Лексика и грамматика

Exercise 1

Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров B10 – B17 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B10 – B17.

Little Sassy Sam

Little Sassy Sam was a special kind of kid.

B10

Nobody knew quite what to think of ____________ . Everything he did or said was strange in some way. For the most part, he seemed to be quite ordinarily, but … something just wasn't right with him.

HE

B11

For instance, he wore a striped orange T-shirt. Nobody else ___________ a shirt like that, just Little Sassy Sam. Where on earth could anybody get that kind of a shirt?

HAVE

B12

Wherever he went, you were sure to see his dog, Tickles, with him. The two ____________ many afternoons together laughing and running around in circles.

SPEND

B13

When they were tired from ___________, they would lie down in the grass and lick each other's faces.

RUN

B14

"Now, isn't that strange!" The other kids would say. "I ____________ anything like it."

NEVER SEE

B15

Little Sassy Sam certainly had a reputation, although he wasn't fully aware of it. His teachers always remarked how wonderful it was to have Little Sassy Sam in ____________ classrooms.

THEY

B16

"He's a joy!" His ____________ grade teacher, Mrs. Spindlehorn told his parents at Parent-Teacher conference.

ONE

B17

"No matter what's going on in the world, Little Sassy Sam always ____________ a smile on his face."

HAVE

Exercise 2

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А15 – А21. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям A15 – A21, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

Felix and Nancy

Felix and Nancy held A15 ____ as they walked together through the crowded stores of Fashion Place Mall. It was a cold winter day outside and even though the A16 ____wasn't bathing in riches, they thought it might be fun to "window" shop. Felix led his girlfriend into an electronics store. He smiled when he A17 ____ there a huge collection of wide-screen TV's.

"Just A18 ____ this!" he said aloud. "This is the right size for our family room! We could invite all of our friends over, put on some DVDs, and serve some drinks and appetizers…"

He laughed. Nancy laughed with him and added, "We could have an Indiana Jones marathon."

The salesperson asked them if his assistance was needed.

"Nah, we're just A19 ____ ," Felix explained.

"Ok. Let me know if you have any questions."

The jewelry store was next. Nancy went directly for the emeralds. They were her favorite!

Without warning, she caught Felix by his sleeve and pointed to a sparkling emerald ring on either side. "Look at how gorgeous it is," she said in an excited whisper. "And it's just my size!"

Nancy asked the jeweler if she could try it A20 ____ .

She was right. It fit her A21 ____.

A15

A16

1)

arms

2)

hands

3)

fingers

4)

palms

1)

team

2)

pair

3)

group

4)

collective

A17

1)

founded

2)

opened

3)

explored

4)

found

A18

1)

look for

2)

look after

3)

look through

4)

look at

A19

1)

seeing

2)

watching

3)

looking

4)

observing

A20

1)

on

2)

by

3)

with

4)

over

A21

1)

good

2)

better

3)

perfectly

4)

perfect

Exercise 3

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров B4 – B10 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B4 – B10.

The History of Man

B4

How long has man been on earth? Let us travel 5,000 years into the past. We are in the days before man __________________ to write.

LEARN

B5

Recorded history __________________ yet.

NOT BEGIN

B6

Let us go __________________ into the past to 8,000 years ago. We are in a world without cities or towns, houses or roads.

FAR

B7

Yet there are people, about five million of them, __________________ on all five continents.

LIVE

B8

They have cows and horses and they __________________ the land.

FARM

B9

To find the __________________ man we must go many hundreds of thousands of years into the past.

ONE

B10

The __________________ true human being, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe more than 50,000 years ago.

EARLY

Exercise 4

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров B11 – B16 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B11 – B16.

The National Maritime Museum is set in the beautiful surroundings of Greenwich park.

B11

Within the complex of the museum there is a wide __________________ of objects, displays and paintings.

VARY

B12

The collections relate to the shipping, astronomy and __________________.

