READING Task 1. Read the text on the right. Then write true or false. Correct the false sentences.
GAME SHOWS
Game shows are very popular television programmes. One famous British show is "Who wants to be
a Millionaire. On the show, people answer questions. The questions are easy at first, but they become
more dificult. Between 1998 and 2008, fifteen players won the top prize of 1,000,000! People also
played this show in many countries, such as the USA, South Africa and Japan
The first ever TV game show was in 1938. It was a British show called "Spelling Bee". The presenter
was a man called Freddie Grisewood. He had short, dark hair and glasses, Freddie asked people on the
show to spell words. The show wasn't very exciting because the game was really easy!
In many modern game shows, like "The X Factor people try to win prizes and become famous by
singing. The musician Noemi didn't win first prize on the Italian version of the show. But her musie
became very popular! Noemi is slim, with long, brown hair. She first appeared on TV when she was a
baby!
1. More than twenty people won a million pounds in a British game show.
2. Spelling Bee is older than who wants to be a Millionaire
3. Spelling Bee was quite difficult
4. Noemi won "The X Factor in Italy,
5. When Noemi was very young, she was on TV
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Contents
The Reader of Books Mr Wormwood, the Great Car Dealer
The Hat and the Superglue
The Ghost Arithmetic The Platinum-Blond Man Miss Honey
The Trunchbull The Parents Throwing the Hammer
Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake
Lavender The Weekly Test
The First Miracle The Second Miracle Miss Honey’s Cottage
Miss Honey’s Story
The Names The Practice
The Third Miracle A New HomeThe Reader of Books
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Some parents go further. They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius.
Well, there is nothing very wrong with all this. It’s the way of the world. It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring, that we start shouting, "Bring us a basin! We’re going to be sick!"
School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their
own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. "Your son Maximilian", I would write, "is a total wash- out. I hope you have a family business you can push him into when he leaves school because he sure as heck won’t get a job anywhere else." Or if I were feeling lyrical that day, I might write, "It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen. Your daughter Vanessa, judging by what she’s learnt this term, has no hearing-organs at all."
I might even delve deeper into natural history and say, "The periodical cicada spends six years as a grub underground, and no more than six days as a free creature of
sunlight and air. Your son Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school and we are still waiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis." A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying, "Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg, but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface." I
think I might enjoy writing end-of-term reports for the stinkers in my class. But enough of that. We have to get on.
Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones. Mr and Mrs Wormwood were two such parents. They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda, and the parents
looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab. A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away. Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away, preferably into the next county or even further than that.
It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions, but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extraordinary, and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant. Matilda was both of these things, but above all she was brilliant. Her mind was so nimble and she was so quick to learn that her ability should have been obvious even to the most half-witted of
parents. But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter. 

Я называю Россию своей родиной, потому что родился и живу здесь. Я очень люблю свою Родину. Здесь живут мои родственники, друзья и товарищи, которых я тоже люблю. Все жители моей Родины понимают русский язык, поэтому могут общаться без проблем.Россия — самое большое в мире государство. Оно омывается двумя океанами сразу. Я имею в виду Тихий и Северный Ледовитый океаны, а уж морей в России еще больше. На этих морях Россия имеет большой флот, а еще у нее огромные запасы природных богатств. Например, газа, нефти, золота и других. В Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке России сохранились большие лесные территории с дикой природой. Но, несмотря на огромные ресурсы, большая часть населения России живет небогато.Еще моя Родина — республика и федерация. А Москва - столица моей страны, она сама по населению больше, чем некоторые страны Европы.Россия - многонациональная страна, поэтому поделена на федеративные республики, автономные края и округа. В них живут почти две сотни разных народов, больших и малых. Это русские, татары, башкиры, чуваши, азербайджанцы, украинцы, евреи, чукчи и много других. Все они называются россиянами. Все они должны жить дружно, потому что у них одна страна. К сожалению, часто бывает по-другому. Но я надеюсь, что к тому времени, когда я вырасту, ссоры между народами в моей стране прекратятся.