The Waiter: In fact you don’t have to pay because you are staying at the hotel over the road.

Max: 12) _________________________. The Waiter: It certainly is.

Max: Well, I will have salad and quiche and wine. The Waiter: Certainly, Sir.

Max: 13) ___________________________.

TEST 5

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

Technique-type: form-building

Playtime came and Isabel 1) (to surround). The girls of her class nearly

2) (to fight) 3) (to put) their arms round her, 4) (to walk) away with her,

5) (to be) her special friend. She held quite а court under the huge pine trees at the side of the playground. 6) (To push) each other, 7) (to laugh) together, the little girls 8) (to press up) close. And the only two who stayed outside the ring 9) (to be) the two who 10) (to be) always outside, the little Kelveys. They 11) (to know) better than to come anywhere near the Burnells.

And Isabel’s voice, so very proud, 12) (to go on) 13) (to tell). The carpet 14) (to make) а great sensation, but so 15) (to do) the beds with real bedclothes, and the stove with an oven door.

When she finished Kezia broke in. “You 16) (to forget) the lamp, Isabel.” “Oh yes,” said Isabel, “and there 17) (to be) а teeny little lamp, all 18) (to make) of yellow glass, with а white globe that 19) (to stand) on the dining-

room table. You couldn’t 20) (to tell) it from а real one.”

(from “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield)

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2. PUT IN ARTICLES WHERE NECESSARY

Technique-type: multiple choice

Travel and freedom often go together. During six weeks of travel through

1)a / the / – India, I have learnt much about this thing called freedom. It is a far more complex quality than I had imagined and one that can produce

2)a / the / – thorns as well as _____ beautiful roses. In postmodern times,

according to 3) a / the / – social theorist Zygmund Bauman, ’Freedom is the value by which all 4) a / the / – other values are measured.’ With this interpretation of freedom alone, I would never have survived in 1)______ India.

I travelled with 5) a / the / – international group of about thirty – we were 6) a / the / – Korean, _____ Taiwanese, _____ Sri Lankan, ____ Indian,

____ Lithuanian, ____ Australian and ____ New Zealander. I knew very 7) a / the / – few of the group before I arrived, but to be plucked from your ’comfort zone’ and flung together to live twenty-four hours 8) a / the / – day in a totally unknown context is surely one way to foster connectivity – even between individuals of such 9) a / the / – differing cultural backgrounds. And it is this connectivity that challenges 10) a / the / – postmodern idea of the individual’s ’right’ to absolute freedom.

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9)I can’t go ________ my glasses and nobody can find them. What should I do?

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

3) ________ tests at level four, the expected standard. Many have set their sights on a 4) ________________ standard, level five, which ministers regard as a 5) ________________ outcome for students at the end of three years in secondary school. An elite group of 33 schools achieved an aggregate score

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at level five that was equal to or 6) ____________ than the 7) ____________

average at level four.

6. TRANSLATE THE RUSSIAN WORDS INTO ENGLISH

Technique-type: gap-filling

Fashion 1) фанат an or fashion 2) раб lave? Every year London Fashion Week attracts 3) розничных торговцев, fashion leaders, and the press to shows of all that’s new in British fashion. Outrageous designs, original 4) ткани, and beautiful 5) стройные models are displayed on the 6) подиуме in an atmosphere of extravagant elegance. However, how much of this gets translated into street fashion, appearing in high street shops? And how many of us actually follow the trends we see? We all need to be

comfortable with what we wear. After all, first impressions 7) берутся в расчет, and we want our appearance to be consistent with the image we would like to project. How can we do this without becoming a fashion 2) раб? We are bombarded with magazines that show us the new fashions for each season, and where we can buy trendy clothes for 8) разумным prices. The distinction between what we see on the 6) подиуме and what’s on display in the 9) центральной street is becoming increasingly blurred. To avoid 10) пристальные взгляды and sniggers in the street we should develop our own shopping strategy.

(BBC. Learning English. News about Britain, 2006)

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

Technique-type: cloze-test

Every year more than eleven million tourists visit 1) __________________

Britain. In fact, tourism is an important industry, 2) ___________________

thousands of people. Most visitors come in the summer months, when they can expect 3) ________________________ weather. In July and August, the streets of London are 4) ______________________________ of the sound of French, Italian, Japanese, Arabic and German.

Tourists usually spend a few days in London, then go on to some of the other 5) ___________ cities. Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon (birthplace of Shakespeare) are 6) _______________________ most often. But Bath in the west, with its Roman ruins and beautiful eighteenth-century streets, is also very

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7) __________________. So is York, 8) __________________ oldest city in the north, and Edinburgh, the capital of 9) __________________________.

The main tourist places are crowded with coaches and ice cream sellers. But in the quiet country areas, there 10) ________________________ many interesting places that few tourist find. Some, like the old yellow stone villages of the Cotswolds, in central England, have already been “discovered”. But there are beautiful villages in other parts of the country too.

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

ok / wow! / well / hi / nice to meet you / why not? / good stuff! / hello / come in / good / gosh / that is very interesting / mm / how are you? / yes, we are / yeah / yeah, that is right

A. = Allan, NM = the Man in the Newspaper Office

A.: OK. There is the Local Post. I have just finished reading The Local Post. There is the building. Well! The Local Post! There is a sign in the window. It says: “journalist wanted”. They want a journalist. They need a journalist. I used to work on the college newspaper and I have written a couple of articles on the internet. I am going to try and get a job. (Knocking)

NM: 1) ______________________________.

A.: 2) _______________________________. NM: Hello. How are you doing?

A.: Good, thanks. 3) _______________________________. NM: Very well, thank you.

A.: 4) ___________________________. I was just walking by and I saw the sign in the window: “journalist wanted”.

NM: 5) ______________________________________. A.: Are you still looking for somebody?

NM: 6) _____________________________________.

A.: 7) ___________________________, I don’t have a lot of experience but I worked on the college paper when I was a student and I have written a couple of things on the internet.

NM: What did you write on the internet?

A.: I just wrote a couple of articles. One was about a village that I used to live in.

NM: Traditional village?

A.: 8) __________________________. NM: Where was the village?

A.: In Thailand.

NM: Oh, Thailand. 9) ___________________________________.

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