Завдання для ІІ курсу
1.
Choose the appropriate word from given alternatives to complete the sentences.
Write e.g. 1c; 2a.
1. …conferences is a good way to build business
relationships.
a)
going b) attending c) meeting d) visiting
2. He went
to the doctor complaining … difficulty in breathing.
a)
about b) of c)on d) in
3. I …. at
my report for three hours.
a) worked b) have worked c) have already been working d) are working
4. I
supposed that my brother … .
a) are
sleeping b) had slept c) will sleeping d)
would be sleeping
5. The book leaves … to be desired.
a)
many b) a lot of c) much d) a few
6. If she
had known English she would have tried to … the University.
a)
resulted b) to enter c) promised d) come
7. My niece
is my sister`s… .
a)
nephew b) son c) daughter d) brother
8. Scottish
people still proud of their country’s … and indentify.
a)
mammal b) satellite c) occasions d) heritage
9. Mother
made me … the soup.
a) to
eat b) eat c) eating d) have eaten
10. I wish I
… gave up smoking.
a)
can b)
must c) may d) could
II.
Put the words into the text so that they best fit each blank. Write the answer
e. g. 1. a); 2. c).
A. The crowds are in Rome’s Olympic Stadium for the
big day. Their team,
Lazio, are playing AC Milan. Millions of people are
sitting in front of their
TV sets. (1) is a cheat, ’cries a well-known (2). ‘That ’s why he didn’t
(3)
our team’s great goal – but then, he comes from Milan! ’ This is sister
Paola, a 46-year-old (4). She is mad about Lazio. When they score, she (6) the
air. When they (7) an easy (8), she (9) her face.
B. She became a Lazio
(10) 20years ago when some children asked her to (11) them about the game. She
says: ‘I thought I’d (12) go and watch Lazio. Then I became very
(13) on football’. So every Sunday when Lazio play at home – after
attending Mass – Sister Paola walks down from the convent to the stadium, (14)
to the (15).
C. Then, recently, she learnt that the father of one of her pupils was a
television sports (16). She asked to go into the studio to see Lazio’s (17)
games. There a TV director thought he saw a possible (18). The only (19) was,
what would a nun, without make-up, and wearing simple clothes, be like on (20),
with a microphone in her hand?
1. «Carlos» Mercedes ________ laughing.
a) tell
b) said
c) speak d)
talk
2. People are _______.
a) looking b)
looking at c) look
for d) looking after
3. I am not ________ you.
a) love b) hate c) like d)
nagging
4. I don’t _____ how? Said she.
a) look b) watch c) see d) look for
5. Carry you umbrella ________ your head.
a) above
b)under
c) over d)
about
a) pleasant b)
pleasure c)
king d) charming
7. Mrs. Smith ________ to her feet.
a) stood up b)
rose c) set
up d) stand up
8. If you work for someone, then you are ____________ .
a) a slave b) unemployed c) an employer d)an employee
9. She eats many ________.
a) radius b) radii c) redious d) reduce
10. She likes different________.
a) merry - go - round b) marry – goes round c) merry go – rounds d) forget me not
I. Choose the right word or phrase. Write down your choice eg.1)a;2)b.
1. Terrorism has been a... problem for decades.
a) important; b) serious c) generous d) global.
2. You....... to remove your shoes.
a) must be asked;
b) have been asked;
c) may be asked;
d) could be asked.
3. This room is...... than that one.
a) the lightest; b) lighter;
c) more lightest; d) most lightest.
4. Thought that she..... at that time.
a) would sleeping ; b) be slept ; c) sleeping; d) would be sleeping.
5. They …. their clothes for half of hour.
d) had changed.
6. We understood that the task set.... us was very highly responsible
and we were ready to carry it...?
a) to; b) for; c) out ; d) on.
7. A huge plant....... recently
in the town of N.
a) was built; b) have
built; c) has been built; d) was building.
8. This resolution is of great importance for our future work.
a) effect; b) significance; c) moment; d) influence.
9. The bride’s parents need only shake hands and say....
a) How are you? b) How do you do? c) Are you happy? d) we agree.
10. The new library at university
is the .... gift of wealthy patron.
a) responsible; b)
conditional; c) generous d) determined.
1. Радий, що ми побачилися з вами.
a) it was fine to have seen him.
b) How nice to see you.
c) It was nice to have seen you. d) how nice to see you.
