Практический курс английского языка. Семушина Е.Ю. - 8 стр.

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                                  REVISION 1-2
      1. Choose the most suitable heading A-G for each article 1-6. Make one
special question to each article:
      A. Certain expectations of blacks.
      B. The most famous games.
      C. A modest football star.
      D. Constant trainings.
      E. I like to help animals.
      F. How should the vet look like?
      G. A foreign hairdresser.
      1. When I started running seven years ago, I could manage only about a
quarter of mile before I had to stop. Breathless and aching, I walked the next
quarter of mile then I jogged the next quarter of mile, alternating these two activi-
ties for a couple of miles. Within a few weeks I could jog half way round Hamp-
stead health without stopping. Soon I started to run up the quarter-mile slope to
the top of Parliament Hill.
      2. When we consider the size and the spectacle of the modern Olympic
games, it is difficult to remember that they started in Olympia in Greece in 777
BC with only one race, a sprint, for which the prize for the winner was an olive
wreath. Nowadays, major cities complete to host the Olympic Games.
      3. I would like to name Gary Lineker as Sports Personality of the Year. I
think he is not only a footballer, he is also a very nice person and very different
from other football stars. First of all, in spite of being talented and good-looking,
he is actually modest. Even though he obviously earns a lot of money, he doesn’t
throw his money around like others do.
      4. At first people don't believe me when I say that I'm a secretary because
secretaries just don't look like me. You know - young black men. They have cer-
tain expectations of black people and they expect me to have lot's of kids play in
a reggae band and live in a high-rise flat in the east end of London. In fact my
boss is a woman - that's something else some of my friends find hard to under-
stand.
      5. People are often surprised to hear that I'm a hairdresser. I suppose it's
partly because there are hardly any Taiwanese woman hairdressers in London.
In fact, I've been a hairdresser for often fifteen years, now I work three days a
week. It would be difficult to go back to Taiwan because we've been living in Brit-
ain too ling and have friends here.
      6. People often raise their eyebrows when I say I'm a vet and at first they
wonder if I'm capable of doing the job properly. Most people's idea of a stereo-
typical vet is a clean-cut young man in white coat. I've had my nose pierced in
the past, and I used to colour my hair.
     2. Complete the sentences with these words: fond of, pick up, take af-
ter, look forward, run out of, accent, mother tongue, look after, take to,
slang:
     1. She never studied French but she managed to … it … by living in
France.
     2. I can't … my mother-in-law, I think she also hates me.