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4. According to the author, dogs will be happier if they have their nails cut and their hair combed. II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы. 1. Why do they recommend to buy puppies when they are 6 or 8 weeks old? 2. What happens if puppies don't establish a relationship with a human being till they are three months old? 3. Why don't dogs need fruit or vegetables? 4. What is the most essential rule that you have to observe if you want to have a happy and healthy dog? III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста. 1. If puppies are kept in kennels until they are 3 months old they may be too aggressive to become good pets. 2. Dogs require a well-balanced diet like cats. №20 Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания. A visitor from Barcelona arrives at Madrid government office in mid-afternoon, and is surprised to find only the cleaning lady there. «Don't they work in the afternoons?» he asks. «No,» she replies, «they don't work in the mornings. In the afternoons they don't come.» Lazy Madrid, busy Barcelona: it is just one of many stereotypes about Spain's great rivals. Mostly, the stereotypes are born of Barcelona's bitterness at its second-class status. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a proudly autonomous region, but Madrid is the capital of Spain. This causes resentment. It makes Barcelona the largest city in Western Europe not to be a national capital. Over the years governments in Madrid did their best to limit Barcelona's political power. Barcelona has the liberalism that often characterizes port cities. An old-fashioned seriousness in Madrid, isolated high up on Spain's central plateaus, contrasts with the light-heartedness of Barcelona, open to Europe. 131
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