Английский ЕГЭ - банк заданий - страница 73
Вопросы
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 25-29, так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 25-29.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Believe it or not, this question has its roots in ancient Greece, where ________ used it as an excuse to argue about cause and effect. (PHILOSOPHY)
Some might say the chicken came first. Others may ________ that the egg came first since all chickens begin life inside of an egg. The question has a rather simple answer if you talk to an ancient egg expert. Basically, the egg is much older than the chicken. (AGREE)
Chickens probably were kept by people starting about 10,000 years ago. The animals they come from are known as jungle chicken and date back 21 million years. ________, right? (BELIEVE)
The earliest eggs were soft, sort of like turtle or echidna eggs you might see on the beach. The harder ________ shell came later. (PROTECT)
By the way, egg-laying is part of our evolutionary ________. In other words, if you go back far enough in time, humans have ancestors that would have laid eggs. Now, here's a question for you - which came first, the egg or the echidna? (DEVELOP)
Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30-36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30-36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Отметьте цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.
He also brought me pencils and paper, for which I had little use but which I ________ (30) he would have been lost without, and a great many books, half of which were in languages I couldn’t read and the other half of which might as well have been.
He ________ (31) rather startled, and when he came back it was with a trade journal (Pharmacology) he had found in the lounge.