I. Circle the right answer 1. From the hotel there is a good _____ of the mountains. A. vision B. view C. sight D. picture 2. I’m sorry, I haven’t got ____ change. Why don’t you try the bank? A. some B. lots C. any D. all 3. If it _____ fine, I shall go out. A. was B. is C. were D. will be 4. We’ve ____ of time to catch the train so there’s no need to rush. A. very much B. enough C. great deal D. plenty 5. I can’t make _____ what’s happening. A. away B. out C. do D. over 6. He’s left his book at home: he’s always so _____. A. forgetting B. forgotten C. forgettable D. forgetful 7. Driving a car with faulty brakes is ____ quite a risk. A. putting B. setting C. taking D. being 8. If we had known your new address, we _____ to see you. A. came B. will come C. would come D. would have come 9. A small _____ of students was waiting outside the class to see the teacher. A. gang B. crowd C. team D. group 10. Jenny and her sister are so _____ they could almost be twins. A. likeness B. alike C. same D. the same II. Complete the text 1. Next Saturday Friends of Barston Hospital (collect)_____ money in the High Street to buy more equipment for the hospital. “We (hope)_____ that by the end of the day we (raise)_____ at least $800”, (say)_____ the organizer. 2. Missing schoolgirl Sheila Patterson, aged eleven, (find) _____ alive and well in Leicester. Sheila, who (disappear)_____ two days ago, said she (leave)_____ home to join a circus. 3. A: Do you feel like (dine out)_____ or would you rather (have)_____ dinner at home? B: I’d like (go out)_____. I always enjoy (have)_____ dinner in a restaurant. 4. Hello! I (try)_____ to telephone you all week. Where you (be)_____? 5. A: He’s only sixteen but he wants to leave school at the end of the term. B: If he (leave)_____ now he (be)_____ sorry afterwards. 6. I (arrive)_____ in England in the middle of July, I (tell)_____ that England (be)_____ shrouded in fog all year round, so I (be)_____ quite surprised to find that it was merely raining. 7. A: Why we (wait)_____? B: John isn’t here yet. I (expect)_____ he (have)_____ trouble with his car again. 8. When I last (see)_____ him, he (live)_____ in London. He (tell)_____ me then that he (think)_____ of (emigrate)_____ to Australia, and he may well (do)_____ so by now. 9. I (live)_____ in London for a long time but I still (not know)_____ many of the streets in my district. The other day I (go out)_____ late at a time when the fog (grow)_____ thicker and I soon (lose)_____ my way. 10. We’ll go out as soon as the shops (open)_____. IV. Read the text and circle the right answer At the age of sixty-five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a series of novels for young people based on her early experiences on the American frontier. Born in the state of Wisconsin in 1867, she and her family were rugged pioneers. Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon to Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, returning to Wisconsin in 1871, and traveling on to Minnesota and Iowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879. Because of this constant moving, Wilder’s early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room schools. From age thirteen to sixteen, she attended school more regularly, although she never graduated. At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder. They bought a small farm in the Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Their only daughter, Rose, who had become a nationally-known journalist, encouraged her mother to write. Serving as agent and editor, Rose negotiated with Harper’s to publish her mother’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods. Seven more books followed, each chronicling her early life on the plains. Written from the perspective of a child, they have remained popular with young readers from many nations. Twenty years after her death in 1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they had been translated into fourteen languages. In 1974, a weekly television series, “Little House on the Prairie”, was produced, based on the stories from the Wilder books. 1. What is the main topic of the passage? A. American pioneer life B. Children’s literature C. A weekly television series D. Wilder’s career 2. Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing novels A. when she was a child on the frontier B. right after she moved to the Ozarks C. when she was a young mother D. after her sixty-fifth birthday 3. The author mentions all of the following as events in the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder EXCEPT A. She went west by covered wagon. B. She graduated from a one-room school. C. She married Almanzo Wilder. D. She had one daughter. 