Страница 92 - гдз по английскому языку 6 класс (spotlight) тренировочные упражнения в формате огэ (гиа) Ваулина, Подоляко

1. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words from the box. One word is extra.

American Indians

Indians were the first people to live in what is now the United States.

In 1776, when the United States became a nation there (1)____almost 250 tribes. Different tribes (2)____in different kinds of houses, (3)____different clothes, (4)____different food, (5)____different games, and (6)____different languages.

The Sioux tribe lived on the Great Plains. They (7)____horses to hunt the buffalo.

The Sioux Indians did not (8)____red skin. No Indians did. The colour of their skin went from very light to deep brown. Most Sioux Indians were tall and thin. Boys and girls, men and women (9)____their hair long. To keep their hair neat, women (10)____hairbrushes. They (11)____their hairbrushes from quills of porcupines (иглы дикобраза).

2. Match the names of the famous people with the information given below. One name is extra.

1. Marie Curie

2. William Shakespeare

3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4. Walt Disney

5. John Lennon (The Beatles)

6. Cleopatra

A. This person was born in 1940 in Liverpool, England. He/She was a member of a world famous group and then a solo singer. He/She got married twice and his/her second partner was Japanese. He/She was shot outside his/her home in New York at the age of 40.

B. This person was born in 69 BC in Egypt. He/She was very beautiful and intelligent. He/She loved cats. He/She killed him/ herself in 30 BC byallowing (позволив) a poisonous snake to bite him/her.

C. This person was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He/She was an actor/actress in his/her young years. He/She wrote a lot of plays and was the best English writer in history. He/She died at the age of 52 in 1616.

D. This person was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. He/She discovered radioactivity and radium. He/She married a famous scientist in 1895. He/She won the Nobel Prize twice. But he/ she was poor all his/her life. He/She died in 1934 of leukaemia.

E. This person was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He/She was a composer and musician and started composing when he/she was just five years old. He/She composed over 600 works during his/her short life. He/She died in 1791.