Task 3

For Questions 1–15, read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct put a tick. Use the letter \"V\" as a tick. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in a given space. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

В поле ответа поставьте галочку или запишите только ОДНО слово (без цифр, точек, скобок и других лишних знаков). Слова с орфографическими ошибками, опечатками и лишними знаками не засчитываются!

The Moscow Metro
People first started talking about a metro for Moscow in 1902 due to the need not to lag behind London, which had built its underground system 39 years before.
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2 Moreover, the city became irrevocably mired in traffic jams, and Muscovites were suffered.
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3 Construction of the first tunnel began in 1931, and four years later, the first ever line of the Moscow metro was completed.
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4 At 7 a.m. on 15 May 1935, 13 stations opened their doors. People had been waited all night by the stations, dreaming of becoming the metro’s first passengers.
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5 They were allowed on the trains with tickets which came in two colours: red for trips to Sokolniki and yellow for the return back journey.
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6 History has preserved the name of the first passenger, a Mr. Latyshev, who proudly told the Rabochaya Moskva newspaper: “I’ve travelled in wagons, street-cars, horse-drawn trams, and electric trams, and now I’ve lived to see the metro.
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7 I know there is a man in America who collects the first tickets ever issued on every metro system. But no, I’ll never send it my valuable Ticket No.1, series A, to America.”
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8 In Sokolniki, a place where in the 17th century falconers made their homes, the first building of the Moscow metro appeared.
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9 Falconers were people from big villages who had trained falcons for the Tsar’s hunts.
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10 The project of the station won a Grand Prix at the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life in Paris in 1937.
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11 The station known as Komsomolskaya is being built in Art Deco style with two rows of square columns covered with pinkish yellow Chorgun marble from Crimea.
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12 A Maiolica panel, in the style of Italian Renaissance artists and by Russian painter Eugene Lanceray, a member of the influential Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) movement, is dedicated to the selfless work of the Komsomol members who built the metro.
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13 It’s known that Lanceray even went down into the metro tunnel when having working on his sketches.
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14 Krasnye Vorota is a station where three eminent architects showed off their talents at a time: Ivan Fomin, Nikolai Andrikanis, Nikolai Ladovsky.
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15 The dark red shade of Shrosha marble from Georgia goes well with its name (Red Gates), and carries with it the memory of the lost triumphal arch, was constructed on this very spot by architect Dmitry Uhtomsky in the 18th century.