
- •First year Conversation Test 1 Lesson 5
- •Test 2 Lesson 6
- •Test 3 Lesson 7
- •Test 4 Lesson 8
- •Test 5 Lesson 9
- •Test 6 Lesson 10
- •1. Transform the sentences into the3rd person singular:
- •2. Use the proper article.
- •3. Form all possible questions to which the following sentences are the answers:
- •4. Answer the questions with at least 3 sentences:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 7 Lesson 12
- •Test 8 Lesson 13
- •1 Open the brackets using the correct tense:
- •Test 9 Term I.
- •Test 10 Lesson 14
- •Test 11 Lesson 15
- •I. Use the correct form of the verbs:
- •2. Add 5 or more sentences to each situation. Use the active vocabulary:
- •3. Fill in prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary.
- •4. Use the proper article.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 12 Lesson 16
- •Test 13 Lesson 17
- •Test 14 Lesson 18
- •I. Express in the passive the second of each of the following pairs of sentences. Don't mention the active subjects.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •3. Complete the following sentences using the Complex Object.
- •Test 15 Lesson 19
- •I. Complete the sentences using a Gerund:
- •2. Fill in the missing words:
- •3. Fill in prepositions.
- •4. Use the proper article.
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 16 Term II
- •7. Translate into English:
- •Phonetics Test 1
- •Test 2
- •1. Copy and transcribe the following words. Mark primary and secondary stresses:
- •2. Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes:
- •3. Read the following questions. Observe the intonation of special questions.
- •4. Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize it.
- •Test 3
- •1 Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
- •2. Write the plural form of the following nouns. Transcribe them:
- •3. Transcribe the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes:
- •4. A) Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
- •5. Make up dialogues using phrases from phonetic exercises according to the following model:
- •Test 4
- •1. Ask to repeat the following statements using alternative questions.
- •3. Read the text, mark the stresses and tunes, prepare it for test reading.
- •4. Read the story and render it.
- •Test 5
- •1. Read the commands and requests. Observe the intonation they are pronounced with.
- •2. Listen to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the reply.
- •Practical grammar Test 1. Nouns
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 2
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 3
- •Test 4. The Noun group
- •2. Give the plural of the following nouns:
- •3. Look at the following pairs of sentences. In one the noun in bold is used as a count noun and in the other as an uncountable noun. Mark the sentences с for count or u for uncountable.
- •4. Complete the sentences by adding apostrophe to the noun group in brackets.
- •5. Choose a personal pronoun or a reflexive pronoun to complete these sentences correctly.
- •6. A. Complete each of the sentences below by choosing one of the indefinite pronouns in brackets.
- •7. Insert the where necessary:
- •8. Complete the sentences about the cities, choosing suitable phrases from the table below:
- •9. Complete the sentences using the determiners given in brackets:
- •10. Choose which determiner in brackets best completes each sentence:
- •11. Translate into English.
- •Test 5
- •Test 6. Adjectives, quantities and amounts, and numbers
- •1. Take adjectives from the phrases below and put them into the columns given. The first phrase has been given for уоu.
- •2 Are the adjectives in these phrases in the normal order? Answer 'Yes' or 'No'
- •3. Complete the following pairs of sentences using the correct form of the verb in brackets You must use the '- ed' -form for one sentence in each pair and the '-ing' -form for the other.
- •4. Write the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives:
- •5 Supply the best word or words:
- •6. Insert the proper adjective from the list below:
- •7. Supply the best word or words:
- •8. Translate into English:
- •Test 7
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 8 Tense-Aspect forms
- •1 Use the required tense-aspect forms in the following text:
- •1 Translate into English:
- •2. Open the brackets:
- •3. Put the following into direct speech with the appropriate punctuation:
- •Test 10
- •1. Translate into English:
- •2. Use the required passive tense-aspect forms in the following sentences:
- •Test 12
- •5. Explain the meanings and forms of 'have to' and 'be to' in the sentences.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Test 13. Modals
- •1. Fill in the blanks with modals:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •Dictation 2
- •Dictation 3 Everyday Life of Mr. Snow
- •Dictation 5 My Flat
- •Dictation 6
- •Dictation 7 a Country-House
- •Dictation 8
- •Dictation 9 My Hobby
- •Dictation 10 a Picnic out of Town
- •Dictation 11 In Autumn
- •Dictation 12 In Abramtzevo
- •Spelling tests Words with difficult spelling
- •1. Learn the spelling of the following words and prepare them for spelling dictation.
