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Зачем? - книги в интернете постоянно появляются и исчезают, а размещение книг здесь - это наш вклад в их существование; сайт - наша библиотека, нам так удобнее их систематизировать и накапливать.
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Slime. This word sounds pretty unpleasant, doesn't it? But this is a useful thing. Now we'll try to figure out why. What will happen if you catch a cold or just catch an unpleasant virus? You will have a sore throat and sneeze. What will appear after sneezing? That's right, it is mucus. During such illnesses, many viruses and bacteria appear in your body. They make you feel week, headaches and muscle aches. But it is mucus that helps you to remove bacteria from your body. This happens while sneezing. The body uses this method to cleanse itself of the disease as quickly as possible. Indeed, no medicine existed many years ago. Any person could easily die from a common cold. But even then a simple sneeze helped to recover much fast.
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Roald Dahl was a successful British writer. Today he is best known for his fascinating stories about kids. The main character of this book is also a child. This child is Roald Dahl himself. The writer tells us his most vivid childhood memories. They are funny, silly and sometimes sad. But they are never boring. The writer remembers his family and their life together. He describes difficult times at school and his fear of the school headmaster. He tells us how he got in trouble for playing tricks on the people he didn't like. He happily recalls summer holidays in Norway and testing out chocolates for a famous company. Without a doubt, Roald Dahl had a great childhood. No wonder it inspired many of his books.
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This book is about a simple mobile application. Snapchat allows you to send photos with different special effects. The story also tells about three friends who have an original idea. Initially, one of them just wants to create sites. The second one is a good programmer. But only the third friend offers a fresh idea of a new interesting application. But friendship does not always stand the test of money and success. Unfortunately, three friends are no exception. On 25 February, everything starts. Reggie sues his former partners Evan and Bobby from Snapchat. Recently he was fired from this company. Reggie hires an expensive lawyer to defend his interests. He is waiting for a real war in the courtroom.
CHAPTER ONE. The "million-dollar idea"
Evan Spiegel was born on June 4th 1990, in Los Angeles, California.
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Chapter One. The Fledgling
A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris showed my favorite image of me - a handsome young airline pilot, looking perfect with a smooth skin and bull shoulders. Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.
Satisfied with my appearance, I picked up my bag, left the room and two minutes later was standing in front of the cashier at the hotel reception.
"Good morning, Captain," said the cashier in her warm tone. The markings on my uniform identified me as a first officer, a co-pilot, but the French are like that. They often make a mistake in rating everything too high except their women, wine and art.
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Humanity has always been prone to wars and raids on neighbouring countries. Nobody ever wanted to sit still and live peacefully. But in every situation, humanity needed leaders. These leaders were the reason for global events in each era. William the Conqueror was the first Norman king of England. Saladin was the first Muslim leader who seriously opposed the crusaders. Genghis Khan was the leader of the Mongol Empire. Catherine the Great was the woman who turned Russia into a very strong empire. Abraham Lincoln was the legendary president who ended slavery in America. Queen Victoria is the woman who gave her name to an entire era. Learn more about the rulers who changed the life of mankind.
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Oxford is not only a world-famous university. It is also the city, in which this university is located. Oxford is ninety kilometres from London - about an hour by car, bus or train. And it is only sixty-four kilometres from the nearest airport. Oxford is not like a typical English city. In the twelfth century, it was one of the main trading cities. Many goods were sold there. The famous university already existed at that time. Nowadays it is considered one of the oldest educational institutions in the world. Oxford is a very interesting city. The most popular buildings here were built in the nineteenth century.
This book tells the history of this unique city from its foundation to the present day...
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People are used to the idea that teenagers have to go to school and mostly are interested only in computer games. But what if the world changes? Can teenagers achieve serious success in sports, business or in the field of cinema? This is quite possible. There are even more such cases than you think. This book contains several stories of young people who have achieved exceptional success in some definite fields. World-class gymnasts, ingenious inventors or even travelers. Young travelers who did such things that adults were not capable of. Learn more about the world's most successful teens. They have great achievements in various spheres. These stories will definitely impress everyone.
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CHAPTER ONE. Early History of America
The Voyage of the Mayflower
On 6th September, 1620, a group of 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America, "the New World", on the ship the Mayflower. The pilgrims left England because they wanted religious and political freedom. The long, difficult journey across the Atlantic Ocean continued for 65 days. There were storms on the way and water entered the ship, but the pilgrims decided to continue on to the New World.
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CHAPTER ONE. This is London!
Every year, more than nine million people come from countries all over the world to visit London. They go to the theatres and museums; they look at interesting old buildings, many of them hundreds of years old; they sit or walk in the beautiful parks, or have a drink in a pub.
They go to Oxford Street to look at the shops, or to Harrods. Two million visitors go to the Tower of London. A million more go to see St Paul's Cathedral.
Yes, London is a big and beautiful city with lots to see and do.
But how did it all begin...?
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Chapter one. Goal
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and it's a big part of life in Brazil. People here love to watch and play soccer in their free time.
In Brazil you don't need a pitch or expensive boots to play soccer. People play soccer in the street and on the beach. Children often play with no boots.
Some people think that Brazilians are good at soccer because they learn a special way to play when they are children. They learn to play a type of soccer called futsal. There are five players in each team. The ball is small, but it's full of sand so it's very heavy.
Futsal started in South America, but now it's popular in many other countries.
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CHAPTER 1.What Happened to Holly Golightly?
I sometimes visit places where I lived in the past - the houses and their neighborhoods. I like to see them again. There's a brown stone house in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment. It was one room, crowded with an old red sofa and red chairs. The walls were dark and dirty from old cigarette smoke. The single window looked out onto a fire escape, a stairway that went down to the street. It wasn't a big place but it made me happy. It was my first home, and my books were there, and a box of pencils. Everything that a writer needed, I thought.
