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1. The speaker says that

2. What does the speaker say about fishing?

3. We learn from the speaker that Mont Blanc is the

4. How many legends connected to the Caucasus Mountains are mentioned in the text?

5. Harbin Festival in China is the

6. Where can the visitors see the ice sculptures?

7. How did Julius Caesar spend most of his time with the pirates?

8. What do we learn about Julius Caesar from the text?

9. When is Didgoroba celebrated?

10. What is the text mostly about?

1. The speaker visits the place of his birth

2. Which of the following did the speaker’s family own?

3. During their childhood years the speaker and his sister

4. Why did the speaker go to Paris?

5. The speaker feels thankful to the editor of the magazine Vogue because she

6. How did the speaker study shoemaking?

7. Where did the speaker have the first exhibition of his works?

8. What does the speaker say about critical comments?

Task 3: Read the questions (1-8) and find the answers to them in the paragraphs (A-F) of the text. Some paragraphs correspond to more than one question.

(8 points)

Which paragraph

1. describes how Butch O’Hare fought against the Japanese planes alone?
2. mentions the airport which was given Butch O’Hare’s name?
3. mentions Easy Eddie’s profession?
4. mentions why the planes had cameras on board?
5. states how grateful Al Capone was to his lawyer?
6. explains why Butch O’Hare was not able to finish his flight?
7. could have the title: ‘The decision leading to death’?
8. could have the title: ‘Award for bravery’?

A.During the World War II, many people became famous in one way or another. One of them was Butch O’Hare, an American aviator. He was a fighter pilot on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. An aircraft carrier is a big military ship which carries planes of different size. One day the pilots of the fighter planes received an order to go on a particular mission. After Butch was in the air, he looked at his fuel measuring apparatus and saw that the fuel tank was almost empty. Because of this, he wouldn’t be able to complete his mission. So, following his flight leader’s order he immediately flew back to his ship.

B. As Butch O’Hare was returning to his ship he noticed a group of Japanese pilots heading toward the military ship to attack it. Butch O'Hare made a quick decision to attack Japanese planes all alone because there were no fighter planes left to defend the military ship. Butch O’Hare’s plane, like any other American fighter plane then, was equipped with cameras, so that as they flew and fought, pictures were taken and pilots could learn more about the enemy locations. Butch O’Hare did everything he could to keep the Japanese planes from reaching the military ship. Finally, the Japanese planes turned to another direction, and Butch O’Hare and his fighter, both badly damaged, went back to the big military ship.

C. Back on the ship, Butch O’Hare told others what had happened to him. But it was only after he showed them the photos taken by his camera during the fight, that his friends realised what a big risk he had taken. He was recognised as a hero and was given one of the nation’s highest military awards - the Medal of Honour. At White House ceremony, Butch O’Hare was personally congratulated by President Roosevelt for his courage. And, as you know, O’Hare Airport in Chicago is also named after him. And in addition, there is a restored airplane on display in Chicago airport similar to the one that O’Hare flew.

D.Prior to this time in Chicago there was a man named Easy Eddie. He was working for a well-known man, Al Capone. Al Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic, but he was notorious for the murders he had committed and the illegal things he had done. Al Capone’s sevenyear reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33, which happened not without Easy Eddie’s involvement. Easy Eddie was Al Capone’s lawyer, and a very clever one. In fact, because of his skill, Easy Eddie was able to keep Al Capone out of jail more than once.

E. To show how thankful he was, Al Capone paid his lawyer very well. Eddie not only earned a lot of money, but he also got extra things, like a house that was enormous and occupied the whole block of the district. The house was surrounded by a fence, and he had servants and maids and all of the conveniences of what they needed. Easy Eddie had a son. He loved his son and gave him all the best things while he was growing up: clothes, cars and a good education. And because Eddie loved his son he tried to teach him to do right things. But one thing Easy Eddie couldn’t give his son was a good personal example.

