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ЖУРНАЛ ДЛЯ ИЗУЧАЮЩИХ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
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ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD
Millennium Madness ............................... 2
FICTION. M. A. Rodgers. The Hard Way ............. 6
LANGUAGE CLUB. Win a Dictionary!.................. 8
DEBATING SOCIETY
What shall We Do with Our Packed Planet? ........ 10
PERSONALITY TEST. The Psychology of Colour ...... 12
BOOK OF WISDOM. The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde . . 14
HUMPTY D UMPTY. Game............................. 16
HISTORY & MYSTERY
Some Useless Facts from the History of Feasts ... 18
NATURE. Getting to the Heart of Colour........... 20
WOMAN’S PAGE. Millennium Sunrise................. 22
CROSSWORD ....................................... 23
CLOSE-UP. DD’s Unsecret Files ................... 24
FOR ADVANCED READER
W. Stanton. This Year It s Going to Be Different. 26
BLUFF CLUB....................................... 28
HUMOUR. Riddles ................................. 29
CURIOSITY PAGE	30
ANSWERS.......................................... 32
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starts on January 1, 2001. The Royal Greenwich Observatory (the world’s keeper of time), the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Naval Observatory, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the US Library of Congress all state that the end of the second millennium and the beginning of the third will not be reached until January 1, 2001. In spite of this fact most of the world is planning to start celebrations on December 31
1999. Everywhere you go, the topic of conversation is where

we will be spending the big night.
Great Britain is spending more on its millennium celebrations than the rest of the world put together. Several construction projects have been designed to mark the great event and millions of pounds have been spent to build them. Tihe most important of them is, of course, the Millennium Dome in Greenwich — the home of World Time and the centrepiece of millennium celebrations.
On New Year’s Eve there will be spectacular parties in
Greenwich, London and all over the UK. Millions of people from all over the world are going to take part in them.
Yes, the millennium begins on January 1, 2001, but the millennium night’ begins on
December 31, 2000!
The Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome is the largest building of its kind in the world. It’s over 50 metres high and over 300 metres in diameter. It’s as high as Nelson’s Column, could swallow 2 Wembley Stadiums, 3300
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The Dome was designed by the architect Richard Rogers, who created the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
The construction of this ambitious project has cost 758 million pounds!
There are 14 exhibition zones in the Dome, and each of them has ‘something to amaze and educate everyone who visits it,’ says Lord Falconer, the minister responsible for the Dome. In Home Planet zone, for example, you’ll be able to go on a virtual trip through space.
Rock legend Peter Gabriel is staging a spectacular millennium show at the Dome. It will be a combination of breath-taking aerial acrobatics, music and dance. It will be performed up to five times a day throughout 2000. 160 young performers from all over the UK will take part in it. The Queen and other VIPs will see the show on New
Gabriel himself has written the string and guitar soundtrack. “I’m doing something that I’ve never done before,” he says.
The show will be broadcast all over the world.
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Royal Greenwich Observatory [ rool ,grinid3 eb ze vetri] Гринвичская астрономическая обсерватория naval [neivl] военно-морской
Encyclopaedia Britannica [insaikle.prdie bri'tenike] энциклопедия “Британника” construction project [ksnstrAkj'n prodjekt] зд. сооружение centrepiece ['sentepi:s] зд. центр spectacular [speklaekjuls] эффектный, потрясающий to swallow [ swoleu] проглатывать, зд вмещать spare 100m [,spee 'ru:m] свободное место ambitious [ает'Ьц эе] грандиозный, амбициозный to amaze [e'meiz] поражать, изумлять responsible [ri'sponsibl] ответственный
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How is the rest of the world celebrating the millennium?
Jerusalem: Millions of people are going to visit the ancient biblical bites of the Holy Land. Thousands more will head for Armageddon, now named Megiddo, in Israel, to see whether the Book of Revelation’s prophecy about the end of the world will come true.
Paris has very unusual plans: a school of 2,000 luminous plastic fish will be released in the River Seine, and there have also been rumours that a giant “egg” should he placed under the Eiffel Tower. All the main landmarks along with the Eiffel Tower and 36 bridges on the Sema will be illuminated. The main events will take place on the Champs-Elysees where there will be special displays depicting events from the past century.
Sydney: A 24-hour party will take place in front of the Sydney Opera House where spectators will be able to watch a parade of giant Chinese lanterns followed by fireworks. Jugglers, magicians and street entertainers will line the streets. Thousands more people are expected to watch the show from boats in the harbour Inside the Opera House will be an exclusive party — and there have also been rumours of an outdoor concert performed by Michael Jackson
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A concert at Greenwich’s Royal Observatory will tell the story of the millennium through live pop and classical music.
There will be celebrations in other capital cities as well.
in Edinburgh up to 290.000 people are expect-ed to go out for a millennium street party. The organisers predict that it will be the greatest party in the world!
At Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, the UK s biggest indoor arena, there will be a rock show organized by the Maniac Street Preachers. Guitarist Nicky Wire told reporters at a press conference that the atmosphere of the concert would be like 4a big pub’.
In Sheffield visitors can expect a world music festival and an Afro-Caribbean carnival with light shows and dancing.
In Manchester visitors will be able to dance the night away and enjoy fireworks, live music, a fairground and street theatre.
In Liverpool rhe millennium eve celebrations will incorporate light shows and a giant clock ticking down to midnight.
In Belfast visitors will find a funfair, food festival, light parade and ice skating.
And in Birmingham veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard will celebrate the year 2000 with his fans — on stage at a special millennium charity concert.
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Outside the Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome is not the only place where millennium celebrations will take place.
From Big Ben s first stroke of midnight a series of 2,000 pyrotechnic candles — one for each year of modem history — will be set off up the Thames from Tower Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge, creating a ‘river of fire’. The whole river will be lit up! This will be followed by a fireworks display from barges on the Thames.
The famous Israeli illusionist Uri Geller promises to surprse the world. Til be under Big Ben, performing the world’s greatest psychic experiment — stopping time in front of more than five million TV viewers.’
Trafalgar Square will be turned into an ice-rink!
Just over a mile from the Millennium Dome, on the Meridian Line, Eurythmics stars Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart will be ‘rocking into the millennium’.
pyrotechnic [pairau'teknik] candle петарда
Vauxhall Bridge ['vokso.l bridj] barge [bazd^] баржа psychic ['sa'k:k] зд. парапсихологический to predict [pri'dikt] предсказывать fairground [laia'graund] ярмарка to incorporate [т'кщрэгёЛ] зд. включать в себя funfair [1лп(еэ] аттракционы charity [IJserili] concert благотворительный концерт
Jerusalem [dji rtrseiem] ancient [einfant] древний biblical ['biblikal] библейский holy [ hauli] святой Armageddon [a:ma'gedn] Megiddo ['megideu]
Book of Revelation [jevaleijn] откровение Иоанна Богослова prophecy ['prof si] пророчество school [sku:l] косяк, стая (рыб) luminous [ lu:minas] фосфоресцирующий to release [ri'li:s] выпускать
New Zealand plans to install the world’s biggest bell in Wellington, which will chime for the first time at 12.00 am on January 1, 2000. Rio de Janeiro: New Year coincides with Brazil’s 500th anniversaiy and two million people are expected to head for the city s famous Copacabana Beach. Samba and Brazilian pop music will sound out from three stages and at midnight there will be fireworks.
Washington: President Bill Clinton will join the thousands of people expected to gather between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. He will narrate The American Spirit, a short film directed by Steven Spielberg, which highlights the main events of the 20th century. This will be followed by a fireworks display and a sound-and-light show. The president will then return to the White House and a black-tie dinner with 100 of America’s leading citizens.
