Тесты по английскому языку грамматика, лексика, аудирование

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Test 5.

1.1 — b, 2 — b, 3 — a, 4 — a, 5 — b, 6 — a, 7 — b, 8 — b, 9 — a,

10— b.

2.1 — together, good. 2 — tiny, separate. 3 — firmly, 4 — he was working, old, neat, really, of about 60. 5 — as soon as possible.

3.1 — evening, agreed, every. 2 — weeks, dusty, write. 3 — message, coughing. 4 — home, eaten, bedroom. 5 — silly, cleaned, cloth.

4.1 — he bent down and saw a bottle in front of the mirror.

2 — didn’t put that bottle there.

3 — Roper must have left it.

4 — picked the bottle up and looked at it carefully.

5 — written some words on it.

6 — read the words. Cough medicine.

Intermediate

Test 1.

1.A — 4, B — 3, C — 5, D — 1, E — 2

2.1 — c, 2 — b.

3.1 — decorate, 2 — tradition, 3 — carols, 4 — celebration, 5 — candles.

4.1 — N, 2 — B — 3 — E, 4 — D, 5 — K, 6 — H, 7 — C, 8 — A, 9 — I, 10 — J,

11— F, 12 — G, 13 — L, 14 — M.

  1 — Use this same tradition.

  2 — These is Sweden’s, on 13 December.   3 — Lucia was a young Roman girl.

  4 — Were attacking Christians. Felt sorry for the, and wanted to help.   5 — Wore a crown of candles.

  6 — Through tunnels, and escaped.

  7 — The eldest daughter, wears a long white dress.   8 — The house and gives food and drink.

  9 — Male children.

10— Carry silver stars, sing St. Lucia’s song.

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

2 — Diwali means ‘night of lights’ and celebrates the Hindu New Year. 3 — The festival lasts for five days.

4 — Indians fill their houses with candles, lamps and bright flowers. 5 — And they wish for happiness in the next year.

6 — Candles are also important in the Jewish festival of Chanukah. 7 — It begins on 22 December and lasts for eight days.

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8 — Every evening another candle is lit on the menorah (a traditional candle-stick).

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

7.

 1 — Western homes, decorating the Christmas tree is an old tradition.

 2 — The past people decorated trees with candles.

 3 — Today people decorate their trees with yellow stars and balls of red, silver and gold.

 4 — Churches also prefer candlelight for their Christmas festivals.

 5—‘FestivalofNineLessonsandCarols’fromKing’sCollege,Cambridge, is a world-famous example.

 6 — Festival starts at midnight on 24 December.

 7 — with candles walk slowly to the front of the church as they sing the first carol.

 8 — East to west, winter brings cold weather and long nights.

 9 — Its festivals all bring light, colour and warmth to people’s homes. 10 — Celebrates and hopes for a happy new year.

Test 2.

1.1 — F, 2 — F, 3 — T, 4 — T, 5 — F, 6 — T, 7 — F, 8 — F, 9 — T, 10 — T,

11— T, 12 — F.

2.1 — H, 2 — E, 3 — C, 4 — D, 5 — F, 6 — G, 7 — B, 8 — A.

3.1 — D, 2 — F, 3 — I, 4 — A, 5 — N, 6 — K, 7 — B, 8 — M, 9 — G, 10 — L, 11 — J, 12 — C, 13 — H, 14 — E.

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

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

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

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

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

1 — you have your mask, you should go to a masked dance.

2 — if you’re wearing a costume, you could win a fancy dress competition.

3 — Venice the best masked dances are private, but there are many dances that are open to everyone, and they’re great fun too.

4 — the last days of the carnival, there are parties by the side of the canals.

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5 — on Shrove Tuesday there’s always a big masked dance in the Piazza San Marco again.

6 — the square, fireworks light up the night sky.

7 — midnight the bells ring above the square to tell you that it’s the end of the festival.

8 — it’s time to go home and become your ordinary self again.

Test 3.

1.1 — Graceland, 1986, 2- Rhythm of the Saints, 1990, 3 — A Meeting by the River, 1993, 4 — Talking Timbuktu, 1994, 5 — The Buena Vista Social Club, 1997.

2.1 — T, 2 — F, 3 — F, 4 — T, 5 — F, 6 — T, 7 — F, 8 — F, 9 — T.

3.1 — B, 2 — D, 3 — E, 4 — A, 5 — F, 6 — C.

4.1 — J, 2 — D, 3 — A, 4 — I, 5 — B, 6 — C, 7 — F, 8 — E, 9 — H,

10— G.

  1 — is famous now for the album, Cuban musicians, age 92, age 80, in the 1950s.

  2 — played on Rolling Stones’ records.   3 — album was recorded in 1993.

  4 — A Meeting by the River with Indian musician.   5 — won a Grammy award.

  6 — 1994, with Malian musician.

  7 — were famous pop stars in the 1960s.

  8 — split up in 1970, worked as a singer-songwriter.   9 — he became less popular.

10— to South Africa for new ideas.

11— 1986, he made an album, black South African musicians.

12— one of the most popular albums of the 1980s.

13— is stealing music, to help his own career.

14— helped to make South African music world famous.

15— album, with musicians from Brazil.

