1. Choose the correct answer

43. According to the text, which of the following is true?
A) From May to the end of September non-professional cricket is played.
B) Fine-British people neither play nor watch competitive sports.
C) Cricket is a swift kind of game which is played by two teams of 11 each.
D) Cricket as well as the other English games has been adopted all over the world.
44. According to the text, which of the following is false?
A) People of either gender may be engaged in cricket games.
B) Wicket is the set of three sticks that must be hit with the ball
C) Almost all villages, even the far North ones hold their cricket clubs
D) A first-class match between English regions continues for three days
45. What is the best title for the passage?
A) The game of English origin
B) Professional cricket games
C) Adoption of British Empire
D) Leisure for the world nations

46. The word “enthusiasm” in the passage can be replaced with...

A) passion B) tolerance C) humor D) offence


Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below (47 - 50).
Today the United States’ flag has 50 stars. That’s one for each state. It has 13 stripes to stand for each of the original 13 colonies. It is unofficially called the Stars and Stripes. But the flag did not always look this way. The Second Continental Congress commissioned the first U.S. flag in 1777. But it did not exist until 1983, after the American Revolution ended. Historians are not sure who designed the Stars and Stripes. Many different flags are believed to have been used during the American Revolution. The flag of 1777 was used until 1795. Then Congress passed an act ordering that a new flag have 15 stripes, alternate red and white, and 15 stars on a blue field. In 1818, Congress directed that the flag has 13 stripes. It also decided that a new star be added for each new state of the Union. The last star was added in 1960 for the state of Hawaii. There am customs for flying the flag add treating it with respect. For example, it should not touch the floor. No other flag should be flown above it, except for the UN flag at UN headquarters.