Олимпиадные задания по английскому языку

Part 2 Reading

Read the text and match items A-G with gaps 1 -6.  There is one item you do not need to use. Write your answers in the table below.

Samuel

Seldom  is so much consequence witnessed in one lifetime, and possibly never before did diligent record keeping, hard work and honest practical management have such consequences. Certainly Pepys could A  ____________ his work was, but as his famous diaries prove, he certainly understood and appreciated that he lived in extraordinary times. The nine years covered by his dairy were B ________ in the history of Great Britain.

 When he made his first entry in 1966 he lived in a republic. But Cromwell was already dead and Pepys reported the C _________of  the king. In the end Pepys was a D _________ that took place he saw the King, soon to Charles 2, arrive from exile. He attended the coronation. He was also E _________ Great Plague of 1665 and The Great Fire of London in 1666. He described ever thing and everyone in the most entertaining and sometimes moving manner. Without doubt, he was

 F _____ reformers, designers and architects who were to rebuild London and together laid the foundation stones of   Empire. The Navy that Pepys reformed went on “to rules the waves” throughout an Empire” “on which the sun never sets”

1. “front seat’ witness to all

2. among and equal to the great

3. never have guessed how important

4. underestimate his efforts and

5. a witness to the

6. among the most momentous

7. steady rumours of the return