Variant 3 Task 1. Read the text and answer the questions: 1. Why are spectators very excited when they watch kokpar?
2. A game of audaryspak always takes two minutes and is very dangerous. Do you agree?
3. What are popular Kazakh games?
4. What did Alexander the Great think about kumis alu?

Favourite flower*                                                                                                                        His favorite flower, I would have called a tulip. It is spring and the tulips are usually in a hurry to grow up to 8 March. Dad often gives tulips mother on this holiday. But I like the tulip is not for it. Just a flower is very fragile and so delicate that takes your breath away.
Tulip reminds me of a beautiful young girl. This is due to the harmony of the flower, probably. Tulips just modest incline their heads, not yet blossomed. Tulip bud on a flexible stalk forward - it is a real work of art. Their petals are delicate, as if made of silk or some other magical cloth. To touch them - and afraid to mash.
Tulips are found in many colors. The most common - a red and yellow in a cup with pollen in a black frame. These tulips grow, for example, in the garden of my grandparents. And there are pale pink tulips, yellow, white, spotted, with or without fringe, and even red, purple! There are all varieties of tulips does not happen! Florists brought even black tulips, it's just handsome.
What can I say, because there are tulips with various patterns, color stains and other decorations. Often there are tulips that lustrous shine like patent leather. I dream in the future to go to Amsterdam, Holland. This country - the realm of every variety of tulip varieties. I can imagine how much beauty there, how many interesting things you can see there.
Very beautiful tulips that bloom. And the most wonderful tyulpanchiki that I have ever seen, growing in the flowerbed at the theater. It was a rare variety. These tulips have a pale pink color, even white-pink shade was so gentle. And through the finest petals sun shone. On the lawn grass beds, these tulips look simply divine.                                                        
 

Rose is the oldest flower in the history of mankind. To grow roses and to select the best models began three millennia BC in ancient China. According to legend, the first striking beauty of the wild plants of roses, created by nature itself, were brought from the banks of the Yangtze and huange. Ancient Chinese gardeners lovingly tended the roses, noticing and choosing the most beautiful. Some sources also refer to the experience of the gardeners of Ancient Egypt, learned to achieve an abundant and almost continuous flowering roses throughout the year. The birthplace of the rose is the Ancient India and Central Asia, where the flower came to Asia Minor, Greece and later in Europe. The ancient peoples of the East, the rose has always been a sacred and deeply revered flower. In Ancient India the rose belonged to the status of flower preserver of the Universe Vishnu, therefore the priests were decorated with roses, temples, rose-petal strewn path during religious celebrations and festive processions. It was believed that the contemplation of blooming roses clears the mind, heals the soul and brings it into harmony with the world. Special honor rose were used in Ancient Persia, where it was considered a flower of Allah and his gift to the people. To Russia rose hit from Bulgaria. Christian art glorified the rose as a sign of innocence, purity and Holiness, it was considered a heavenly flower. Over time the rose became closely associated with the virgin Mary, which depicted surrounded by bushes of roses in Paradise. The red rose became a symbol of the suffering Christ, which was shed in the name of living people on Earth blood.