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33. Shakespeare wrote his ... play in 1613.
a. latest c. latter
b. later d. last
34. You have to be quite ... to stand up in front of an audience.
a. selfish c. self-satisfied
b. self-conscious d. self-confident
35. The flight was ... for 2 hours because of fog.
a. put off c. delayed
b. cancelled d. postponed
36. Many people can’t ... to live in luxury.
a. admit c. offer
b. afford d. allow
37. It is ... difficult to speak to her.
a. such c. pretty
b. as d. prettily
38. He dislikes being disturbed. – ... .
a. Neither do they. c. So do they.
b. Neither they do. d. They don’t.
39. I have never known an old man ... talked less of the past.
a. who c. which
b. whose d. whom
40. They get on well with each other ... they have so much in common.
a. that’s why c. because
b. though d. but
41. What is the City?
a. a shopping area c. an entertainment centre
b. a business centre d. an industrial district
42. The prominent people of England are buried in ... .
a. Westminster Abbey c. the Tower of London
b. St. Paul’s Cathedral d. Buckingham Palace
43. What is the capital and the national emblem of Scotland?
a. London – the red rose c. Edinburgh – the thistle
b. Cardiff – the daffodil d. Edinburgh – the daffodil
44. What is Thomas Gainsborough?
a. a statesman c. an architect
b. a poet d. a painter
45. What is the longest river in the USA?
a. the Missouri c. the Ohio
b. the Colombia d. the Mississippi
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46. – Let’s buy that camera.
a. – So do I. c. – Not at all.
b. – Which one do you mean? d. – Thanks a lot.
47. – Can I have a cheeseburger and an orange juice?
a. – Here you are. c. – Here you can.
b. – Here there are. d. – Here are these.
48. – I’d like to help you.
a. – Me too. c. – It’s very kind of you.
b. – Never mind. d. – With pleasure.
49. – Sorry to keep you waiting.
a. – Not at all. c. – You are welcome.
b. – That’s all right. d. – No, you must not.
50. – I want to ask you some questions.
a. – Don’t bother. c. – Go ahead.
b. – Do it again. d. – It’s great.
TEXT TESTS
Q
USE THE MOST SUITABLE TENSE
Text 1
One Big, Happy Family
Mr. and Mrs. Jones’s flat was full of suitcases, trunks and packed-up
furniture. The two of them (1. be) busy with pencils and paper, checking
their lists of luggage, when there was a ring at the door. Mrs. Jones (2.
go) to open it, and saw a well-dressed middle-aged lady outside. The lady
said that she (3. live) in the flat next to theirs, and that she (4.come) to
welcome them to their new home. The Joneses invited her in, after apologizing for the state of the flat.
“Oh, please don’t stand on ceremony with me”, she answered. “Do
you know, in some parts of this town neighbours (5. be) not at all
friendly. There are some streets – and even some blocks of flats – where
people (6. not know) their neighbours – not even their next-door ones.
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But in this block of flats, everybody is friends with everybody else. We
are one big, happy family. I (7.be) sure that you (8. be) very happy here”.
The well-dressed lady (9. get) a shock when she came to visit the flat
the next time, because she found a quite different man and woman in it.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones (10. not have) the courage to tell her that they were
not the new owners of the flat, who were due to move in the next day, but
the old owners, who (11. live)next to her for two years without her ever
having visited them or even noticed their existence.
Text 2
Mr. Forrest was a journalist who (1. live) in a small flat on the top
floor of a large building. He (2. be) a rather noisy young man. Now in the
flat below his there lived an elderly lady who was a very bad sleeper.
One day she accosted him as he (3. leave) the building to go to work.
“Mr. Forrest”, she said, “I (4. know) you are young and cannot be expected to behave as if you (5. be) an old man. But there is one thing I
would ask you. Would you please not throw your shoes down with such a
bang when you (6. take) them off at nights? I am a bad sleeper. I lie
awake every night waiting for you to come home and cannot get any rest
until I (7. hear) you take your shoes off. I know I’m silly, but I’m sure you
wouldn’t wish to disturb an old woman, as far as you can help”.
