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\(\boxed{10}\) Установи соответствие между текстами A–G и заголовками 1–8. Используй каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.
Strategies and useful tips

  • Recommended time to fulfil is 10 minutes!
  • First thing you need to do is to read the titles very carefully and translate them. Try to keep them in mind while doing the task.
  • You don't need to read all the texts very carefully. Your aim is to understand the main idea.
  • Most often key information can be found in the very first and last sentences of the texts.
  • The heading must be the one that best covers the main topic, so you need to make sure that the heading you have chosen fits the meaning of the whole mini text, and doesn't just simply use some of the same words.
  • Very often you will not find the same words in the texts and titles, so pay attention to synonyms.
  • If necessary highlight the keywords in the texts.
  • Remember! There is one extra title that you do not use.
  1. Anna Karenina.
  2. History Patriot.
  3. Repression Witness.
  4. Desert Rose.
  5. It's All In Your Head.
  6. Beauty And The Beast.
  7. Miss Penicillin.
  8. Let There Be Light.

A. Praskovya Uvarova was a Russian scientist and archaeologist. She was born into a noble family and received excellent home education. Among her teachers were professors and scientists, she knew three languages. At the age of 18, she married a famous Russian archaeologist and has since become fully involved in the work of the Moscow Archaeological Society. This organisation was founded by her husband with the aim of comprehensively studying, protecting and popularising national antiquity. Praskovya Sergeevna took part in archaeological excavations, organised congresses of the society, wrote scientific works and headed the Moscow Archaeological Society. She was the initiator of a bill, according to which it would be prohibited to export antiques from Russia.

B. In 1901, Bluma Gerstein was born on the territory of Poland which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. She studied at the gymnasium, then at the women's courses in Minsk and then, at the age of 21, she moved with her future husband to Berlin, where she entered the University of Berlin. There she studied personality psychology and attended lectures by various teachers. In 1925, in her thesis, she made the discovery that unfinished actions are remembered better than completed ones. This phenomenon was named after her as the Zeigarnik effect. For this discovery, she has received several awards and wide recognition in psychology. She became one of the founders of the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University where she taught from 1967 until her death.

C. The first antibiotic, penicillin, was produced in 1928 in the United States. But in the USSR they invented their own kind of antibiotic called Krustozin. Its creator was Zinaida Ermolyeva. She decided to become a doctor in 1915 when she learned of the death of her beloved composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky from cholera. It was this disease that she began to study. In order to study the ways of infection, she drank a glass of water containing cholera-like organisms and almost died because of this experiment. In 1939, she went on a business trip to Afghanistan where she was able to develop a rapid diagnostic system for cholera. During World War II, she was able to stop the cholera epidemic in Stalingrad.

D. Anna Abamelek lived in the XIX century and was of Armenian origin. She was a writer, philanthropist and court maid of honour. She received an excellent home education, perfectly knew English, French, Armenian, Georgian and German. She moved frequently with her husband. In all cities, she was engaged in charity work, organised various educational institutions. At her home, she organised literary and musical salons where she received famous mathematicians, composers and writers. She also did translations and wrote poetry. It was she who translated the works of Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov into French, she translated Tumansky and Apukhtin into English and Goethe, Heine and Byron from German and English into Russian.

E. In 1939, Olga Ladyzhenskaya tried to enter the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad University, but they refused to accept her because she was the daughter of an enemy of the people. In 1943, she entered the mathematical faculty of Moscow State University and then graduated from the magistracy of Leningrad University. She wrote over 200 papers, including six monographs. Her work on the theory of hydrodynamics is still used in developments related to the movement of a ship, torpedo and blood in vessels. She was one of the people who helped Solzhenitsyn create his book The Gulag Archipelago about the repression in the 1930s.

F. Many people know the writer Alexei Tolstoy, but not many have heard of his mother Alexandra Bostrom. She wrote her first story at the age of 16. Her first novel was published in 1882. It was handed over to the publishing house by her husband to keep her when she was about to return to her beloved Alexei Bostrom. This did not help save the marriage, since later Alexandra went to Bostrom and lived with him until the end of her days. She did a lot of creativity and literary translation. Until now, readers are interested in her essays both from an ethnographic point of view, and because she described a broad picture of social inequality and the hard life of the provincial intellectual class. She was also a fairly well-known children's writer.

G. Fatima Butaeva was born in the family of a lawyer and a journalist. Her uncle was a state and party leader in the USSR. At the age of 19, she entered the University of Mathematics and then transferred to Moscow. For two years she taught at a technical school, and in 1934 she got a job at the All-Union Electrotechnical Institute (VEI), first as an engineer, and then became the Head of the Department of light sources. It was Fatima Butaeva who invented fluorescent lamps, for which she received the Stalin Prize in 1951. In addition, she invented a new principle of light amplification which is now used in all lasers. Thus, she was ahead of her time and her invention was evaluated only eight years later.

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