T: A sports car 2) _________________________, something fast. M: Er, Tony, 3) ___________________________ be a bit expensive?
A: 4) ____________________, we have one for one hundred pounds a day, a red Porsche...
T: Only one hundred pounds, May? That’s only fifty pounds each … M: Fifty pounds? 5) ____________________ we get something cheaper? A: Well, we also have a red Mercedes coupe at eighty-five pounds a day. T: Well... …
M: [Interrupts him] Er, 6) ________________________. Can’t we have an ordinary car? We are only going out for the day
A: Yes 7) _______________________.
A: Is a Volkswagen 8) _____________________ then, sir? T: Yes, thank you. Is it red?
A: Em, yes, sir.
T: 9) _______________________! I suppose it’ll do then ...
M: 10) _________________________, we’re hoping to go to the Lake District. Can you recommend some things to see there?
A: Well, Lake Windermere is beautiful and you 11) _____________________
stop in Grange and in Kendal on the way. It’s a very beautiful area, lovely views and walks and all sorts of...
M: And how long will it take to get there?
A: Well, 12) _________________________ it’ll take about two hours, depending on the traffic.
T: If we had a faster car...
M: 13) ______________________, we are not racing! We’re just having a quiet day in the country!
TEST 13
1. USE THE CORRECT TENSE-FORMS OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS
Technique-type: form-building
Mrs. Daniels is the oldest person in Pine Street. She 1) (to live) in it all her life and 2) (to see) a lot of changes here. She says she 3) (to be) always ready to discuss these changes with people.
One day a reporter 4) (to phone) Mrs. Daniels and 5) (to ask) for an interview. When Kelly came, Mrs. Daniels 6) (to lie) on the sofa reading a newspaper. She 7) (to ask) by the reporter where and when she 8) (to be) born and how long she 9) (to live) in house № 20. “We 10) (to move) into number 20 during the war when a bomb 11) (to fall) on my old house next door,” Mrs. Daniels explained. “We 12) (to live) in the largest room of the house while they 13) (to repair) the rest of the rooms.”
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Mrs. Daniels also 14) (to tell) the reporter how much people of Pine Street 15) (to change), how rich they 16) (to be) having cars and televisions. “My granddaughter seldom 17) (to visit) me and I never 18) (to know) if she
19) (to come). I often 20) (to feel) lonely.”
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Technique-type: multiple choice
William Makepeace Thackeray was one of 1) a / the / – greatest novelists of 2) a / the / – Victorian Age. His “Vanity Fair” is one of ____ finest and best-known novels in English literature. Thackeray was born in 3) a / the / – India. In 1817, he was sent to 4) a / the / – England to live with his relatives and began his education. In 1829 he entered 5) a / the / – Trinity College, Cambridge but left it 6) a / the / – year and 7) a / the / – half after to travel 8) a / the / – abroad. After Thackeray had spent his inheritance, to make a modest living, he turned to 9) a / the / – writing book reviews, stories, and satirical sketches for magazines. “Vanity Fair” (1847-1848) is probably his best novel which traces 10) a / the / – fortunes of upper-middle-class Londoners of early 1800’s. The author called it “a novel without a hero”.
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Technique-type: multiple choice
1)He had something ________ his mind and didn’t want to join the general conversation.
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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
How 1) ______________ it is not to be on the phone. When you want to make а call from а telephone booth, 2) ___________, you have to find it. Then you may have to wait. You’ll have to have the necessary coins. It’s much more 3) ______________ to have а telephone at home. Still it can sometimes make you angry. Sometimes your telephone
starts making 4) ___________ little noises to 5) __________. You pick up the 6) ____________ and there is no answer. The telephone may awake you 7) __________________ in the middle of the night. But your 8) _______________ shock is when the bill comes…
6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH
Technique-type: gap-filling
A new law came into 1) силу in Britain at the end of 2003. Anyone caught using a handheld mobile while driving risks a fixed penalty of £30 or a 2) штраф of up to £1,000 if 3) изобличен (осужден) plus three points on their 4) правах. However, not everyone takes note of the law and the police have been 5) пре-
следовали по закону drivers for 6) нарушение it. The worst offenders are people living in South West Scotland. BBC transport correspondent Tom Symonds says that over 800 have been caught in
Strathclyde compared to just 17 in Suffolk. (It’s not clear whether that means that Scots have more friends or are just worse drivers!) Finally, do try not to lose your mobile. It’s not the phone itself which 7) имеет значение – it’s easy enough to 8) заменить a 9) трубку. But your SIM card is another matter. It has all your 10) контакты stored on it. And without your 10) контактов list – well, who could you phone?
(BBC. Learning English. News about Britain, 2005)
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7.FILL IN THE GAPS IN THE TEXT CHOOSING THE BEST VARIANT GIVEN AFTER THE TEXT
Technique-type: cloze-test
In the early days of the cinema, before sound was introduced, silent films were 1) __________________ by a pianist, or even a small orchestra playing in the cinema itself. One reason for this was to 2) ___________________
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Music 8) ________________ something extra to what was happening on the flat screen. It could create atmosphere and 9) ________________ the involvement of the audience, one moment encouraging them to relax, the next developing a 10) ___________________ of tension. And all this was done without any words being spoken.
Audiences at that 11) _______________ would have been 12) ________________ with the musical language connected with the traditions of popular theatre, and many of these were 13) ______________ to the new medium of the cinema. Today, 14) ________________ the films produced may be technically very different from before, much of the musical history still 15) ______________________.
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8.SPOT ONE EXTRA WORD IN EACH LINE AND WRITE IT DOWN IN THE BOX NEXT TO THE LINE. SOME OF THE LINES
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Technique-type: gap-filling
what? / love / thanks anyway / oh, OK / it sounds really / that’s OK / this way / on your right / keep walking / what a day / or so / no, thank you / straight ahead / excuse me / let me think / oh no / I don’t know / yeah / yeah, that way / excuse me / down there
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M = Marry, OM = old man, W = woman
M: 1) ___________________________, I’m trying to get to Piccadilly Gardens, is this the right way?
OM: Oh. 2) ________________________... Er, Piccadilly Gardens... No, no, it’s that way, love. Back there.
M: 3) _______________________ Back there? Em, I thought they were in the centre?
OM: 4) ______________________.
M: Oh, thank you. But isn’t that the city centre, 5) _________________________?
OM: 6) ____________________________ love, but the Gardens is back there.
M: 7) _____________________. Are they far from here?
OM: Oh, ten minutes 8) ____________________. If you like, I can come with you.
M: Er, no. 9) ________________________. I’ll find them, thank you very much
OM: Er, 10) _____________________ love, have you got the time please? M: Yes, it’s half past, half past two
OM: Thanks 11) _______________________.
M: Excuse me. I’m trying to get to the Piccadilly Gardens and I’m lost! Is it far from here?
W: Piccadilly Gardens! No, it’s not 12) ________________________. It’s in the city centre.
M: Is it? 13) ________________________! Someone told me it was this
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W: No, no, it’s not this way. You want to go down there. M: Yes, OK, 14) ________________________.
W: 15)______________________, then turn left, OK? M: Left...
W: Yeah, then right, first street 16) __________________________. M: Right...
W: Then straight on. 17) __________________________...
M: Oh, I’m lost! 18) _________________________ difficult. Em, could I get a taxi anywhere near here?
W: It’s not so far
M: Well, it’s also starting to rain. I think I will get a taxi. 19) _______________________.
W: 20) __________________________, lots of taxis go this way. M: I’m getting wet! 21) ______________________________!
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