III. Writing

Write an email (50–60 words) to your English-speaking friend saying that you would like to go on holiday with him / her and say which town in Ukraine you recommend to visit and why.

Examination card #4

I. Reading

Read the text given below. Choose from (A-H) the one which best fits each space (1-6). There are two choices you do not need to use.

ABOUT SANTALAND.COM

Santaland.com is a privately owned domain that provides Christmas related family content at the click of a button. The site provides Internet users with year-around access to a wide variety of Christmas related interests (1) _____ and more. We are not associated with any of the Santaland tourist sites, plays, department stores or malls, parades, (2) ________ .

The company’s cornerstone Internet site, Santaland.com, was originally started in November, 1991 as an internal Pre-Gopher site for a national online service and went on the internet as an early Gopher in December of 1991 (3) _______ to test the public interest in the Internet. The rest was history, for both the Internet and Santaland. In 1994, Santaland.com was established as an Internet web site. We believe the site is the oldest (4) _______ of its type currently on the World Wide Web. With a minimum amount of publicity, we depend on word-of-mouth and as such we have a loyal following for many years.

Santaland.com has received numerous awards and credits (5) _____ . We do not seek out awards or credits. We began accepting in 1999 due to the high coast associated with hosting a popular web site with internet hosting companies. Worldwide media inquiries have been coming to Santaland

The design of Santaland.com is intended to evoke a feeling and sentiment of an old fashioned Christmas. Our aim is to make the site family friendly (6) ______.

Domain- володіння, галузь, сфера діяльності

Inception – початок

Gopher – програма, яка збирає інформацію з усіх джерел Інтернету

A and one of the most heavily visited Internet sites

B for being one of the top Christmas sites on the Internet

C or other holiday’s festivities in the USA

D as an experimental project

E when they invited them to be the presenters

F including holiday recipes, crafts, music, books, electronic greeting cards, children activities

G for end users of all ages

H as it happened to be at those times

II. Use of language

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space A, B, C or D.

You may think that everybody knows how to make friends, but for some people it isn’t so easy. (1) ..... they want to be friends with others, they always seem to be alone. Sadly, some of them get depressed (2) ..... this. We wanted to find out how these people can make friends, (3) ...... we asked a group of 14-year-olds what sort of people they prefer. The most important thing, they said, that they can get (4) ..... with them. They like to be friends with kind and generous people, who rarely get angry (5) ..... others. They also like people who laugh at their jokes, and can tell (6) ..... stories, too. They (7) ..... be interested in what the group does, and perhaps even think of (8) ..... new things to do.

1.	A Although	B Even
2.	A for	B about
3.	A since	B so
4.	A on	B down
5.	A with	B by
6.	A smiling	B funny
7.	A can	B should
8.	A annoying	B exciting