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When were you bom? 1 was bom in 1965 (nineteen sixty-five). What is your job [dgob]? Where do you work? 1 am a worker [’warka] a peasant [’peznt] a collective farmer [ks'lektiv Та:тэ] an engineer Lendji'nia] a scientist ['saiontist] a teacher ['ti:t|e] a docker f'doka] mechanic [mi’keenik] a writer ['raita] a journalist ['dgarnolist] a student at Moscow University [,ju:ni'v3:siti] an actor, actress ['eekta, eektris] a clerk [kla:k] a lawyer [’loija] a typist [’taipist] a housewife ['houswaif] a miner ['mains] a builder [’bildo] an artist ['a:tist] Сколько вам лет? Мне 21 год. Сколько лет вашей жене (му- жу)? Мы одного возраста. Когда вы родились? Я родился в 1965 г. Какую должность вы занимате? Где вы работаете? Я - рабочий крестьянин колхозник инженер научный работник учитель докера механик (техник, слесарь) писатель журналист студент (студентка) Московского университета актер, актриса конторский служащий юрист машинистка домашняя хозяйка горняк строитель живописец, художник READING STORY He Saved His Life The French king Louis XI had an Italian astrologer (астролог) whose name was Martius Galeotti. One day the king asked him: "You say that the stars (звезды) tell you everything, and that you know the hour own death? Do you know when you will die?" "What shall I answer him?" thought the astrologer. "It I say that I shall live long, the king will kill me just to prove (1) that the stars do not say the truth (правду). Then he remembered that the king was himself afraid of death and he used this fact. 167
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