In Las Vegas Barbra Streisand will make a live performance n a special millennium show.
rumour ['ru:ma] слух
Eiffel Tower [ aifl taua]
landmark ['kendmaik] архитектурный
памятник
Champs-Elysees [Jonz e 1i:zei]
to depict [di p-kt] изображать, описывать
lantern [ laentan] фонарь
fireworks ['faieweiks] фейерверк
juggler ['бзлд1э] жонглер
street entertainer [,ептэ teino] уличный
артист или музыкант
to line the streets зд. заполнять улицы
harbour pha:ba] порт, гавань exclusive [ik'sklirsiv] особый, специальный, для избранных
to install [in'stoJ] устанавливать
to chime ftfaim] звонить
Rio de Janeiro [ji au оэ зэ'пюгэи] to coincide [ kain'said] совпадай ь anniversary	годовщина
to head [hed] (for) направляться to highlight [hailait] освещать (события) black-tie dinner званный обед live [laivj живой fo концерте, шоу)
The Millennium Wheel
The London skyline might never be the same again. The observation wheel has been erected on the bank of the River Thames to celebrate the millennium. It’s called the London Eye and it’s more than double the height of Big Ben! On a clear day, visitors will be able to see 7 countries from its top!
The tale of the wheel began several years ago when the idea was dreamt up by architects David Marks and Julia Barfield in response to a Sunday Times Millennium competition.
Project director Paul Baxter is sure that visitors to London will be awe-struck by its size. “It will be London’s Eiffel tower,” he says.
OVER TO YOU!
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The Wheel will not stop for passengers — instead they will just walk into the large egg-shaped glass capsules while it is in motion (it will rotate very slowly!). A full trip will take 30 minutes.
On New Year’s Eve the Wheel will start turning for the first time, with laser and pyrotechnics effects.
And where will you be on December 31, 1999? Wherever you are, we wish you a great night!
How many days will there be in the Third Millennium? Send your answers before January 31, 2000 and you’ll get a special prize from SpeakOut!
THE HARD WAY
у/ hey were about to start Christmas lunch. The family were all sitting C expectantly round the table: Dad, Mum, Ron and Jennie, Gran — and Jan. Ron and Jennie’s baby was upstairs, asleep in the spare room.
Everybody was talking at once. Dad was waiting, a bit impatiently, to say what he said every year as he cm the first slice of turkey.
Jan didn’t feel like talking. She was thinking of Davey, and didn’t really pay any attention to the other people at the table. When she saw7 the table — the huge brown turkey in from of her father, the dishes of potatoes, vegetables, gravy, sauce — she thought of Davey’s words the night before. "We’re killing ourselves with too much food and three quarters of the world are starving to death ..."
"Nice bit of turkey, Jan?"
Jan hesitated, then took a deep breath and said, "No turkey for me, thank you."
Silence. The other members of the family stared at her. Jan stared straight ahead at the red candles in the centre of the table.
Her father cleared his throat. "Have you gone off turkey, then?" he asked, "or arc you just trying to lose weight?"
’Yes," said Jan, trembling a little. "I’ve gone off all this Christmas stuff. It’s horrible — we’re eating like pigs and they’re starving —"
"Who’s starving?" Dad asked, looking puzzled.
"Oh, everybody — the rest of the world — you know, you sec enough of it on TV!"
Mr Morris stood still in front of the turkey. He was trying to keep control of himself. "So you think we’re all a lot of pigs, do you? And where did you get that idea from?"
"Davey said —"
"Oh, Davey said, did he? That long-haired layabout? Well, shall I tell you what you can do?" "Jim!" Jan’s mother put her hand on his arm, but he shook her off. He was in a terrible rage.
"Shall I tell you what you can do?" he went on. ’You can get out of here and spend the rest of your Christmas with your Davey. The young generation! Leading beautiful, good lives while we foolish adults stuff ourselves with too much food."
an knew her father didn’t liked Davey, but she hadn’t expected this rage.
’You’re wrong. Dad," she said, hoping for a truce. "Davey doesn’t deserve that sort of criticism." "Get out!"
The rest of the family didn’t say a word as Jan left the room, weeping.
□iero was nobody else around in the streets at three o’clock that afternoon. It was Christmas Day,
expectantly [ik spektorrili] в ожидании, в предвкушении spare [spee] room комната для гостей
impatiently m pe-Jantli] нетерпеливо
slice [slais] ломтик, кусок
huge [hju:d3] огромный
gravy [ greivi] подливка
sause [sols] coyc
to starve [sta v] to death умирать от голсда
to hesitate fheziteit] колебаться, не решаться
to take a deep breath [breG] глубоко вздохнуть
to stare [steel пристально смотреть, уставиться to tremble f trembi] дрожать
puzzled [ p^zld] в недоумении
layabout [ leiobaut] бездельник
to shake off fjeik'of] стряхнуть, оттолкнуть
rage [гек!з] ярость
generation [ бзепэ reijn] поколение
io stuff [stAf] зд. обседаться, набивать желудок truce [tru:s] перемирие criticism [ kntisizrnj критика
after all. Most people were inside watching TV, or eating. All right, let them get on with it!
She was walking towards Davey’s house. Her father had told her to go and spend the rest of Christmas with him, and that was what she was going to do.
She was lucky: Davey was in.
"Hi, Jan! Fancy seeing you here! I thought you were spending (Jiristmas in the heart of the family, eating Christmas pudding and ali that stuff?
"Well, I was, hut... can I come in, Davey?"
There was a slight pause before he said. "Sure. I’ve got a few people here, but one more won’t make any difference. ’
It was pretty7 dark in the room. There was one candle, burning in a saucer on a shelf in one corner of the room. Jan couldnT see how many people there were, but she guessed about seven or eight; they were all sitting, or lying on the door. Indian music was coming from somewhere. There was a smell, too: of damp, and old cooking, and something Jan didn't recognize — incense perhaps?
Someone looked up from the floor as Jan stood undecided in the doorway — Dave}7 bad disappeared. ’Sit down," the person said. "Make yourself at home. There’s supposed to be a party going on here."
Jan sat down. She was feeling tired and, she had to admit, hungry'. She wondered if Davey had, after all, any food.
Nobody was talking. The music droned on. The air got thicker and thicker, and the strange smell got stronger and stronger. Jan’s head fell forward.
"Want one, Jan?’
Davey was standing over her. The candle had got so low she could hardly see what he was offering her.
"What is it?"
"This."
ft was like a long cigarette. Everybody else seemed to be holding one.
"What is it?"
"Come on, Jan, you know7."
Yes, she knew. So that was the smell: pot. She felt sick. he room spun in front of her eyes. She felt herself sweating. The candle seemed to grow six leet tall. She struggled to her feet.
"Hey, kid. What’s up?"
Davey grabbed her arm and looked accusingly at her.
"Where arc you going?"
Jan pulled her arm away from him. T don’t know — I — I need some air, that’s all. Let me go, Davey."
He was smiling but it was a hard smile. "OK," he said. "Suit yourself. ou must be nuts, or something. We were just about to have some food, too."
But an didn't hear him. She was already at the door, leaving a Christmas gathering for the second time that day.
to weep [w. p] (wept) рыдать, плакать slight [slait} незначительный, легкий damp [d-Emp] сырость, влажность incense [ .nsens] ладан, фимиам undecided [.Andi saidid] нерешительный to admit [ed mil] признавать to drone [droun] гудеть pot [pot] марихуана to fee! sick испытывать тошноту to spin [spin] (spun) крутиться, вертеться
to sweat [swet] потеть
tc struggle to one’s feet с трудом встать на ноги
to grab [graeb] схватить
accusingly [a kju zigli] осуждающе
nuts [nAts] си. псих, чокнутый
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1. What sound do they make? Match the pictures with the words in the box.
