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Тамхи шинэ үеийн сонголт биш
Өдөр бүр өөртөө хор худалдан авч, хорвоод амьдрах насаа хором хоромоор хороосоор яваа та тийм баян хүн гэж үү? Тэр хорны тухай ярьж эхэлэхээс өмнө дээрхи асуултанд хариулхыг хичээе. Хорвоо дээрхи хамгийн үнэтэй зүйлсээ жагсааж бич гэж хэн нэгнээс хүсвэл магадгүй хүн бүхэн:
1. Цаг хугацаа
2. Амь нас
3. Хайртай хэн нэгэн хүн
4. Эд хөрөнгө гэж хариулах байх.
Гэтэл эдгээр хамгийн үнэтэй, хайртай бүхнийг нь ой гутам ихүүн үнэрт саарал утаатайгаа хамт авч одож буй тэр хорыг амьдрах насаа...
A. Reading
Jack is a bachelor. He works in downtown Chicago as a shoe salesman. Every morning on his way to work, Jack stops at a donut shop and buys a chocolate
donut and a cup of coffee. Jack likes this morning routine because it is quick and easy. He doesn’t have to cook breakfast or wash the dishes.
Last time Jack went to the doctor for a check-up his doctor told him that he had high cholesterol. The doctor told Jack to stop eating foods that are high in fat.
Donuts are fried in a lot of fat.
B. True or False
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________ Jack is a shoe salesman in Seattle, Washington.________ Jack is marr...A. Reading
Tanya is 15 years old, and she lives with her mother and her younger sister. Her mother has two part-time jobs, so Tanya has to do most of the housework. Tanya doesn.t think this is fair. She thinks her sister should have to help with the housework. Her sister is only ten years old, and she likes to play with her friends after school. Tanya remembers that she had to do housework when she was ten, so she doesn.t understand why her mother doesn.t make her sister help with the household chores. Tanya is tired of doing all the housework. She wants to hang out with her friends after schoo...
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were four young men from Liverpool. They shared a love of America's new music: rock and roll.
The group started as John Lennon's school band The Quarrymen. John met Paul McCartney when The Quarrymen played a church fete in the summer of 1957. A few months later McCartney met the younger George Harrison on a bus.
The first recording made by The Beatles. John is singing Buddy Holly's 'That'll be the Day'.
John then asked his best friend from art school, Stuart Sutcliffe, to play bass. Drummer Pete Best completed the grou...
Figures published by the Department of Health reveal a huge range of unusual accidents, which put people in hospital in England in 2004. Here is just a small sample. Odd accidents affect one million people.
Fact is always stranger than fiction. Here is are ten freak accidents.
1) Two people were admitted after being in contact with venomous spiders. Both stayed in hospital for five days. Coincidence or the nature of spider venom?
2) Twenty two people suffered from exposure to ignition or melting of nightwear, most of them men. Does this mean that contrary to the male p...
Hatsue and Yoshiko were the daughters of a very wealthy man. One day they would inherit his fortune. They would pay a very large tax bill.
‘It’s not fair,’ their father told them. ‘It’s your money.’
‘But what can we do?’
‘Take the money out now,’ he told them. ‘Then it won’t be there when I die.’
The sisters began taking money out of their father’s bank accounts.
‘We’ll hide it at home,’ the father told his daughters. ‘That way the tax authorities won’t know about it.’
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London, is the largest city in Europe. It has held this title for over four hundred years. Over seven million people call London, the capital of the United Kingdom, home. One in ten people, who live in the United Kingdom, live in London. Three hundred fifty thousand people travel each day into London to work. Due to London's location, it is a very dry all year. Although it is dry, London is often very cloudy. On average it rains mildly just about every other day. More than a hundred of the world's major companie... |
Round 1 – UK
1
In which UK country will
I find Loch Ness?
Answer
Scotland
2
England - What day is St
George’s day?
Answer
April 23rd
3
What is the capital of
Wales?
Answer
Cardiff
4
In which UK country is
Dartmoor?
Answer
England
5
What are the White Cliffs
of Dover made of?
Answer
Chalk
6
In which UK country will
you find Snowdonia
National Park?
Answer
Wales
Round 2 – Geography Europe
1
What is the capital of
Germany?
Answer
Berlin
2
What river runs through
Paris?
Answer
Seine
3
What mountain range
runs through Slovakia?
Answer
Carpathian Mountains
4
What is the capital of
Portugal?
Answer
Lisbon
5
What is the name of the
mountain range in
Switze...
Many people hoard old, used or useless possessions. Some of these people collect anthologies; compile lists; stockpile belongings; or just simply collect articles. We all know philatelists [stamp collectors] or friends who collect such items as bottle caps [tops]. I have set out to find out some of the stranger, perhaps trivial and often amusing items that are collected throughout the world.
Will's shoe collection, for example, consists of one pair black, one pair brown and one pair sandals. However, my wife, Steve, and indeed my daughter, Hannah, have loads of pa...
CEF English language level: B2/A1
Talking birds can be dangerously annoying
A repairman once went to house to repair a dishwasher. The owner was out at work but she left instructions about her pets: a bull dog called Spike and a parrot.
‘Don’t worry about Spike,’ she wrote in a note she left with the house key. ‘He won’t bother you. But it’s extremely important that you don’t talk to my parrot. Don’t say a word to him.’
The repairman went into the house. In the kitchen was an enormous, scary looking bulldog. But, as the owner had promised, Spike lay quietly on the carpet.
You're Stup...
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