Third year final mock grammar test (Remember: still, nothing is more important than staying calm during an exam)

1. Link the sentences, making a text.

Doctors under stress

1. Each day doctors encounter stresses.

2. The stresses are an intrinsic part of medical practice.

3. Doctors work with intensely emotional aspects of life.

4. Their training is grossly inadequate for these aspects.

5. Patients may be frightened.

6. Patients may be in pain.

7. Interacting with them is stressful.

8. The patients' relatives may be very anxious.

9. The patients' relatives may be deliberately hostile.

10. Dealing with the relatives is stressful.

11. .Doctors often have to deal with the demand for certainty.

12. Medical science may not always have clear or easy answers.

13. Many of us realize that stress is a medical problem.

14. Few of us realize just how stress-prone doctors themselves are.

2. Fill the gaps with appropriate linkers and connectors.

1. Before they visit a new country tourists should find out as much as they can about

the places they are going to be seeing. (1) , if they know what weather to

expect, they will take suitable clothes. (2) , if they know whether to tip

or not, they will avoid embarrassing situations. (3) , if they know when

the shops are open, they will avoid the disappointment of missing out. These tips should help to make a stay in a foreign country (4) enjoyable and

4. frustrating.

2. Scientific studies suggest that intelligence is (6) partly inherited.

5. , intelligent parents are more likely to have intelligent children. Some in­formation about this has been gathered from studies of identical twins who were

brought up separately. (8) they grew up in different environments, their

school results were often remarkably similar.

3. Turn the dialogue into a story.

She doesn't like interview

Lisa Ms Jacklin, is it your 1^st visit to England?

Susanne Well, er... no....

Frank No, it isn’t. Next question.

Lisa Do you like England?

Susanne Well, yes, I do....

Frank Yes, she does. Next question.

Lisa	Do you like English men?
Susanne	Well, er... I....
Frank	No, she doesn’t. No way!
Lisa	Ms Jacklin, I like the book Kiss, but I don’t like the film. Do you like the film?
Susanne	Well, I....
Frank	She likes it very much. It’s a wonderful film, a box-office success... twenty million dollars in the 1st week!
Lisa	I’m asking her, Mr. De Vito.
Frank	She doesn't like interviews. I’m answering the questions, OK?
Lisa	OK. Does she like the television series of Kiss?
Frank	Yes, she li...
Susanne	De Vito...
Frank	Yes, Ms Jacklin?
Susanne	Shut up. No, I don't. I don’t like the television series, and I don't like the film. That's the end of the interview. Good buy.

Good luck!

REFERENCES

1. С. Чокер. Связующие слова: Справочник по английскому языку. Пер. с англ./Сильвия Чокер. - М.: ООО «Издательство Астрель»: ООО «Изда- тельсьтво АСТ», 2004. -- 236, [4] с.

2. Clare West. Recycling Advanced English. Georgian Press, 1999.

3. Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans. Grammarway 4. Express Publishing, 2001.

4. John & Liz Soars. New Headway Intermediate. Student’s Book. Oxford, 2004.

5. John & Liz Soars. New Headway Upper-Intermediate. Student’s Book. Ox­ford, 2004

6. John & Liz Soars. New Headway Advanced. Student’s Book. Oxford, 2005.

7. Michael Swan, Catherine Walter. How English Works. A Grammar Practice Book with answers. Oxford, 1999.

8. Sue O’Connell. Focus on Advanced English C.A.E. Revised and Updated. Student’s Book. Longman, 2000.

9. Sue O’Connell. Focus on Proficiency. Student’s Book. Longman, 2000.

RELATIVES

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1.1. INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION 4

g) 20

1.5. CAUSE, EFFECT 36

1.7. RELATIVE CLAUSES 71

1.9. OPINION MARKERS 82

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3. а

4. J

5. i

6. с

7. d

8. h 9-е Ю-g

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g) 20

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1.7. RELATIVE CLAUSES 71

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CONDITION 120

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Exc.5 (b)

a-3

b-4

c-5

d-2

e-6

f-1

Russian equivalents of the proverbs:

1. Волков бояться

• в лес не хо­дить.

2. Кто везде быва­ет, тот много знает.

3. Связался с чер­том - пеняй на себя.

4. Без труда нет плода.

5. Не ошибается тот, кто ничего не делает.

6. Кто первый пришел, первый молол.

Ехс. 7

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REVISION! 115

CONDITION 120

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2. п

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1. 3

2. 12

3. 7

4. 4

5. 1

6. 10

7. 2

8. 5

9. 9

10. 8

11-6

12-11

Ехс. 9

The sentences are dif­ferent due to the fact that they contain defin­ing or non-defining clauses.

Exc. 10. a)

1. that/-

2. cannot be changed

3. cannot be changed

4. that/-

5. cannot be changed

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REVISION! 115

CONDITION 120

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1. which

Exc. 13

1. (that) I’ve ever ...

