Work - Professions. Additional Homework

1.

Businesses should hire
employees for their entire lives.
За:
Против:
1) Business won’t have to spend a lot of
time to find an employee, after hiring one
1) The employees are aware that their job is
secure and they will not work efficiently
2) Business will go better if all employees
know each other, their skills
2) Employees will be less motivated
towards their job role and this would
definitely affect their performance and
professional growth
Контраргумент:
Контраргумент:
1) You can hire a bad employee and it
may destroy the whole business
2) If there is a rivalry going on between
employees, it can heart business a lot,
and you can not fire the “bad one” in this
situation
1) With right direction, business will benefit
from un-nervous employees, knowing
that they are secure
2) There will no fight for higher position
between employees
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2. Hazlitt’s hotel

Задание 12-18
HAZLITT’S HOTEL
I took a cab to Hazlitt’s Hotel on Frith Street. I like Hazlitt’s because it’s intentionally obscure — it doesn’t have a sign
or a plaque or anything at all to betray its purpose — which puts you in a rare position of strength with your cab driver. Let
me say right now that London cab drivers are without question the finest in the world. They are trustworthy, safe and
honest, generally friendly and always polite. They keep their vehicles spotless inside and out, and they will put themselves
to the most extraordinary inconvenience to drop you at the front entrance of your destination. There are really only a
couple of odd things about them. One is that they cannot drive more than two hundred feet in a straight line. I’ve never
understood this, but no matter where you are or what the driving conditions, every two hundred feet a little bell goes off in
their heads and they abruptly lunge down a side street. And when you get to your hotel or railway station or wherever it is
you are going, they like to drive you all the way around it so that you can see it from all angles before alighting.
The other distinctive thing about them, and the reason I like to go to Hazlitt’s, is that they cannot bear to admit that
they don’t know the location of something they feel they ought to know, like a hotel, which I think is rather sweet. To
become a London cab driver you have to master something titled The Knowledge — in effect, learn every street, hospital,
hotel, police station, cricket ground, cemetery and other notable landmarks in this amazingly vast and confusing city. It
takes years and the cabbies are justifiably proud of their achievement. It would kill them to admit that there could exist in
central London a hotel that they have never heard of. So what the cabbie does is probe. He drives in no particular direction
for a block or two, then glances at you in the mirror and in an overcasual voice says, “Hazlitt’s — that’s the one on Curzon
Street, innit, guv? Opposite the Blue Lion?” But the instant he sees a knowing smile of demurral forming on your lips, he
hastily says, “No, hang on a minute, I’m thinking of the Hazelbury. Yeah, the Hazelbury. You want Hazlitt’s, right?” He’ll
drive on a bit in a fairly random direction. “That’s this side of Shepherd’s Bush, innit?” he’ll suggest speculatively.
When you tell him that it’s on Frith Street, he says. “Yeah, that the one. Course it is. I know it — modern place, lots of
glass”.
“Actually, it’s an eighteenth-century brick building.”
“Course it is. I know it.” And he immediately executes a dramatic U-turn, causing a passing cyclist to steer into a
lamppost (but that’s all right because he has on cycle clips and one of those geeky slip stream helmets that all but invite you
to knock him over). “Yeah, you had me thinking of the Hazelbury” the driver adds, chuckling as if to say it’s a lucky thing
he sorted that one out for you, and then lunges down a little side street off the Strand called Running Sore Lane or
Sphincter Passage, which, like so much else in London, you had never noticed was there before.
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3.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
1.
The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they
1.
2.
3.
4.
know all the hotels and streets in the city.
can be trusted and nice to deal with.
can be trusted and nice to deal with.
make friends easily.
2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according
to the narrator?
1.
2.
3.
4.
They have little bells in their cars.
They let you see your hotel from all angles.
They prefer side streets to main streets.
They prefer driving in a straight line.
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4.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
1.
The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they
They are
1. know all the hotels and streets in the city.
trustworthy,
2. can be trusted and nice to deal with.
safe and honest,
3. can be trusted and nice to deal with.
generally friendly
4. make friends easily.
and always polite.
2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according
to the narrator?
1.
2.
3.
4.
They have little bells in their cars.
They let you see your hotel from all angles.
They prefer side streets to main streets.
They prefer driving in a straight line.
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5.

6.

7.

8.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
3.
A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that
I like Hazlitt’s because
it’s intentionally
1. it was in the center of the city
obscure — it doesn’t
2. cab drivers didn’t know where it was.
have a sign or a plaque
3. cab drivers liked driving there.
or anything at all to
4. cab drivers liked driving there.
betray its purpose —
which
puts
4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, one
has
to you in a
rare position of
strength with your cab
1. know all streets and places in London.
driver.
2. be proud of the city.
3. be knowledgeable
4. be ready to study the city for years.
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9.

10.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
3.
A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that
1.
2.
3.
4.
it was in the center of the city
cab drivers didn’t know where it was.
cab drivers liked driving there.
cab drivers liked driving there.
To become a London cab
driver you have to master
something titled The
4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, Knowledge
one has to— in effect, learn
every street, hospital, hotel,
police station, cricket
1. know all streets and places in London.
ground, cemetery and other
2. be proud of the city.
notable landmarks in this
3. be knowledgeable
amazingly vast and
4. be ready to study the city for years.
confusing city. It takes years
and the cabbies are
justifiably proud of their
achievement.
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11.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
5.
According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London
he would
1.
2.
3.
4.
Panic
ask the passenger.
never admit it.
use a map.
6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he
would
1.
2.
3.
4.
speed up.
turn the car in the opposite direction.
admit he was confused at first.
admit he was confused at first.
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12.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
5.
According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London
he would
It would kill them to admit
1.
2.
3.
4.
Panic
ask the passenger.
never admit it.
use a map.
that there could exist in
central London a hotel that
they have never heard of. So
what the cabbie does is
probe.
6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he
would
1.
2.
3.
4.
speed up.
turn the car in the opposite direction.
admit he was confused at first.
admit he was confused at first.
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13.

14.

15.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
7.
What is the narrator’s general attitude towards London cab drivers?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ironic.
Critical.
Aсcusatory.
Supportive.
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16.

Задание 12-18
Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions
7.
What is the narrator’s general attitude towards London cab drivers?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ironic.
Critical.
Aсcusatory.
Supportive.
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17.

Grammar. All tenses.
Задание 2. Put the verbs into the correct tense-aspect form.
1)I broke my leg in 1991, but I have never broken my arm.
2) He felt extremely ill when he went to hospital, but he has felt much better since he
came out of hospital a month ago.
3)He is having a party on Saturday 4th December in London at 10 pm.
4)Alice doesn’t take the bus to school every day. She usually walks to school.
5) Where are the children? They are watching TV in the room now. Some minutes ago
they played a game.
6)Your Italian is very good. You _______ (study) it long?
7)You ______________(to play) chess tomorrow?
8)I think we________ (travel) to the seaside next summer.
9)Usually my dog ________ (not to eat) fruit.
10)They __________ (finish) the building of a summer house by last year.
11)Mary (to speak) _______to me when her little brother (to throw) ______her bag out
of the window.
12)When I last (to see) ________her she (to hurry) __________along the road to the
station. I (to ask) _________her where she (to go) ___________ and she (to say)
________London, but I don’t think she (to tell) _______ the truth because there (not
to be) __________any train to London at that time.
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