Тесты по английскому языку грамматика, лексика, аудирование

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  4.  How did he find someone?

a) He asked other people. b) Mrs. Roper introduced someone to him.   5.  How many hours a day did Mrs. Roper work for him?

a) Four. b) One.

  6.  Was Jim happy with Mrs. Roper’s work? a) No, he wasn’t. b) Yes, he was.

 7.  Why?

a)Because he coughed whenever he breathed.

b)Because she did not clean his bedroom properly.

 8.  How did Jim let Mrs. Roper know what he thought?

a)He wrote her a message on a piece of paper.

b)He wrote something on his mirror.

 9.  Was the mirror clean that evening?

a) No, it wasn’t. b) Yes, it was.

10.  How did Jim know that Mrs. Roper had read his message?

a)Because she had cleaned the mirror.

b)Because she had left him a bottle of cough medicine.

2.Listen to the text again and cross out extra words.

1.Jim lived together with his parents until he was twenty-one years old, and then he got a good job in the office of a big factory in another town, so he left home.

2.He found a comfortable little flat which had two tiny rooms, a small kitchen and a separate bathroom, and he lived there on his own.

3.At first he cleaned it himself, but he didn’t want to have to go on doing this himself, so he firmly determined himself to find someone else to do it instead of him.

4.He asked a lot of his fellow workers at the factory he was working what they did about this, and at last one of the men said, ‘Oh, old Mrs. Roper comes and cleans my flat regularly. She washes the dishes, irons my shirts and keeps the place clean, neat and tidy an so on. I’ll introduce her to you, if you really like. She’s a charming old lady of about 60. She does her best, but she hasn’t got much energy.’

5.‘Well, you’d better ask her to come and see me as soon as possible, please,’ Jim answered.

3. Listen to the text again and fill in missing words.

1.So the next _______________ Mrs. Roper came to see him, and she

_______________ with pleasure to come to his flat _______________

morning for an hour.

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2.After she had been working for Jim for two _______________, he looked at the mirror in the bedroom and thought, ‘This mirror looks very _______________. Mrs. Roper’s forgotten to clean it. I can

_______________ on it with my finger.’

3.He wrote the _______________ in the dust: ‘I’m _______________

whenever I breathe because everything in this room is very dusty.’

4.He came _______________ at 7 o’clock that evening, and when he had

_______________ his supper, he went into his _______________ and looked at the mirror.

5.‘That _______________ woman still hasn’t _______________ it!’ he said to himself. ‘All it needs is a _______________!’

4. Listen to the text again and complete the sentences.

1.But then _______________________________________________.

2.‘I __________________________________________,’ he thought.

3.‘Mrs. ________________________________________________.’

4.He ____________________________________________________.

5.‘She’s ________________________________________________,’ he said to himself.

6.He ___________________. They were: ‘____________________.’

Intermediate Tests

Test 1. Winter Festivals

1. Match the name of the festival with its description.

winter’s darkest days.

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2. Choose the correct answer to complete the sentences.

1.  Lucia was brave because

a)she lit fires.

b)the Christians attacked her.

c)she was a Roman who helped people her country didn’t like.

2.  Three things happened during the Imbolic festival. People put candles

 in their windows,

a)they didn’t work, and they didn’t fight wars.

b)men lit fires, and women wore crowns of candles on their heads.

c)filled their houses with bright flowers, and sang songs in church.

3.Fillinthegapsbelow.Usethefollowingwords:candles,carols,decorate, tradition, celebration.

1.People in the west _______________ the Christmas tree with coloured balls.

2.In many festivals, people give each other gifts. It is a very old

_______________.

3.During the festival, the boys sing nine _______________ .

4.There are lamps, candles, and bright flowers in every house. It is a wonderful _______________ of colour and light.

5.They tied _______________ to the trees.

4. Listen to the text and put the following sentences in correct order.

__ A. And they couldn’t work or fight wars. __ B. But is it a sad season?

__ C. During Saturnalia week — 17 to 24 December — people gave each other gifts.

__ D. For thousands of years, winter festivals have brought light and colour to the darkest time of year.

__ E. Not at all.

__ F. On festival day, candles were put in the windows of the family home. __ G. Outside, the men lit fires.

__ H. Romans tied them to trees for their Saturnalia festival.

__ I. The Celts also used candles for their Imbolic festival, on 2 February.

__ J. Imbolic was a celebration of light returning after winter. __ K. The earliest festival lights were candles.

__ L. The women were braver.

__ M. They wore a crown of candles on their heads.

__ N. ‘Winter has a cold heart,’ said the writer, Christina Rosetti.

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5. Listen to the text again and fill in missing words.

 1. Some of today’s festivals _____________________________.

 2. The most famous of _________________________ Lucia’s Day,

____________________.

 3. Catholics say that ________________________________.

 4. Whileshelived,herpeople________________________________for their___________________.Lucia___________________________

Christians _______________________.