NAVIGATE

B13

The museum tells the story of figures of great __________________ to Britain’s history, such as Lord Nelson and captain James Cook.

IMPORTANT

B14

Galleries and exhibitions are often updated to bring back into view __________________

DIFFER

B15

parts of the huge hidden collections of the museum which is __________________ all over the country.

FAME

B16

This visit will be an __________________ experience.

FORGET

Exercise 5

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22 – А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А22 – А28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

Mrs Garstin was a hard, cruel, managing and ambitious woman. Coming to Hong Kong on her marriage, she found it hard to reconcile herself to the fact that her social position was A22 ______ by her husband’s occupation.

Of course everyone was very kind, and for two or three months they went out to parties almost every night, but she understood quickly that as the wife of a bacteriologist she was of no particular consequence.

“It’s too absurd,” she told her husband. “There’s hardly anyone here that one would bother about for five minutes at home”.

“It is rather funny when you think of all the people who used to come to our house at home that here we should be A23 ______ like dirt,” she said, laughing in A24 ______ that what she said might not seem snobbish.

She was the daughter of a solicitor in Liverpool, and Bernard Garstin had met her there. He had seemed then a young man of A25 ______ and her father said he would go far, but he hadn’t.

He was painstaking, industrious and capable, but he had not the will to advance himself. Mrs Garstin despised him. But she recognized that she could only achieve success through him, and she set herself to drive him on the way she desired to go.

She discovered that if she wanted him to do something which his sensitiveness revolved against she had only to give him no peace and eventually, exhausted, he would give A26 ______.

Still he made no headway as a leader. But he A27 ______ any disappointment he may have felt, and if he reproached his wife it was in his heart.

His daughters had never looked upon him as anything but a source of income; and now, understanding that through his A28 ______ money was less plentiful, the indifference they had felt for him was tinged with contempt.

A22

1)

decided

2)

determined

3)

revealed

4)

fixed

A23

1)

treated

2)

dealt

3)

taken

4)

regarded

A24

1)

case

2)

fact

3)

condition

4)

order

A25

1)

luck

2)

promise

3)

hope

4)

expectation

A26

1)

away

2)

over

3)

in

4)

off

A27

1)

held

2)

kept

3)

experienced

4)

concealed

A28

1)

guilt

2)

fault

3)

blame

4)

inability

Exercise 6

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами B4 – B10 так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B4 – B10.

Albert Schweitzer, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner

B4

Albert Schweitzer is known throughout the world for his missionary work in Africa. He was born on January 14, 1875 in Alsace, which was part of Germany and __________________ Part of France after World War I.

LATE

B5

He was a talented person. By the age of thirty, he __________________ as an author, a lecturer, and a musician.

KNOW

B6

It was at this time that he learned of the great need of medical doctors in Africa. He decided to become a doctor of medicine. In 1913, Doctor Schweitzer and his wife __________________ for Africa.

LEAVE

B7

The morning after the Schweitzers arrived, they started to treat their patients in an old farmhouse. However, a new hospital building __________________ with the help and the trust of the African people.

BUILD

B8

Their work was interrupted by World War I. Only in 1924, Dr. Schweitzer was finally able to return to Lambarene to rebuild the hospital. When Mrs. Schweitzer came back to Africa in 1929, the hospital was much _________________.

LARGE

B9

In 1953 Dr. Schweitzer __________________ the Nobel Peace Prize.

GIVE

B10

He was grateful, but said, “No man has the right to pretend that he __________________ enough for the cause of peace or declare himself satisfied.”

WORK

Exercise 7

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски, обозначенные номерами А13-А23. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям А13-А23, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер ответа, который вам кажется наиболее верным.

It was in 1947, and Jean and Tom were going to get married. But after the Second World War it was very difficult ___ А13 new clothes in Britain. “Do not worry”, Jean’s dad ____ А14 to Tom. “You can ___ А15 my suit”. “What shall I wear?” thought Jean.

