<span>One day I was returning home with friends after a day of birth. It was about 11 pm, it was dark already. We had to go through the forest. The further we went off the road, it became thicker and darker. Although we went there every day and knew that all in this forest was very good, but at night we still felt fear. And when we passed through a small glade, we heard a loud rustling in the bushes. Everything was being quite for a few seconds. But then we noticed that between the trees not far from us, was a man. When he went towards us we were not saying a word, had to scatter. </span><span>I returned to home an hour later and immediately went to bed. The next day I learned that two of my friends were wandering in the forest until the morning, and again saw the man. On the evening news leading said that in the forest found the corpse of a man.</span>
Ответ:
1.He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College
2. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.
3.After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including.
4.These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world.
5.While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien
6.the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre
7.Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature
8.In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the fifth top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.
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The question of learning foreign, languages is very important today.
Foreign languages are requered especially at the present time when
progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge
and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge
of mankind is known to double every seven years. Foreign languages are
needed as the main and the most efficient means of information exchange
between the people of our planet.
Today English is the language of
the world. It is the language of progressive science and technology,
trade and cultural relations, commerce and business. It is the universal
language of international aviation, shipping and sports. It is also the
major language of diplomacy.
Hundreds and undreds of books,
magazines and newspapers are printed in English and read all over the
world. 75% of the world's mail and 60% of the world telephone calls are
in English. Half of the world's scientific literature is written in
English. English is spoken by more than 350 million people.
Geographically, it is the most widespread language on earth, second only
to Chinese in the number of people who speak it.
It is the official
language of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of
the United States of America, of Australia and New Zealand. English is
used as one of the official languages in Canada, the Republic of South
Africa and the Irish Republic. It is also spoken as a second language in
many parts of India and Africa. The number of second-language speakers
may soon exceed the number of native speakers. Besides, millions of
people study English as a foreign language. In our country English is
very popular. It is studied at schools (sometimes even at nursery
schools), colleges and universities.
What does it mean to know a
foreign language? It is not easy to answer this question. Americans
think that you know a foreign language if native speakers understand
you. And nobody cares about your mistakes. But of course nobody can call
it "good English" and you can use it only if your contacts with native
speakers are rare and not very important. If you are connected with
foreign countries very closely, especially through your work, you should
have a good command of the language. It means that your pronunciation
should be standard, you should speak fluently and without mistakes. And
of course you should understand your partner correctly. The latter
sometimes is the most difficult part of all. As to spelling, it depends
whether you have to write or not. If you do then you should do it
correctly too.
So far, there is no universal or ideal method of
learning languages. Everybody has his own way. Sometimes it is boring to
study grammar or to learn new words. But it is well known that reading
books in the original, listening to the BBC news, communicating with
English-speaking people will help a lot. When learning a foreign
language you learn the culture and history of the native speakers. One
must work hard to learn any foreign language.
Russia is being
integrated into the world community and the problem of learning English
for the purpose of communication is especially urgent today. </span></span></span></span></span></span>
Вот то, что нужно ставить в пропуски:
2 the more...the better
3 the more...the smaller
4 the more...the more
5 the harder..the better
6 the closer...the more terrified