Mr. Forrest faithfully (8. promise) to be more careful and went off to
his work. By the time he got home that night, however, he (9. forget) all
about the lady downstairs. After he (10. take) a hasty supper, he started to
undress. Bang! (11. go) his first shoe on the bedroom floor. The sound
startled him but it was too late. Idiot that he (12. be) ! He took off the
other shoe as softly as he could, feeling very guilty. No sooner he (13.
creep) into bed than there was a tap at his door. “Mr. Forrest” came the
voice of the old lady, “would you please throw down the other shoe so
that I may go to sleep?”
This was too much for the poor young man. The next week he (14.
move) to rooms over an empty shop where he (15. can) make as much
noise as he liked without disturbing anyone.
Softly ... Softly
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Q
USE THE, A/AN,–
Text 3
Parents Join Children for Lessons
Parents are being invited into hundreds of 1__ State schools all over
2__ country today to see and hear their children being taught. For this is
Home and School Day, 3.__first of what is expected to be 4.__series of
annual ‘see how they learn sessions’. Unlike 5.__ normal open days, this
will be quite informal. 6.__ Parents will be able to drop in, walk around,
talk to teachers or just sit at the back of 7.__classroom.
8.__day has been promoted by the Home and School Council, 9.__
organization set up last year to stimulate 10.__co-operation between parents and teachers.
Mr. Bob Finch, Council director who has his headquarters at York
University, said 11.__last night: “This is 12.__ trial run but we expect
that, even if the number of schools taking part this time is 13.__minority,
the idea will be snowball in 14.__future.”
Text 4
Regrets
“I live in 1.__ squalid flat. I’m out of work and on 2.__dole. I didn’t
have 3.__good education; in fact I left school at fifteen without any qualifications. I wrote about4.__fifty job applications and didn’t get 5.__single
job. I went for 6.__ lot of interviews, but I don’t really know how to behave at interviews, I can’t answer their questions very well.
I sit about at 7.__ home very day, watching TV, and smoking. I get
through about forty cigarettes a day, so I don’t have enough money to go
to 8.__football matches any more. 9.__friend of mine from school has got
a job at 10.__travel agent’s. He travels all over 11.__world for his holidays, and he’s always telling me about 12.__wonderful trips to
13.__Spain and Greece. I’ve never been abroad! I’m so depressed. I think
14.__worst thing is having nothing to look forward to. I’m nineteen, and I
have 15.__lifetime of nothing in front of me”.
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Q
USE THE MOST SUITABLE TENSE
Text 5
Thanksgiving on the Farm
I remember our Thanksgivings on the farm. When I (1.grow) up, we
lived on a farm near the town. There were many other relatives who
(2.live) near us. Every year they would all come, from other farms and
from the town, to be with us.
On Thanksgiving morning the women (3.get) up early to begin cook-
ing. Mother would stuff the turkey with bread and onions, and then she’d
roast it. Aunt Ellen (4.make) a dozen pumpkin pies. Aunt Ann would pick
autumn flowers from the garden for the centre of the table. She’d also
bring in vegetables to eat with the turkey and the pies.
The other children would help set the table while the twin babies
played in their high chair. But I (5.like) to play with the cat, waiting for
somebody to give me pieces of food. All this time our old dog would lie
under the warm stove, watching the activity.
Text 6
At six o’clock on April 21, 1976, the living room and front part of
this man’s house (1.fall) in. The man (2.have) construction workers dig a
hole under the front of the house to add on another room. The workers
(3.not be) there when the accident(4.happen) , so nobody was hurt.
Reporters asked the owner, “What you (5. do) when the rooms fell in?”
He answered, “My wife and I (6. talk) to guests. We were showing them
the cracks in the front room when we (7.hear) a loud sound. The cracks
(8.grow) larger, so we called the construction company. But it was too late.