She ___ А16 an advertisement in her favourite magazine, “Picturegoer”: “British Film Studios three-day wedding hire services”.

They hired out dresses from films. She ___ А17 £3 before the war, and it was enough. Jean ___ А18 in the form giving them the size. The dress ___ А19 in time. It was beautiful, and Jean ___ А20 perfect in it. Their wedding day was wonderful.

Now they have been married for 53 years. They always ___ А21 the old films now, because who ___ А22 – they might see someone ___ А23 Jean’s dress.

А13 1) buying	2) buy	3) to buy	4) bought
А14 1) said	2) was saying	3) says	4) has said
А15 1) take	2) to take	3) be taking	4) have taken
А16 1) had remembered	2) remembers	3) has remembered	4) remembered
А17 1) saved	2) has saved	3) had saved	4) have saved
А18 1) filled	2) has filled	3) had filled	4) was filling
А19 1) has arrived	2) had arrived	3) arrives	4) arrived
А20 1) had looked	2) looked	3) was looking	4) has looked
А21 1) have watched	2) watch	3) were watching	4) had watched
А22 1) knew	2) is known	3) know	4) knows
А23 1) wearing	2) wear	3) wears	4) wore

Exercise 8

Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в скобках после номеров В10-B15 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы В10-B15.

The British Sport

Britain does not often produce sportsmen who are successful

В10 in world __________________________ , but it has been CHAMPION

good at inventing sports. In towns

B11 and cities space for team sports is _________________________ LIMIT

To keep fit, most people take

B12 part in individual sports. They __________________________ USUAL

go walking, swimming or cycling.

B13 Taking part in all these sports is ________________________FORMAL

and relaxing. Although many British

B14 people want to be __________________________ , HEALTH

not many people do very much about it. A recent

study proved that many people were

B15 not as active as they thought and _______________ CORRECTLY

believed that they did enough exercise to keep fit.

Exercise 9

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами после номеров B11– B16 так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B11 – B16.

Tourism in Britain

B11

Every year more than eleven million tourists visit Britain. In fact, tourism is an __________________ industry, employing thousands of people.

IMPORTANCE

B12

Most __________________ come in the summer months when they can expect good weather.

VISIT

B13

Tourists __________________ spend a few days in London, then go on to other well-known cities.

USUAL

B14

Perhaps the least visited places in England are old __________________ towns.

INDUSTRY

B15

But many people think that nineteenth-century cities show the __________________ of Britain.

REAL

B16

The __________________ of the past is to be still seen in their old streets.

GREAT

Exercise 10

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22 – А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям A22 – A28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

'It's Only Me'

After her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any housework that morning, because in the evening she would be going to a fancy dress A22 ______ with her husband. She intended to dress up as a ghost and she had made her costume the night before. Now she was
A23 ______ to try it on. Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. Mrs Richards put it A24 ______, looked in the mirror, smiled and went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it would be A25 ______ to wear.

Just as Mrs Richards was entering the dining-room, there was a
A26 ______ on the front door. She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to come straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table. Not wanting to A27 ______ the poor man,
Mrs Richards quickly hid in the small store-room under the stairs. She heard the front door open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the store-room was opened and a man entered. Mrs Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the meter. She tried to A28 ______ the situation, saying 'It's only me', but it was too late. The man let out a cry and jumped back several paces. When Mrs Richards walked towards him, he ran away, slamming the door behind him.

A22

1)

show

2)

performance

3)

party

4)

programme

A23

1)

nervous

2)

restless

3)

ill at ease

4)

impatient

A24

1)

up

2)

on

3)

over

4)

down

A25

1)

attractive

2)

exciting

3)

comfortable

4)

cozy

A26

1)

knock

2)

kick

3)

hit

4)

crash

A27

1)

fear

2)

worry

3)

disturb

4)

frighten

A28

1)

describe

2)

explain

3)

interpret

4)

clear

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