- •Homonyms
- •1. Learn the following homonyms and prepare them for dictation.
- •Words similar in sound and form
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 Balzac and the thief
- •Reproduction 2 a Story that made Daniel Defoe famous
- •Reproduction 3 Henry Hudson
- •Reproduction 6 a mistake
- •Reproduction 7 a Story about Joseph Turner
- •Reproduction 8 Tea-leaves Many years ago tea was unknown in European Countries. Many people didn't even know the word tea, though drinking tea was very popular in the East.
- •Reproduction 10
- •Reproduction 13 Life as I find it
- •Reproduction 14 a dog
- •Reproduction 15 Honest Abe
- •Reproduction 18
- •Second year Conversation Test 1 unit 1
- •6. Translate into English.
- •7. Comment on the given proverbs. Make up a situation centered round one of them (arrange it in paragraph.)
- •Test 2 unit 2
- •1. Complete the open dialogues, (see the vocabulary below)
- •2. Give the synonyms of the following words:
- •3. Give the antonyms of the following words:
- •4. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •5. Translate into English:
- •6. Give some key- words to these ideas:
- •Test 3 unit 3
- •1 Give English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •6 Translate into English.
- •7 Summarize the meaning of these proverbs in a topic sentence (choose one).
- •Test 4 unit 4
- •1 Give English equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •2. Give synonyms to the following word-combinations:
- •3. Give the variants of the verbs:
- •4. Fill in prepositions and adjectives:
- •5 Translate into English:
- •Term paper
- •Give English equivalents to the following words and combinations.
- •2. Give the synonyms of the following words and word-combinations:
- •3. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •Test 5
- •4. Fill in prepositions:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 6 unit 6
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 7 unit 8
- •5. Translate into English.
- •Test 8 unit 9
- •5. Translate intoEnglish.
- •6. Summarize in writing your ideas of the reasons why people go to the theatre. Test 9 term paper.
- •1. Give English equivalents to the following words:
- •2. Make up your own sentences using the following words and word-combinations:
- •3. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •4. Translate into English.
- •5. Write down your comments on the following proverb:
- •Practical Phonetics Test 1
- •1. Consider the wollowing items.
- •Test 2
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 4
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 5
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Test 8
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form:
- •Practical grammar Test 1
- •1 Choose the right variant.
- •Test 2
- •1. Complete the sentences taking care to use the correct tenses.
- •2 Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •3. Translate into English.
- •1. Complete the following sentences.
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms.
- •3. Translate into English.
- •Test 3 Mood
- •1 Translate the following into English using the appropriate means of expressing unreality:
- •2. Supply the necessary forms expressing unreality.
- •Test 4 Verbals
- •1. Translate into English.
- •2. Supply the appropriate verbals for the following sentences:
- •Test 5 Modals
- •1 Supply the necessary modal verbs for the following sentences, noticing carefully the Russian equivalents given in brackets:
- •2. Translate the following sentences into English using suitable modal verbs:
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
- •Reproduction 2 Home After Langston Hughes
- •Reproduction 3 "Pride and Prejudice"
- •Reproduction 4 My Unknown Friend After s. Leacock
- •Reproduction 5 The Broken Boot
- •Reproduction 6 The Picture of Dorian Gray
- •Peproduction 7 "Cedric's Fairy Godfather"
- •Third year Practical phonetics Test 1
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 2
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 3
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 4
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 5
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions in written form.
- •Теst 8
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 9
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Test 10
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.
- •Conversation Test 1 Lesson 2 Part 3.
- •Test 2 Lesson 3 Part 3
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Test 3 Lesson 4 Part 3.
- •Test 4 Lesson 5 Part 3.
- •4. Translate into Russian.
- •Test 5 Lesson 6 Part 3.
- •4. Translate into Russian.
- •Test 6 Lesson 8 Part 3.
- •Test 7 Lesson 9 Part 3.
- •Test 8 Term paper I
- •3. Translate into English.
- •4. Answer the following question.
- •Composition subjects
- •Reproductions Reproduction 1 Shannon's Way
- •Reproduction 2 The escape
- •Reproduction 3 How to guess your age
- •Reproduction 4 The test by Angela Gibbs
- •Reproduction 5 The perfect murder by Roy l. Mangum
- •Reproduction 6 Cry-baby by John McClain
- •Business English Test 1 Письмо-запрос
- •Test 2 Письмо-предложение
- •Test 3
- •Test 4 Ответ на претензию.
