II. Fill in the blanks with the articles “a/an”, “the” or “-”.

ON A DIET

First she gave up (1) ___ smoking,

Then she gave up (2) ___ gin,

Then she gave up (3) ___ chocolate cake,

She wanted to be thin.

Then she gave up (4) ___ breakfast,

Then she gave up (5) ___ lunch.

On (6) ___ lazy Sunday mornings

She even gave up (7) ___ brunch.

No matter what she gave up

Her skirts were very tight.

Cause she ate twelve cans of (8) ___ tuna fish

For (9) ___ dinner (10) ___ every night.

(0.1 point each = 1 point)

III. Do the morphological analysis of the verb-predicate (terminative/durative, stative/dynamic, transitive/intransitive, regular/irregular, synthetic/analytical, finite/non-finite, person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood):

My aunt often talks to herself.

(0.1 point each = 1.2 point)

IV. Make sentences with the following adverb using the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous:

1) usually, 2 always, 3) now, 4) at this moment

(0.1 point each = 0.4 point)

V. Give 5 basic forms of the following verbs:

1) to become, 2) to open, 3) to do, 4) to decide, 5) to forget

(0.1 point each = 0.5 point)

VI. Make these sentences a) negative, b) interrogative ( put a general and a disjunctive question), c) emphatic:

1) I watch evening news every day.

2) Time heals all wounds.

(0.1 point each = 0.8 point)

VII. Use the Present Indefinite Tense.

AT A BARBER’S SHOP.

A man (1)(to enter) a barber’s shop with a boy of five or six years holding his hand. He (2)(to be) in a great hurry and he (3)(to ask) the barber to cut his hair first and later to cut the boy’s hair. “He can wait. I want you to cut my hair first,” he says.

The barber (4)(to do) as he is told and when he (5)(to finish) the man (6)(to get out) of the chair and the boy (7)(to take) his place. The man (8)(to excuse) himself and (9)(to say) that he is in a great hurry and that he will be back in a few minutes and will pay for them both. Then he (10)(to leave) and the barber (11)(to begin) to cut the boy’s hair. When he (12)(to finish) he (13)(to pick) the boy up and (14)(to place) him in a chair to wait. He (15)(to give) him a magazine to look at.

Half an hour (16)(to pass). An hour passes. At last the barber (17)(to tell) the child, “Don’t worry, your father will be back soon.” – “My father?” (18)(to say) the boy, “He (19)(not to be) my father. I was playing in the street and he was coming along and said ‘Come on with me, little boy. Let’s go into this barber’s shop together and have our hair cut.”

(0.1 point each = 1.9 point)

VIII. Use The Present Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

THE FUGITIVES

The waters (1)(to flash),

The white hail (2)(to dash),

The lightnings (3)(to glance),

The hoar-spray (4)(to dance) –

Away!

The whirlwind (5)(to roll),

The thunder (6)(to toll),

The forest (7)(to swing),

The minister bells ringing –

Come away!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

AUTUMN

The warm sun (8)(to fail), the bleak wind (9)(to wail),

The boughs (10)(to sigh), the pale flowers (11)(to die),

And the year

On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,

(12)(to lie).

The chill rain (13)(to fall), the night worm (14)(to crawl),

The rivers (15)(to swell), the thunder (16)(to knell)

For the year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(0.1 point each = 1.6 point)

МК 2 (5)

Year I

Semester II

Practical Grammar

Module Test 2 (5)

1. Fill in the blanks with the articles “a/an”, “the” or “— “:

AN EXPENSIVE BREAKFAST

Once (1)____ king of (2)___ small country was traveling about Holland. He stopped at (3)___ inn in (4)___ small village to have (5)___ breakfast. He ordered (6)___ boiled eggs, (7)___ coffee, (8)___ bread and (9)___ butter for (10)___ breakfast. (11)___ king ate (12)___ two eggs with (13)___ bread and (14)___ butter, took (15)___ cup of (16)___ coffee and asked (17)___ innkeeper, “How much must I pay for (18)___ breakfast?” (19)___ innkeeper answered, “(20)___ hundred florins.” (21)___ king was very much surprised and said, “What? (22)___ hundred florins for (23)___ little bread and (24)___ butter, (25)___ cup of (26)___ coffee and two eggs? It is very expensive! Are (27)___ eggs scarce in your village?” “No, sir,” answered (28)___ innkeeper, “There are (29)___ lot of (30)___ eggs in our village, but (31)___ kings are very scarce nowadays.”

WHICH WAS THE FASTEST?

This is (1)___ story about (2)___ French man, (3)___ Englishman and (4)___ American who were once traveling by (5)___ train in Europe. (6)___ conversation was about how fast (7)___ trains were in their countries. (8)___ Frenchman said, “In my country (9)___ trains go so fast that (10)___ telegraph posts by (11)___ railway line look like (12)___ garden fence.” (13)___ Englishman said, “At (14)___ home (15)___ trains run so fast that we have to pour (16)___ water on (17)___ wheels to stop them from getting hot.” (18)___ American said, “That’s nothing! I was once taking (19)___ trip and my daughter came on to (20)___ platform to see me off. While I was getting into (21)___ compartment (22)___ train started. I leaned out of (23)___ window to give her (24)___ kiss and kissed instead (25)___ cow in (26)___ field (27)___ six miles down (28)___ railway line.”

(0.1 point each = 1 point)