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2. Here are some expressions which contain colours. Match each one with the correct definition.
1. to be in the red
4.	to be in the pink
a)	to be in a dangerous situation
b)	to be bleeding
c)	to have a bank account which is overdrawn
2. to have green fingers
a) to wear green gloves b) to be very good at gardening
c) to be very interested in the environ-
ment
3. to feel blue
a)	to be fond of the colour blue
b)	to enjoy a beautiful blue sky
c)	to be sad or depressed
a)	to be fit, healthy and happy
b)	to be wearing pink clothes
c)	to have an illness which makes you pink all over
5.	to want everything in black and white
a)	to want information in a very clear written form
b)	to be a fan of old black-and-white films
c)	to buy only black or white clothes
6.	to see life through rose-coloured glasses
a)	to wear glasses with pink lenses
b)	to see the world better than it really is
c)	to be colour-blind
3.	Try to answer these questions.
1.	When you need advice, do you call an advisor or an adviser? Which spelling is correct?
2.	What reasons might a person have for being cagey?
4.	If you have done something wrong would you try to:
— do amends?
— make amends?
— give amends?
5.	Where might you be if you were checking in?
Where might you be if you were checking out?
3. If you find ycurself in a Catch 22 situation would you feel:
— happy?
— excited?
— frustrated?
6. If you have a crush on someone does this mean they should buy you a drink?
WHAT SHALL WE DO Wil
n Food shortages are even more common. In many countries, there is simply not enough food to feed the It growing populations. Each day 40,000 people die у from malnutrition. 150 million children in the world '! suffer from poor health because of food shortages, ir Worldwide, 1 of every 7 people does not get enough i- to eat.
Huge demands for food have forced farmers to
On October 12, the official number of people on our planet reached 6,000,000,000. Six billion!
The world's population is growing very quickly. It adds up to 184 people every minute, 11,040 every hour, 264,960 every day and 97 million every year! Just imagine how many people there will be on our planet by the year 2150 if the present trend continues.
Of course, the world's population hasn't always expanded so quickly. In fact, the number people on the planet started off growing very slowly. That's because people didn't live long as they do today.
As time passed, better medical care and nutrition and cleaner water helped people live longer. Population growth began to pick up speed. Before long, the world's population
doubled — and it has kept doubling!
In China a very drastic step was taken to slow population
growth: a policy, started in 1979, does not allow most parents to have more than one child. Imagine a land where most kids have no brothers or sisters!
Every new person added to the planet needs food, water, shelter, clothes and fuel. More people mean more cars, roads, schools, hospitals and shops.
The trouble is our planet's riches are limited. Take water, for example: although water covers most of the planet, less than 1% of it can be used for drinking and washing. One out of every 13 people around the world does not always have enough clean water.
overuse their land. When the land is replanted too often, nature has no time to replace the soil's nutrients.
As more people drive more cars, use more electricity, throw away more litter, and cut down more trees, our planet becomes more and more polluted.
Although every person uses the planet's resources, some people use a lot more than others. The richest billion people — especially
Americans — use the most resources. They also produce the most waste.
Of course, having 6 billion people also means that there is more brainpower around to find a way out.
What can we do about overpopulation? Is there a way out?
Do you believe that we can solve all our environmental problems?
Is it possible to save the Earth's resources?
Some people say that the Chinese government is right: the population should be limited. Others say that no government should make rules about family size. What do you think?
population Lpopju'leijn] население, жители trend [trend] тенденция
to expand [ik'spaend] возрастать
nutrition [nju:'trijn] питание
to pick up speed набирать скорость
drastic ['draestik] решительный, крутой
shelter ['felts] кров, убежище
fuel [fjuel] топливо, горючее
shortage [Jo tid^J нехватка, недостаток malnutrition Em&lnjii trifn] недоедание, недостаточное питание
demand [di'ma:nd] потребность, нужда спрос to force [fo:s] заставлять, принуждать
to overuse [,auva'ju:z] злоупотреблять, слишком долго использовать
to replant [,ri:'pla:nt] снова засаживать to replace [ri'pleis] пополнять, восстанавливать
soil [soil] почва
nutrient [ nju:triont] питательное вещество litter [lite] мусор
polluted [pe'lurtid] загрязненный resources [ri'zo:siz] ресурсы
waste [weist] мусор, отходы
brainpower [ brein paue] мыслительные способности, интеллект
inhabitant [in'habitant] житель, обитатель
densely [ densli] густо, плотно
birth rate рождаемость
to clog [klog] up набивать, забивать,
запруживать
fumes [fju:mz] выхлопные газы
to choke [tfeuk зд. засорять, загрязнять
landhill ['laenoh* ] мусорная свалка
to gobble [gobi] up заглатывать, захватывать precious ['prefes] драгоценный
to destroy [di'stroi] разрушать
to poison [poizn] отравлять
H OUR PACKED PLANET?
The smoky landscape of Shanyan, China, one of the world:s ten dirtiest cities. “Living
Millions of cars are clogging up our roads, competing for free space... Car fumes are choking our cities and j towns and are the leading cause of air pollution.
PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOUR
There are colours that we like and colours that we dislike. There are colours that make us feel happy and colours that make us feel sad.
Colours can make a big room look smaller or make a small room look larger. They can warm a cool room or cool a hot, sunny one. Warm colours contain red or yellow, and cool colours contain blue. The warm
Red is exciting. It makes us feel happy. Il increases our energy. It can also make us eat faster.
Orange, too, can stimulate appetite.
Is it a coincidence that places like McDonald’s use mostly red and orange?
Pink can make us tired. Some institutions in the United States use this colour to cool down angry prisoners and patients.
Is it a coincidence that places like McDonald’s use mostly rec and orange?
colours seem to bring things closer, and the cool ones tend to make objects seem farther away.
Colours have a strong influence on us. They can affect our moods and personalities, though we don’t always notice it.
Japanese psychologists made an interesting experiment. They asked a group of strangers to walk round two rooms, one painted red and the other blue. They found that in the red room, the people felt comfortable the moment they entered it. They began talking with each other and even laughing. But when they walked into the blue room, they fell silent.
Experiments have also shown that our blood pressure goes up in red surroundings and becomes lower in blue surroundings.
Blue is calming. A person can work best when surrounded by blue. But too strong a blue or too much of it can become depressing. We often feel cold in a blue rcom and warm in a red room, yet we may not know that it is the colour that makes us feel this way.
Green is a calming colour. It helps us feel relaxed and quiet.
Turquoise is the colour of communication. If you are shy, wear this colour. It may help you relax and feel more sure of yourself.
bellow, we are said, can help co/iccntra-tion and learning. Besides, bright yellow surroundings usually put us in a good mood and make us smile.
Psychologists often use colour in different personality tests. Here’s one for you on the opposite page.
psychology [sai koladji] психология influence [Influans] злияние to affect [a'fekt] влиять (на) psychologist [sai koled3ist] психолог blood pressure ['Ылс1 ,preja] кровяное давление to increase [in kri:s] увеличивать, повышать, усиливать coincidence [kau'insidans] совпадение to cool down успокаивать, утихомиривать prisoner ['prizna] заключенный patient [ peijnt] пациент
relaxed [ri'laekst| непринужденный, раскованный, спокойный turquoise ['t3:kwoiz] бирюзовый shy [Jai] застенчивый
Briefly study the pictures and than choose the one which you find most appealing.