- •Test 5 Ошибка при поставке груза (wrong Consignment),
- •Test 6 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 7 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 8 Письмо-рекламация (a letter of Complaint).
- •Test 9 Письмо-рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 10 Письмо-Рекламация (a Letter of Complaint).
- •Test 11 Страховка и рекламация (Insurance & Claims).
- •Test 12 Письмо-запрос.
- •Test 13 Письмо – запрос
- •Test 14 Ответ на предложение (Reply to Offers).
- •Country Studies Test 1. The British Commonwealth.
- •1. Fill in theblanks with proper words:
- •Test 2. The British Isles, England (Geography).
- •1. Put the letter “t” after the sentence if it is true or the letter “f” if it is false:
- •Test 3. Ancient Britain.
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Test 4. Anglo-Saxon Britain.
- •1. Choose the right variant.
- •Test 5. England in the XVIII- XIX centuries.
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Industrial Revolution. Match the inventions with their inventors:
- •Test 6
- •1. Consider the following questions and items in writing:
- •Test 7
- •1. Consider the following questions and problems in writing:
- •Test 8
- •1 Consider the following questions and problems in writing:
- •Fourth year Conversation Test 1 Books and reading
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •2. Choose an author you'd like to talk about. Note down a few pieces of factual information about his life and work.
- •3. Be ready to enumerate merits and demerits of a well-known English or American classic book. Test 2 Man and music
- •1 Answer the following questions in written form:
- •2. Write about your impressions of a concert (recital) you have recently attended. Outline for giving impression:
- •1. Answer the following questions in written form:
- •3. Write about the possible future achievements of tv in information, education, entertainment. Test 4 Family life
- •1 Answer the following questions in written form:
- •Test 5 Lesson 3 part IV.
- •Test 6 Lesson 4 part IV.
- •Test 7 Lesson 6 part IV.
- •Test 8 Lesson 8 part IV.
- •Analytical reading Test 1 William Faulkner "The bear"
- •2. Translate into English.
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English using the active vocabulary of the text.
- •Test 2 Agatha Christie "The witness for the prosecution"
- •1. Choose the synonym of the underlined word.
- •2.Translate the following sentences from Russian into English using the words and word combinations of the text.
- •Test 3 William Golding "Lord of the flies"
- •1. Analyze the main idea of the story.
- •2. Translate the sentences using the vocabulary of the text:
- •Test 4 r.P.Warren "All the king’s men"
- •1. Analyze the point of view from which the story is told:
- •2.Translate the following sentences using the active vocabulary of the text:
- •Test 5
- •10. The passage indicates that Raskolnikov thinks Svidrigailov's belief in ghosts is
- •11. Raskolnikov's anger suggests that
- •12. Accordong to Svodrigailov, most people do not see ghosts because they
- •Fifth year
- •Theory and practice of translation
- •Test 1
- •Sellers request buyers to revise delivery time and guarantee clause of the contract
- •III. Переведите следующие словосочетания.
- •Test 2 letter of guarantee
- •Переведите следующие словосочетания
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Test 3 enquiry for a portable air compressor
- •III. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Test 4 machine undergoing final tests
- •Enquiry for machinery for coagulating, extracting and drying synthetic rubber
- •Test 5 offer of peroxide of manganese ore
- •Peroxide of Manganese Ore
- •Offer of paraffin wax
- •Paraffin Wax
- •Test 6 claim in connection with an imported drilling machine
- •Special Cluster Drilling Machine. Order No. 19086
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Request to revise quotation
- •V. Переведите следующие словосочетания,
- •Order for One Gasifier Model dm69
4. Answer the following question.
What are you for, for formal or informal teaching? Why?
Composition subjects
1. Describe how illustrations can help a reader to enjoy the book. Refer to two or three books you have read.
2. Imagine that one of your friends is missing from the classes visiting his parents. Give details of his appearance which would enable the teachers to issue a description or build up an identical picture.
3. Recommend a friend (who does not read much) a book which you have recently read. Try to encourage your friend to spend more time reading.