The construction workers were still driving here when the rooms (9.fall) in.”
When the Wall Fell In
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Q
USE THE, A/AN, –.
Text 7
Nobody Had Believed It Was Possible
In 1912, 1.__Titanic hit 2.__iceberg on its first trip across
3.__Atlantic, and it sank four hours later. At that time, 1.__Titanic was
4.__largest ship that had ever traveled on 5.__sea. It was carrying 2207
people, but it had taken on enough 6.__lifeboats for only 1178 people.
When 7.__passengers tried to leave the ship, only 651 of them were able
to get into lifeboats.
1.__Carpathia was 58 miles away when 1.__Titanic called on its ra-
dio for 8.__help. It arrived two hours after 9.__great ship had gone down,
and it saved 705 people. Some of 10.__survivors had been in 11.__icy
water for hours when they were saved. Most of 12.__passengers hadn’t
lived that long; 1502 people had lost their lives.
Through 13.__whole tragedy, 1.__Californian was only ten miles
away. Its officers were close enough to see 1.__Titanic, but they didn’t
understand the situation. They never received 1.__Titanic’s call for
8.__help, and they didn’t come to the rescue until too late.
Why was there such 14.__great loss of life? Why were there so few
survivors? Why didn’t 1.__Californian come to help?
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PART 3
THE STOP-SMOKING SHIP
The most difficult thing in the world for someone to do when
he is trying to give up smoking is to refuse a cigarette when a
friend offers one. While people who smoke are near, the temptation to do the same is too strong. But how can someone who desperately wants to give up smoking get away from all his friends
and their cigarettes?
An American doctor thinks he has found the answer at lest to
part of the question: sit on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic! On
the ‘stop-smoking ship’ which left New York on the 21st November for a two-week cruise, there isn’t a tobacco shop in sight; there
are no cigarette machines and all the passengers have only one
idea – to give up smoking.
The cost alone would frighten some people into never wanting
to see a cigarette again. The passengers pay $25 a day each for the
pleasure of being shut up with one another’s bad temper. But giving up tobacco for good is not easy for those poor travellers who
are not very strong-minded. One man even tried to smuggle a suitcase full of cigarettes onto the ship, hoping to get back some of his
$25 a day in black market prices. Fortunately he was caught before
he could infect the more weak-minded passengers.
Two weeks might not seem a long time for a holiday cruise
but it must seem a lifetime to a smoker with nothing to smoke.
How many, do you think, of those brave passengers have now
given up smoking permanently?
Choose the best answer.
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10
15
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1. What kind of ship is meant in the title of this story?
A A ship for people who don’t want to give up smoking.
B A ship for people who have never smoked.
C A ship for people who have stopped smoking.
D A ship for people who want to give up smoking.
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2. What is so very difficult for a person who wants to stop smoking?
A To accept a cigarette.
B Not to accept a cigarette.
C To offer a cigarette.
D Not to offer a cigarette.
3. What is too strong? (line4)
A a friend’s cigarette
B the desire to smoke too
C the smell of the tobacco
D the smoking people near you
4. What question is meant in line 5?
A ‘How can I get away from cigarettes?’
B ‘How can I get away from my friends and their cigarettes?’
C ‘How can I stop my friends smoking?’
D ‘How can I stop smoking?’
5. What makes the doctor think that being on the ship may help?
A A cruise makes people forget about smoking.
B All the passengers have the same intention.
C The passengers will have no money left for cigarettes.
D There are not enough tobacco shops on the ship.
Choose the correct translation.
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6. One man even tried to smuggle a suitcase full of cigarettes onto the
ship, hoping to get back some of his $25 a day in black market prices.
A Один человек даже пытался заказать на корабль чемодан, пол-
ный сигарет, в надежде окупить 25$ в день по ценам черного рынка.
