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B. Complete the following words and word combinations.
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You could feel the t_________ in the room as we waited for our exams results.
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The new economic freedom has s_________ hundreds of new small business.
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Germany’s Green party was said to be the f_________ of environmental parties throughout Europe.
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The rail passenger w_________ revealed that complaints increased last year by 54%.
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Passengers are s_______ by bus from the bus stop to the airport.
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The 1980s saw the decline of the trade union m________ in Britain.
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He was i_________ on drug charges.
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Certain ministers are pressing for new rules on broadcasting i___________.
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A s_________ parcel was found at the station.
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They are such a c__________ family – they must have been horrified when their son died his hair pink.
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The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the m_________ of American life.
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The publishers own the c_________for the play.
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He was so furious about the accusations in the letter that he threatened to s________.
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The c__________ on the Olympic Games was much better on the other channel.
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The chief’s son would inherit all his d__________.
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Their marriage will never work – their b__________ are so different.
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In their official p_________ into malpractice, federal officials have found evidence of corruption within the company.
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The president is not expected to c_________ these reforms.
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There is nothing you can say that will d_________ her resolve.
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Monday’s d________ were full of the story.
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Emergency aid was s_______ o_____ by foreign ministry officials for their own use.
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A fall in the value of r_____ e_______drastically affected the market.
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British newspapers are highly p_______.
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We have to t_____ s______ against racism.
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The study e________ the social, political, and economic aspects of the situation.
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VI. Translation
A. Translate the following words and word-combinations from Russian into English using active vocabulary.
Предвестник; обеспечивать авторское право; история вопроса, опыт; ежедневная газета; порождать; группа лиц (комитет), следящих за тем, чтобы не было различных отрицательных явлений,; ездить туда и обратно; движение, общественная деятельность; обвинять; беспристрастность; подозрительный; обычный; представляющий большинство; предъявлять иск; комментарий; власть; расследование; допускать; уменьшать; напряженность; пристрастный, предвзятый; недвижимость; занимать позицию; перекачивать (денежные средства); охватывать.
B. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using active vocabulary.
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История появилась во всех ежедневных газетах страны.
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Падение котировок на бирже в мае было предвестником разразившегося финансового кризиса.
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На них подали в суд за нарушение закона об авторском праве.
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Есть ли у вас опыт в издательcком деле?
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Правительство основало комитет по вопросам охраны окружающей среды.
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Новый экономический климат в стране породил огромное количество банкротств.
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Много лет ему приходилось ездить в свой родной город и обратно.
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Движение, направленное на запрет курения в общественных метах, набирало силу.
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Чиновник был обвинен в растрате государственных средств.
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Беспристрастность судьи вызывала вопросы.
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Исследование было проведено с использованием столь небольшой выборки, что его результаты весьма подозрительны.
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Я нахожу его книги обычными и скучными.
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Долгие годы он пытался выбиться в число музыкантов, представляющих большинство, но ему так и не удалось этого добиться.
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Вы слышали, что он предъявил иск своему дантисту?
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В газете хорошо освещаются вопросы культуры, но, на мой взгляд, недостаточно политических комментариев.
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Целью диктатора было получить власть над новыми территориями.
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Правительство пообещало провести официальное расследование аварии.
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Я допускаю, что он умен, но на твоем месте я бы ему не доверял.
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Стоимость дома немного уменьшилась в течение последних шести месяцев.
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Все присутствовавшие почувствовали, как возрастает напряженность.
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По его совам, жюри было предвзятым и он не победил в конкурсе.
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Самым лучшим объектом для инвестиций в настоящее время является недвижимость.
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Огромная сумма денег была перекачана через оффшорные компании.
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Умение занимать позицию по животрепещущим вопросам является важным качеством успешного администратора.
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Исследование охватывает обширный период британской истории.
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C. Translate the following text from English into Russian.
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A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format); or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensational crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuendos about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and other so-called "junk food news" (often in a smaller, tabloid-sized newspaper format). As the term "tabloid" has become synonymous with down-market newspapers in some areas, some small-format papers which claim a higher standard of journalism refer to themselves as "compact" newspapers instead.
The tabloid newspaper format is particularly popular in the United Kingdom where its page dimensions are roughly 17 by 11 inches (430 mm × 280 mm). Larger newspapers, traditionally associated with 'higher-quality' journalism, are called broadsheets though several British 'quality' papers have recently adopted the tabloid format. Another UK newspaper format is the Berliner, which is sized between the tabloid and the broadsheet and has been adopted by The Guardian and its sister paper The Observer.
The word "Tabloid" comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s . Prior to compressed tablets, medicine was usually taken in bulkier powder form. While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term 'tabloid' in popular culture. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small items and to the "compressed" journalism that condensed stories into a simplified, easily-absorbed format. The label of "tabloid journalism" (1901) preceded the smaller sheet newspapers that contained it (1918).
An early pioneer of tabloid journalism was Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922), who amassed a large publishing empire of halfpenny papers by rescuing failing stolid papers and transforming them to reflect the popular taste, which yielded him enormous profits. Harmsworth used his tabloids to influence public opinion, for example, by bringing down the wartime government of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in the Shell Crisis of 1915.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_newspapers)
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