Завдання до білету №17

Before 1840 there were no stamps. In those days people usually paid a lot 1) _______ money for a letter when they received it. That is 2) _______ people who were poor did not write to one another often. But when they sent or received a letter, it was 3) _______ very important thing for them and many people knew about it.

There is a story from that time about a letter to a poor 4) _______. One day the postman came to her house to bring 5) _______ a letter. He told the woman to pay a lot of money, which she did not have.

She looked 6) _______ the letter, and gave it back to the postman. "I cannot pay for it," she said.

Just at that moment a man 7) _______ the conversation between the postman and the woman. He came up to the woman and said, "8) _______ me pay for the letter. I have money and I want to help you." Then he gave the postman the money he wanted to get from the woman.

"I 9) _______ you very much," said the woman, "but you must not pay for the letter. It is from my brother. He sends me one letter every three months. He does not write about himself and his family, he writes only my address on the letter. Then I know that he is well, and as I 10) _______ pay for the letter, I give it back to the postman."

	A	B	C	D
1	on	a	at	of
2	when	why	what	who
3	a	the	an	–
4	wiman	women	woman	womin
5	her	his	its	she
6	on	in	through	at
7	hear	heard	haired	hered
8	Let	May	Shall	Can
9	think	thought	thank	thunk
10	can not	couldnot	could not	cannot

Завдання до білету №18

One day 1) _______ Englishman looked into his cupboard and saw that he had no bread. So he decided to go to the 2) _______ shop to buy some bread.

When he came to the shop, the baker asked, "Do you want one loaf or two 3) _______? White or brown bread?"

The man asked for a loaf of white bread. The baker 4) _______ one from the shelf and gave 5) _______ to him. The man took it, held it in his hand for a moment, thought a little and then said, "This loaf is not the right weight, it is 6) _______ than it should be."

"Oh, think nothing of it. It's not so important," said the baker. "It will be 7) _______ to carry, won't it?"

The man put the loaf of bread into his shopping-bag and said nothing. He counted the money and gave 8) _______ to the baker.

When he was on his way to the door he 9) _______ the baker again. "Just a minute!" he said to the man. "You haven't paid enough. You have given me less money than you should."

"Oh, think nothing of it. It's not so important," said the man, "it will be easier to count, won't it?"

With these words the man went 10) _______ and shut the door behind him.

	A	B	C	D
1	the	an	a	–
2	bake	baker	baker's	bakers’
3	loaves	loaf	loafs	loave
4	take	tooken	taken	took
5	them	it	her	his
6	little	least	less	small
7	easier	easy	more easy	the easiest
8	them	they	their	it
9	hear	heard	haired	hered
10	on	to	out	at