Номер 11, страница 109 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс (spotlight) тренировочные упражнения в формате огэ (гиа) Ваулина, Подоляко

11. Read the text and fill in the gaps transforming the capitalized words.

Self-confidence

What do you need to achieve everything you want? The point is that everything would be (1) ______ if WORTH we had no self-confidence. In a book (2) ______ 101 CALL Ways to Get Self-confidence there is a story which could teach us all an (3) ______ lesson. It is about a IMPRESS businessman who started out with a (4) ______ SUCCESS company, but (5) ______ he went bankrupt soon. He FORTUNE said to himself, “I don’t feel like I (6) ______ failed. I REAL will manage to borrow some money to start a new business.” But (7) ______ were closing in on him. CREDIT So, one day he was sitting on the park bench, (8) ______, head in hands, wondering what to do. DEPRESS (9) ______ an old man appeared before him. After SUDDEN listening to the businessman’s (10) ______, the old COMPLAIN man said, “I believe I can help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here (11) ______ one year from today, and you can EXACT pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and (12) ______ as quickly as he had come. The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, (13) ______ by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the SIGN richest men in the world! He decided to put the uncashed check in his safe.

Just knowing it was there gave him the (14) ______ STRONG to work out a way to save his business. With renewed (15) ______, he won many projects. Within a OPTIMIST few months, he was out of debt and making money once again. A year later, he (16) ______ to TURN the park with the uncashed check. At the (17) ______ time, the old man appeared. But just as FIX the businessman was going to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you,” she said. “He’s always escaping from the old people’s house and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller. Sorry, he has Alzheimer’s disease.” The businessman just stood there, (18) ______ and (19) ______. All year ASTONISH/STRIKE long he had been buying and selling, (20) ______ he CONVINCE had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money that had turned his life around. It was his new-found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve success.

11. Read the text and choose the right options.

Neil Ansell: My life as a Hermit

(Continued)

Two years later, after five years at the cottage, I (1)______ the deep country and (2)______ a family. I quickly found myself working with homeless people. There were disputes to resolve, fights to break up, medical emergencies, one crisis after (3)______. And always there were people that needed (4)______ to. My lifestyle is very (5)______ now. I live in a flat in town, a (6)______ walk (7)______ the sea, with my two daughters. My children look forward (8)______ our occasional visits to Wales. But I always try to arrange my life so that (9)______ I still get the opportunity to visit the cottage for a little alone time. When I get there, I (10)______ the business of town with me, and I rush around looking for storm damage and checking my wood and water supply. But when (11)______ falls and I light (12)______ candles for the evening and put my feet up by the fireside, time slips away. It's good to be back.

8. a) in b) with c) for d) to

9. a) not long ago

b) more or less

c) from time to time

d) never

Прочитайте текст и выберите правильные варианты.

Ответ:

1. The correct option is d) left.
(Правильный вариант — d) покинул.)

2. The correct option is b) started.
(Правильный вариант — b) начал.)

3. The correct option is c) another.
(Правильный вариант — c) еще один.)

4. The correct option is b) talking.
(Правильный вариант — b) чтобы с ними поговорили.)

5. The correct option is b) different.
(Правильный вариант — b) другой.)

6. The correct option is a) five-minute.
(Правильный вариант — a) пятиминутная.)

7. The correct option is b) from.
(Правильный вариант — b) от.)

8. The correct option is d) to.
(Правильный вариант — d) к.)

9. The correct option is c) from time to time.
(Правильный вариант — c) время от времени.)

10. The correct option is d) bring.
(Правильный вариант — d) приношу.)

11. The correct option is b) darkness.
(Правильный вариант — b) темнота.)

12. The correct option is c) a few.
(Правильный вариант — c) несколько.)