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I. Use the correct tense-forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. Microwave ovens (make) cooking fast and easy. If you (buy) a microwave you (be able) to cook frozen dinner in five minutes.

2. When 1 (arrive) home last night, I (discover) that I (forget) my key. My roommate (be) asleep, but I (have) to wake him up by knocking loudly on the door.

3. By the time the rainy weather (begin) Mr. Check and his son Brian (build) a new roof on their house.

4. Right now Max (be) in hospital. He (treat) for a bad burn on his hand and arm.

5.1 just (move) into a new apartment. I (not/meet) any of my neighbours yet.

6. What percentage of the people in the world (be) illiterate?

7. The baby-sitter for whose care Mrs. Pelt's children (leave), (fall) asleep while she (read) the children a story.

II. Use the right article.

Twice ... week ... Belgian riding ... bicycle crossed ... German border and he always carried ... suitcase filled with ... sand. Each time ... customs officials searched ... suitcase, they never found anything illegal. Sometimes they even emptied out all ... sand, expecting to find ... jewellery, ... watches or ... drugs. But always there was nothing but sand. They couldn't think what ... Belgian was smuggling. It was many years later, long after ... Belgian had vanished from ... scene, that they learnt... truth. He had been smug­gling ... bicycles.

III. Fill in the suitable preposition or postposition.

1. The construction ... this supermarket will be completed ... half a year.

2. Julia spends far too much money ... those spoilt kids ,,, hers

3. This is the only copy ... the book ... existence: all the others were destroyed by the fire.

4. It was raining when we arrived ... the coast, but ...mid day the rain had suddenly stopped.

5. Never put......tomorrow what you can do today.

6. If I was walking ... the forest and suddenly came face ... face ... a bear, I'd quickly climb ... the nearest tree if there was one.

IV. Put the words in the right order to make up a sentence.

1. can't/code/unless/you/the/open/know/you/door/the.

2. wedding/you/date/have/the/your/on/decided/of/yet?

3. fast/was/to/it/drive/of/foulish/you/so.

4. fear/of/eyes/boy Vfull/confusion/and/the/were.

V. Translate the Russian fragments into English.

1. It's the (самый смешной) film I've ever seen.

2. One man's meat is (другого) man's poison.

3. (Каждая) country has (свои) customs.

4. The last drop (делает) the cup run over.

5. She's (сказала) me that she applies this ointment (через день).

6. You have seen too (много) horror films (недавно).

VI. Complete the sentence using the appropriate derivatives of the words in capitals.

1. We couldn't ride because the road was being .... WIDE

2. We all have to do some ... before the exam. REVISE

3. Lying on a ... beach with an ... dip in clear blue water, can be one of the most ... ways of spending a holiday.

SAND. OCCASION. RELAX

4. According to the ... figures during the past years, the most popular ... for the British people was .... 35 million people ... walked two miles or more. LATE, ACTIVE. WALK, REGULAR