25. A. Amanda loves winter and hates hot weather. Imagine you are Amanda. Use the word combinations below to speak about her wishes. Example: I wish it were winter.
to be winter, to be skiing, not to be freezing, to be covered with
snow, to throw snowballs, to be on the skating-rink

As American as apple pie
as bald as a billiard ball, as bald as a coot, as bald as an egg
as cool as a cucumber
as fierce as a tiger
avoid someone like the plague - избегать кого-то как чумы;

be off like a shot - моментально уйти, быстро убежать откуда-то;

brought like a lamb to the slaughter - приведен как овца на заклание, безропотно, покорно;

blush like a schoolgirl - краснеть как школьница;

caught like a rat in a trap - пойманный как мышь в мышеловку;

collapse like a pack of cards - ра как колода карт;

come down on someone like a ton of bricks; come down on someone like a cartload of bricks - обрушиться на кого-то, неистово наброситься на кого-то;

come like a dog at a whistle - являться по первому зову, немедленно;

crawl like a snail - ползти как улитка;

die like a dog - сдохнуть как собака;

die like flies; dying like flies - мрут как мухи;

drink like a fish - пить много спиртного;

drop someone like a hot potato - спешно прекратить знакомство с кем-то, спешно бросить кого-то;

eat like a bird - есть как птичка, есть совсем мало;

eat like a horse - есть очень много;

eat like a pig - есть много и с жадностью;

fight like a lion - сражаться как лев;

fight like cat and dog - ссориться как кошка с собакой, постоянно ссориться;

fight like Kilkenny cats - бороться насмерть, до взаимного уничтожения;

fit like a glove - быть впору, хорошо сидеть (об одежде);

flow like water - литься рекой, обильно, щедро;

get on like a house on fire - быстро продвигаться вперед, делать большие успехи, быстро распространяться;

go like hotcakes; sell like hotcakes - расходиться нарасхват; распродаваться нарасхват;

grin like a Cheshire cat - загадочно улыбаться, иметь загадочную улыбку;

hate like poison - ненавидеть всей душой;

have a hide like a rhinoceros - быть толстокожим;

have a memory like an elephant - иметь очень хорошую память, все помнить;

have a memory like a sieve - иметь очень плохую память, постоянно забывать;

have nine lives like a cat - быть живучим как кошка, быть очень живучим;

hit someone like a ton of bricks - поразить, шокировать, как обухом по голове;

hold on (to something) like grim death; cling like grim death - держаться до последнего, держаться изо всех сил, отчаянно цепляться (за что-то);

jump around like a cat on hot bricks - запрыгать как на угольях, метаться, места не находить;

know something like the palm of one's hand - знать что-то как свои пять пальцев;

live like a king; live like a lord; live like a prince; live like a fighting cock - жить в изобилии, кататься как сыр в масле;

live like there's no tomorrow - прожигать жизнь, жить неумеренно, расточительно;

look like the cat who swallowed the canary; look like the cat after it had eaten the canary - иметь очень довольный вид;

look like a dying duck in a thunderstorm - иметь очень растерянный вид;

look like a million dollars - прекрасно выглядеть;

look like grim death - ужасно выглядеть, выглядеть как смерть;

lost like a needle in a haystack; look for a needle in a haystack - потерян как иголка в стоге сена; искать иголку в стоге сена, заниматься безнадежным делом;

read someone like a book - видеть кого-то насквозь;

return like for like - отплатить той же монетой;

roar like a bull, roar like a lion - реветь как бык, рычать как лев;

run like a hare; run like a deer; run like the wind - мчаться со всех ног, нестись во весь опор, бежать как заяц / как олень, нестись как ветер;

shake like a leaf; tremble like a leaf; shake / tremble like an aspen leaf - дрожать как осиновый лист (от холода, страха);

sing like an angel; sing like a bird; sing like a lark; sing like a nightingale - очень хорошо / нежно петь, петь как соловей;

sink like a stone - пойти ко дну как камень;

sleep like a log - спать как бревно, очень крепко спать;

smoke like a chimney - очень много курить;

soar like an eagle - парить как орел, взмыть как орел;

speak like a book; talk like a book - говорить как по-писаному, без запинки, по-ученому;

spend money like water - сорить деньгами;

spread like wildfire - распространяться чрезвычайно быстро;

We live in the fascinating and challenging world of science. It is a world that more and more over the ages, and especially in the 20th century has come to affect so much of our lives. It is involved with the way we travel, the homes we live in and the clothes we wear, how we become ill and how medicine can make us better, and has given us fantastic means of communicating and exploring. 
The list of the inventations is rather long. We are on-lookers of great scientific achievements such as television and a computer. We can’t imagine our life withought a notebook or a radio. I’d like to speak in details about computers. 
What is a computer? 
A computer is an electronic device that stores information and allows changes in it through the use of instructions. A modern computer is capable of doing various tasks, like word processing and accounting. Personal computers are widely used but working on them requires some techniques. 
A computer gives a lot of advantages to a user. The list of the advantages is rather long: computers give us access to the Internet- an international computer network. You can spread a lot of your free time surfing the Internet and get all sorts of information from it. You can enter the chat room with other Internet users and debate urgent problems on line. If you are connectable by e-mail, you can correspond with your own web page and place there information about yourself. 
Today computers help people to do many things. Bankers use them to keep track of money. Telephone operators use them to put calls through. Without computers, weather forecasters would make more mistakes. Computers also help scientists to solve their problems. More than that computers help police to keep order in shops. Computers also help doctors to treat patients. Computers allow users to spend their freetime and relax. 
But computers have some disadvantages. Computers can make people lazy. People waste their time when they play different games on a computer. People forget to go to the libraries, they often find information on the Internet. Wicked games can make people, especially children aggressive and stupid. 
But in my view they have more advantages, that disadvantages. It’s an open secret that the computer is a source of education, entertainment and communication. And in my life the computer plays a very important role. It helps me to find information and relax. 
Though scientists have archived so much, scientific minds are still working at some urgent problems. I would like to mention some problems. One of them is finding and using alternative sources of energy. Scientists are also learning how to save and conserve energy. They have many problems with creating highly effective systems of communication. I can’t but mention one of the main problems. It is development of life on the planet. 
I’d like to focus on the problem how to make our life longer and happier. It’s a well-known fact that nowadays people have a lot of artificial parts or implants inside them. There are some people who have problems with their health, especially with their hearts. And surgeons operate them on and put on implant inside them. Surgeons think that within 50 years one person in ten will have at least one artificial part inside. 
Because science will be around us even more in the future, I think we-tomorrows adults must start learning today to be ready to take our places in this computerized, transistorized, antibiotic, nuclear and supersonic age!