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1.	cheerful [IJiefel] веселый, неунывающий carefree [‘keafn:] беззаботный, беспечный to the full в полной мере
2.	to swim against the tide плыть против течения
3.	sensitive [ sensitiv] чувствительный, восприимчивый
reflective [ri'flektiv] вдумчивый, задумчивый to strive [straiv] стремиться (к чему-л)
4.	well-balanced [^wel'badonst] уравновешенный, спокойный
reliable [rilaiabl] надежный
5.	goal [gaul] цель determination [di^mi'neijn] решимость, решительность
6.	easy-going [J:zi geuig] покладистый, с легким характером
sociable ['saujabl] общительный privacy [ praivasi] уединение
7.	justice ['d3Astis] справедливость
8.	to get carried away увлекаться, поддаваться
9.	unconventional [,AnkarTvenfanl] нетрадиционный, чуждый условностям
on the move |mu:v] в движении, на ногах
dJlio WJit and ^djisdom of Qlca, Will
When Oscar Wilde arrived in London at the age of 24, he declared, “Somehow or other, I’ll be famous, and if not, I’ll be notorious.” Little did he know how true that would be.
Oscar Fingal G'Flahertie Wills Wilde,
the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon and an Irish poetess, didn t have the money or the position to enter London society However, he had succeeded brilliantly at Oxford, where he had developed a reputation for being that very

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dandy and a wit. He wore his hair long, liked extravagant clothes, decorated his rooms with peacock’s feathers and sunflowers. His j ekes and witty sayings were so good that within a year he was being invited to every important party.
With his talent, charm and wit Wilde soon
became a familiar name in the literary world. His first collection, .Poems, was published in 1831. Shortly after that he went on a one-year lecture tour of North America. When an American customs officer asked him, “Have you got anything to declare?” Wilde answered,-“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
He surrounded himself with actors, writers, artists and aristocrats. But he couldn’t support his extravagant lifestyle. His marriage to Constance Lloyd, an Irish heiress, in 1884, helped matters slightly.
In 1891, Oscar Wilde produced The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel which tells the story of a man who leads a very bad life but remains young and good-looking, while his portrait ages horribly. The moralistic
Here is an extract from The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde’s most popular play. In this scene, Jack Worthing has just proposed to Gwendolen Bracknell. Her mother then asks him a series of questions to find out if he is a suitable husband for her daughter.
Lady Bracknell: Now to minor matters. Are your parents living?
Jack: I have lost both my parents.
Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr
Victorian press denounced it as “a poisonous book”, but nothing, then or now, sells a bock as well as a good scandal.
His play Salome, written in French, was actually banned in 1892, adding to his reputation. But Wilde is best remembered for
the four comic plays he wrote in the :ars 1892-95: An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. George Bernard Shaw, one of the few critics in his lifetime who praised Wilde’s
philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theatre.”
Wilde’s plays were all enormous successes at the time, as they stiil are. After Shakespeare, they are the most performed and translated around the world.
At the height of his popularity and success tragedy struck. Wilde was accused of homosexuality and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour.
The man who loved fine clothes, good food and intellectual company was broken in prison. Apart from one poem, he never wrote again.
When he was released from prison in 1897, Wilde was bankrupt and weakened. Under the name of Sebastian Melmoth he fled to Paris, where he spent the last years of his life ill, poor, and forgotten by his friends. However, he managed to retain some of his celebrated humour till the end. As he lay dying in a cheap hotel room, he declared, “This wallpaper is awful. One of us has to go.” Exit Oscar Wilde.
Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Who was your father?...
Jack: I am afraid I really don’t know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my pai ents. It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents seemed to have lost me... I don’t actually know who I am by birth. I was... well, I was found.
Lady Bracknell: Found!
Jack: The late Mr Thomas Cardew, an old gen-
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ШПООЛ рКотУПб
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Го love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Experience is the name all men give to their mistakes.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Friendship is much more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
I ife is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.
One should always be in love. This is the reason one should never marry.
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself witho ut one.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever; do they forgive them.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It is very romantic to be in love. But there is noth-ing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted.
Men marg; because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Tpe soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy a " life. The body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
r here is no sin except stupidity.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
tieman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found me, and gave me the name of Worthing, because he happened to have a first-class ticket for Worthing in a pocket at the time. Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort.
Lady В racknell: Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?
ack (gravely)*. In a hand-bag.
Lady Bracknell: A hand-bag?
Jack (very seriously)z Yes, Lady Bracknell. I was in a hand-bag — a somewhat large, black leather hand-bag, with handles to it — an ordinary hand-bag in fact.
Lady Bracknell: In what locality did Mr James, or Thomas, Cardew come across this ordinary hand-bag?
Jack: In the cloak-room at Victoria Station. It was given to him in mistake for his own.
Lady Bracknell: The cloak-room at Victoria Station?
Jack: Yes. The Brighton line.
Lady Bracknell: The line is immaterial. Mr Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me. To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life... I would strongly advise you, Mr Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over.
Tell the time to the skeleton.
Climb up the tree. G*> to 16.
15
The angry witch sends you to look for her broom.
Go to 13.
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Sit down and eat something. Miss a turn.
Through the ?/ chimney to the roof. Go to 33.
32
Hurry up to reach the Christmas star Go to 13.
Climb up the tree. Go to 15.
Think of your presents. Wait for your turn.
28
Уои found some milk. Give it to the cat. Go to 33.
9
Уои meet a sad ghost Tell him a joke.
30
Have you got a candle? yes — go to 33k No — go to 27.
^34 —
Уоц forgot your boots. Go to 23.
There's a hole in the floor. Go to 9.
11
Have a rest. Wait for your < turn.
10
There's a hole in the floor. Miss a turn.
33
Feed the cat.
This is a broom. Sweep the floor.
Уоц meet a witch. Frighten her somehow.
Have you ever seen the New Year in in the Haunted House?
This house is full of witches, ghosts, skeletons... Some of them are kind and helpful, others are angry and wicked...
The game is for two or : more players. You will need a dice and small counters. Take turns to throw and move your counters, following the instructions on the way. The first one to reach the top of the tree is the winner.
Good luck!

The Haunted [ho ntid] House Дом с привидениями witch ['witj] ведьма ghost [gaust] привидение skeleton ['skelitn] скелет helpful [helpfel] полезный angry ['aerjgri] срдитый wicked [ wikid] злой dice [dais] кубик counter ['kaunte] фишка
Keep quiet! [ kwaiet]
He шумите!
to climb [klaim] взбираться to frighten [ fraitn] напугать hole [haul] дыра
Miss a turn. [ts:n] Пропусти ход.
to reach [ri:tj] достигать broom [bru:m] метла to sweep [swi:p] подметать to look [luk] for искать recite [ri'sait] читать наизусть chimney ['tjimni] труба roof [ru:f] крыша
Go down to 11
START
Go down the ladder to 20.
Уои see a kind ghost. Stay where you are.
Climb up the tree. Go to 18
This is a candle. A Take it with you
ReJte any poem to a romantic skeleton.
The wirch asks you to visit her brother. Go to 25.
Уои meet a witch. Tell her your name and
Уои meet a skeleton. Say "Row nice to meet you."
Уои meet an angry ghost. Keep quiet!
Уои meet an angry ghcsr. Run away ro 23
Уои are the winner. A Happy New Уеаг!!!!!!
Do you like witches?
>s — go to 21 о — go to 18
Climb up the tree Go to 27.
Wait for your turn.
Have a rest;
Wait for your turn.
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SOME USELESS FACTS FRO
The rich ancient Egyptians liked parties and good food. They often wore cones of perfumed wax on their heads. The wax melted during the dinner and ran down in streams, cooling their faces.
In ancient Greece and Rome, guests at a banquet wore wreaths of plaited flowers and leaves. They believed these would prevent drunkenness.
