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Bill and Carol Taylor are both in their early fifties. They got married twenty-five years ago. They have three children: Sarah, now aged 24, Peter aged 22 and Kate aged 17. As a reasonably prosperous middle-class family living in the south of England they are probably quite like many of the families you will meet if you come to England.
Bill works for a firm which provides advice and materials for health and safety at work, and he is the technical specialist on noise stress. He enjoys his work, including meeting clients and working out the technical problems of reducing noise in factories and workshops, but when he was younger he dreamt of becoming a professional musician, and now he plays the cello regularly in a local amateur orchestra. Bill studied engineering at university. Carol did not go to university but she studied for two years at a teacher training college and taught for four years at a primary school before her eldest child was born.
Bill and Carol met when he was 22 and she was 20. They married two years later and lived first in a rented flat in a London suburb. Carol took it for granted that she would have several children and was delighted when Sarah was born, even though it meant that she had to give up her job. There were no creches in those days, and no part-time work in schools so she did not have much choice.
Two years later Pete was born. A flat with a living room, two bedrooms (one of them tiny) and a small kitchen was too small for a family of four, so they decided to buy a house. In those days housing was much cheaper, but with just one income, it was not easy. Bill's parents lent him some money, and Bill, at that time a junior engineer in a very large firm, looked forward to promotion in the coming 'technological revolution'.
They found a typical semi-detached house, and it was here that Kate was born. Later they moved to a 4-bedroomed house. That is where Bill and Carol still live. There is also a small dining room downstairs, besides the kitchen and living room. The Taylors live in comfort.
The three children attended the local schools, leaving home at about 8:15 in the morning and returning home at about four in the afternoon. At home after school and at weekends they played with friends, joining various groups and clubs, watched television, did not-quite-enough homework, tidied rooms and occasionally helped around the house, ate, read books, mowed the lawn, visited friends they saw every day, listened to music, watched more television and spent a lot of time doing nothing very much.
1. Прочитайте и переведите текст письменно.
2. Задайте к тексту 5 вопросов разных типов.
3. Напишите следующие числительные словами:
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4. Начертите следующую фигуру:
a right-angled triangle with two equal sides of about two centimeters in length.
5. Поставьте подлежащее во множественное число и сделайте все необходимые изменения:
1) This is a star.
2) This is a boy.
3) That is not a sheep.
4) This child is my son.
5) That man is a doctor.
6) The cat has caught a mouse.