READING
Task 1. Read the text and choose the correct answer for questions 1-6.
Harry moved back into the shadows next to Hedwig, who seemed to have realized how important this was and kept still and silent. The car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a crunching noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air. Harry ran back to the window to see the bars dangling a few feet above the ground. Panting, Ron hoisted them up into the car. Harry listened anxiously, but there was no sound from the Dursleys’ bedroom.
When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred reversed as close as possible to Harry’s window.
“Get in,” Ron said.
“But all my Hogwarts stuff — my wand — my broomstick —” “Where is it?”
“Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can’t get out of this room —”
“No problem,” said George from the front passenger seat. “Out of the way, Harry.”
Fred and George climbed catlike through the window into Harry’s room. You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary hairpin from his pocket and started to pick the lock.
“A lot of wizards think it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,” said Fred, “but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.”
There was a small click and the door swung open.
“So — we’ll get your trunk — you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron,” whispered George.
“Watch out for the bottom stair — it creaks,” Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark landing.
Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron. Then he went to help Fred and George heave his trunk up the stairs. Harry heard Uncle Vernon cough.
At last, panting, they reached the landing, carried the trunk through Harry’s room to the open window. Fred climbed back into the car to pull with Ron, and Harry and George pushed from the bedroom side. Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window.
Uncle Vernon coughed again.

(After Joanne K.Rowling)

USE OF ENGLISH
Task 3.
Read the text and choose the best answer A, B, C or D
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written (1) ................ British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter, together (2) …………….. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story (3) .................. around Harry's struggle (4) ......... the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world and subjugate the non-magical humans, called “muggles” to his evil rule.
Since the 1997 (5) ..................... of the first novel - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States, the books have (6) .................. immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide.
The series has sold (7) .................... than 400 million copies and has been translated into 67 languages , and the last four books have consecutively (8)..................... records as the fastest-selling books in history.
Thus far, the first five books have been made into a series of (9)................... pictures by Warner Bros and have become one of the highest grossing film series of (10) ................. time.
The series, in (11).................., has also originated much tie-in merchandise, such as eight video games, an iPod, as well as the licensing of more than 400 additional Harry Potter products.