Romans liked to invite odd numbers of guests.
They believed that even numbers meant conflict. /
Nowadays in Western countries an even number of men and women is preferred — to help the flow of conversation.
In the ancient Middle East, a host would pour perfumed oil over the heads of his guests. This was to mark their passage from the dirty’ outside to the ‘pure’ inside.
In early northern Europe, feasts were male affairs and the men got very drunk. Among the ancient Celts die thighbones of a bird were reserved for die most important guests. Men would fight to the death over thighbones.
feast пир, празднество, банкет
cone [ keen] конусообразный
головной убор
perfumed ['psrfj j:md]
надушенный, ароматизированный wax [wseks] воск
to melt таять
stream [stri:m] поток, ручеек banquet ['baerjkwit] банкет wreath [ri:G] (pl. wreaths [n:dz] венок
plaited I'p-sefid] заплетенный, переплетенный
to prevent {pri vent] предохранять, мешать drunkenness [ drArjkenis] опьянение odd нечетный even [1:vn] четный to prefer [pri'fs:] предпочитать
flow [flee] of conversation плавное течение беседы male affair [,mei! e'fee] мужское дело
thighoone [ Oaibaun] ножка
THE HISTORY OF FEASTS
It was once traditional for a male guest to be given an envelope containing the name of a lady he was to accompany to the table. The couple would then walk to the table together.
When Corvat showed the fork to his
Modern dining forks were invesjited in Italy. They were brought to Europe
tion. They said that the Italians were very strange people because the fork was very inconvenient. Only 50 years later did the people in England begin to use forks.
If a guest failed to turn up at a party in 19th-century Paris, a professional guest could be hired to take his
Fingers are very useful for handling food,
but they are blunt and they get sticky and dirty. Knives were the first pieces of cutlet^ to be used. The first crude stone knives wore
made peihaps three million years ago. Some Stone Age wooden forks may date from as long ago as 7000 BC.
The first chopsticks appeared in China during the Shang dynasty (1600-1028 BC). They were considered superior to knives because they were used by scholars. Scholars were more highly thought of than warriors who carried knives.
to reserve [ri'zavl откладывать, приберегат ь
oil foil] масло
passage fрзезаРз] прохождение, переход
pure [ pjuQ] чистый
to turn up появляться, приходить
to hire ['haia] нанимать
to accompany [e kAmpani] сопровождать
couple [ клр1] пара
inconvenient [,inken vi:nient] неудобный to handle phac^dl] обраща гься.
управляться
blunt [biAnt] тупой
sticky pstiki] липкий
cutlery ['kAtleri] столовые приборы
(ножи и вилки)
crude [kru:d] грубый
chopsticks ['tjopstiksj палочки (для еды)
dynasty ['dinaSti] династия
superior [su:'piarie] превосходный, лучший
scholar ['skole] ученый
to think highly of быть высокого мнения (о ком-л.), уважать (кого-л.) warrior [ worie] воин
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What colour is a ripe tomato? "Red, without a shadow of a doubt!" everybody would reply.
But we should have a little doubt...
For example
diver, going down with a tomato in his hand, at a great depth would see the tomato changing colour: from dark green to grey, from
yellow back to its natural red. So we can say
the coloured rays except red which is reflected and picked up by our eyes.
In addition, there are some substances in nature which help to define the different colours. Chlorophyll gives green to the leaves of the trees, mineral pigments give colour to rocks and melanin colours the skins of animals.
COLOURS FOR COMMUNICATION____________
Colours in nature have a reason: sending precise messages, '.here's no monotony in nature.
W ith die changing of the seasons, the hours of the day or night and places, different colours appear on lhe plants and animals, creating a natural palette worthy of the greatest painters.
that a tomato isn’t red, but it looks red in the light of the sun.
THIS IS BECAUSE______________
Sunlight is made up of a spectrum of coloured rays which go from red to violet passing through orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo.
When tine light hits an object, it produces a strange phenomenon. If me object absorbs all the coloured rays, it appears black. If it doesn t absorb any of the coloured rays, it appears white. And if it absorbs only some of the rays, it appears coloured.
So a tomato looks red because it absorbs all
ripe [raip] спелый, зрелый
doubt [daut] сомнение
diver ['da.ve] ныряльщик, водолаз spectrum fspektrem] спектр ray [rei] луч
indigo [ tnchgoii] цвет индиго phenomenon [fi'nommen] явление to absorb [ob so: b] поглощать to reflect [ri flekt] отражать

substance ['sAbstens] вещество
to define [di'fam] определять chlorophyll [ k’oraf'l] хлорофилл pigment ['pigment] пигмент melanin [ melanin] меланин precise [pri saiz] точный, определенный, отчетливый
monotony [mo notoni] однообразие camouflage [ kaemoflaij] маскировка
HIDING TO SURVIVE___________ _______
Tor some animals camouflage is the only way to survive. In this way a chameleon, which takes its colour from the leaves where it’s hiding, can capture the insects it lives on. Some
chameleon [ke mi lion] хамелеон
to capture [ kaeptja] ловить
to contain [kan tein] содержать в себе
poison [ poizn] яд
to seduce [sidjuis] соблазнять
peacock [ pi kok] павлин
to owe [on] to быть обязанным (кому-л.)
carotene ['koeratin] каротин
seaweed [ srwid] морская водоросль
OF COLOU
GIVING A WARNING
ment of seduction for
It’s irresistible!
blind to all colours.
captivity [keep tiviti] неволя
mammal [ msemol] млекопитающее bullfighter [ buJfaito] торреэдор to enrage [irfreidj] приводить в ярость cape [keip] накидка
ultraviolet [ л11гэ vaialit] ультрафиолетовый to enable [rnefol] давать возможность, облегчать
colour-biind [ kAlabla ina] дальтоник
fro«s take on the colour о
of the earth to escape
Tom their enemies.
Generally, animals have strong colours to frighten their enemies. This is the case with the coral snake or with some South American frogs which contain a powerful poison.
.AND SEDUCING
animals. You only have io look at a peacock s tail to know that its feathers are desinged to give pleasure to the
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE PINK FLAMINGO
owes its colour to the carotene present it the seaweed which it lives
on.
For this reason, in captivity it loses its characteristic colour unless colouring is added to its' ood.
CAN ANIMALS SEE COLOURS?
Not all animals see colours in the same way.
Birds, bees, and butterflies see colours, but horses, pigs, dogs, and cats don’t. In fact, most mammals see only black and white.
Tie bull’igh ter enrages the bull with the movement of his cape, not its red colour, which the bull sees as grey.
can see colours unknown to us. For bees, many of the flowers which we see as white, are a strong ultravio-
which human eyes can’t see.
Bees can also see different shades of blue in the sky which enables them to -Ind their way when flying.
WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE?
Some people cannot see certain colours. These people are colour-blind. Most colour blindness is to red and green, and a lesser number of people are colour-blind to blue and
MILLENNIUM
Ingredients;
2 oranges
1 lemon
1/2 small spoon sugar, or to taste
5 tablespoons water
orange and lemon slices, to decorate
1.	Wash the oranges and lemons and then pare the rind off the fruit with a sharp knife, leaving the white pith behind. Remove the pith from the fruit and discard it.
2.	Put the orange and lemon rind in a saucepan with the sugar and water. Place over low heat and stir gently until the sugar has dissolved.
3.	Remove the pan from the heat and press the orange and lemon rind against the sides of the pan to release all their oils. Cover the pan and let cool. Remove and discard the rind.
4.	Puree the oranges and lemon and sweeten the fruit pulp by pouring the cooled citrus syrup over the fruit pulp. Set aside for 2—3 hours to allow the flavours to infuse.
