3. Use of english

Task 5 Read the text below. For questions (23—32) choose the correct answer (a, b, c or d).

Every summer when I was a kid, my mother (23) _____me to visit her parents, who lived on the shores of a lake in east Texas. When we arrived, we always (24) _______straight to their grapevines to pick and eat the fresh, juicy fruit. This was not a fancy grape-growing enterprise, just a couple purple Concord grapevines climbing a metal trellis in a (25)_________ lot. These grapes got very little attention between our visits. My grandparents (26)_______ them and tied on new strips of flash tape to keep the birds away, but (27)__________- that, the grapes were on their own.

A (28) __________ mix of weeds and wildflowers served as cover crops. A (29)___________ population of insects pollinated the flowers. The (30) ___________ running into the lake kept water available to the roots. Disease must have struck from time to time, but the vines seemed to shrug it off and keep bearing bunches of the fruit that brought us back each visit.

As a gardener now, I know that the secret to growing grapes (or anything else) without a lot of fuss or toxic treatments is to grow plants that will (31)____________ in my climate, just as those grapes did in east Texas. Whether you have room for a small vineyard or just a few vines climbing over the patio, you and your family can enjoy homegrown grapes. The secrets to success are simple and manageable for even a (32) __________gardener.

	A	B	C	D
23	led	took	sent	travelled
24	headed	followed	left	came
25	empty	blank	vacant	unknown
26	grew	cleaned	planted	pruned
27	apart for	apart from	apart by	apart with
28	indigenous	native	local	dear
29	various	diverse	multinational	different
30	sea	river	creek	marsh
31	bloom	flourish	in blossom	flower
32	newcomer	young	new	novice

Task 6 Read the text below. For questions (33—42) choose the correct answer (a, b, c or d).

Late last year, fishermen began (33)___________ dead dolphins, hundreds of them, washed up on Peru’s northern coast. Now, seabirds have begun dying, too, and the government has yet to conclusively pinpoint the cause. Officials insist (34) ___________ the two die-offs are unrelated. The dolphins are succumbing to a virus, they suggest, and the seabirds (35) ___________ of starvation because anchovies are in short supply. There is growing suspicion among the public and scientists that there might be more to the story. Some argue that offshore oil exploration could (36) ___________wildlife, for example, and others fear that biotoxins or pesticides (37) ___________ their way up the food chain.

Interpol has placed the head of anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, on its international wanted list. Interpol (38) ___________ a so-called blue notice, asking national police forces (39) ___________ on information about Mr Watson’s whereabouts and activities. The Sea Shepherd

leader has harassed the Japanese whaling fleet for the past few years, limiting (40) ___________of whales caught for so-called scientific research. Mr Watson, who is in the United States, says the notice (41) ___________ any sense. «It’s a blue notice which means it’s not an arrest warrant, it’s just so they can keep tabs on me. But they (42) ___________ their time, they could have just followed our website», he said. «One thing that it does mean to me is that we’re certainly getting to them. We cut their kill quotas in half and they’re really desperate that we not go back down there this year. But I can tell them we’ll certainly be back down in the Southern Ocean harassing them again in December».

	A	B	C	D
33	findings	finding	find	found
34	to	what	that	this
35	are dying	die	had died	has died
36	disturbed	have disturbed	disturb	be disturbing
37	can be working	might be working	must be working	have to be working
38	issued	have issued	has issued	had issued
39	pass	to pass	passing to	have passed
40	a number	number	the number	numbers
41	does not make	makes not	do not make	makes
42	needn’t waste	don’t need waste	needn’t wasted	needn’t have wasted