8. Read the text and choose the right options. Are You a City Mouse, or a Country Mouse at Heart? These days, the difference isn’t so great (1) ___ city and country life in America, but it still (2) ___. We recently moved from Brooklyn to a sweet pastoral home. I kept telling (3) ___, “If it doesn’t work out, we still have a great (4) ___ to live.” It worked out and we have our own farm now. We have two young children, and will miss the (5) ___ of walking to school and running (6) ___ classmates on a daily basis. We will miss having the world at our fingertips and the endless possibilities (7) ___ the corner: theatres, cinemas. Since moving to the country, our girls have seen rabbits and a spider web the size of (8) ___ old bedroom. This morning, the ducks were defending their pond from a pair of intruding (9) ___. Our children will have a completely (10) ___ upbringing. Choose: 1) a) for b) between c) opposite; 2) a) exists b) is c) has; 3) a) me b) my c) myself; 4) a) spot b) room c) place; 5) a) convenient b) convenience c) comfort; 6) a) after b) for c) into; 7) a) around b) at c) by; 8) a) theirs b) their c) them; 9) a) goose b) gooses c) geese; 10) a) good b) different c) happy

Перевод задания: Прочитайте текст и выберите правильные варианты.

1. between — разница между городской и сельской жизнью.
2. is — конструкция “it still is” означает «она всё ещё существует/есть».
3. myself — возвратное местоимение после “telling”.
4. place — устойчивое выражение “a place to live”.
5. convenience — существительное «удобство».
6. into — “running into classmates” означает «встречать одноклассников».
7. around — “around the corner” означает «за углом, совсем рядом».
8. their — притяжательное местоимение перед существительным “old bedroom”.
9. geese — множественное число от “goose”.
10. different — «совершенно иное воспитание».

Ответ: 1 — between; 2 — is; 3 — myself; 4 — place; 5 — convenience; 6 — into; 7 — around; 8 — their; 9 — geese; 10 — different.