Look through the text and say what universities the girls sent their letters to. (выписать названия университетов 1. on the bed between the two girls were some letters, which were laid face-down so that they couldn’t see return addresses. blair got seven letters and five letters were serena’s. “okay. ready? ” serena asked. blair closed her eyes and took the first letter. “okay. let’s do it.” 2. blair looked at serena. “how’d you do? ” she asked. serena could tell from the scary look on blair’s face that the news was not good. she didn’t know what to say. “urn, i got a place … um … everywhere? ” blair stared at the acceptance letters in serena’s hands. on top was a cream-coloured letter with the blue yale university letterhead. “wait, you applied to yale? ” asked blair. “yes, ” serena nodded. (to nod – кивнуть головой). “at the last minute i just decided, why not, you know? ” “and you got a place? ” serena nodded again. “sorry.” 3. the way blair was looking at her was making serena nervous. what did serena have that she didn’t? she was in the top of her class at school and look every ap (the advance placement program – программа продвинутого обучения по программе высшего учебного заведения) course they offered. she was the best at the sat. she did charity work. she was the leader of the french club. she was an excellent tennis player. her entire high-school career – practically her whole life – she’d been working toward entering yale. her father had gone there. his father had gone there. her great-uncle had donated two buildings and a playing field. serena took no aps at all, and did only a few extracurricular activities. serena’s dad had gone to princeton and brown, two of yale’s biggest competitors. (a competitor – противник, конкурент). still, yale had accepted serena and put blair on their wait list! 4. “i probably won’t even go, ” serena made an attempt to make things less important. “i have to … you know … visit all the school before i decide, ” she gathered her blond hair on top of her head. “maybe i won’t even go to college right away. i could stay in the city and try to do some acting or something.” 5. so serena got into yale, but she didn’t even really want to go there. serena collected her lettes and held them behind her back. “what about the other schools? you must have -” “i got wait listed at yale. the only place that accepted me is georgetown. stupid georgetown. but it was my safety.” serena stared at her for a moment her eyes wide with surprise. “that’s not so bad, ” serena said. “i’m sure yale is hard to enter. and if you didn’t enter, at least you have backup (запас, резерв).” ex. 2. for questions 1-7 find the correct answers. prove your choice using the words and phrases from the text. 1. after reading the letter it was clear that serena got a place a) at all universities she had applied to. b) only at yale university. c) at seven different universities. 2. blait got a place a) at five universities she had applied to. b) at one university. c) at two universities. 3. in her class blair a) was a leader. b) was the best student. c) won the tennis tournament. 4. blair’s dream was a) to enter yale university. b) to work at yale. c) to got to yale with her father. 5. serena got a place at yale because a) her school results were good enough. b) her great-uncle had donated two buildings and a playing field. c) her father studied at yale. 6. the letter from yale told blair a) that she had no chance to get into the university. b) that she had a small chance to get into the university. c) that she shouldn’t apply to yale. 7. according to the test the word “safety” in paragraph 5 probably means a) a place where there is no danger. b) something that blair had been saving for a long time. c) a place blair was sure to get in.

Mikhail Lomonosov (19.11 (08.11. O.S.) 1835 - 15.04.(04.04. O.S.) 1765) - Russian poet and scientist.

Lomonosov was the son of a poor fisherman. At the age of 10 he too took up that line of work. When the few books he was able to obtain could no longer satisfy his growing thirst for knowledge, in December 1730, he left his native village, penniless and on foot, for Moscow. His ambition was to educate himself to join the learned men on whom the tsar Peter I the Great was calling to transform Russia into a modern nation.

The clergy and the nobility, attached to their privileges and fearing the spread of education and science, actively opposed the reforms of which Lomonosov was a lifelong champion. His bitter struggle began as soon as he arrived in Moscow. In order to be admitted to the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy he had to conceal his humble origin; the sons of nobles jeered at him, and he had scarcely enough money for food and clothes. But his robust health and exceptional intelligence enabled him in five years to assimilate the eight-year course of study; during this time he taught himself Greek and read the philosophical works of antiquity.

Noticed at last by his instructors, in January 1736 Lomonosov became a student at the St. Petersburg Academy. Seven months later he left for Germany to study at the University of Marburg, where he led the turbulent life of the German student. His work did not suffer, however, for within three years he had surveyed the main achievements of Western philosophy and science. His mind, freed from all preconception, rebelled at the narrowness of the empiricism in which the disciples of Isaac Newton had bound the natural sciences; in dissertations sent to St. Petersburg, he attacked the problem of the structure of matter.

In 1739, in Freiberg, Lomonosov studied firsthand the technologies of mining, metallurgy, and glassmaking. Also friendly with the poets of the time, he freely indulged the love of verse that had arisen during his childhood with the reading of Psalms. The "Ode," dedicated to the Empress, and the Pismo o pravilakh rossiyskogo stikhotvorstva ("Letter Concerning the Rules of Russian Versification") made a considerable impression at court.

After breaking with one of his masters, the chemist Johann Henckel, and many other mishaps, among which his marriage at Marburg must be included, Lomonosov returned in July 1741 to St. Petersburg. The Academy, which was directed by foreigners and incompetent nobles, gave the young scholar no precise assignment, and the injustice aroused him. His violent temper and great strength sometimes led him to go beyond the rules of propriety, and in May 1743 he was placed under arrest. Two odes sent to the empress Elizabeth won him his liberation in January 1744, as well as a certain poetic prestige at the Academy.

While in prison he worked out the plan of work that he had already developed in Marburg. The 276 zametok po fizike i korpuskulyarnoy filosofi ("276 Notes on Corpuscular Philosophy and Physics") set forth the dominant ideas of his scientific work. Appointed a professor by the Academy in 1745, he translated Christian Wolff's Institutiones philosophiae experimentalis ("Studies in Experimental Philosophy") into Russian and wrote, in Latin, important works on the Meditationes de Caloris et Frigoris Causa (1747; "Cause of Heat and Cold"), the Tentamen Theoriae de vi Aлris Elastica (1748; "Elastic Force of Air"), and the Theoria Electricitatis (1756; "Theory of Electricity"). His friend, the celebrated German mathematician Leonhard Euler, recognized the creative originality of his articles, which were, on Euler's advice, published by the Russian Academy in the Novye kommentari.

nouns: mother-cat, kittens, house, upstairs, bedroom, carpet, room, morning, tails, faces, downstairs, breakfast, milk, porridge, cups, glasses, plates,  Cats' School, school bags, pens, pencils, rules, books, languages, day, walk, park, dog, moment, mouth,

pronouns:her, they, their, them, you, it

adjectives: wise, little, old, grey, small , warm, comfortable, every, Primary, clever, lazy, foreign, big, scared

verbs: live, sleep, get up, brush, wash, go, have breakfast, take, are, don't like, to study, went, saw, was, began, to cry, looked, opened, said, answered, ran, turned, understand, is, to know

prepositions:in, on, in the middle of the room, to, after, for, in front of

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