4. Halloween.
5. Discuss the reasons why many people today read books about the Second World War.
6. Write a clear and factual report for the newspaper of an accident that you have witnessed.
7. The persistent disadvantages and advantages of being a woman.
8. The advantages and disadvantages of being an only child.
9. Superstition in our lives today.
10. Write a persuasive letter giving details about the pleasure of playing a musical instrument.
11. Suppose you were writing an account of your childhood in such a way as to emphasize your relations with your family.
12. Television and radio plays as a reflection of real life.
13. How have your years at school prepared you for your life after leaving school?
14. Write a letter to the press stating the case for abolishing examinations or for handing over students discipline to a committee in which staff and students co-operate on equal terms. Invent suitable names and addresses.
15. Write a short story to the magazine on one of the happenings in your childhood which much influenced you.
16. The wedding of one of the members of your family.
17. Crime and punishment. Give your views on juvenile delinquency. Should the punishment fit the crime?
18. What help in running a home should a husband give to his wife?
19. Explain the pleasures of music-making.
20. What seems to you worthwhile in some forms of popular literature, e.g. detective stories, science fiction?
21. A teacher looking rather tired and harassed at the end of a day's work.
22. A student whose dress and appearance are such as to excite comment.
23. Explain in your own words what is meant by the British custom of April Fool's Day, describing some of the tricks played by British children.
24. Describe some customs of girls and boys in this country.
25. Write a description of some animal with which you are familiar for the benefit of people who have never seen this animal.
26. The Conquest of Space.
27. An Imaginary Journey in a Balloon.
28. The Man or Woman you Would Like to Marry.
29. Sleeping in the Open.
30. The Crowd outside a Cinema.
31. A Thunderstorm.
32. The Indoor Game you Like Best.
33. A Trip down a Big River by Boat.
Reproductions Reproduction 1 Shannon's Way
by A. J. CRONIN
(an extract)
At eight o'clock I set the vaccine extract to filter, and as this process would take about an hour, I rose, switched off the lights, and left the laboratory, bent upon a short respite in my room.
Outside, I could hear preliminary tunings from the auditorium where, at the end of each month, an entertainment(1) was held(2), half-dance, half-concert, sponsored by Palfrey, ostensibly for the benefit of the patients, but mainly to permit the little maestro to sing, with his hand upon his heart, Gounod's* "Even bravest heart may swell..."
I rarely went to these junketings and tonight I assuredly would not go.
Anxious to stretch out(3) on my sofa, I entered my room, but as I did so I found that I was not alone. Seated by the open window, with a droop to his shoulders, and a peculiar fixity in his gaze,(4) was Neil Spence.
"Why, Spence!" I exclaimed. "It's good to see you again."
He acknowledged(5) my welcome with a faint smile in his wide, immobile eyes, and after we had shaken hands, sank back in his chair, his face shadowed by the curtain.
"I can't stay long, Robert. But I took a notion to look you up. You don't mind?"
"Of course not." I had often pressed(6) him to visit me — yet, strangely, I wondered why he had come. "You'll have a drink?"
He looked at me broodingly, that shadowy smile still flickering(7) in his dark pupils.
"Please."
I saw then that he had already had several, but that made no difference,(8) besides I wanted one myself. It was easy to come by good spirits from the stimulant cupboard and lately I had drawn pretty heavily upon that store. I scarcely ate anything now, but kept myself going on(9) black coffee, whisky, and cigarettes. I poured out two stiff drinks.
"Here's luck then, Robert."
"Good health."
He nursed his tumbler between his hands, his eyes wandering about the room. There was in his calmness something which made me uneasy.
"How is Muriel?" I asked.
"Quite well, I believe."
"You should have brought her along."
He sat stock-still; his immobility was strangely terrifying.
"Muriel left me last week. She's with Lomax — in London."
He made the statement in a tone so matter-of-fact(10) it took my breath away.(11) There was a pause. I had not guessed it was as bad as this.
"What a rotten trick!" I muttered at last.
"Oh, I don't know." He answered logically, with Dial same inhuman self-control. "Lomax is a good-looking fellow and Muriel is still a most attractive girl. And after all, I'm not much (12) fun to live with."
I looked at him quickly. He went on, musingly, in that same flat tone:
"I suppose she went on as long as she could, before she fell for (13) Lomax."
I had to say something.
"What a swine he must be!"
Spence shook his head. In spite of the whisky he was completely sober.
"He's probably not any worse than the rest of us." A long, low breath escaped him. "I ought never to have married her in the first place. But I was so damned fond of her. And God knows I did my best. Took her out(14) every Friday night." He repeated this, as though it comforted him. "Every Friday night in life."
