Прочитай шість абзаців про мову та спілкування. Добери до кожного абзацу (Q1–Q6) заголовок зі списку (А–Ж). Один заголовок — зайвий.
Прочитай текст і обери правильну відповідь (A–D) на кожне з восьми запитань (Q7–Q14).
For most of his childhood, Daniel Ortega assumed he would become a doctor like both of his parents. He grew up in a small coastal town in Chile, and the family home was always full of medical journals and quiet talk of patients. Yet the thing that truly held his attention was not in any of those journals. It was the night sky, which in his town was astonishingly clear, far from the glow of big cities.
When Daniel was eleven, an uncle gave him a small, second-hand telescope that no longer focused properly. Rather than putting it aside, the boy spent an entire winter learning how to repair it, reading whatever he could find and ruining several lenses along the way. By spring the instrument worked again, and Daniel had discovered that he enjoyed fixing it almost as much as using it. That winter, he later said, taught him more about patience than any school subject ever had.
His parents were supportive but cautious. They worried that astronomy offered few stable jobs, and they gently steered him towards medicine whenever the subject came up. The turning point arrived when a visiting astronomer gave a talk at Daniel's school. Afterwards, instead of going home, Daniel stayed for two hours asking questions. The astronomer, impressed, invited him to spend a summer helping at a mountain observatory several hundred kilometres away.
That summer changed everything. The observatory was understaffed, and although Daniel was only sixteen, he was trusted with real responsibilities: cleaning the delicate mirrors, logging measurements through the night, and even noticing an error in a data file that two senior researchers had missed. The director told him, only half joking, that the place would struggle to manage without him. Daniel returned home certain of what he wanted to do, and equally certain that he would have to convince his parents.
Today, Daniel runs an education programme that brings portable telescopes to rural schools across the country, many of them as small and remote as his own had been. He says he is not trying to turn every child into an astronomer. He simply wants them to look up, the way he once did, and to discover that curiosity is a skill which can be practised. His parents, he adds with a smile, now proudly tell their patients about their son the scientist.
Прочитай текст про публічну бібліотеку й обери у кожному випадному списку слово, що підходить за змістом і граматикою. (Q15–Q22)