Brandon: Oh 12) ______________________________. Calm. Max: I want to be calm.

Brandon: You will be calm.

Max: 13) ________________________. I have got to get to work. It is Monday morning. 14) ________________________________, Brandon.

Brandon: 15) ____________________________. Max: You too, mate.

TEST 10

1. USE THE CORRECT TENSE-FORMS OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Technique-type: form-building

In the afternoon the chairs came, а whole big cart full of little gold ones with their legs in the air. And then the flowers 1) (to come). When you stared down from the balcony at the people 2) (to carry) them the flower pots 3) (to look) like funny awfully nice hats.

Moon 4) (to think) they 5) (to be) hats. She said: “Look, there 6) (to be) а man 7) (to wear) а palm on his head.” But she never knew the difference between real things and not real ones.

There was nobody 8) (to look after) Sun and Moon. Nurse was helping Annie alter Mother’s dress and Mother 9) (to run) all over the house and

10) (to telephone) Father 11) (to be) sure 12) (not to forget) things. She only

13) (to have) time 14) (to say): “Out of my way, children!”

They kept off her way – at any rate Sun did. … If she got 15) (to tangle) in people’s legs they only threw her up and shook her till she squeaked. But Sun 16) (to be) too heavy for that. He 17) (to be) so heavy that the fat man who 18) (to come) to dinner on Sundays used 19) (to say): “Now, young man, let’s 20) (to try) to lift you. And then he’d put his thumbs under Sun’s arms and groan and try to give it up at last saying: “He’s а perfect little ton of bricks!”

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2. PUT IN ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY

Technique-type: multiple choice

So what is freedom? When I sat down to write this introduction, I felt burdened by 1) a / the / – complexity of 2) a / the / – subject. 3) A / The / – great minds have filled huge books wrestling with this – how could I possibly sum it all up in 4) a / the / – few hundred words? But then I realised I was mistakenly trying to produce 5) a / the / – map. Impossible. Instead, I offer 6) a / the / – series of questions. Think of them like 7) a / the / – compass – each suggests a meaningful direction to go – but none of them tell you what you’ll find when you get there!

What makes 8) a / the / – person free? Perhaps it depends on how we think about 9) a / the / – human beings. We exist in 10) a / the / – many different ways: we are physical, intellectual, political, social, sexual, spiritual beings. And just as we exist in a variety of ways, so we can experience different freedoms.

3. PUT IN PREPOSITIONS WHERE NECESSARY

Technique-type: multiple choice

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5.USE THE WORD GIVEN IN THE BOX AT THE END OF THE LINE TO FORM A WORD THAT FITS THE GAP

WITH THE SAME NUMBER

Technique-type: word-building

Brenna Kucharski, a senior at Blackhawk High School, says teens who have been in foster care often face 1) ___________ obstacles when they turn 18 and ’age out’ of the system. When Brenna Kucharski starts her freshman year at the Penn State-Beaver campus this fall, she’ll be

2) ____________3)______________. The 18-year-old woman will need to manage the bills for her housing and 4)____________, file her taxes and

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navigate a maze of 5) ___________ aid paperwork all on her own. Kucharski, who has spent the last three and a half years in foster care, will be jolted into the adult world without the extended 6)_______________. She admits she’s definitely 7) _______________ about making the transition.

(Timesonline, May 30, 2005)

6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH

Technique-type: gap-filling

Romanticism is an 1) художественное and intellectual movement originated in Europe in the late 18th century. It is characterized by a heightened interest in nature, 2) ударение on the individual’s expression of emotion and 3) воображение, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions In general, the Romantic writers placed the individual, rather than society, at the center of their 4) видения. They 5) были склонны to be

optimists who believed in the possibility of progress and improvement, for

6)человечества as well as for individuals; most of them described democratic

7)ценности. For a time, almost every important writer responded warmly to the cry of the French people for liberty and equality. Such group of English poets as William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, and Robert Sauthey, are known as “Lakers”. The basic principle of their poetry was the force of 3) Воображения over the 8) Разумом. Their poems were based on the 9) народный

10)дух and still were easily understood and accepted by everybody.

