Английский язык. Бабушкин А.П - 26 стр.

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3. Read and retell the text. Answer the questions.
What do you and your family think of your neighbours? Are they friendly / un-
friendly, helpful / unhelpful, considerate / inconsiderate?
                                 Love Thy Neighbour
       Twice a week, more than sixteen million Britons watch Neighbours. The
soap opera offers a fantasy of everyday life based on warm relationships and
communication on many levels. However, the real world is quite different.
       A survey has just been published which shows that Britons hate their neigh-
bours. The results are alarming. 80% of the people who took part in the survey feel
that their neighbours are inconsiderate. 25% don’t talk to the people who live next
door and 10% don’t even know their names. In fact, one million householders in Brit-
ain would like to move because of the people that live next door.
       The biggest cause of friction is noise. Many of the complaints about noise
came from people who live in flats and divided houses which have thin walls.
       The other major problems are arguments about car parking spaces, and old peo-
ple complaining about the young. Some of the worst disagreements can last for years.
In one case, people who live in the same house haven’t talked to each other for fif-
teen years. Sometimes the disagreements end in violence. In one of the worst cases, a
man who was a policeman in London shot a neighbour because he kept parking in
"his space".
       When neighbours become friends they often help each other, but the survey
showed that 90% of neighbours never shared a meal, 80% had never had a drink to-
gether and 20% had never even offered each other a cup of tea or coffee.
       One solution to long-running disputes is to get the neighbours into a room with
mediators who talk the problem through, and if necessary, negotiate a formal agree-
ment which they both agree to.
4. Speak on the problem.
What place in your native city /village do you like most? Why?

Test 8

1. Read the texts and do the tests.
                                  Invisible Messages
       It would be difficult to imagine a world without radio. Some of us even carry
small radios in our pockets. Before radio, the best way to send messages a long way
was by wire.
       By 1838, Samuel F. B. Morse had invented a working telegraph. He had also
invented a new alphabet made up of dots and dashes. This alphabet was called Morse
Code.
       The telegraph uses electricity and wire. Messages in Morse Code could go only
where there were telegraph wires.
       Scientists knew that radio waves moved through the air. They believed that ra-
dio messages could be sent without wires. No one knew how to do it.
       The man who found a way to send wireless messages was Guglielmo Marconi
of Italy. His first signals went only a few miles, but he wanted to send messages