5.	Strain the fruit pulp, pressing the solids in the sieve to extract as much of the juice as possible.
6.	Pour into a tall glass filled with finely crushed ice and decorate with a slice of orange and lemon.
Grown-ups can add 2 tablespoons of rum or vodka.
tablespoon [ teiblspu:n] столовая ложка slice [slais] ломтик
to pare [pee] резать, очищать
rind [raind] кожура, корка
pith [piG] сердцевина
to remove [ri'mu:v] снимать
to discard [dis'ka :d] выбрасывать saucepan [so:spaen] кастрюля to stir [st3 ] помешивать
to dissolve [di'zolv] растворяться
to press [pres] прижимать
to release [ri'lks] выпускать
oil [oil] масло
to cover [kAve] накрывать
to let cool [ku: I] остудить
to puree [ pjuerei] приготовить пюре
pulp [рл1р] кашица
to pour [рэ:] вливать
syrup ['sirep] сироп
to set aside [a said] оставлять
to infuse [in fju:z] настаиваться
to strain [strein] процедить
sieve [siv] сито
crush [kr/i[d] размельченный
CR S W R
Try this crossword. The answers to most of the questions can be found on the pages of this issue.
Across
Down
1. The main river flowing through London
1. If you are shy, wear this colour. It may help you relax
3.	7. A drink tasting of lemon.
9. The pigment that colours skin.
11. The first name of the famous Israeli illusionist Geller.
12- Short for Unidentified Flying < Object
14. The English for ‘пир’.
15. A type of pop music in which the words of a song in time with music with a steady beat.
17. He is UFO-obsessed FBI agent of The X-Files.
i 18. To feel blue means To be _ _______’ in
jflERb English.
20. A Hindu philosophy and a system of exercises to gain control over the mind and body.
, Я 21. An American company which makes 4	" sports clothes and shoes.
22. “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is being talked
about,” said Oscar Wilde.
and feel more sure of yourself.
2.	Music played during a film or show to create atmosphere.
3.	Substance which makes leaves green.
4.	Taking on the colours of the environment. For some animals it’s the only way to survive.
5.	A decade is a period of days.
of one thousand years.
13. The famous cre-
ator of The X-Files. £ i < L | 16. A popular actor.
His name means ‘spbitual in Russian.
19. A prehistoric giant.
24. One thousand million.
23. The part of the body by which the head is joined to
25. Fox Mulder’s friend and assistant,
the shoulders.
26. This is a__________-cleaner.
27. A pink bird.	\
30. Rock legend Peter who is staging the millennium show at the Dome.
31. The opposite of‘dirty.’
Dana.
28. The country where the fork was invented.
29. A very frequently used English verb.
(answers on page 32 )
32. This science studies the mind and the way it influ-
ences behaviour.
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He is UFO-obsessed FBI agent Fox Mulder of The X-Files, a true believer in ancient genetic mutants and parasites from another galaxy. His name means 'spiritual' in Russian. He is David Duchovny.
David Duchovny was bom in New York City on August 7, 1960. His Russian-Jewish father, Amram ‘Ron’ Ducovny (yes, they spell their names differently!) is a writer. His Scottish mother is a housewife. Before David was bom his parents had been English teachers at the Berlitz school. When his parents divorced, David was raised by his mother, along with his sister Laurie and his brother Daniel.
“My father took the ‘h’ out of our last name because he was tired of having it mispronounced,” says David. “But when my parents divorced, my mother put the ‘h’ back in, as a show of solidarity with how a family member spelled the name. I spell it with the ‘h’; my brother doesn’t use the ‘h.’ My sister goes back and forth, depending on her mood... I think it’s a beautiful name that I’m told means ‘spiritual’ in Russian. I don’t care how people spell the name as long as they get the meaning.”
When David was a boy he went to a prestigious private school in Manhattan. “He was a very bright kid with a brilliant sense of humour,” his father remembers. “At school he was always top of the class.”
After school he entered Princeton University. Then he studied English Literature at Yale University and worked as a teaching assistant.
David was working at his PhD thesis at Yale when one of his friends suggested that he should try acting classes.
“It made sense,” says David, “because I was 26 years old and didn’t feel like spending the rest of my life teaching. I liked teaching, but it seemed like living in an unreal world.”
Soon he made $9,000 for appearing in a TV commercial for Lowenbrau beer. It was twice as much money as he made as a teaching assistant.
Duchovny’s PhD thesis, Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry was never finished. He moved to Hollywood.
His mother was angry when he had given up studying. Even now, when she speaks to him on the phone, she always asks him: “When are you going to finish your thesis?” He laughs and says: “Later, later.”
David’s first year in Hollywood was very hard. He was unemployed and could hardly make both ends meet.
UFO ['ju:feu] (сокр. от Unidentified Flying Object) НЛО, неопознанный летающий объект obsessed [ebsest] одержимый, увлеченный ancient ['einfent] древний genetic dsi'netik] генетический mutant ['mju:tent] мутант parasite [ paerasait] паразит galaxy [gaeleksi] галактика sriritual [ spiritjuel] духовный, одухотворенный
to divorce [di'vo:s] разводиться
to mispronounce [ mispre nauns] неправильно произносить
goes back and forth зд. пишет
то так, то эдак
depending on her mood
в зависимости от настроения
I don’t саге [кеа] Мне все равно prestigious [pre'sl id3es] престижный private fpraivit] school амер частная школа
teaching assistant [e sistent]
ассистент кафедры (низшая препод, должность в амер, университетах) PhD [,pi: eitj 'di:] (сокр. от Doctor of Philosophy) доктор философии thesis [ Oi:sis] (pl. theses ['6i:si:z]) диссертация
commercial [кэ'тз:]а1] реклама magic [maed3ik] магия
technology [tek'nol 9d3i] техника, технология
contemporary [ken'tempareri] современный
fiction ['fikjn] художественная литература
unemployed [ Anim'ploid]
безработный
could hardly make both ends meet едва сводил концы с концами feature [1i:tfe] film художест венный фильм
creator [kri'eite] создатель
to impress [im'pres] произвести впечатление
script [skript] сценарий
ilTjn'T FILES
David is very surprised not only by the success of The X-Files but by his own personal popularity. Chris Carter has called him ‘frighteningly smart’. Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) has described him as ‘hysterically funny’. Other actors who have worked with him describe him as modest, professional and hard-working. He also has a good memory for names and faces.
David is fond of sports. He played basketball and baseball at school and university. He keeps in shape with jogging and yoga exercises.
He writes poetry, but, as he says, he does not read it in public any more.
David lives in Malibu with his beautiful wife. Tea Leone, his one-year-old daughter, Madeline and his dog, Blue.
Luckily, he was invited to play in a commercial and later in a feature film. “Acting gave me a sense of team and I liked this very much,” David says.
Very soon Duchovny appeared in such feature films as Chaplin, Beethoven, Julia Has Two Lovers, Reel Shoe
Diaries and California.
His work in the movies attracted the attention of Chris Carter, the famous creator of The X-Files.
A TV series weren’t in Duchovny’s plans but he was impressed by the script for The X-Files. So he became agent Fox Mulder.
Here is what Duchovny says about his work with Carter: “I enjoy working with Chris. He respects what I have to say. We have different ideas about Mulder from time to time... I’m always trying to make him a little funnier, a little lighter... Chris is the boss. But he is not always there. When he’s away, I do what I want. Then he comes back and scolds me.”
David Duchovny admits
that he has some things in common with Fox Mulder. ”We look alike. We’re not completely different. Nothing shocks either of us... And I think it would be impossible to act all the time 10 months of the year. It would kill you.”
