Test 18

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

Fill in each space with the correct form of a word in the list:

quiet day beauty probable happy

1. Bessie plays the cello .................. .

2. Mary closed the door .................. so that she wouldn’t wake the baby up.

3. The children were playing .................. on the beach.

4. I wonder why our friends haven’t arrived? They’ve .................. been delayed by the traffic.

5. There’s plane from London that arrives .................. at 10.00.

Put the words in the correct order:

6. She opened slowly the door.

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7. He always is laughing in class.

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8. She doesn’t probably speak French.

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9. He dangerously drove on Sunday along the motorway.

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10. I have very much always liked music.

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Choose the correct answer:

11. You must try and get to the lesson ......... .

A) more early B) more earlier C) the earlier D) earlier

12. She works ......... than me.

A) more hard than B) more hardly C) much harder D) much hard

13. I use the car ......... often than I used to.

A) less B) the less C) least D) lesser

14. She ran to the station as ......... as she could.

A) quicker B) most quick C) more quick D) quickly

15. Try to get here ......... you can.

A) the soon B) soon as C) as soon as D) soonest

16. I don’t ......... what you mean at all. Can you explain?

A) realise B) see C) take D) make out

17. Could you let me have a ......... at your newspaper for a minute?

A) look B) read C) borrow D) minute

18. Have you heard ......... John? He’s had an accident on his motorbike.

A) for B) of C) around D) about

19. Are you ......... the radio or shall I switch it off?

A) listening to B) listening C) hearing D) hearing about

20. Will you ......... after the cat for us while we’re on holiday?

A) take B) watch C) mind D) look

21. Her parents often complain because she comes home ......... .

A) lately B) latest C) late D) later

22. Read the letter ......... – I want to know what Mary says.

A) loud B) loudly C) aloud D) more loud

23. His English is not very ......... but his French is excellent.

A) well B) fluently C) high D) good

24. The dentist told him to open his mouth ......... .

A) wide B) widely C) deep D) deeply

25. They sat ......... to each other so they could share the newspaper.

A) closely B) close C) closed D) closest

READING

In the following text, seven sentences or parts of sentences have been removed. Above the extract you will find the six removed sentences PLUS one sentence which doesn't fit. Choose from the sentences (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-7). Remember, there is one extra sentence you do not need to use. Write the correct letter in the box:

1. The next development was the semi-automatic toaster

2. simply dropping the slices into the machine commenced the toasting procedure

3. set the heating element on a timer,

4. (and many modern ones)

5. The company also produced the "toaster that turns toast."

6. slowly raising the finished toast

7. which wasn't considered safe in the kitchen

8. Meanwhile electricity was not readily available

HISTORY OF THE TOASTER

Before the development of the electric toaster, sliced bread was toasted by placing it in a metal frame or a long-handled fork and holding it near a fire or kitchen grill. Simple utensils for toasting bread over open flames appeared in the early 19th century. Earlier, people simply speared bread with a stick, sword or knife and held it over a fire.

In 1905, Irishman Conor Neeson of Detroit, Michigan, and his employer, American chemist, electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur William Hoskins of Chicago, Illinois, invented chromel, an alloy from which could be made the first high-resistance wire of the sort used in all early electric heating appliances (1)_________.

The first electric bread toaster was created by Alan MacMasters in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1893, Crompton, Stephen J. Cook & Company of the UK marketed an electric, iron-wired toasting appliance called the Eclipse. Early attempts at producing electrical appliances using iron wiring were unsuccessful, because the wiring was easily melted and a serious fire hazard. (2)_________, and when it was, mostly only at night. The first US patent application for an electric toaster was filed by George Schneider of the American Electrical Heater Company of Detroit. AEH's proximity to Hoskins Manufacturing and the fact that the patent was filed only two months after the Marsh patents suggests collaboration and that the device was to use chromel wiring. One of the first applications the Hoskins company had considered for chromel was toasters, but eventually abandoned such efforts to focus on making just the wire itself.

At least two other brands of toasters had been introduced commercially around the time General Electric submitted their first patent application in 1909 for one, the GE model D-12, designed by technician Frank Shailor, "the first commercially successful electric toaster".

In 1913, Lloyd Groff Copeman and his wife Hazel Berger Copeman applied for various toaster patents and in that same year the Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced the toaster with automatic bread turner. (3)_________. Before this, electric toasters cooked bread on one side and then it was flipped by hand to toast the other side. Copeman's toaster turned the bread around without having to touch it.

(4)_________, which turned off the heating element automatically after the bread toasted, using either a clockwork mechanism or a bimetallic strip. However, the toast was still manually lowered and raised from the toaster via a lever mechanism.

The automatic pop-up toaster, which ejects the toast after toasting it, was first patented by Charles Strite in 1919. In 1925, using a redesigned version of Strite's toaster, the Waters Genter Company introduced the Model 1-A-1 Toastmaster, the first automatic pop-up, household toaster that could brown bread on both sides simultaneously, (5)_________ and eject the toast when finished.

By the middle of the 20th century, some high-end U.S. toasters featured automatic toast lowering and raising, with no levers to operate — (6)_________. A notable example was the Sunbeam T-20, T-35 and T-50 models (identical except for details such as control positioning) made from the late 1940s through the 1960s, which used the mechanically multiplied thermal expansion of the resistance wire in the center element assembly to lower the bread; the inserted slice of bread tripped a lever to switch on the power which immediately caused the heating element to begin expanding thus lowering the bread. When the toast was done, as determined by a small bimetallic sensor actuated by the heat passing through the toast, the heaters were shut off and the pull-down mechanism returned to its room-temperature position, (7)_________. This sensing of the heat passing through the toast, meant that regardless of the color of the bread (white or wholemeal) and the initial temperature of the bread (even frozen), the bread would always be toasted to the same degree. If a piece of toast was re-inserted into the toaster, it would only be reheated.

USE OF ENGLISH

For Questions 1-10, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given:

Example:

I haven't seen you for years.

ages

It's (been ages since I) saw you.

1. Because it snowed heavily during the night the motorway is closed.

due

The motorway is closed ........................................ that there was heavy snow the night before.

2. Did you manage to get in contact with the boss today?

getting

Did you ........................................ in contact with the boss today?

3. I don’t care what you do.

concerned

As ........................................ you can do what you like.

4. The meal we had in the restaurant was so nice.

such

It ........................................ meal in the restaurant.

5. He was ordered to leave the field for arguing with the referee.

sent

The referee ....................................... for arguing.

6. Do you and your brother have the same looks?

like

Does ........................................ you?

7. That’s the garage where I left my car last week.

repaired

That’s where I went ........................................ last week.

8. You can't bring food into this room.

supposed

You ........................................ food into this room.

9. What do you think Steve is doing in the garden?'

wondered

She ........................................ in the garden.

10. I've tried again and again but I just can't do it.

often

No ......................................try, I still can't do it.