21—30-й тесты. Английский язык. ЕГЭ. На базе материалов ФИПИ - стр. 17

DEFENCE

26. ……………………… everyone who comes to Scotland today spends some time in this city.

PRACTICAL

27. Edinburgh is the second most popular tourist destination in Great Britain and it’s not hard to see why. Its midsummer ……………………… festival is one of the biggest in the world.

NATION

28. Edinburgh is a delight to explore on foot: most of its ……………………… are contained within a compact central area.

ATTRACT

29. With streets steeped in history and a ……………………… cultural scene, Edinburgh offers the perfect balance between traditional and contemporary things.

THRIVE

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In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. Each island is inhabited by a different race of people. Although physically they look alike, you can tell them 30 … by their styles of dress and their distinctive dialects. Each island has its own unique form of architecture. The only similarity between them is that each race builds in a manner that is 31 … odds with the environment. On rocky hillsides there are wooden huts and in wooded valleys you can see towns of brick. Arid uplands are irrigated and planted with leafy gardens, whereas, on fertile plains, the parks are paved with stone. 32 … their differences, the islanders coexist peacefully. There is rivalry over certain fishing waters but it rarely 33 … to more than a few heated exchanges.

At the centre of the archipelago, perhaps in the most favoured spot of all, lies an island that has been deserted for many generations. It looks very different from the rest: darker, taller, silent. There is no obvious reason 34 … its abandonment as it has good soil and plenty of freshwater.

Long ago, it was inhabited by farmers and fishermen much like everywhere else in the archipelago, but everything changed when they started building the first wall. As soon as it was finished a second circle of battlements began to rise from the centre, slightly narrower than the one before, so that from faraway the island 35 … an enormous wedding cake.

Nobody can explain why the wall was started but there are many theories as to why it was never finished. Some say that so many had perished during its construction, that no one dared halt the work and thereby admit that it had all been in vain. Others claim that the builders simply