David is often asked if he believes in UFOs. “I don’t know if we’ve been contacted or the aliens have landed,”
Here is one of David Duchovny" s poems.
Would you like to have a go at it? We'd be happy to receive your translations.
Home is where the heart is and my heart is out travelling. Up into the wild blue yonder, wingless, prayerful that this miracle of flight will not end, just yet.
Also at home, with you, on the ground wherever you might be at the moment, grounded like a highschooler, like a wire, a bird and a wire, feet on the ground and my heart in my throat now, now in my feet, lawfully descending with gravity to the lower, lowest, most sought after most beautifully bound, home.
Aspirations involve reparations. We reach for the stars wondering what we are.
But my Reason has been found by finding you and looking down. And it is there, not in the stars of fantasized worlds, fifth dimensions, sixth senses, holy parallel potentates of potentialities — that my feet will trace their slow as history itself dance:
a walking calligraphy so subtle that it will take 40 years and more and a view from above
with an impersonal remove and lofty attachment I hope to barely fall at that mythical two-backed beast; itinerant
he says with a shrug, “but it would seem rather odd to me if this planet is the only one in the universe with life on it.”
to respect [n'spektl уважать to scold [skauld] p\ rai ы. бранить to admit [ad'mit] признавать completely [kern pli:tli] полностью to shock [jok] шокировать alien [ eilian] инопланетянин, пришелец
with a shrug [[глд] пожимая плечами universe ['ju:niva:s] вселенная popularity I, pop]u'lacriti] популярность frighteningly ['fra tnigli] ужасно smart [sma:tl умный
hysterically [hi sterikali] funny смешной дс истерики, ужасно смешной modest [modist] скромный hard-working [,ha:d'w3:kiij] трудолюбивый
to keep in shape [reip] держаться
в ферме
jogging ['dpgioJ “джогинг”, бег yoga ['jeuge] йога
Malibu ['maetibu:] Малибу (курортный город в Калифорнии, где живут мно> ие знаменитости)
start s;
like the one I enjoy up here in the well attended air,
о read the cursive strokes of my aggregate footsteps,
like some fairy tale dissolve, “Once upon a time ’ or twice written on our little page of earth, ground, where our home may be will be
wherever we happen to be.
THIS YEAR IT’S GOING TO BE
DIFFERENT
New Year’s Resolutions are like anything else — you get out of them what you put in. Judging from results of other years, I had never put enough in, but this year was going to be different. I read books on self-improvement before I wrote my list. Find some beauty in everything ... Make the other fellow feel important ... About thirty like that. I could hardly wait until New Year's Day.
When 1 came downstairs Maggie, my wife, was at the kitchen sink. I tiptoed over and kissed her on the back of her neck. (Resolution No. I: Be spontaneous in showing affection.) She shrieked and dropped a cup. “Don’t ever sneak up on me like that again!” she cried.
“You’re looking lovely this morning,” I said. (A sincere compliment is worth its weight in gold2.)
“Look, ’ she said, “it wasn’t my idea to stay out until four a.m.”
I took some aspirin and coffee into the living room. I’d just started reading the paper when Sammy, our five-year-old, came in. He was wearing the watch he d received for Christmas. “Say, Dad,” he said, “what makes a watch run?”
In the old days I would have told him to ask his mother. Instead, I got a pencil and drew a sketch of the spring mechanism. (Always encourage your child’s
curiosity.) It took about fifteen minutes, and Sammy wandered off several times, but I kept calling him back. “There,” I said, “that’s what makes your watch run.”
“Then how come' it doesn’t?” he asked.
His brother Roy walked by. “You have to wind it,” said Roy. Sammy wound it and held it to his ear. He smiled. “Roy sure is smart,” he said.
Our daughter Gretchen came in with her doll, Mrs Robinson. “Good morning, Gretchen,” I said. “Happy New Year, Mrs Robinson.” (Meet your child at his own level.)
“It isn’t happy,” said Gretchen. “Mrs Robinson is sick. Probably a coronary1.”
“Why don’t you take her to sec Dr Sammy?” I suggested. “He can use his new doctor’s kit’.”
The phone rang, and I answered it. It was a friend of our daughter Kit. “Happy New Year, Marilyn,” I said. What have you been doing over the holidays?” (Show an interest in your children’s friends.) She said she hadn t been doing anything much. “Come now, a pretty g;rl like you,” I said merrily, “I’ll bet the fellows are swarming around.
What’s that? Yes of course
you can speak to Kit. Certainly.”
Kit was in her room with the record player going very loud. I knocked on the door. She called out something, and I went in. She was in her pyjamas. “I didn’t say you could come in!” she yelled, grabbing a robe and holding it in front of her.
“I’m sorry,” I said apologetically. To ease the situation, I picked up her sweater from the floor and put it over a chair.
“I was going to pick it up”, she said defensively. “You don’t always put your things away.”
There was a series of shrieks down the hall. I found Gretchen in tears. Roy and Sammy were about to perform open-heart surgery on Mrs Robinson.
I suggested that they carved something for their mother — like a salad spoon. (Encourage creativity in the young.)
In the kitchen, Maggie wanted to know what was wrong with Gretchen. “Mrs Robinson had a coronary,” I told her.
“I know you’re not feeling your best after last night,” she said, “but I'm getting a little tired of these smart remarks. Would you mind taking the garbage out?”
“I’d be happy to,” I said. (The most trivial chore can prove rewarding if approached with zest.)
“Do you have to be so sarcastic?” she asked.
It seemed that my resolutions weren’t working the way the books had said. 1 didn’t quit, though. I helped the boys build a
snowman — only Sammy got his feet wet and Roy lost his mittens and they went inside. I played cards with Gretchen, but she said I didn’t do it right. I struck up a conversation with Kit. I touched on pop music, dating, morality and so on but she contributed very little. Anybody else would have thrown in the sponge1 2 3 4 5 6, but I kept trying. For example, Maggie always dreads taking down the Christmas tree, so I thought I’d do it for her. (Take over one of your wife’s chores, she 11 love you for it.)
I was about two thirds done when Maggie came in. “Oh, no!” she cried. “I wanted it left up for the party tonight. Can’t you just sit and watch a football game? Please? It’s what you usually do on New Year’s.”
“This year is different,” I said.
“Yes, isn’t?” She shook her head. “The boys have been impossible all day. And Kit has been in a poisonous mood. She said that Marilyn phoned and you didn’t tell her. And that you cross-examined Marilyn about her boyfriends.”
“Hold it!” I said. “I was only making small talk.” By now the kids were in the room, attracted by the noise.
‘You never bothered with small talk before. Why start now?”
“Because it’s New Year’s.” I said. I explained to the assembled gathering about the books and the resolutions. The kids stood there looking uneasily at each other. “A man wants to improve himself,” I said.
“He wants to be a better husband, a better father —”
“We all want to be better,” Maggie said. “Except that when you’re so considerate it doesn’t seem natural.”
“Yeah,” Kit said. “You didn’t say a word about my clothes on the floor. You just smiled. It made me sick.”
Gretchen said, “I think it was better when you didn’t play cards.”
“And yelled,” Sammy said.
“And said ‘damn it all,”’ said Roy.
“All right,” I shouted. “I make every effort to be a good father, and this is the thanks I get. The fact is, you don’t deserve the father you’ve got.”
I was illustrating my point with gestures. “You’re the ones who’d better start making resolutions. Like doing your homework, cleaning your rooms... And when I tell you to do something, jump!”
At this moment, I realized suddenly that the atmosphere had changed. The kids were sprawled on the floor, relaxed. I turned to Maggie.
“Why is everybody smiling? What’s the big joke?”
