with our stand. It is too small, too far from everywhere and near the toilets. We requested a medium-sized stand near the entrance. Can’t you find somewhere better for us?

CM: I’m afraid all stands are already taken, sir, it’s not possible to change now. Your booking was 12) ______________________________ late.

M: Well, we’re very unhappy with this. 13) _______________________

our boss will have something to say about it too.

T: And look at those boxes, there should be many more than that. Half of our brochures and order forms are missing! And these two boxes are damaged 14) ________________________!

M: 15) __________________________. We’ll have to phone head office tomorrow to tell them what is going on. They’ll be furious!

TEST 12

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

Technique-type: form-building

Once a philosopher was travelling down a river in a small boat. While

1) (to cross) the river he 2) (to ask) the boatman: “You ever 3) (to hear) about Philosophy?” “No,” 4) (to say) the boatmen. “I never 5) (to hear) about it. What 6) (to be) it?” “I 7) (to be) sorry for you, indeed,” replied the learned man, “you 8) (to lose) a quarter of your life as it’s a very interesting science!” Several minutes later the philosopher 9) (to ask) the boatmen another question: “You 10) (to hear) about Astronomy, when you 11) (to be) at school?” “No, I 12) (to leave) school many years ago and I 13) (to forget) all about it,” was the answer. To this the philosopher said that he 14) (to be) really sorry for the man, and he 15) (to think) that the boatman 16) (to lose) a second quarter of his life.

At that moment the boat 17) (to strike) on a big stone. The boatman

18) (to jump) and 19) (to cry): “You ever 20) (to learn) to swim?” “No,” was

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the answer. The boatman explained sadly to the philosopher that he 21) (to be) sure the scientist 22) (to lose) his whole life as the boat was going to sink.

2. PUT IN ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY

Technique-type: multiple choice

“Just about 1) a / the / – end of that long, hard winter,” said the Sundayschool superintendant, “as I was going to 2) a / the / – school one brilliant morning, I glanced down toward 3) a / the / – the embankment and there lay 4) a / the / – City of Hartford steamer! No mistake about it: there she was, puffing after her long journey through 5) a / the / – ice. А glad sight? Well, I should say so! And then came 6) a / the / – thought: I should instruct

benches full. My gratitude was large, and sincere. I decided that they should

3. PUT IN PREPOSITIONS WHERE NECESSARY

Technique-type: multiple choice

1) I’ll go shopping. We’ve run ________ salt and bread. a) off; b) out of; c) out off

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10)He seldom did anything himself. Instead he was always envious________

all her achievements.

4. PUT THE SENTENCES IN ORDER TO MAKE UP THE TEXT

Technique-type: text-reconstruction

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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

The scientific computer most 1) ______

______ attacks problems in which calculations 2)____________. The commercial computer is most 3) ______________ in doing the routine 4) __________ problems of the business and commercial world. Large amounts of alphabetic

and 5) __________ information corresponding to equivalent written records and files must be furnished to the best. In general their 6) __________ exceed their 7)______________.

6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH

Technique-type: gap-filling

The 1) машина скорой помощи stopped in front of а hospital in 2) центре Chicago. Two male nurses rushed an 3) потерявшего сознание man into the Intensive Care Unit. А staff doctor 4) обследовал the patient thoroughly. Не started with his head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, moving the jaws. Picking up а stethoscope from а nearby tray, he listened to the heart, then for 5) дыхание sounds on both sides of the 6) грудной клетки. The man’s lungs seemed to be all right. Не went on to the arms and legs, flexing

each one, then the feet to see if there was а bоnе 7) перелом. No artery оr nerve was hurt or 8) ранен. Оnе of the surgeons оn duty called for а 9) портативный 10) рентгеновский machine. Soon he was studying the film of the abdomen. Не saw that the kidneys were all right but there was some trouble with the liver. The doctors agreed that the patient must undergo an operation. Не was taken into the operating room. In an hour’s time the operation was over and the man was admitted to а ward.

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

Technique-type: cloze-test

British families started going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the railways 1) ___________________ this

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possible. The first holidaymakers were quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to be 2) __________________ of illness, and doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. Also to 3) ___________________ their knowledge, families attended concerts and read books from the library.

At that time, ordinary working people had very little time 4) __________

work. However, in 1871, the government 5) ____________ four ‘Bank Holidays’ – national holiday days. This 6) _______________ people to have a day or two out, which 7) __________________ gave them a 8) __________________

for leisure and the seaside. At first, they went on day-trips, taking 9) __________________ of special cheap tickets on the railways.

By the 1880s, rising incomes 10) __________________ that many ordinary workers and their families could have a week’s holiday at the seaside. Rail fares were reduced and cheap hotels were built to 11) _______________

them. Holidaymakers enjoyed being 12) _______________________, sitting on the beach, bathing in the sea, and eating ice-cream. Cheap entertainment was 13) __________________ offer and holidaymakers went to 14) ____________________ fun.

Today, the English seaside 15) __________________ popular, with more

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

Technique-type: error-correction

Guy de Maupassant brought the object matter of the story down to an everyday level which shocked readers at the time – and can still do so now.

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He also began to downgrade the element of plot and suspense in favourate of character revelation.

Friend of Flaubert, novelist manqué, and bon viveur who died at fortithree in a madhouse, he nevertheless left behind him an oeuvre of more than 300 stories.

His tone is an objective, detached, and often deeply ironic;

and he is celebrated with the exactness and accuracy of his observations, and the balance and precision of his style.

In spite of most of his stories appear at first to be nothing more than brief and rather transparent anecdotes,

he best succeeded in giving impressionistic but truthful insite into the hidden lives of people caught amidst the trials of everyday existence.

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

Technique-type: gap-filling

phew / can’t / please / umm / certainly / no thank you / alright / won’t that / no, Tony / could / I suppose / madam / well

M = May, A = Assistant, T = Tony

M: Good morning, we would like to rent a car please.

A: 1) ______________________, madam. And what kind of car were you wanting?

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