Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives

Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives За: Против: 1) Business won’t have to spend a lot of time to find an employee, after hiring one 1) The employees are aware that their job is secure and they will not work efficiently 2) Business will go better if all employees know each other, their skills 2) Employees will be less motivated towards their job role and this would definitely affect their performance and professional growth Контраргумент: 1) You can hire a bad employee and it may 1) With right direction, business will benefit destroy the whole business from un nervous employees, knowing that they are secure 2) If there is a rivalry going on between employees, it can heart business a lot, and you can not fire the “bad one” in this situation 2) There will no fight for higher position between employees © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 1

Задание 12 -18 HAZLITT’S HOTEL I took a cab to Hazlitt’s Hotel on Frith Street. I like Hazlitt’s because it’s intentionally obscure — it doesn’t have a sign or a plaque or anything at all to betray its purpose — which puts you in a rare position of strength with your cab driver. Let me say right now that London cab drivers are without question the finest in the world. They are trustworthy, safe and honest, generally friendly and always polite. They keep their vehicles spotless inside and out, and they will put themselves to the most extraordinary inconvenience to drop you at the front entrance of your destination. There are really only a couple of odd things about them. One is that they cannot drive more than two hundred feet in a straight line. I’ve never understood this, but no matter where you are or what the driving conditions, every two hundred feet a little bell goes off in their heads and they abruptly lunge down a side street. And when you get to your hotel or railway station or wherever it is you are going, they like to drive you all the way around it so that you can see it from all angles before alighting. The other distinctive thing about them, and the reason I like to go to Hazlitt’s, is that they cannot bear to admit that they don’t know the location of something they feel they ought to know, like a hotel, which I think is rather sweet. To become a London cab driver you have to master something titled The Knowledge — in effect, learn every street, hospital, hotel, police station, cricket ground, cemetery and other notable landmarks in this amazingly vast and confusing city. It takes years and the cabbies are justifiably proud of their achievement. It would kill them to admit that there could exist in central London a hotel that they have never heard of. So what the cabbie does is probe. He drives in no particular direction for a block or two, then glances at you in the mirror and in an overcasual voice says, “Hazlitt’s — that’s the on Curzon Street, innit, guv? Opposite the Blue Lion? ” But the instant he sees a knowing smile of demurral forming on your lips, he hastily says, “No, hang on a minute, I’m thinking of the Hazelbury. Yeah, the Hazelbury. You want Hazlitt’s, right? ” He’ll drive on a bit in a fairly random direction. “That’s this side of Shepherd’s Bush, innit? ” he’ll suggest speculatively. When you tell him that it’s on Frith Street, he says. “Yeah, that the one. Course it is. I know it — modern place, lots of glass”. “Actually, it’s an eighteenth century brick building. ” “Course it is. I know it. ” And he immediately executes a dramatic U turn, causing a passing cyclist to steer into a lamppost (but that’s all right because he has on cycle clips and one of those geeky slip stream helmets that all but invite you to knock him over). “Yeah, you had me thinking of the Hazelbury” the driver adds, chuckling as if to say it’s a lucky thing he sorted that one out for you, and then lunges down a little side street off the Strand called Running Sore Lane or Sphincter Passage, which, like so much else in London, you had never noticed was there before. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 2

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 1. The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they 1. 2. 3. 4. know all the hotels and streets in the city. can be trusted and nice to deal with. make friends easily. 2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according to the narrator? 1. 2. 3. 4. They have little bells in their cars. They let you see your hotel from all angles. They prefer side streets to main streets. They prefer driving in a straight line. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 3

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 1. The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they They are 1. know all the hotels and streets in the city. trustworthy, 2. can be trusted and nice to deal with. safe and honest, 3. can be trusted and nice to deal with. generally friendly 4. make friends easily. and always polite. 2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according to the narrator? 1. 2. 3. 4. They have little bells in their cars. They let you see your hotel from all angles. They prefer side streets to main streets. They prefer driving in a straight line. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 4

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 1. The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they 1. 2. 3. 4. know all the hotels and streets in the city. can be trusted and nice to deal with. make friends easily. 2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according to the narrator? 1. 2. 3. 4. They have little bells in their cars. They let you see your hotel from all angles. They prefer side streets to main streets. They prefer driving in a straight line. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 5

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 1. The narrator said that he liked London cab drivers because they 1. 2. 3. 4. know all the hotels and streets in the city. can be trusted and nice to deal with. make friends easily. 2. Which of the following statements about London cab drivers is true according to the narrator? 1. 2. 3. 4. They have little bells in their cars. They let you see your hotel from all angles. They prefer side streets to main streets. They prefer driving in a straight line. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. . and when you get to your hotel or railway station or wherever it is you are going, they like to drive you all the way around it so that you can see it from all angles before alighting. 6

