky Hill by Dolgorukiy’s son, Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky; it was the first in a long succession of structures that eventually became the Moscow Kremlin. Moscow remained a small town while the nearby city of Vladimir _____ in prominence and overtook Kiev, the old capital, in importance. (RISE)