"She'll come back to you," I said. "You can make a fresh start.(15)
He looked full at me(16) and the smile in his dark eyes was tragic.
"Don't be a fool, Robert. It's all over." He paused, reflectively. "She has asked for a divorce. Wants to be free. Well, I'll attend to (17) that for her. Isn't it extraordinary ... I see now that she is shallow and worthless ... but I can't hate her."
I poured him another drink, and one for myself. I scarcely knew what to say. In a vain effort to divert(18) his mind I asked:
"Have you been going to Hie Department?" *
"Yes. You see, no one knows about this yet. Lomax is on vacation ... Muriel supposed to be visiting her sister. But what's the use, I've lost interest. I'm not like you, Robert. 1 never was cut out(19) for research." He added, in a flat(10) voice: "It wouldn't have been so bad, except that when I saw how things were going and spoke to her she said, 'Leave me alone. I hate the sight(20) of you.'"
There was a prolonged silence. Then, softly, the sound of a two-step came through the open window, stealing across the night air into the room. Spence looked at me, his impassive features showing a vague inquiry.
"It's a dance they have once a month," I told him. "The staff some of the patients."
He considered for a moment.
"Muriel would have enjoyed that ... we occasionally used to dance on Friday nights. I daresay Lomax will take her out."
He listened till the two-step was over, then put down his empty glass.
"I have to go now, Robert."
"Oh, nonsense. It's quite early."
"I must. I have an appointment. There's a good train at nine.”
"Have another spot then?"
"No, thanks. I want to be right for my appointment."
I guessed he had to see his lawyer about the divorce. I wasn’t happy about him, but there seemed nothing I could say. It was twenty minutes to nine.
I went down to the lodge with him and opened the gates — Gunn had gone up to the dance.
"I'll walk to the station with you."
He shook his head.
"If I know anything you want to be back in that laboratory."
There was a slight flush on his thin cheeks and the expression in his fine sombre eyes startled me.
"Are you all right, Spence?"
"Perfectly." His voice held a hint of ghostly laughter.
A pause.
We shook hands. As I gazed at him doubtfully, he did actually smile, his old distorted smile.
"Good luck, Robert ... Bless you."
I made my way back up the drive slowly. What he said was quite true. I had to finish, absolutely, or it would finish me. In the darkness, as I went towards the laboratory, I could still hear the soft beat of the music. That night fog we so often got was coming down.
As I entered, the white cool room was silent, save for the low and muffled(22) throbbing of the music. I freed my mind of everything except my work. Despite(23) the barred double windows of frosted glass, the stealthy fog had penetrated, and floated in a soft swathe, like a disembodied spirit, under tlie domed roof. Beneath, in the centre of the tiled floor, upon my bench, stood the filtration apparatus. I saw that the flask was nearly filled by a clear, translucent fluid. It took me I a moment to remove my jacket, roll up my shirt-sleeves, and pull on my soiled smock. Advancing to the bench, I took up the flask, gazed at it with a strange and thrilling emotion. Then, intently(25) I set to work.(26)
It was only a short process to standardize and encapsulate the final product. At quarter to ten I had done it. At last, in spite of everything I had reached the summit of the endless hill and looked down upon the kingdoms spread before me.
I felt so dizzy I had to hang on to the edge of the bench. The buzzing elation in my ears transformed the distant music. Faintly, then more clearly, I conceived the strains as a celestial symphony, with high angelic voices, clarion-sweet, mingling with(27) bells and a sonorous counterpoint of drums. As these ecstatic harmonies swelled I kept muttering(28) to myself tensely.
"I've done it ... oh, God Almighty ... I've finished it at last."
With an effort I broke off, put away the ampules carefully in the ice box, locked up the laboratory, and went out.
I directed my exhausted footsteps towards my room. As I reached the vestibule I heard someone call my name, and turning, I saw Brogan, the attendant, running after me.
I stopped and waited till he came up. He was white and breathing fast.
"Dr. Shannon, I've been looking for you all over." He caught his breath.(29) "There's been a little accident, sir."
I stood quite still, staring at him.
"Look, sir." Despite his experience the man shuddered.(30) "It's your friend ... we just had word from the station."
Spence! I suddenly fell sick. A cold sweat broke on my brow. I swallowed with an effort.
"He slipped and fell, sir. Just as the nine o'clock train came in. It was instantaneous."