- •Московский государственный лингвистический университет
- •Центр довузовской подготовки
- •Проверочное тестирование
- •1. Read the text and do the tasks that follow it.
- •5. Find the right answer for each question.
- •6. Find the right answer for each question.
- •7. Find the best answer for each question.
- •8. Read the text and do the tasks that follow it.
- •9. Use five words out of ten given below to complete these sentences.
- •10. Explain the meaning of these idioms
- •11. Выберите правильный вариант употребления выделенного существительного во множественном числе в контексте указанной ситуации.
- •12. Supply the best word or words to complete each sentence.
- •16. Choose the correct word(s) to complete Mark Twain’s wisecracks.
- •17. Choose the right form of the verb (1 – singular; 2 – plural) to complete each sentence:
- •19. Use the right word (1 – comfortable; 2 – convenient; 3 – comfortably; 4 – conveniently) to complete each sentence.
- •20. Which answer is not correct?
- •22. Find the word nearest in meaning to the underlined one.
- •23. Use one of the words suggested to complete a sentence. One word is extra, you do not need to use it.
- •24. Complete with the correct article:
- •25. Use one of the words suggested to complete each sentence.
- •26. Complete each sentence with 1 – as; 2 – like
- •27. Choose the correct connecting word.
- •30. The sentences below, when properly arranged, form a short story. Indicate their correct order.
- •31. Choose the right answer (a, b, c or d) to complete the text. There is an example at the beginning.
Московский государственный лингвистический университет
Центр довузовской подготовки
UNIT 9
Проверочное тестирование
1. Read the text and do the tasks that follow it.
ON WRITING
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In their efforts to write like Shakespeare, high school students sometimes produce a style of writing, which is so artificial, flowery and cumbersome that it is ineffective. Such a style is the result of the mistaken notion that big words, unusual words and figures of speech, no matter how commonplace, are literary. Unlike mistakes, made through carelessness or laziness, a mistake of this kind is made through trying too hard to sound like a great writer. The resulting style is said to be “overwritten”. It is also sometimes referred to as “fine writing”. During the Second World War Representative Maury Maverick, of Texas, became impatient with the overwritten style of some government writing and branded it with the descriptive term “gobbledygook”. Here is an example of the gobbledygook that troubled Mr. Maverick: “Illumination is required to be extinguished upon vacating these premises”. You can see how much more effective would be, “Turn out the lights when you leave.” |
Choose the correct ending
1. In America, if you go to high school, you attend …
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1. university
2. college
3. school
2. An artificial style of writing means …
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1. artistic
2. not natural
3. unreal
3. Overwritten style is produced through …
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1. carelessness and laziness
2. the wish to imitate great writers
3. gobbledygook
4. In America, a Representative is …
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1. a Congressman
2. an MP
3. a member of the Representative Party
5. “Gobbledygook” may be said to refer to…
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1. big words
2. commonplace figures of speech
3. incomprehensive and pompous writing
2. Сравните следующие пары слов. Цифрой 1 обозначьте пары, в которых второе слово нельзя употребить вместо первого в данном контексте, цифрой 2 обозначьте те пары, в которых такая замена возможна.
1 |
Line 1 |
…efforts… - attempts |
2 |
Line 2 |
… cumbersome… - heavy |
3 |
Line 3 |
… notion… - opinion |
4 |
Line 4 |
… literary… - literate |
5 |
Line 9 |
… impatient… - ill |
3. В тексте упражнения 1 встречаются слова:
1) cumbersome,
2) ineffective,
3) commonplace,
4) carelessness,
5) overwritten
Образуйте новые слова по аналогии с указанными словами из текста. Укажите номер слова, выделенный элемент которого был использован для образования нового слова. Используйте каждый элемент только один раз.
1. accurate |
2. quarrel |
3. weight |
4. wealth |
5. joy |
4. In each line, find the word in which the underlined part is pronounced in the same way as in the stressed syllable of the head word.
1 |
EFFORTS |
1. pencil |
2. reports |
3. produce |
4. refer |
2 |
STUDENTS |
1. rules |
2. news |
3. dentists |
4. study |
3 |
CUMBERSOME |
1. cucumber |
2. butcher |
3. love |
4. verse |
4 |
RESULT |
1. readily |
2. legend |
3. pudding |
4. couple |
5 |
VACATE |
1. chamber |
2. dance |
3. massive |
4. language |