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The Longest River in the World

25. Many encyclopаedias state with _________ that the River Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. CONFIDENT

26. Its length is often given as being 6,695 kilometres. However, there are _________ who would question that. SCIENCE

27. Indeed, some would argue that the River Amazon in South America is in fact longer than the Nile. At first sight it seems _________ that we don’t know exactly how long the rivers are. BELIEVE

28. The situation becomes more _________, though, when we consider. UNDERSTAND

29. that there is not always _________about where a river actually starts. AGREE

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 30—36. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 30—36, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

The main argument used against the space programme is that the enormous amount of money it costs could be better spent on solving problems such as poverty and environmental damage here on Earth.

Initially, this view 30 ___________ persuasive, particularly when confronted with how huge the amounts of money we are talking about actually are. Surely, the argument goes, if, instead of sending hundreds of billions of dollars up into space for a pointless walk on the Moon or a few glossy colour photographs of Mars, we channelled the funds into 31 ___________ projects on our own planet, we could solve all the world’s problems in about as short a time as it takes for the space shuttle to circle the globe.

How appealing and – perhaps sadly – how untrue. The fallacy of that argument is in the idea that all of the money allotted to the space programme is wasted in space. It isn’t. None of the money goes into space at 32 ___________. It stays right here on Earth and is fed back into the economy.

Take the astronauts and tens of thousands of other people who are involved in whatever way with the space programme. They spend their salaries – and pay tax on them – here on Earth. That tax is used by governments to do a number of important things: build hospitals and schools, 33 ___________ pensions, pay for the police service and, yes, fund the space programme. Take the cost of all the spacecraft, the technology inside them and the research that’s done to create that technology. All of that money goes to companies here on Earth, companies which pay tax if they 34 ___________ a profit, and pay salaries to their workers, who then pay tax to the government, which builds hospitals, etc.

Looking at it the other way round, what would happen if all the governments in the world which have a space programme 35 ___________ their programmes down tomorrow? Would they have a lot more money to spend on other things? Only for a very short time, because along with the 36 ___________ savings there would be enormous costs from the increased unemployment and reduction in taxes received.

30. 1). sees. 2). sounds. 3). views. 4) hears

Ответ: ____

31. 1). generous. 2). pleasant. 3). worthwhile. 4) optimistic

Ответ: ____

32. 1). once. 2). best. 3). last. 4) all

Ответ: ____

33. 1). provide. 2). donate. 3). contribute. 4) sponsor

Ответ: ____

34. 1). make. 2). build. 3). construct. 4) manufacture

Ответ: ____

35. 1). finished. 2). ended. 3). turned. 4) closed