B Один человек даже пытался протащить на корабль чемодан, пол-
ный сигарет, в надежде окупить 25$ в день по ценам черного рынка.
C Один человек даже пытался украсть с корабля чемодан
, полный
сигарет, в надежде окупить 25$ в день по ценам черного рынка.
True or false.
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1. The temptation to smoke is strong when people who smoke are near.
2. The doctor guarantees that people will give up smoking for ever on the
“stop-smoking ship”.
3. The rules on the ship are so strict that nobody can violate them.
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Complete each sentence with one of the endings
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1. The passengers pay $25 a day each for…
2. Two weeks might not seem a long time for a holiday cruise but it must
seem…
3. But giving up tobacco for good is…
4. The most difficult thing in the world for someone to do when he is
trying to give up smoking is…
5. There are no cigarette machines on the ship and all the passengers
have only one idea…
A …to refuse a cigarette when a friend offers one.
B … to give up smoking.
C … the pleasure of being shut up with one another’s bad temper.
D … not easy for those poor travellers who are not very strong-minded.
E … a lifetime to a smoker with nothing to smoke.
ASK THE DOG
Mrs. Tomkins left the south sitting-room of the Halfway Hotel
in Silbury and went to find the manager. She complained about a
large dog which was frequently to be found sitting in the best armchair in the sitting-room.
‘I can’t understand,’ she said, ‘why you allow dogs in the sit-
ting-room at all, Mr. Goff. The proper place for a dog is outside.
Nobody can sit in that chair when the dog’s in it; and we don’t
really like to use it afterwards because it may be dirty. Some dogs
aren’t clean, you know. Can you please keep the animal out?’
Goff promised to do what he could. He and his wife were
simple people and had only lately bought the hotel. It was making
a profit, but not a large profit. They needed all visitors they could
get, and they did not want people to leave because of dogs. He
went to talk the matter over with his wife. She herself had noticed
this dog and she agreed with Mrs. Tomkins. In her opinion, no
dogs ought to be allowed in the hotel at all.
‘But we don’t want to drive anyone away,’ said Goff, ‘It’s
very difficult. If we refuse to allow dogs in the hotel, dog-owners
won’t come here to stay and we’ll lose money.’ They discussed
dogs for some time and finally agreed that dogs could come into
the hotel, but must not sit on the chairs.
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To make this decision known to all their guests, Mrs. Goff
wrote out a rough notice and showed it to her husband. On it were
the words: ‘Dogs must not be allowed to sit on the furniture.’
‘We can put this near the front door,’ she said.
‘I don’t like it very much,’ he said doubtfully. It is not polite.
It’s too severe. It’s like an order. These people aren’t in the army.
We don’t want to make them angry.’
Mrs. Goff went away to think again. Some time later a notice
was put up near the front door of the hotel. It was quite artistic; the
words were in blue on a yellow board, and she had drawn a picture
of a dog’s head at the top. The words below the drawing were as
follows:
Dogs are welcome, but are asked not to go into the diningroom and not to sit on the furniture.
When Goff saw this notice for the first time, a thoughtful ex-
pression came over his face. He went to find his wife, and said to
her in a doubtful voice, ‘I’m still worried about that notice. English
dogs may be able to read it, but if any foreign dogs come to stay,
they won’t understand it.’
Choose the best answer.
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35
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1. When Mrs. Tomkins left the sitting-room of the Halfway Hotel, she
A found the dog.
B found Mrs. Goff.
C looked for the dog.
D looked for the manager.
2. When she saw the manager she expressed
A her dissatisfaction with the armchairs in the hotel.
B her dissatisfaction with the dog’s being in the sitting-room.
C her satisfaction with the armchairs in the hotel.
D her satisfaction with the dog’s being in the sitting-room.
3. When Mrs. Tomkins spoke to the manager she said that she
A hated the dog being outside.
B loved the dog being outside.
C wanted the dog in the hotel.
D wished the dog out of the hotel.
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