2. Тут недавно були
впроваджені сучасні методи роботи.
a) Here lately modern methods of work have been introduced.
b) Modern methods of work have
introduced here lately.
c) Modern methods of work have been introduced
here lately.
d) Modern methods of job have been introduced there lately.
a) It was a kind of amazing beauty.
b) It was a picture of amazing
beauty.
c) It was a sight of amazing
beauty. d) It was a great view of
amazing beauty.
4. Я миттю збігаю за
вашою книгою.
a) I run for your book in a moment.
b) I’ll fetch your book in no
time.
c) I fetch your book in no time.
d) I’ll give your book in
time.
5.Ви перевірили ці факти?
a) Have you marked these facts? b) Have you looked these facts?
c) Have you
chected these facts? d) Have you looked through these facts?
III. Choose the guestion or response which best fits the situation.
Write down jour choice e.g.l.c)
1. Can you give me .......
ticket to London.
2. What lovely weather we had last week. I hope it keeps dry and sunny
this week too.
a) I don’t think so! b) I think of course! c) well, I wouldn’t be sure!
d)
what a pleasure.
3. Shall I give you back the book?
a) No , take it. b) No, best luck. c) No, keep it away. d)
No, keep it.
4. It is...... conversation.
a) a good; b) a nice; c) a well; d) a pleasant.
5. His..... of humour is wonderful.
a) feeling; b) sense; c) mind;
d) memory.
6. .......... my interrupting
you.
a) sorry; b) thanks a lof;
c) That’s no excuse me; d) excuse
me.
7. Sit down in this armchair. It is very........
8. Did he accept her ........... of help?
a) suggestions; b) proposals; d) offer.
9. If I were you I......... to persuade her not to do so.
a) would try d) will try c)
would ask d) asked.
10. .... I go out today? No, you can’t.
a) May ; b) can; c) must;
d) have to.
Then
in Triumph
There were cars in front of the house. Four of them.
And two more in the drive. Clifford Oslow cut across the lawn and headed for
the back steps. But not soon enough. The door of a big red car opened and a
woman came rushing after him. She was a little person, smaller even than
Clifford himself. But she was fast. She reached him just as he was getting
through the hedge.
"You're Mr. Oslow, aren't you?" she said.
She didn't wait for a confession. She pulled out a little book and a pencil and
held them under his nose. "I've been trying to. get her autograph all
week," she explained. "I want you to get it for me. Just drop the
book in a mail-box. It’s stamped and the address is on it."
And then she was gone and Clifford was standing there
holding the book and pencil in his hand.
He put the autograph book in his pocket and hurried up
the steps.
"Yes," she was saying. And "I'm very
glad." And, "People have been very generous to me."
She sounded tired, though.
Clifford leaned against the wall while he finished the
sandwich and the beer. He left the empty bottle on the table, turned off the kitchen
light and pushed easily on the hall door. The hall light was on and someone
Clifford didn't know was pacing the carpet across from the room.
"Here he is," somebody shouted. "Here's
Mr. Oslow"
There were a half-a-dozen people there, all with note
books and busy pens. Julia was in the big chair by the fireplace, looking
plumper than usual in her new green dress.
She smiled at him affectionately but, it seemed to
him, a little distantly. He'd noticed that breach in her glance many times
lately. He hoped that it wasn't superiority, but he was afraid that it was. She
looked, he saw, as tired as she had sounded.
Hello, Julia," he answered.
,
He didn't get a chance to go over and kiss her. A reporter had him right
against the wall. How did it seem to go to bed a teller at the Gas Company and
to wake up the husband of a best-selling novelist? Excellent, he told them. Was
he going to give up his job? No, he wasn't. Had he heard the news that
"Welcome Tomorrow" was going to be translated into Turkish? No, he
hadn't.
And then the woman came over. The one whose voice he'd
heard back in the kitchen where he wished he'd stayed.
"How did you like the story?" she inquired.
Clifford didn't answer immediately. He just looked at
the woman. Everyone became very quiet. And everyone looked at . him. The woman
repealed the question. Clifford knew what he wanted to say. "1 liked it
very much," he wanted to say and then run. But they wouldn't let him run.
They'd make him stay. And ask him more questions. Which he couldn't answer.
Before he reached the second flight, though he could
hear the woman's voice on the hall phone. "At last,” she was saying,
"we have discovered an adult American, who
has not read
"Welcome Tomorrow". He is of all people. Clifford Oslow, white, 43, a native of this city and the husband of...