 5. When night came, she _________________________________.

 6. The Christians followed her crown of lights ___________________

under the ground ________________.

 7. On Lucia’s Day, ________________________ of the family

________________________, a red sash and a crown of candles.

 8. She walks through ___________________________________ to other people in the family.

 9. ______________________ walk behind her.

10.They ________________________ and _______________________

________________.

6. Listen to the text again and put the parts of sentence in correct order.

1.In is also India’s Diwali the a light and celebration of east, festival colour. _________________________________________________

2.Diwali of lights’ and Hindu New celebrates means ‘night the Year.

_______________________________________________________

3.The lasts days for festival five.

_______________________________________________________

4.Indians bright houses fill their with lamps and candles, flowers.

_______________________________________________________

5.And next for they in the wish happiness year.

_______________________________________________________

6.Candles Jewish in the festival important of are also Chanukah.

_______________________________________________________

7.It 22 begins on for eight December and lasts days.

_______________________________________________________

8.Every menorah (a candle is evening traditional another lit on the candlestick).

_______________________________________________________

9.People other give each money children small and give gifts.

_______________________________________________________

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7. Listen to the text again and complete the sentences.

 1. In ____________________________________________________.

 2. In ____________________________________________________.

 3. But ___________________________________________________.

 4. Most __________________________________________________.

 5. England’s ______________________________________________.

 6. The ___________________________________________________.

 7. Boys __________________________________________________.

 8. From _________________________________________________.

 9. But ___________________________________________________.

10. Everyone ______________________________________________.

Test 2. It’s Carnival Time!

1. Listen to the text and mark the statements as true or false.

2. Listen to the text and put the sentences in correct order.

____ A. Carnival always ended on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent

began.

____ A. For Christians, Carnival was a time when they ate well and had fun before ‘Lent’ — a time when Christians tried to eat less.

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3. Listen to the text and match the beginnings with the endings.

4. Listen to the text and put the words from the sentences in correct order.

1.Thousands to entrance to carnival the Venice is so full of people and sometimes that the has to be come the city closed.

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

2.The are in beautiful full narrow streets of people costumes.

_______________________________________________________

3.In and are the of Venice, many musicians play, squares always the theatres full.

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

4.All in every you a mask, need to become the carnival in part of these is and Venice find you can shop.

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

5.You the if you masks already mask can buy painted many people want, buy a simple but white and themselves paint it.

_______________________________________________________

___________________________

5. Listen to the text again and complete the sentences.

1.Once__________________________________________________.

2.Or, ___________________________________________________

______________________________________________________.

3.In ____________________________________________________.

4.______________________________________________________.

5.In ____________________________________________________.

6.Then __________________________________________________.

______________________________________________________

7.Above _________________________________________________.

8.At ____________________________________________________.

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  9. ______________________________________________________. 10. Then __________________________________________________.

Test 3. World Music

1. Listen to the text and write down the year when these albums were released. Then put them in the order they were made.

2. Listen to the text and mark the statements as true or false.

3. Listen to the text and put the sentences in correct order.

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4. Listen to the text and match the beginnings with the endings.

5. Listen to the text again and fill in missing words.

1.Ry Cooder _________________________________________The Buena Vista Social Club (1997) — recorded with _________________

_________________________________________ Compay Segundo (________________) and Ruben Gonzalez (__________________), who were famous in Cuba __________________________________.

2.But in the 1960s he ________________________________________.

3.His first World Music ______________________________________.

4.He made _______________________________________ V.M. Bhatt.

5.This _____________________________________________________.

6.His next album, Talking Timbuktu _____________________________

Ali Farka Toure, won another Grammy.

7.Simon and Garfunkel _______________________________________.

8.They _____________, and Paul Simon _________________________.

9.But in the 1980s ___________________________________________.

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10.He went ________________________________________________.

11.In ________________, Graceland, with ______________________.

12.It became _______________________________________________.

13.‘Paul Simon ___________________________________ from another country _________________________________,’ some people said.

14.But Graceland ___________________________________________.

15.In 1990 Simon made an _______________, Rhythm of the Saints,

_______________________.

6. Listen to the text again and complete the sentences.

1.Millions _______________________________________________.

2.There __________________________________________________.

3.Everybody ______________________________________________.

4.But ___________________________________________________.

5.You ___________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________.

Test 4. Mobile Phones: Useful or Dangerous?

1. Listen to the text and answer the following questions.

1.Is the author for or against mobile phones?

2.What reasons does the author give for people’s love for mobiles?

3.According to the text, for what reasons do people use mobiles in different countries?

4.What’s the correlation between mobiles and smoking?

5.How many mobile phone users were in the world when the article was written?

2. Listen to the text and put the sentences in correct order.