“No joke,” she said. “We’re just happy to have you back again.”
1 to sneak up to come slowly and unnoticed
2 worth its weight in gold very valuable
3 how come why
4 coronary heart attack
5 kit set of instruments
6 to throw in the sponge to admit defeat
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millennium [mi'leniom] тысячелетие leap [li:p] високосный (год) population Lpopju'leijnj население to carve [ka:v] высекать
literally [litroli] буквально, дословно sequoia [si kwoie] секвойя



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Why can't teachers strike pupils with a ruler?
Because the Queen’s much too busy to hang around school all day.
What animal with two humps is found at the North Pole?
Why does a witch ride on a broom ?
Because a vacuum cleaner is too heavy to fly.
Do centipedes always have 100 legs ?
1 hey don’t know because they can t count.
What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships.
What do you get if you cross a parrot with a centipede? A walkie talkie.
Which is correct —seven and five is eleven, or seven and five are eleven? Neither — seven and five are twelve.
What smells ofi ish and travels at twice the speed of sound? A Concorde pilot’s tuna sandwich.
What's the biggest ant of all? The eleph-ANT.
How can you tell if there's an elephant under your bed?
Your nose touches the ceiling.
What did one wall say to the other? I’ll meet you at the corner.
What makes more noise than a pig in a sty ? Two pigs.
to strike [straik] (struck) ударять, бить ruler ['ru: 1. правитель 2. линейка to hang around слоняться hump [блтр] горб witch [w.tf] ведьма
vacuum cleaner ['vaekjuem kli:no] пылесос
centipede ['sentipi.d] сороконожка
walkie talkie [,wo:ki' to.ki] “уоки-токи”, портативная рация tuna [tjuzna] тунец
sty [stai] свинарник

The world is so full of a number of things, Гт sure we should all be as happy as kings.
R. L. Stevenson
THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH	I VAN GOGH AND LIGHT
This is the famous “Angel of the North” which stands on the site of an old coal mine in the North East of England. At 20 metres high, the Angel is higher than a five-storey building. Because of its location, it can be seen from miles away. Its wings are 54 metres wide —
almost the same as a jumbo jet. It weighs 100 tonnes.
The sculpture was created by Antony Gormley, a well-known British artist.
Soon Gormley will surprise the world with his new ‘ cloud” sculpture. It will be on display outside the Millennium Dome. This “cloud sculpture is made up of 3,500 square steel tubes, inside which a human figure can be seen. Ii will sparkle both in sunlight and at night, when it is illuminated, while the human form inside the cloud will be visible from somii angles but invisible from others. Antony Gormley says that he has created a “vision of the human being as a zone of light and energy”.
coal mine ['kaulmain] угольная шахта
wing [wig] крыло
jumbo jet ['йзлтЬэи dset] аэробус, большой лайнер
steel [sti:l] стальной
tube ['tju:b] трубка
to sparkle ['spa'kl] сверкать, переливаться
visible [ vizibl] видимый
angle [ aerjgl] угол
invisible [in viz bl] невидимый
SCHOOL YEARS AROUND THE WORLD
Some children are happier than others: they have more holidays and less classes. Here are some examples.
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COUNTRY SCHOOL YEAR
China	251	clays
Japan	243	days
Korea	220	days
Israel	215	days
Germany	210	days
Russia	210	days
United States 180 days
Light was Van Gogh’s great passion.
But now — because of light — the colours in his paintings are disappearing.
The alarm was sounded a few years ago by the director of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, who said: “The parts which the artist painted red and pink are becoming white. His spring landscapes now look like winter scenes.” The colour of at least 20 of the 200 painting exhibited in his museum has changed. The bright red in many landscapes is becoming a dull brown The pink in the background of “The
Irises’’, one of Van Gogh s most famous paintings on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New York has also turned White.
According to experts, even the colours in the renowned “Portrait of Dr Gachet ’ are fading.
The Japanese millionaire Ryoei Saito certainly isn’t happy about that. He bought the painting in 1990 for the record sum of 82.5 million dollars.
Van Gogh [vaen gox, got] Ван Гог passion [ рас in] страсть alarm [e'la:m] тревога landscape [ laendskeip] пейзаж scene [si:n] сцена, картина dull [dAl] тусклый background ['baekgraund] фон, задний план iris pairis] ирис
Metropolitan Museum [,metre'politn mju:'zi am] музей Метрополитен renowned [ri'naund] известный, знаменитый to fade [feid] выцветать
THE RUSSIAN NEW YEAR
Believe it or not, it was only 300 years ago. in 1699, that the Russians began celebrating the New Year in European fashion — on January 1. It was Peter the Great’s idea. Before 1699, this holiday had been celebra ted twice a year in Russia: on March J (the religious New Year) and
on September 1 (the civic New Year). The religious festival was based on the old belief that the world and all living beings had been created by God in March. The civic New Year celebrations marked the end of summer.
civic ['Sivik] гражданский
TRY THIS CROSSWORD!
A Frenchman has created the largest crossword in the world. Covering 13,125 square metres, it has 131,250 squares, and not one of the 35,617
words appears twice.
the Surveyor spacecraft and very soon well able to hear Mars’ sounds.
Will we ever be able to smell Mars?
Mars [ma:z] Mapc
rocky [ roki] скалистый
mission [ mijn] космический полет
image ['imldj] изображение
shame [Jeiin] позор
spacecraft [ speiskra:ft] космический корабль (аппарат) private [ praivit] частный
to carry out [ kaeri aut] выполнять, осуществлять
HALF ELEPHANT, HALF MAMMOTH
WHAT DORS MARS SOUND LIKE?
You probably have some idea what Mars looks like: dry, rocky, and red.
But do you know what it sounds like? Past missions to Mars have sent back images but no audio, so no one really knows. We’ve been watching Mars with the sound off.
Carl Sagan, a famous astronomer, thought that it was a shame. “Why not put a microphone on the next spacecraft to visit Mars?” he suggested. Sagan died in 1996, but the Planetary7 Society, a private organization Sagan once led, is carrying out his wish. A small microphone will be put on
Kazufumi Goto, a Japanese scientist at Kagoshima University, believes that he may be able to bring an extinct species — the woolly
mammoth back to life.
a while, though, frozen mammoths are found in the cold
ground of Siberia, and Goto hopes that he’ll be able to dig up an especially well preserved one. If he does, and if that mammoth has the right kind of cells, he'll try to use them to crossbreed a dead mammoth with a live, modern elephant. That will give him an animal that’s half elephant, half mammoth. But by breeding with the original mammoth cells again and again, Goto hopes — after a few generations — to have a creature that’s close to 100 percent mammoth.
mammoth [maenrioG] мамонт extinct species[ik stir)kt 'spi:fi:z] вымерший вид to dig up раскопать, откопать
well preserved [ wel 'pri z3:vd] хорошо сохранившийся cell [sei] клетка
to crossbreed [ krosbri:d] скрещивать
generation fdjene'reijn] поколение
HIGH HEELS
Women have always loved high heels. But in the 16th century they wore the highest ones of all. They were platform shoes of about fifty centimetres
high!
CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Thames 3. cocktail 7. lemonade 9. melanin 11. Uri 12. UFO 14. feast 15. rap 17. Mulder 18. sad 20. yoga 21. Nike 22. not 23. neck 26. vacuum 27. flamingo 30. Gabriel 31. clean 32. psychology
Down: 1. turquoise 2. soundtrack 3. chlorophyll 4. camouflage 5. ten 6. chameleon 8. Dome 10. millennium 13. Carter 16. Duchovny 19. dinosaur 24. billion 25. Scully 28. Italy 29. go
BLUFF CLUB
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9.	T
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