You
are going to read five texts. Match each of the headlines A-D to one of the
texts. One heading is extra.
1. Russia's
Alexei Yagudin is just one of the defending champions under pressure before
this week's world figure skating championships, which promise to be the most
unpredictable in recent memory.
2. Oil markets gave the OPEC producers' cartel Monday a
lukewarm response to its weekend decision to slash world crude supplies by 1
million barrels per day from April.
3. Those on the left don't like it because they would
prefer an increase in state spending. Those on the right don't like it because
they want more fiscal austerity. And it is with the liberals that Prime
Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will have his toughest debates.
4. This time, exhibits arrived: from the Kovalenko
Krasnodar Regional Museum of Arts - a total of 42 color paintings and 12
drawings and sketches from artists such as Kazimier Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky
and Marc Chagal.
5. The designer presented her new collection of fur
coats with a symbolic name, "Warm Up Your Soul," in the National
Hotel on Sept. 7.
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