1 — of people in Europe and America are now listening to World Music.

2 — will be another Great African Ball in New York next year. 3 — is welcome.

4 — if you can’t be in New York next November, don’t worry.

5 — can still find Youssou N’Dour and many other World Music stars at a record shop near you!

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Test 4.

1.

1 — People love to talk to each other, so mobiles are useful in everyday life and when travelling. They are fun and fashionable.

2 — in some parts of countries they are the only means of communication (there are no ordinary phones). People also sent e-mails and access the internet via mobiles.

3 — Research shows that teenage owners of mobile phones smoke less. 4 — 750 millions.

2.1 — B, 2 — D, 3 — I, 4 — G, 5 — H, 6 — F, 7 — C, 8 — E, 9 — A.

3.1 — I, 2 — A, 3 — E, 4 — B, 5 — H, 6 — C, 7 — J, 8 — D, 9 — F,

10— G.

1 — There are now 750 million mobile phone users around the world. 2 — This number will probably grow to 1.4 billion in five years’ time. 3 — Many people dislike them.

4 — They hate it when the businessman opposite them on the train has a loud conversation on his phone.

5 — Or when mobile phones ring in a café or restaurant.

  1 — there is a much more serious problem.

  2 — are not sure that mobiles are completely safe.

  3 — possible that mobiles can heat up the brain because we hold the phone so close to our head.

  4 — fear that mobiles can perhaps be bad for your memory and even give you cancer.

  5 — of these fears, some people use a ‘handsfree’ mobile — a phone that you needn’t hold to your ear.

  6 — it is possible that these are more dangerous.

  7 — just don’t know and many parents don’t give their younger children mobiles for this reason.

  8 — why do we use mobiles when we aren’t sure they’re safe?

  9 — mobiles are a lot of fun and very useful, we choose to forget the possible dangers.

10— choose to believe that mobiles are safe.

11— hope we’re right!

Test 5.

1.1 — F, 2 — T, 3 — F, 4 — T, 5 — F, 6 — T, 7 — T, 8 — T.

2.1 — for work. 2 — take the bus, at home cooking, the kids return. 3 — picture of a happy. 4 — true today. 5 — have seen, in Britain, true in many. 6 — by divorce. 7 — 2 out of 3, to a situation, one parent, at weekends.

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3.1 — in, of. 2 — in, to, to. 3 — to, in, to. 4 — in, to, in. 5 — in, to, at. 6 — in, of. 7 — of, up, of, on.

4.1 — negative. 2 — career. 3 — thing. 4 — mature. 5 — childminders. 6 — modern.

Test 6.

1.1 — b, 2 — a, c, 3 — a, 4 — a, 5 — a, 6 — a, b, 7 — a, c, 8 — a, c, 9 — b.

2.1 — have heard, hamburgers. 2 — farmers and owners, might happily agree. 3 — Meat Institute, Hot Dog & Sausage Council. 4 — pizza and apple pie, spirited argument. 5 — depends a lot. 6 — one thing is sure. 7 — came from other countries. 8 — favorite dishes, rest of the world. 9 — that traditional American, modern beginning. 10 — seven thousand million.

3.1 — pork, 2 — beef, 3 — turkey, 4 — vegetarian, 5 — tofu, 6 — tube, 7 — dog, 8 — bun, 9 — fire, air, 10 — plenty, 11 — tastes, 12 — additions,

13— mustard, 14 — catsup, onion.

1 — Hot dog eaters often add pickle, a salty green vegetable. 2 — Some people place barbecue sauce on top of all this.

3 — Or they use a spice called horseradish. 4 — It gives the hot dog a pleasant bite.

5 — A hot dog is also known as a frankfurter or frank.

6 — That is because the city of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany is often said to be the birthplace of this sausage.

1 — the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says there are other ideas about where the hot dog began.

2 — version of hot dog history says a butcher, or meat cutter, from the German city of Coburg was responsible.

3 — says he invented the hot dog in the late sixteen hundreds. 4 — Austria, also claims that it created the food.

5 — council says butchers from several countries probably brought common European sausages to America.

6 — salesman sold hot dogs to people in New York City in the eighteen sixties.

7 — in eighteen seventy one, a hot dog stand opened at the Coney Island amusement park in New York City.

Test 7.

1.1 — T, 2- T, 3 — F, 4 — T, 5 — F, 6 — F, 7 — F, 8 — T.

2.1 — hamburgers, 2 — ground, 3 — cooked, 4 — picnic, 5 — public, popular, 6 — priced, 7 — historians, 8 — ancient, 9 — Germany, pork.

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Test 3.

1.  1. Jakarta; 2. 13,000; 3. rupiah; 4. 18,000 rupiah to the dollar 2.  1. F; 2. T; 3. F; 4. F; 5. T.

3.  1. importing and selling machinery; 2. Jakarta, Indonesia; 3. He comes from a poor family. They all lived in a rural area. 4. selling icecream; 5.  travelling around the country and getting to know the market; 6.  security, inflation, competition. 7. He is too soft to run business.

Test 4.

1.

2. 1. c, 2. b, 3. c, 4. b, 5. d, 6. a.

Test 5.

1.a) T; b) F; c) F; d) T; e) F.

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