TEST 14
1. USE THE CORRECT TENSE-FORMS OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS
Technique-type: form-building
Dear Peter,
You by any chance 1) (to know) where Bob 2) (to be)? I’d like to find it out because I just 3) (to hear) of a job that exactly 4) (to suit) him, but if he
5) (not to apply) fairly soon of course he 6) (not to get) it.
I last 7) (to see) him about a month ago, when he just 8) (to leave) his job with the film company. He 9) (to say) he 10) (to go) to France for a holiday and 11) (to promise) to send me a postcard with his French address as soon as he 12) (to find) a place to stay. But I 13) (to hear) nothing about him since then and 14) (not to know) even whether he 15) (to go) to France or not.
If you 16) (to know) his address I 17) (to be) very grateful if you 18) (to phone) me. I 19) (to try) to phone you several times but your phone
20) (not to seem) to be working.
Yours, Jack
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2. PUT IN ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY
Technique-type: multiple choice
Bill Radford has 1) a / the / – job in a small factory. He doesn’t much like 2) a / the / – work, but he enjoys the relationships with the other workers, and he gets on well with 3) a / the / – boss. He belongs to 4) a / the / – trade union. Sometimes he has a chance to travel on 5) a / the / – business.
His wife, Ann, has been unemployed for 6) a / the / – last two years. She stays at 7) a / the / – home and looks after the house. After getting their six-year-old daughter Sally ready and driving her to 8) a / the / – school, she starts on the housework. She finds housework boring, and doesn’t like to stay
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at 7) ______ home all 9) a / the / – day. She doesn’t like to waste time, so after lunch she goes off to 10) a / the / – public library and reads books on politics or history until it’s time to fetch Sally from 8) _____ school.
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3. PUT IN PREPOSITIONS WHERE NECESSARY
Technique-type: multiple choice
1)It was her principle to do nothing against the rules. You couldn’t even find her among the students guilty ________ cheating.
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f. An old gentleman was walking slowly along a street one day.
g.So he stopped and said,
h.He was trying to reach a door-bell.
i.why he had rung the bell.
j.The man was left to explain to the angry owner of the house
k. “Now we will run away. Come on.” l. He was a kind-hearted old man.
m. While walking he saw a little boy.
n. the boy had run round the corner of the street.
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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
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4)__________. In previous television seasons, 5) ____________ have enjoyed
6)_______________ of the Taming of the Shrew, Richard I and Hamlet.
7)__________ significant of all is the fact that reading has been stimulated.
8)___________ throughout the country report similar reaction.
6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH
Technique-type: gap-filling
Seeking perfection. Isn’t it an exciting 1) ощущение, closing your eyes occasionally, to imagine yourself a 2) модный dresser, a lady
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your 4) соперников 5) завистливыми and having men throwing themselves at your feet? A girl keeping up with fashion does not merely copy images from 6) глянцевых magazines. She uses them to her own ends creating her own style.
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It doesn’t matter that a skirt or a coat used to belong to the grandmother of our trendy dresser. A couple of 7) ручной работы accessories and those mothballed articles might very well pass for novelty designer 8) ярлыков. A true devotee of fashion looks after her health: green tea, a morning jog in the summer, a skating-rink session in the winter. Healthy lifestyles are now more popular than ever. Diets, 9) питание and traditional beauty 10) рецепты are the subject of a great many specialised magazines found in kiosks and newsagents all over the country.
7.FILL IN THE GAPS IN THE TEXT CHOOSING THE BEST VARIANT GIVEN AFTER THE TEXT
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1) ____________, and somebody starts pressing keys. Instantly a screen and a machine 2) ________________ your movements as a spender. 3) _______________ you pay by card or check, your bank or building society is also 4) __________________ of your life as saver or spender. There 5) ________________ a computer 6) ___________________ over your money. Where did it all begin, this modern 7) __________________ of accounting so different from that the poor clerks Dickens 8) ________________ about sitting on high stools from early morning till late 9) __________________
night? Well, in Britain if you take a train or bus and travel across to the Southwest, you may 10) __________________ yourself looking at the answer. A few miles outside Salisbury 11) __________________ a broken ring of large stones known as Stonehenge. The ring is 12) ____________________ over 4,000 years old.
Experts have 13) ___________________ that one use of henge was to make calculations, probably to 14) … with astronomy. If true then Stonehenge can 15) ________________________ to be Britain’s oldest computer – Stonehenge rules, you might well say.
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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
MAY BE CORRECT
Technique-type: error-correction – extra word
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9.COMPLETE THE TEXT CHOOSING THE WORD FOR EACH GAP FROM THE BOX
Technique-type: gap-filling
me too / very much / see you back / it was brilliant / just / fine / so / ah yes / yes / no thanks / now and again / please / madam, sir / it’s our pleasure / shall / thank you / thank you very much / ladies and gentlemen / yes we do / no, I haven’t
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W = Waiter, T = Tony, M = May, A = Anita
W: Good evening 1) ___________________________. Do you have a reservation?
T: 2) ______________________, in the name of Marshall.
W: 3) _______________________, a table for six at 8.30? Would you like a drink in the bar first?
M: Em, 4) ________________________. I think we’ll go straight to the table.
W: 5) _________________________. Can I take your coats? M: 6) ________________________.
W: We have over fifty specials today. A waiter will come and help you in a moment.
T: Thanks. Have you been here before, Anita?
A: 7) _________________________, but it’s quite well known in Manchester. It’s famous for its ’sizzling Chinese steak’, very hot!
T: 8) ______________________ we order an aperitif? What would you like Anita?
A: Em, sherry for me 9) ____________________________.
A: 10) _____________________, have you enjoyed your time in Manchester, Tony?
T: 11) _____________________. It’s been great. We haven’t stopped for a minute!
A: You had time to see the city then?
T: 12) ________________, we saw masses of things. We went to the disco, restaurants, all the shoe shops in the city, Castlefield, the Lake District...
A: And time for some work as well!
T: [laughs] Huh! 13) _____________________________! In fact the exhibition was a great success, wasn’t it, May?
M: Yeah, 14) _____________________________. …
W: Er, can I get you anything else, 15) _______________________? T: No, no, thank you, 16) ______________________ the bill, please.
A: That steak was delicious! 17) ____________________________ for inviting us.
T: 18) _________________________. Here’s to a long and fruitful partnership!
A: Thanks and 19) ____________________________ in Manchester next year, I hope!
T: 20) ________________________________!
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