"Установите соответствие между текстами А-G и заголовками 1-8. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.   1.…

"Установите соответствие между текстами А-G и заголовками 1-8. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.   1. Beautiful money5. Many choices2. Ideal indeed6. A flower of luxury3. Rose family traits7. A flower of conflict4. Discovering origins8. A symbol for all times   A. The rose is the most deeply ingrained flower in human history and human culture. I t has been immortalised and integrated into music, festivals, poetry and even wars. It has been used as a sign of passion as well as grief. It is also the sign of human love, given on different occasions. William Shakespeare surely immortalised the rose for the world in 1597, in his play "Romeo and Juliet", when Juliet so passionately said, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet." B. All species of roses are naturally found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Some 150 wild species are spread worldwide, from Alaska to Mexico, from Northern Africa to China. Al roses are close relatives of cherries, apples, pears, raspberries, and plums. Most species of roses have long been cultivated for their hips, the fruit of the rose flower that has nutritional and medicinal value. A unique characteristic of all species of roses is its ability to bloom over and over again, from early summer to late autumn. C. The Romans at first believed that the rose was useful as a source of natural medicines. Soon, the beautiful flowers became necessities at Roman festivals. Roman emperors demanded that their baths be filled with rose water, and they reclined on carpets of rose petals during their feasts. Perfumes made from roses became a high- priority treasure for the ruling elite, and it resulted in hardships among the peasant class, who were forced to grow roses instead of cultivating much needed food. D. During the loth century in England, the rose became the symbol of war between twofasnihes, both of whom had laid claim to the English crown. The War of the Roses lasted for 30 years and involved the House of York, whose symbol was the white rose, and the House of Lancaster, whose symbol was the red rose. Only in 1486, King Henry VII of the House of Lancaster, who was the first Tudor king, married Elizabeth of York, uniting the families and finally bringing the English civil war to an end. E. In the 17th century, the rose became so valuable across Europe that it - along with rose water - was often used as currency. Roses were used to barter in market places across Europe, and commoners could pay their taxes to kings using roses and rose water. Josephine, wife of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, created a great rose garden on the edge of Paris that contained over 200 varieties of the cherished rose. Most of the roses ofEurope at that time were shades of pink or white until the early 19th century. F. Roses have always been extremely popular all over the world, and fossil records show the presence of ancient roses in the Tertiary Period, which began about 70 million years ago. Where, exactly, first roses appeared is still unknown. It is often believed that roses were probably first cultivated in the royal gardens of ancient China about 5,000 years ago. In Ur, an ancient city of Mesopotamia, 3,000-year-old clay tablets contain the first known written reference about roses growing in gardens of the city.       Текст A B C D E F G Заголовок                   "