Task 1 Read the text and choose the correct answer.
Fifty years ago, when I was a child, photographs were not of general interest. Photograph’s took a picture of people on special occasions, at weddings and birthdays, for instance. These pictures were usually kept in a box and brought out at intervals to show the family. Nowadays photography is regarded as art. Many photographic exhibitions are held and there are many magazines dealing with the art of photography.
1.During recent years .
A. photography has become a popular form of art
B. a lot of people have taken photographs of good paintings
C. photography has stopped being art
D. photographic exhibitions are often advertised
2.The passage compares .
A. public interest in painting today and fifty years ago.
B. photographic exhibitions and paintings exhibitions.
C. wedding photographs and birthday photographs.
D. photography today and photography fifty years ago.
E. family photographs of today and fifty years ago.
3.When the writer was young.
A. he was very interested in photography.
B. people didn’t think of photography as art.
C. he always took photographs on his birthday.
D. people used to go to photographic exhibitions.
E. he took a lot of family photographs
Task 2 Write a short text about you can / can’t do (3-4 sentences). Playing a musical instrument
1.Can you play the musical instrument?
2.What instrument can you play?
3.Do you like it? Why?
4.Do you have a favourite musician who plays this instrument very well?

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1 there are many flowers on the windowsill. 2 there is a table in the middle of the room. 3 there is a vacuum cleaner near the chair . 4 there are two faucets above the sink. 5 there are 2 doors in the room. 6 there are many chairs around the table. 7 there are curtains on the windows. 8 there are some mistakes in the text. 9 there are many discs near the computer. 10 there was little milk in the bottle. 11 there were many people on the bus stop. 12 there were letters on the table. 13 there were some foreign students in the group. 14 there will be a meeting at the University tomorrow. 15 there will be a new theatre built on this street .

Murat Abenovich Aitkhozhina - a specialist in the field of molecular biology and biochemistry, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1983), Doctor of Biological Sciences (1977), Professor (1980), winner of the Lenin Prize (1976), a disciple of Academician A. Spirin. Biography In 1962 he graduated from the Kazakh State University named after SM Kirov in 1965 - graduate of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov. In 1965-1967 he worked as a junior researcher in the years 1967-1969 as a senior research associate at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. In 1969-1978 years - head of the laboratory, in the years 1978-1983 - Director of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. In 1983-1987 years - Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. In 1986-1987 - President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR.Contribution to science Aitkhozhina Murat was the founder of molecular biology and biotechnology in Kazakhstan. Aitkhozhina one of the first in the world of science conducted a comparative study of the protein synthesizing system in higher organisms, engaged in the search and study of physical and chemical properties informosom in plant cells in the group of Academician A. Spirin. Group opened informosom plant classes - free cytoplasmic, polysome-associated and nuclear, including RNA-binding proteins. In 1983 Aitkhozhina organized by the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. In 1987, it was organized by the Kazakh Agricultural Biotechnology Center, which works on the cellular and genetic engineering of plants.Murat Aitkhozhina the first to introduce a course in molecular biology and a number of special courses for students of biological faculty of Kazakh State University. Under the leadership of Aitkhozhina it was designed set of instruments for the automation of molecular biological experiments, which was protected by 15 copyright certificates and 16 patents in the leading countries. Awards Lenin Prize (1976) - for the series of works "Discovery informosom - a new class of intracellular particles." Listed in the "Golden Book of Honor of the Kazakh SSR" (1974). Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Fund (1987). Order of Friendship of Peoples (1987).