36. A) Read the text filling in the gaps with the proper words.

JFK – John Fitzgerald Kennedy airport in New York

VP – Vice President

The NY-Lon Life

Ron Kastner is a classic New Yorker: first off the plane, first out of the airport. Carrying a single small bag, he walks straight through ________________ (1 – emigration / immigration) and customs. He doesn’t look like he’s spent six hours in the air (business class will do that to you). He owns a(n) ______________ (2 – apartment / flat) in the East Village in Manhattan, but tonight London is home: a flat in Belgravia, London’s wealthiest __________________ (3 – neighbourhood / suburb). Kastner is a _____________ (4 – citizen / resident) of a place called NY-LON, a(n) ____________ (5 – only / single) city _________________ (6 – inconveniently / uncomfortably) separated by an ocean. He flies ____________ (7 – among / between) the two cities up to five times a month. David Eastman lives there too. A Londoner who is a VP at Agency.com in New York, he travels the JFK-Heathrow __________ (8 – flight / route) so often he’s on a first-name basis with the Virgin Atlantic business class cabin __________ (9 – crew / team).

As different as New York and London are, a _____________ (10 – shrinking / growing) number of people are living, working and playing in the two cities as if they were one. The cities are ____________ (11 – connected / drawn) together by a _____________ (12 – shared / diverse) language and culture, but mostly by money – more of which flows through Wall Street and the City each day than all the rest of the __________ (13 – global / world’s) financial centres combined. The boom in financial services attracted advertising agencies, accounting firms and management consultancies to __________ (14 – both / either) cities. Then came hotel and restaurant businesses, architecture and design, real estate and construction, air travel, tourism and other service industries.

Trevor Beattie, the London-based creative director of an ad agency says ‘New York and London are both so trendy and so modern now _______________ (15 – regardless of / in terms of) fashion, art, photography, music.’ ‘We dream about each other’s cities,’ says a New Zealander who after twenty-five years in London bought a penthouse on New York’s Fifth Avenue. ‘If you’re in New York your dream is London, and if you’re in London your dream is New York.’

b) Answer the teacher’s questions.

37. Translate into English.

Глобальное потепление, вызванное накоплением в атмосфере парниковых газов, проявляется в различных частях земного шара: ураганы, землетрясения, наводнения, засухи, пожары наносят непоправимый ущерб человеку и природе на всех континентах. Таяние снегов на горных вершинах уже привело к нехватке пресной воды в Африке. Подъем уровня моря приведет к затоплению огромной части суши.

Проблема имеет глобальный характер. Во многих странах некомпетентность политиков и ученых привела к тому, что там, где когда-то стояли полные жизни города, сейчас пустыня. Но пустыни не появляются из ниоткуда. Они тоже – результат деятельности человека. Шестьдесят лет назад был популярен лозунг: “Покорим природу!” Человек бросил вызов природе в надежде улучшить мир. Все это время мы были ужасно расточительны, а наша планета стойко сносила все эксперименты. Наконец пришло время подумать о ближайшем будущем.