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 3. A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that 1. 2. 3. 4. it was in the center of the city cab drivers didn’t know where it was. cab drivers liked driving there. 4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, one has to 1. 2. 3. 4. know all streets and places in London. be proud of the city. be knowledgeable be ready to study the city for years. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 7

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 3. A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that I like Hazlitt’s because it’s intentionally 1. it was in the center of the city obscure — it doesn’t 2. cab drivers didn’t know where it was. have a sign or a plaque 3. cab drivers liked driving there. or anything at all to 4. cab drivers liked driving there. betray its purpose — which puts you in a 4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, one has to rare position of strength with your cab 1. know all streets and places in London. driver. 2. be proud of the city. 3. be knowledgeable 4. be ready to study the city for years. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 8

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 3. A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that 1. 2. 3. 4. it was in the center of the city cab drivers didn’t know where it was. cab drivers liked driving there. 4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, one has to 1. 2. 3. 4. know all streets and places in London. be proud of the city. be knowledgeable be ready to study the city for years. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 9

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 3. A reason why the narrator liked to go to Hazlitt’s was that 1. 2. 3. 4. it was in the center of the city cab drivers didn’t know where it was. cab drivers liked driving there. To become a London cab driver you have to master something titled The Knowledge — in effect, learn 4. According to the narrator, to be a London cab driver, one has to every street, hospital, hotel, police station, cricket 1. know all streets and places in London. ground, cemetery and other 2. be proud of the city. notable landmarks in this 3. be knowledgeable amazingly vast and 4. be ready to study the city for years. confusing city. It takes years and the cabbies are justifiably proud of their achievement. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 10

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 5. According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London he would 1. 2. 3. 4. Panic ask the passenger. never admit it. use a map. 6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he would 1. 2. 3. 4. speed up. turn the car in the opposite direction. admit he was confused at first. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 11

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 5. According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London he would It would kill them to admit 1. 2. 3. 4. Panic ask the passenger. never admit it. use a map. that there could exist in central London a hotel that they have never heard of. So what the cabbie does is probe. 6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he would 1. 2. 3. 4. speed up. turn the car in the opposite direction. admit he was confused at first. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 12

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 5. According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London he would 1. 2. 3. 4. Panic ask the passenger. never admit it. use a map. 6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he would 1. 2. 3. 4. speed up. turn the car in the opposite direction. admit he was confused at first. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 13

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 5. According to the narrator, if the cab driver did not know a hotel in London he would 1. 2. 3. 4. Panic ask the passenger. never admit it. use a map. 6. According to the narrator, when the driver finally knows where to go, he would 1. 2. 3. 4. speed up. turn the car in the opposite direction. admit he was confused at first. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. And he immediately executes a dramatic U turn, causing a passing cyclist to steer into a lamppost. . (U turn как раз и означает повернуть в противоположную сторону) 14

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 7. What is the narrator’s general attitude towards London cab drivers? 1. 2. 3. 4. Ironic. Critical. Aсcusatory. Supportive. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 15

Задание 12 -18 Задание 6. Read the text and answer the questions 7. What is the narrator’s general attitude towards London cab drivers? 1. 2. 3. 4. Ironic. Critical. Aсcusatory. Supportive. Весь текст яв ля ет ся под твер жде ни ем © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 16

Grammar. All tenses. Задание 2. Put the verbs into the correct tense aspect form. 1)I broke my leg in 1991, but I have never broken my arm. 2) He felt extremely ill when he went to hospital, but he has felt much better since he came out of hospital a month ago. 3)He is having a party on Saturday 4 th December in London at 10 pm. 4)Alice doesn’t take the bus to school every day. She usually walks to school. 5) Where are the children? They are watching TV in the room now. Some minutes ago they played a game. 6)Your Italian is very good. You _______ (study) it long? 7)You _______(to play) chess tomorrow? 8)I think we____ (travel) to the seaside next summer. 9)Usually my dog ____ (not to eat) fruit. 10)They _____ (finish) the building of a summer house by last year. 11)Mary (to speak) _______to me when her little brother (to throw) ______her bag out of the window. 12)When I last (to see) ____her she (to hurry) _____along the road to the station. I (to ask) _____her where she (to go) ______ and she (to say) ____London, but I don’t think she (to tell) _______ the truth because there (not to be) _____any train to London at that time. © 2014 ООО «Юмакс» . Все права защищены. 17