11— 20-й тесты, английский язык, ЕГЭ, 2024, на базе материалов ФИПИ - страница 8

24. Their new uniforms are more comfortable and more fashionable than uniforms ___________ forty years ago. BE

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The Longest River in the World

25. Many encyclopаedias state with _________ that the River Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. CONFIDENT

26. Its length is often given as being 6,695 kilometres. However, there are _________ who would question that. SCIENCE

27. Indeed, some would argue that the River Amazon in South America is in fact longer than the Nile. At first sight it seems _________ that we don’t know exactly how long the rivers are. BELIEVE

28. The situation becomes more _________, though, when we consider. UNDERSTAND

29. that there is not always _________about where a river actually starts. AGREE

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The main argument used against the space programme is that the enormous amount of money it costs could be better spent on solving problems such as poverty and environmental damage here on Earth.

Initially, this view 30 ___________ persuasive, particularly when confronted with how huge the amounts of money we are talking about actually are. Surely, the argument goes, if, instead of sending hundreds of billions of dollars up into space for a pointless walk on the Moon or a few glossy colour photographs of Mars, we channelled the funds into 31 ___________ projects on our own planet, we could solve all the world’s problems in about as short a time as it takes for the space shuttle to circle the globe.

How appealing and – perhaps sadly – how untrue. The fallacy of that argument is in the idea that all of the money allotted to the space programme is wasted in space. It isn’t. None of the money goes into space at 32 ___________. It stays right here on Earth and is fed back into the economy.