Номер 7, страница 40 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс (spotlight) тренировочные упражнения в формате огэ (гиа) Ваулина, Подоляко

7. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words derived from the capitalized words.

Benjamin Franklin

While best-known as the (1)____ father of the FOUND Untied States of America, Benjamin Franklin was also a (2)______, an (3)______ and a (4)______ who WRITE/INVENT/SCIENCE was responsible for the (5)______ of many essen- ESTABLISH tial (6)______ that we take for granted today. In SERVE 1726 he founded the Pennsylvania Gazette, which soon became a (7)______ newspaper. It was his LEAD (8)______ of a series of Almanacs under the name CREATE Poor Richard that made him (9)______ and FAME (10)______ enough to leave the business at the WEALTH age of 42 and pursue his other interests! Always fascinated with electricity, Franklin invented the lightning rod (громоотвод). His passion for music led him to the (11)____ of an instrument called INVENT the glass harmonica. Franklin is also responsible for the (12)____ of the first fire brigade and es- ORGANISE tablishing the (13)____ public library and general NATION hospital.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

7. Read the text and choose the right options.

Though today we are (1) ______ to having a personal computer, such was not the (2) ______ in the early 1970s when Bill Gates and Paul Allen (3) ______ Microsoft. By the time Bill Gates was 13 he (4) ______ his first programme. However, access to the Teletype machine that resembled a giant typewriter was not (5) ______ and when his parents decided that Bill should pay for it himself, the eighth grader went and found himself a (6) ______, at a new company called Computer Center Corporation. Here, (7) ______ return for finding bugs or mistakes in their programmes, Bill was given free computer time. Not surprisingly, the young boy spent (8) ______ weekends (9) ______ 'work'. While the company went out of business within a year, Bill was just getting started. He and (10) ______ young programmer by the name of Paul Allen earned $200,000 with the first programme they wrote — one that measured Seattle's traffic flow.

7. Прочитайте текст и выберите правильные варианты.

Ответ:

1. b) used (привыкли)

2. c) case (случай)

3. c) founded (основали)

4. a) wrote (написал)

5. a) free (бесплатным)

6. d) job (работу)

7. b) in (в)

8. d) many (много)

9. c) at (на)

10. c) another (еще одним)