7.FILL IN THE GAPS IN THE TEXT CHOOSING THE BEST VARIANT GIVEN AFTER THE TEXT

a 3) ___________________ and longer development. Inured to sport, and practising a creed of 4) ________________ fit, they join in games and practise the play of the muscles till the evening of their days; and they may be seen 5) ________________ in lawn tennis, or golf, or even hunting, when they are septuagenarians. In this way they keep themselves young

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6) ________________; and this, in 7) ___________, ensures an easy communication between the 8) ___________. Age escapes being crabbed, and can live with 9) ________________: the torch of tradition can be handed on readily to young colleagues and friends – in politics, or in scholarship, or in business. There is a general interest of the old 10) _______________

the young, with little trace of superiority or patronage: the generations are 11)_______________, and equal. This 12) ______________ explain why there are English books which can be read 13) ______________ readers of the age of seven and readers of the age of seventy: it may explain the peculiar character of the English “children’s books” – Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, the books of Beatrix Potter, and many more – which unite the generations. ... But it is also 14) ____________________ that age has a subjective side, and that “thinking makes it so”: and there is 15) _______________ great argument, after all, against a young spirit in an old body. We may be Methuselahs without becoming grey lobes of thinking matter.

(Sir Ernest Barker “The Character of England”)

8.SPOT ONE ERROR IN EACH SENTENCE AND WRITE DOWN THE CORRECT SENTENCE

Technique-type: error-correction

But there was a glitch. As soon as I travel overseas with my trusty iPhone I get hit with ridiculous global and data roaming costs by my provider.

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So on this trip I decided to get thrifty and went down to Starhub (local telco) and baught a 5-day mobile broadband SIM card (don’t forget your passport) for $25.

It has up to 2GB of date downloads, a bunch of free text messages and cheap calls.

So I popped my sparkling new SIM into my iPhone and it didn’t happen anything.

It couldn’t find the Starhub signal. I restarted the phone, yet nothing. Then it occurred to me that my phone was probably locked.

Ready for a fight I called my provider and asked for my phone to unlock and the nice call centre man said “sure thing,” punched some numbers into his computers and said, “it’s done.”

So I synced my iPhone and got a message which saying my phone had been unlocked. I’m now a happy camper.

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9.COMPLETE THE TEXT CHOOSING THE WORD FOR EACH GAP FROM THE BOX

Technique-type: gap-filling

right / run out of / catch / wow / oh no / have a yarn / do / gidday / actually / yeah / here I am / ah / how are doing? / So

Tom: Well, 1) ________________ on Jack’s banana boat and we are speeding across the ocean towards the city. We will be there soon. I am going to go into the wheelhouse and 2) ___________________________ to Jack.

Tom: 3) _____________________, Jack. Jack: 4) ______________________. All right? Tom: Alright.

Jack: Are you having a good ride?

Tom: 5) ________________________, I am having a great time.

Jack: 6) _______________________. It is a lovely day, isn’t? All those black clouds above us.

Tom: Yes. Did you see the dolphins and the flying fish before? Jack: No. You saw them, didn’t you?

Tom: Yes, at the bow there.

Jack: 7) _________________________! Have you seen this tattoo? I’ve got a dolphin on my tattoo.

Tom: Wow! Dolphins are great, aren’t they? I love dolphins. 8) __________________. How? When will we be there? So how far is it now?

Jack: Well, what do you think? You can see it in front of you. Tom: 9) _______________________. Ok. How long will it take? Jack: Maybe about another two and a half hours.

Tom: Right.

Jack: If we don’t run out of fuel. We could run out of fuel 10) ____________________. I forgot to load the fuel on.

Tom: 11) ____________________! What are we going to do?

Jack: I have got some fishing rods. Do you like fishing? We could 12) __________________ some fishing.

Tom: Yeah, I like fishing. If we 13) ______________________ fuel, what will we do?

Jack: Fishing.

Tom: Fishing?

Jack: Yeah, you can 14) ________________________ a fish for me.

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