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1.
TREND /
STYLE /
ATTRACT /
IMPORTANCE /
MATERIALIST /
EXTRAVAGANCE
All my classmates say that I’m
(1)________. I enjoy wearing (2)________ clothes. I like to look smart and
(3)________. We can’t go through life with the same hairstyle or make-up.
It’s very (4)_________ to follow fashion. I hate when people dress alike,
because they buy clothes in “chain” stores. I prefer hand-made or design
clothes. My classmates say that I’m (5)________, but it’s not a sin, is it?
Sometimes I turn up in something really (6)_________. When you are up with
fashion you feel you are individual.
2. RUSSIA / MARSH / MOUNTAIN / SIBERIA
For (1)_________ people, the
‘Far East” is the broad coast along the Pacific Ocean, facing Alaska in the
far north and Japan in the sub-tropical south, and including the large
island of Sakhalin. Inland lie forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and marshes
known as Siberia. Siberia is usually divided into Western and Eastern, the
former is (2)________ and low-lying and rich in oil, the latter is
(3)________and rich in minerals, gold and diamonds.
The twenty million people who
live in this region are mostly Russians and Ukrainians by origin. Besides
there live other people. They all call themselves (4)_______ and speak of
Russia as beginning west of the Urals.
3. ECOLOGY / SALT / DANGER / INDUSTRY
Water pollution is a serious
(1)________ problem today.
“Water, water everywhere, not
any drop to drink,” said the sailor from Coleridge’s poem describing to a
friend how awful it was to be without drinking water on a ship in the middle
of the ocean. It is strange to think that the water around his ship
was probably quite safe to drink. It was (2)________ - but not polluted. The
sea waters today are much more (3)_________ . Many seas are used for dumping
(4)________ and nuclear waste.
4. DIFFER / NORTH / SUN / ROCK / POWER / END / NATURE / BEAUTY / FAME
The United States is a large
country with many (1)__________ natural wonders. It goes from the shores of
the Atlantic Ocean to the islands of Hawaii in the Pacific, and from cold,
snowy (2)__________ Alaska to (3)_________ Florida in the southeast. Also,
it has many kinds of land – (4)________ coasts, dry empty deserts,
(5)__________ rivers, wide plains and grasslands, lakes of all sizes, high
mountains, great forests, sunny beaches and lands of (6)__________
winter. More than 250 million people live in the US. But the country is very
big, so there is still a lot of open space and (7)_______ scenery outside
the cities. Americans have tried to save many of the most (8)__________
wild areas of the United States. There are a lot of parks, forests and
wildlands where you can enjoy the beauty and power of wild America. The
Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, and Yellow-stone are among the most
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