Грамматика и лексика. ЕГЭ по английскому языку (ФИПИ 2021 – 2022)

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 bestselling novel by the Australian author Colin McCullough. The story gives 19.______ information about life on Australian sheep stations, but it also includes a dramatic love story. WE

The book 20.______ the writer international fame as soon as it was published. BRING

In 1983 it was adapted into a TV miniseries 21.______ Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward. STAR

Car GPS Tracking appears a lot in new vehicles, offering drivers tracking and navigation. Yet, the 22.______ inventions are even more modern and sophisticated, offering extra opportunities to people. LATE

Smart box technology is one example of how car GPS tracking systems 23.______ to lower car insurance. USE

If the driver 24.______ the rules, he gets a discount or an insurance premium. NOT BREAK

Without a doubt, this new technology 25.______ popular among drivers very soon. BECOME

Auckland is the largest and most populous city in New Zealand. The 26.______ of Auckland is getting close to 1.4 million residents. POPULATE

It is 27.______ situated in the North Island of the country, between the Waitakere Ranges and the Hauraki Gulf. CONVENIENT

The city enjoys an oceanic climate, which is 28.______ to the climate in most of Europe. COMPARE

Nothing can 29.______ you about Auckland, which is why it is a popular destination for numerous immigrants to New Zealand. APPOINT

Expats have an overall good experience when staying in Auckland. Most expats find it very easy to communicate with the locals, who are very 30.______. FRIEND

Another positive thing about Auckland is the amount of nature and free space, which is appreciated a lot, especially by those coming from more densely inhabited 31.______. LOCATE

Henry Thompson, a writer, built a hut on the shore of the pond and lived there all alone for two years. He did this for two reasons: because he wanted to 32 ______ that people spend too much time and money on food and clothes and because he wanted a perfectly quiet chance to write more books. 33 ______ to the writer, he spent only one hundred dollars a year while he lived in this hut. He raised beans on his land, ate wild berries, caught fish and "went visiting" his friends and neighbours now and then. To buy his woodsman's clothes and a few necessities, he planted gardens, painted houses, and cut wood for his friends.

This period influenced Henry's creative work a lot. He wrote a book called "The Wood" which 34 ______ us all about these seven or eight hundred days he lived in his hut. Several other books also describe the time when he 35 ______ to live all by himself. These sold very well. In all of them Henry was boasting that he had found the only sensible way to live. "I am for simple living, and I 36 ______ being alone!" he would declare in his books. He 37 ______ you feel, when you read his books, that it is fine to walk around the fields, sniffing the wild grape and the green grass, and that no one can find pleasure like the man who rows, and skates, and swims. 38 ______, people passing by the pond used to hear him whistling old ballads, or playing very softly and beautifully on a flute, and they thought he sounded lonely and sad.