Раздел Б. Жизнь в городе и сельской местности. Проблемы города и села.
Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
Task 1. Village life
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In 1997, tired of the noise and (1) __________ of the city, best-selling author Will Smith and his family moved out to Chersey, a (2) __________ village in the Suffolk countryside, with 53 (3) ___________ and one shop.
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POLLUTE
PICTURE
INHABIT
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| Three years later they sold their (4) __________ 16th century cottage and moved back to London, where they now live in a small new (5) ___________ on the outskirts of the city. |
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BEAUTY
NEIGHBOUR
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| So what happened? "Chersy seemed an idyllic place to live," explains Will, "a quiet, (6) __________ old village in extremely (7) ___________ surroundings. |
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PEACE
PLEASE
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However, we soon became aware of the (8) __________ of village life. With so little to do in Chersy, and because the busses were so (9) __________ our teenage children became (10) ___________ on us to take them everywhere in the car.
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ADVANTAGE
FREQUENT
DEPEND
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| As for our own socal life, the neighbours were rather cold and (11) __________ , so we felt very isolated and lonely. It was not the rural idyll we had expected." |
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FRIEND
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Task 2. Far from the madding crowd?
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We live in a new residential area on the outskirts of London. It is a quiet (1) __________ , which makes a nice change after living in one of the noisiest (2) __________ of London for many years.
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NEIGHBOUR
SUBURBAN
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| The house is set in beautiful (3) __________ , though there is one fairly major (4) ___________ problem: a chemical factory about five miles away in the (5) __________ zone. |
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SURROUND
ENVIRONMENT
INDUSTRY
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| Unfortunately, the waste from the factory has caused serious (6) __________ of the atmosphere and the river. Another (7) ___________ is the night life - there isn't any. |
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POLLUTE
ADVANTAGE
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If you want (8) __________ , you have to envent it yourself or drive into (9) __________ London, with all the hassle of finding a (10) ___________ parking space.
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ENTERTAIN
CENTRE
SUIT
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| Luckily, it is only five minutes walk from our house to the nearest (11) __________ station. |
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