2. correct

3. correct

4. correct

5. (that) he always plays with.

6. ..., which ..

7. whose

8. why/ that

9. ...bom in... fin which

10. where

11. ... works in .../ in which...

12. .. .whose mother...

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1. Suppose/ otherwise you buy a lottery ticket and then win a big prize. The moment you hear that you have won, you feel ecstatic.

2. Does what I do scare you? If so/ if not I will stop.

3. Just if not/ suppose that Daniel and I were ever to get married. Would you come to the wedding?

4. Now supposing/ if so there were only one of those stamps, and supposing it was worth a million dollars. And otherwise/ supposing the man who owned it suddenly came into possession of a second stamp, its duplicate What do you think would be the value of each of those two stamps?

5. Your secretary told me that you would be coming over. Suppose/ Other­wise I should have felt compelled to call you at home.

6. You may as well go ahead with the wedding. Think of all the telephoning you’d have to do if so/ otherwise.

The link between CAUSE and EFFECT can be indicated by means of verbs, noun, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions and logical connectors.

1. She spoke so fast that I could not understand.

He's such a nice man that I'd do anything for him.

Exercise 3. Join the beginnings and ends using what

• Have you ever been in any of these situations? Explain why.

Example: I was stopped by the police once because I was speeding.

1. Have you ever been stopped by the police?

2. Have you ever fallen asleep in a cinema?

3. Have you ever failed your exams?

4. Have you ever played truant?

5. Have you ever told a lie?

6. Have you ever eavesdropped on anyone?

7. Have you ever ignored your alarm clock in the morning?

8. Have you ever written an unpleasant letter and then wished you hadn’t done it?

• Can you answer these questions without using the word “because”!

1. Why do we have night and day?

2. Why do we have seasons?

3. Why do the rivers flow down from the mountains to the sea?

4. Why is it dangerous to stand under a tree when there is thunder and lightning?

5. Why do oceans have tides?

6. Why can’t we see across the Atlantic Ocean even with a powerful telescope? j

7. Why do we have to carry passports or identity cards when we go abroad?

8. Why are animals put into quarantine when taken abroad?

1. ... teenage pupils who have problems at school themselves are tutoring younger children.

2. The younger children read to their tutors (who are supervised by university students of education)...

1 were built between 1840 and 1857 .,.

2. ... she ate greedily ...

3. ...I’ve never met before...

4. .. .1 took on my last holiday...

5. .. .I’ve wanted to introduce you to for ages...

6. ...he eats...

1. This is Ann Hargreaves, _runs the bookshop.

2. I lave you heard about the problems Joe's having at work?

3. Never buy yourself anything eats.

4. I don't like people can’t laugh at themselves.

5. We took the M4 motorway, goes straight to Bristol,

6. I'll never forget the first film I saw.

7. Harry Potter, writes detective stories, lives in our street.

8. I think this is the best holiday we've ever had.

1 It's the tallest building which I’ve ever seen.

3 He was arrested for speeding, which unfortunately was reported in the local newspaper.

• crisis, difficulty, problem, dilemma is what can be seen an unfortunate situation, or at any rate one requiring a difficult decision. Dilemma empha­sizes the idea of a difficult choice, in which none of the alternative solu­tions is completely satisfactory.

• Solution. Problems, whether described as such or not, need solutions.

• Incident. A difficult or unpleasant event, or perhaps simply an unusual One, can be referred to as an incident.

• pronouns

he, it, them, this, etc.

• articles

• names/titles

• contrasts

• parallel expressions,

synonyms

1) Even today, when it has been widely filmed and photographed, Tibetan-style debating remains an astonishing spectacle, with its stamping, posturing and hand-clapping. No outsider since Desideri had regularly taken part in this act/acttion/activity,

2) If something won't go right in a painting, the solution is to return to the Original subject and try to see with greater clarity what you are aiming to recre­ate in paint. Sometimes in these circumstances /this context/this position/this experience it can be helpful to put down your brushes and make a separate ill awing of the subject.

3) Inform air-traffic control that your aircraft has been taken over by terrorists Miu! that you are changing course and proceeding to Cyprus. When you have Нине that, tell the passengers of this development/ effect/result and warn them not to make any stupid moves.

l. ’There hasn't been a baker in the village since the big supermarkets opened in town 10 years ago. People like the service and especially the old-fashioned bread.'

I didn’t speak English. Little things like that made me feel unhappy and insecure, (10) I did not want to go back to my own ethnic community. (11) I came to realize that I was not living in

my country anymore. (12) I was living in a new

country, (13) I had to do things for myself. I had to

learn a different culture, a different language, and different customs.

Living with my ethnic group was very comfortable, (14)

__ , at the same time, in my opinion, it was harmful

(15) I didn’t learn some of the essentials for survival