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Task 1. Read the text and choose the correct answers to the questions.
Dog Tricks

It's fun to have your dog do tricks when your friends come to your house to hang out. Seeing Rover play dead, talk, or open the refrigerator is quite a crowd pleaser.
But tricks are not only great entertainment. They are also a great way to bond with your dog, integrate your dog with your family, and keep your dog physically and mentally challenged.
Experts say that teaching your dog tricks is not all that difficult, but patience is crucial. If you don't have patience, you will never be able to teach your dog tricks.
There are three steps to follow in order to successfully teach your dog a new trick. The first is to give your dog a verbal cue (sit, come, stay) or a physical cue (a raised hand) that lets him know what you want him to do. The second step is that your dog does what you would like him to do. The third step is to reward your dog for accomplishing the task.
Noted dog trainer Kyra Sundance advises people who are trying to teach their dog tricks to reward with tasty treats, to train before dinner, and to motivate using a happy voice!
1. The main purpose of paragraph 4 is to .
D. suggest that treats are the most important part of dog training
A. show how difficult dog training can be
B. provide concrete advice on how to train a dog
C. prove that the author is an expert in dog training

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A crossword puzzle is a game of words where the player is given a hint and the number of letters. The player then fills in a grid of boxes by finding the right words. Liverpool journalist, Arthur Wynne invented the first crossword puzzle.Arthur WynneArthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871 in Liverpool, England. He immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. He first lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked for the Pittsburgh Press newspaper. An interesting side-note, was that Wynne also played violin in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.Later, Arthur Wynne moved to Cedar Grove, New Jersey and started working for a New York City based newspaper called the New York World. He wrote the first crossword puzzle for the New York World, published on Sunday, December 21, 1913. The editor had asked Wynne to invent a new game for the paper's Sunday entertainment section.View a copy of Arthur Wynne's first crossword puzzleWord-Cross to Cross-Word to CrosswordArthur Wynne's first crossword puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The name later switched to cross-word, and then as a result of an accidental typo the hyphen was dropped and the name became crossword.Wynne based his crossword puzzle on a similar but much older game played in ancient Pompeii that translated from Latin to English was called Magic Squares. In Magic Squares, the player is given a group of words and has to arrange them on a grid so that the words read the same way across and down. A crossword puzzle is very similar, except instead of being given the words the player is given clues.Arthur Wynne added other innovations to the crossword puzzle. While the first puzzle wasdiamond-shaped, he later invented horizontal and vertical shaped puzzles; and Wynne invented the use of adding blank black squares to a crossword puzzle.The crossword puzzle in a British publication was published in Pearson's Magazine in February 1922. The first New York Times crossword was published on February 1 1930.First Book of Crossword PuzzlesAccording to the Guinness Book of Records, the first collection of crossword puzzles was published in the USA in 1924. Called The Cross Word Puzzle Book it was the first publication by a new partnership formed by Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster. The book, a compilation of crossword puzzles from the newspaper New York World, was an instant success and helped to establish publishing giant Simon & Schuster, who continue to produce crossword books to this day.

I was born in a small town on the Volga. As a child I was often sick n why he didn't like noisy games. I beat Liu books. The city was not their (local) theatre, but when he came to the Saratov theatre (company), I never missed an opportunity to look at them performances. I so loved the theater that he decided to become an actress after I graduate from school. I participated in an Amateur (amateur) performances, and several times during the holidays we went to Moscow to watch performances from such great actors, as Moskvin, Paschen, Kacha fishing, one Day, Tarasov.
Finally the day came, when I first came on the scene well of this house. I was so worried that didn't notice, as the curtain rose. When I spoke to him, I didn't recognize his own voice. Then ended the first act and the curtain has fallen. I felt that I was crying because I was very upset: I thought I was bad played a role. I was approached and spronin why I was crying. "Don't you hear the audience applauding you? You played perfectly.
At first I believed it, but then I was under my teacher, one of the oldest actors of the theatre, and said that he really liked my playing. I was approached the other actors and said that I had fulfilled my role. It was the happiest day of my life.