4. The word “sporadically” in line 8 is closest in meaning to A. with great success B. for a long time C. at irregular intervals D. in a very efficient way 5. The word “they” in line 18 refers to A. the plains B. many nations C. more books D. young readers KEY: TF – 5 I. 1. B; 2. C; 3. B; 4. D; 5. B; 6. D; 7. C; 8. D; 9. D; 10. B II. 1. will be collecting/are collecting; hope; will have raised; said 2. has been found; disappeared; had left 3. dining out; have; to go out; having 4. have been trying; have you been 5. leaves; will be 6. arrived; had been told/was told; would be, was 7. are we waiting; expect; is having 8. saw; was living; told; was thinking/had been thinking of emigrating; have done 9. have lived/have been living; do not know; went out; was growing; lost 10. open/have opened IV. 1. D; 2. D; 3. B; 4. C; 5. C TF – 6 I. Circle the right answer 1. My mother was ____of making a cake when the front door bell rang. A. at the centre B. on her way C. in the middle D. halfway through 2. _____ you do better work than this, you won’t pass the exam. A. Although B. If C. Unless D. When 3. If you want to join the History Society, you must first _____ this application form. A. make up B. write down C. fill in D. do up 4. He has just taken an examination _____ chemistry. A. on B. about C. for D. in 5. The police have asked that _____ who saw the accident get in touch with them. A. somebody B. someone C. one D. anyone 6. It was impossible for her to tell the truth so she had to _____ a story. A. invent B. combine C. manage D. lie 7. The car had a _____ tyre, so we had to change the wheel. A. broken B. cracked C. bent D. flat 8. She applied for training as a pilot, but they turned her _____ because of her poor eyesight. A. back B. up C. over D. down 9. The only feature _____ to these two flowers is their preference for sandy soil. A. similar B. same C. shared D. common 10. The play was very long, but there were two _____. A. intervals B. rests C. interruptions D. gaps II. Раскройте скобки, заполнив пропуски нужными грамматическими формами. 1. A: What you (make)_____, Pamela? It (smell)_____ really nice. B: Well, I (try)____ a recipe my mother gave me. It (sound)____ meat and vegetables and then you just (add)____ a few herbs. When she (make)_____ it, it (taste) _____ really delicious. 2. A: Let’s (go)_____ (fish)_____today. There’s a nice wind. What about (come)_____ with us, Ann? B: No, thanks. I’m very willing (cut)_____ sandwiches for you but I’ve no intention of (waste)_____ the afternoon (sit)_____ in a boat (watch)_____ you two (fish) _____. 3. Tourist: I (be)___ glad when I (get)____ to the top! Guide: When you (see)____ the view you (be)____ glad you made the effort. 4. Warning: No part of this book (modal verb) be reproduced without the publisher’s permission. 5. The popular novelist Barbara Bartlett (open)_____ the new extension to Barston Library next Wednesday afternoon. Miss Bartlett, who (write)___ more than twenty best-selling novels, (sign)___ copies of her latest book from three to four o’clock. 6. A: I don’t think we (meet)_____ before? B: Well, I (see)_____ you once at a party, but we (not introduce)_____ then. 7. We are very proud of our firm’s record. We (make)_____ biscuits since before 1815 and (gain)_____ many awards for our product. My great-great-grandfather (found)_____ the firm. 8. He (play)_____ the guitar outside her house when someone opened the window and (throw out)_____ a bucket of water. 9. He used (have)_____ a day off once a week and on that day he was used to (get up)_____ early, (have)_____ a hasty breakfast and (set out)_____ for the river. 10. He said he (not want)____ (see)____ the film as he (hear)____ that it (be)_____ not as good as the critics (suggest)_____.
IV. Прочтите текст и ответьте на следующие за ним вопросы, обведя номер правильного варианта кружком. In the spring of 1934, storms swept across the Great Plains, but they were not rainstorms. They were the result of sun and drought and a terrible wind that blew millions of tons of topsoil from 300,000 square miles in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. This was the Dust Bowl. It buried fences, fields, and homes. It choked cattle and sickened the people who stayed. Three hundred and fifty thousand settlers fled, many becoming part of a slow, sad caravan along Route 66 to California. But wind and drought were not the only factors that combined to create the Dust Bowl. Only fifty years earlier, a carpet of buffalo grass had covered the Great Plains, protecting the soil and retaining the moisture in the ground. By the turn of the century, farmers had settled, homesteading in regions that had been used as range land. The increased demand for wheat during World War I encouraged farmers to plow and plant even wider areas. Forty percent of the land that they plowed up had never been exposed to rain, wind, or sun before. When the drought and wind came, the land had been prepared for disaster. 1. With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned? A. The Dust Bowl B. The Great Plains C. Homesteading D. World War I 2. Where did many of the homesteaders go when they abandoned their farms? A. To Kansas B. To New Mexico C. To Texas D. To California 3. The author mentions all of the following as having contributed to the disaster EXCEPT A. wind B. drought C. homesteading D. rain 4. The word “fled” in line 7 is closest in meaning to which of the following phrases? A. passed away B. became ill C. ran away D. gave up 5. The word “It” in line 5 refers to A. topsoil B. the Dust Bowl C. wind D. result KEY: TF – 6 I. 1. C; 2. C; 3. C; 4. D; 5. D; 6. A; 7. D; 8. D; 9. D; 10. A II. 1. are you making; smells; am trying; sounds; add; makes; tastes 2. go fishing; coming; to cut; wasting; sitting; watching; fish 3. ’ll be; get; see; ’ll be 4. may 5. will open/is to open; has written; will be signing/will sign 6. have met; saw; were not introduced 7. have been making/have made; have gained; founded 8. was playing; threw out 9. to have; getting up; having; setting out 10. didn’t want to see/wouldn’t want to see; had heard; was; had suggested/suggested IV. 1. A; 2. D; 3. D; 4. C; 5. B