"
On the second floor Clifford reached his study, turned
on the light over the table and dropped into the chair before it. He put
Julia's book right in front of him, but he
didn't immediately
open it.
Instead he sat back in -the chair and looked about
him. The room was familiar enough. It had been his for over eighteen years. The
table was the same. And the old typewriter was the one he had bought before
Julia and he were married.
There hadn't been
many changes. The fireplace had been re—bricked. And the radio was a recent
gift of Julia's. And all along the bookcase were the manuscripts of his novels. His rejected novels. On top was his latest
one, the one that had stopped going the rounds six months before.
On the bottom was his earliest one, the one he wrote
when Julia and he were first married.
Clifford was a writer then. Large W. And he kept on
thinking of himself as one. for many years after, despite the indifference of
the publishers. Finally, of course, his writing had become merely a gesture. A
stubborn unwillingness to admit defeat. Now, to be sure, the defeat was
definite. Now that Julia, who before a year ago hadn't put pen to paper, had
written a book, had it accepted.
Julia, Clifford sighed. Well, his failure wouldn’t be
permitted to steal any part of his wife's pleasure in her own accomplishment.
He picked up "Welcome Tomorrow" and opened it, as he opened every
book, in the middle. He read a paragraph. And then another. He had just started
a third then suddenly he stopped. He put down Julia's book, reached over to the
shelf and pulled out the dusty manuscript of his own first effort. Rapidly he
turned over the crisp pages. Then he began to read aloud.
And then he went back downstairs. A couple of reporters were still in the living-room.
"When, Mrs., Oslow, will you finish your next book?" one demanded.
”1 don't know," she answered uneasily.
Clifford came across the room to her, smiling. He put
his arm around her and pressed her shoulder firmly but gently. "Now, now,
Julia," he protested. "Let's tell the young man at once."
The reporter looked up.
"Mrs. Oslow’s new novel," Clifford announced
proudly, "will be ready in another month."
Julia turned around and stared at him, quite
terrified.
.
Comprehension
I. Match
words and meanings:
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Words
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Meanings
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1)
a drive
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a) walk with slow or
regular steps
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2)
hedge
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b) stairs between two
landings
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3) to lean
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c) private road through a
garden or park to a house
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4) to pace
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d) say smth., speak (one's
words) indistinctly
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5)
superiority
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e) be or put in a sloping position, especially
for
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support
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6)
to inquire
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f ) good thought or idea
that comes to the mind
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suddenly
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7)
to mumble
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g) row of bushes, tall plants,
usually cut level,
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forming
a boundary (for a garden, field, etc.)
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8)
inspiration
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h) ask to be told
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9)
flight
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i) smth. better than the
average
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II. A statement that is not true is
"untrue" or "false". Say which of the following statements
are true and which are false:
1. A woman from the car was
rushing alter Clifford asking him to give her an autograph.
2. When Clifford entered the
living-room it was quite quiet in it.
3. Julia was sitting in the
big chair by the fireplace, looking plumper than usual in her new green dress.
4. Clifford told a reporter
that he had read "Welcome
Tomorrow".
5. There hadn't been many
changes in the study.
6. Clifford's books had been
rejected by publisher.
7.He began reading the book
from the very beginning.
Judging the story
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Things were done
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Causes
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1)
Clifford headed for the back steps
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a)…
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because
a sudden inspiration came.
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2)
A woman stopped Clifford on the way to the house
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b)…
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because
he knew that his next book would be claimed to be
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Julia's.
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3)
A lot of noise was coming from the living-room
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c)…
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because
he wanted to make sure that Julia's book was his
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own
version.
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4)
Clifford said frankly that he hadn't read the book
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d)…
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because
he gave up writing books and he didn't want the
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study.
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5)
He decided to read Julia's book right away
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e)…
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because
a lot of reporters came to interview Julia.
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6)
The study was not used by Clifford any longer
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f)…
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(because
the reporters would ask him more questions which
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he
wouldn't be able to answer.
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7)
Clifford began to read his manuscript and Julia's book page
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g)…
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because
he didn't want to meet reporters.
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against
page
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8) Clifford answered the reporter's
question addressed to Julia.
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h)…
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because
she wanted him to get Julia's autograph for her.
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IV. Write a composition: “My Hobby”
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