Task 1 Fill in: diversity, stand for, disturb, promoted, heritage, standard, refugees.
1 The beautiful forests of this country are part of our national ……… and must be protected.
2 Many ……….. have come to England to escape the war in Bosnia.
3 A poor person who does not have enough food or water has a low ………. of living.
4 Before being ……….., she worked as a senior manager for 15 years.
5 Pardon my ignorance, but what does OPEC ……….?
6 Globalization destroys the ……….. of languages.
7 Tom didn't want to ……….. Mary so late at night, but it was an emergency.

Grammar
Task 2 Complete the conditional sentences (1, 2, 3, I wish …).
8 If she had prepared for the exam, she ……….. (pass) it.
9 If you ……… (find) a purse full of money in the street, what would you do?
10 The children …….. (go) to the beach if the sun shines.
11 If Terry didn’t watch so much TV, he ……… (read) books.
12 If Bill ………. (see) the house, he wouldn’t have bought it.
13 What will you do if she ……….. (refuse) to go out with you?
14 I can’t drive. I wish …………………..
15 Mona didn’t go to the university. Mona wishes ………………..

Reading
Task 3 Read the text and mark the statements T (true), F (false) or DS (doesn’t say).
GIRL’S ILLITERACY
Educating girls offers many benefits to current and future generations. Yet, in many developing countries, girl’s illiteracy still remains a serious problem because it is often considered an obstacle to social and economic development. Over 120 million children of primary school age are not at school. The majority is girls, and Nora is one of them.
Nora can hardly read and write. The eleven-year-old girl is the youngest child in a poor family living in rural India. She left school two years ago. Her father thought it would be better for her to spend time looking after the family’s sheep and doing the housework.
Nora’s previous teacher tried to convince (убедить) her father to send her back to school, but the later refused. “This is the way it has always been, and it will not change”, her father said. “I didn’t study myself. We are poor people.” Government encouragements in the form of books, scholarships, uniforms and even meals had made no difference. A lifelong (пожизненная) fight to survive marked by poverty and ignorance (невежество) has solidified (укрепила) their views (взгляды).
The boys in the village attend school every day. They pass by Nora who walks the small road alongside her sheep. “The boys mock (дразнят) me”, she says, her big eyes full of sadness. She wished she could go with them. “When I was younger, I thought I’d study well and get a job. I really wanted to be a teacher. Now I just follow the sheep.”
Nora has little hope for her own future. Like her mother and her grandmother, she will spend her life working in the fields and around the house. She has seen the value of education, and has a different dream for her own children. “I will let my children study,” she promised. Perhaps it is not too late even for her. Many girls in India start school at a later age. With support from programs organized by the Indian government and international institutions, she may yet, one day, join the boys on the daily walk to school.

16 Nora has never attended school.
17 Nora’s father refused to send her to school.
18 Nora’s father was illiterate.
19 The boys looked sympathetically at Nora's sad eyes.
20 India ranks 123d place in female literacy rates among 135 countries.