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Tourism in Britain
Every year more than eleven million tourists visit Britain. In fact, tourism is an 1________________ industry, employing thousands of people.
Most 2________________ come in the summer months when they can expect good weather.
Tourists 3________________ spend a few days in London, then go on to other well-known cities.
Perhaps the least visited places in England are old 4________________ towns.
But many people think that nineteenth-century cities show the 5________________ of Britain.
The 6________________ of the past is to be still seen in their old streets.
The cheap, concrete buildings of the 1960s look old and dirty, but for the 7________________ tourists these cities are full of life and colour.
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Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. His interest in science 1________________ when he was only five years old.
His father gave him a magnetic compass. Looking at it, the young Albert wanted to know why the needle 2________________.
In 1902, after graduating from the university, Einstein took a job in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. In 1909, at the age of thirty, Einstein 3________________ his job at the Patent Office and began his lifelong career in the academic world.
His genius was recognized, and in 1921 he 4________________ the Nobel Prize in physics.
In 1933, when Adolf Hitler came into power, Einstein and his 5________________ wife moved to the USA.
He 6________________ a professor at Princeton University where he remained until his death in 1955.
Shortly before his death he wrote and signed the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 7________________ the people of the world about the danger of nuclear catastrophe. Albert Einstein is remembered as the scientist in the world. His theories have changed science forever.
It is generally thought that Albert Einstein is the greatest theoretical physicist who ever 8__________________________.
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The first Europeans to visit what is now called Alaska were Russian sailors led by Captain Bering. The 1 ______ was funded by Russian czar Peter the Great. In 1728 Bering and his crew 2 ______ through the strait that is now named after him, between the easternmost part of Asia and the westernmost part of the Americas. Their journey 3 ______ that Asia was not connected to North America, however, due to the heavy fog, they never actually saw the nearby land of North America. In 1741 Bering headed further south, landing on tiny Kayak Island off the 4 ______ of what is now the southeastern part of the state.
In the 1780s and 1790s Russians began small colonies, first on Kodiak Island and later on the mainland. In 1799 the Russian-American Company was established to 5 ______ Russian interests. For the next 68 years the company provided the only form of government for the European colonists, 6 ______ never numbered more than a few hundred. The Russians ruled the 7 ______ until the late 1860s, when they sold it to the United States for $7.2 million dollars.
The 8 ______ of gold in 1896 in the Yukon Territory started a huge gold rush that brought thousands of settlers.
1. A) travel, Б) trip, В) journey, Г) expedition
2. A) paddled, Б) sailed, В) travelled, Г) rowed
3. A) proved, Б) convinced, В) persuaded, Г) appeared
4. A) bank, Б) beach, В) shore, Г) sea-side
5. A) look after, Б) look at, В) look for, Г) look away
6. A) which, Б) whose, В) what, Г) who
7. A) country, Б) area, В) ground, Г) earth
8. A) discovery, Б) detection, В) exploration, Г) innovation