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Chapter 1. School and Football
I was born an idiot - but I'm cleverer than people think. I can think things OK, but when I have to say them or write them down, sometimes they come out all wrong. When I was born, my Mom named me Forrest. My daddy died just after I was born. He worked on the ships. One day a big box of bananas fell down on my daddy and killed him.
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(Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Pipeline
The large bush stood in the moonlight at the meeting place of three African countries. The man from the diamond mines had waited under the bush for nearly two hours. Suddenly, he heard the noise of a helicopter. He looked up and saw it coming towards him from the east.
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(Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
‘There seem to be no interesting cases these days, Watson,’ Sherlock Holmes said to me. ‘London isn’t a very interesting place.’
‘I don’t think the people of London will agree with you,’ I answered.
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Chapter 1. Gladys Hungerton
I often listened to Mr Hungerton. He talked to me about economics. It was very boring, but I was in love with his daughter Gladys.
One evening, I listened to him for a long time. Finally, he left. I now had a chance to speak to Gladys. She was a proud woman and she treated me as a friend.
She looked at me and said, 'You're going to propose marriage.'
'How do you know?' I replied.
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(Adapted book. Stage 2. Elementary)
Chapter 1. Tom and the Fence
"Tom! Tom!"
There was no answer.
"Where is that boy? Tom!" Aunt Polly looked under the bed but she only found the cat. "Tom!" she cried.
Then she heard a noise behind her. A small boy ran past and she stopped him with her hand.
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Chapter one
The Story of Uncle Elias
In September 1887 my wife was visiting some of her family, so I was staying with my old friend Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street. It was a windy, stormy evening, and the rain was falling heavily outside. Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
I looked at my friend in surprise. 'Who can this be?' I asked.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Old pirate at the "Admiral Benbow"
My name is Jim Hawkins and I'm going to tell you the story of Treasure Island. It began when I was a boy. My father had an inn by the sea called the "Admiral Benbow". One day an old seaman arrived with a big sea-chest. He was tall and strong.
'Bring me a glass of rum!' he said to my father. 'Are there many people here?'
My father said no.
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CHAPTER ONE
When Phileas Fogg meets Passepartout
London, 1872
Let me begin by introducing a mysterious English gentleman called Phileas Fogg.
Most people don't know very much about him, but because he does the same thing every day, some people think they know everything about him.
He is very handsome and he is a true gentleman. He is certainly rich, but no one knows how he made his money.
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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Adapted book. Pre-Intermediate level)
Chapter 1. A Memorandum for M
The memorandum came to M from the Head of Station S of the Secret Service. It read:
SUBJECT:
LE CHIFFRE, RUSSIA’S CHIEF AGENT IN PRANCE - A PLAN FOR HIS DESTRUCTION.
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Sam looked at his watch. He was almost there! He could see a bright shining moon out of the window. There were trees and a river. But Sam began to worry. What if this wasn't the right station? What if his uncle wasn't there to meet him? The train went slower. The train driver announced the station. This was the right place. Sam took his things and got off the train. He lived in the big and noisy London. There were always many people there. Here in the countryside it was very quiet and dark. There were no people around. Sam was completely alone. The boy was a little scared. He tried to calm himself. It was an ordinary village railway station. There was no danger. Sam just waited for his uncle with these thoughts.
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Chapter one
The Gun Club of Baltimore
In the 1860s, at the time of the American Civil War, a new club opened in the town of Baltimore in the United States. The Americans love their clubs, and they usually begin like this: one man or woman has an idea, then he or she finds a second person with that idea, too, and then a third. Soon there are five of them. So they all meet, and a new club is born!
In the Civil War, people needed new long cannons and big guns. And people across the country all wanted to make bigger and better explosives. But of course, they needed to talk about their ideas first. And this was how the Gun Club of Baltimore began.
After one month, there were 1,833 members of the club in Baltimore and 30,575 members across the country. In the club, there were young students with the latest ideas, and very old men with years of work behind them.
Of course, some members lost parts of their bodies in their daily work. Some had only one leg and some had hooks for hands. But nobody wanted to stop - they all loved making new explosives.
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(Суть: Нетти Сарджент — красивая молодая женщина. Она живет со своим дядей в доме с садом и полем. Это арендованный дом. Земля принадлежит сквайру. Это означает, что сквайр получит дом обратно после смерти мистера Сарджента. Чтобы избежать этого, дядя Нетти должен заплатить деньги, чтобы продлить аренду и поставить на нем имя Нетти. Молодая женщина влюблена в Джаспера Клиффа. Она хочет выйти за него замуж. Но Джаспера больше интересует ее дом. Старому мистеру Сардженту не нравится выбор Нетти. Тем не менее он хочет, чтобы его племянница была счастлива, и соглашается на их брак. Мистер Сарджент болен. Он умирает, не успев подписать документы об аренде. Нетти в отчаянии. Теперь она теряет все. Внезапно она понимает, что делать).
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The Lottery Winner by Rosemary Border (A1 Starter)
Все хотят выиграть в лотерею. Миллион фунтов, а может и пять, и десять миллионов. Было бы великолепно! Эмма Картер покупает лотерейный билет каждую неделю и аккуратно кладет его в свою сумочку. Ей 73 года и у нее не очень много денег. Она бы хотела поехать к своему сыну в Австралию, но билеты на аэроплан очень дорогие. Джейсон Уилльямс тоже покупает лотерейный билет каждую неделю. Но он не очень честный человек. Он вор. Джейсон бьет старушек на улицах, крадет их сумочки и убегает.
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