F. Easy Eddie decided that a good reputation was much more important for his son than all the riches he could leave him. So, he went to the authorities to admit the wrong things he had done. In order to tell the truth, Eddie had to speak against Al Capone. He knew that Al Capone would have him killed. But Eddie wanted most of all to try to be a good example to his son to do the best he could to give his son a good name. So, in the court Eddie spoke openly against Al Capone. Within the year, Easy Eddie was shot and killed on a lonely street in Chicago. It seems as if these are two unrelated stories. But Butch O’Hare was Easy Eddie’s son.

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Task 4: Read the text and the questions which follow. For each question mark the correct answer (A, B, C or D) (8 points)

This is part of the speech made to Stanford University graduates in 2005 by Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer Company and Pixar Animation Studios
‘My biological mother was a young unmarried college graduate student and she decided to have me adopted by someone. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates - someone with university diploma. My biological mother later found out that my parents, those who adopted me, had never graduated from college and she refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only agreed a few months later when my parents, those who adopted me, promised that I would someday go to college. Seventeen years later I did go to college. But I naively chose Reed college that was almost as expensive as Stanford. All of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I had no idea how the college was going to help me in life, so I decided to drop out. It wasn’t at all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room and I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms; I returned Coke bottles for five cents to buy food with, and I would walk seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one free meal at the Hare Krishna temple. Still, I think that it was one of the best decisions I’d ever made. I stopped taking the required classes and began attending the ones that looked interesting. I took a calligraphy class and learned the art of producing beautiful writing. I found it fascinating! I didn’t think then that this would ever have a practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, this experience turned out to be very useful. Mac was the first computer with beautiful design, fonts and forms. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz* and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years Apple had grown into a two billion USD company with over four thousand employees. And then I got fired*! How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was
very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year things went well. But then our visions of the future went to different directions. Our Board of Directors took his side. So, at thirty I was out! I was very upset. I even thought about running away from the Silicon Valley. But I still loved what I did and I decided to start over! It turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. I entered one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next years, between 1986-1988, I started the companies NeXT and Pixar. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. Apple bought NeXT. I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. I strongly believe that the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking! Don’t settle. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’
*Woz: სტივ ვოზნიაკი, Apple-ის თანადამფუძნებელი *to fire: სამსახურიდან გათავისუფლება, მოხსნა

1. Steve Jobs’ biological mother was the person who

2. Why did Steve Jobs decide to leave the college?

3. Steve Jobs mentions that after dropping out of college, he

4. How did the knowledge of calligraphy help Steve Jobs later?

5. How did Steve Jobs initially feel after being fired from Apple?

6. What do we learn about the company Pixar from the text?

7. What advice did Steve Jobs give in the end of his speech?

8. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

Task 5: Read the text and fill the gaps with the words given. Use each word only once. Two words are extra. (12 points)

Laila Ali is the daughter of a boxing legend Muhammad Ali. But if you had asked him if he wanted the youngest of his nine kids to become a boxer, he would have said ‘absolutely not’, because Laila was a woman! When people asked Muhammad Ali about …… (1) in boxing, he said he was against it. Because her dad was so famous, Laila Ali’s first fight was …… (2). Laila Ali first appeared on the ring in 1999. Normally the first fight in boxing is so unimportant that nobody …… (3) whether the person wins or loses. But it was different in Laila’s case. Laila Ali’s first fight had TV crews from around the world and the best boxing …… (4) were there. Nobody would have been there if her dad hadn’t been one of the greatest boxers in history. Everyone wanted to know the …… (5) thing – was she any good? Would her father come to the fight? Didn’t she know the …… (6) of fighting as her father suffered from a serious disease that was the result of his boxing career? The world’s media watched how Laila Ali …… (7) into the ring with her opponent April Fowler. The fight …… (8) 31 seconds. Poor April Fowler had even less …… (9) than her opponent. People joked that April Fowler was so elegant and thin that she would have looked better on a tennis court than on a boxing ring. Everyone agreed that Laila should have had a stronger competitor on her first …… (10) but there was something else obvious too – she had talent and even moved while boxing in a …… (11) way as her father. Muhammad Ali didn’t attend the fight but he was at the party afterwards and said he was …… (12) of his daughter.

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