V. Choose the right variant.

1. ___ yesterday?
a. Whose called
b. Who called

2. ___ talk to?
a. Who did you
b. Who you did
c. Who you

3. ___ you born?
a. Where was
b. Where are
c. Where were

4. ___ to the train station?
a. How do I get
b. How I get

5. ___ the flight delayed?
a. Why did
b. Why is
c. Why

6. ___ you have?
a. How much hand-luggage do
b. How many hand-luggage do
c. How much hand-luggage

7. ___ the river?
a. How deep has
b. How deep can be
c. How deep is

8. When ___ leave?
a. should we
b. we should
c. should we to

9. ___ the answer?
a. Who knows
b. Who know

10. ___ to the airport?
a. How far is
b. How far is it
c. How distance is it

11. How much ___?
a. do you weight
b. does your weight
c. do you weigh

12. How long ___ waiting for me?
a. have you been
b. you have been
c. have you

 

VI. Translate into english.

1. Только когда она была в поезде, она вспомнила,что оставила книгу дома.
2. Мой друг был болен уже неделю, когда я узнал об этом.
3. К полуночи мы закончили работу.
4. Он был счастлив: он написал отличное сочинение.
5. Они шли по дороге уже 3 часа, когда начался дождь.
6. Ну, уложила ты свои вещи, наконец? Такси уже десять минут ожидает у дверей.

 

VII. Choose the right variant.

1. It was cold ___ I shut the window.
a. so
b. because

2. The door was open ___ I closed it.
a. so
b. because

3. She doesn't like him ___ he isn't honest.
a. so
b. because

4. It was raining ___ I took a taxi.
a. so
b. because

5. The water wasn't clean ___ we didn't swim.
a. so
b. because

6. We didn't swim ___ the water wasn't clean.
a. so
b. because

7. I'll be home late tonight ___ I have to work late.
a. so
b. because

8. I'm tired today ___ I couldn't sleep last night.
a. so
b. because

9. She quit her job ___ she is looking for a new one now.
a. so
b. because

10. We walked home ___ there were no more buses.
a. so
b. because

11. I closed the window ___ it was cold.
a. so
b. because

 

МОДУЛЬ 32.

 

Test 32.

 

I. Complete the text. Put the verb in brackets into the correct form of the Present Simple, Present Simple Passive, Past Simple or Past Simple Passive.

I’ll never forget the time I (1) _________________ (invite) to be part of a TV audience. It was a show called Win A Million which is a game show. In the show, contestants (2) _________________ (ask) questions which are worth different amounts of money. The top prize is £1 million, but it

(3) _________________ (not / win) very often. The show isn’t live, it (4) _________________ (film) about a week before it (5) _________________ (show) on the TV. I always make sure that I

(6) _________________ (watch) the programme on TV, and I was very excited to be part of the audience.

 

When I (7) _________________ (arrive) at the TV station the director (8) _________________ (tell) us to be very quiet when the questions (9) _________________ (ask). But I

(10) _________________ (have) a really bad cough that day so they (11) _________________ (ask) me to leave!

 

II. Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

1) I sometimes eat meat, but I am preferring vegetarian food.

_______________________________________________________

2) What are you doing on Sundays?

_______________________________________________________

3) I’m meeting Jason at three o’clock around.

_______________________________________________________

4) It’s a wonderful wedding, and the bride is seeming to be very happy.

_______________________________________________________

5) “What do you do, Harry?” “I’m ringing my friend, Joe.”

_______________________________________________________

6) The priest is chating to the bride and groom in the church.

_______________________________________________________

7) Every Saturday she studys at the library with her friends.

_______________________________________________________

8) What are you doing in dinner time tonight?

_______________________________________________________

 

III. Complete the blanks 1–6 with the parts of sentences A–G. There is one extra part.

 

The monster fish announced itself with four huge blows of its tail, thrashing against the net that had trapped it in the Mekong River.

It was a rare giant catfish, 1 __________________.

At 2.7 meters in length and weighing 293 kilogram, it may be the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded.

But in one of the world’s more surprising mysteries, nobody really knows which is the biggest species of fish lurking under the waters of the Mekong or the Amazon or the Yangtze or the Congo or the Colorado or Lake Baikal.

When the giant catfish was caught in May, a biologist named Zeb S. Hogan rushed here to take a look. It was his first trophy 2 __________________.

Sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the World Wildlife Fund, 3 __________________.

He has started with the Mekong, which he said has seven species of giant fish, more than any other river, along with at least 750 other species. All of them are threatened – 4 __________________ – by overfishing, pollution and development, including major dam projects.

The Mekong giant catfish may be 5 __________________. The few that remain can be spotted now only in central Cambodia and here, just below the Golden Triangle, where northern Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.

No one has made a credible claim to top this year’s trophy, Mr. Hogan said. “I keep expecting people to send me photos or records of larger fish, 6 __________________,” Mr. Hogan said. “But that’s kind of the point of the project. Let’s gather all the information that’s out there and decide which is the largest freshwater fish.”

 

A. like river fish around the world

B. in a project to identify the world’s largest freshwater fish in the hope of slowing their extinction

C. but nobody has

D. and it took five boatmen an hour to pull it in and 10 men to lift it when they reached the shore in this remote village in northern Thailand

E. but we couldn’t weigh it

F. Mr. Hogan has embarked on an 18-month expedition that will take him to five continents

G. the first to disappear from the river, he said

 

IV. For questions 1–8, put the phone conversation (a–h) in the correct order.

a) Would you like to see the menu before you order, sir?

b) Yes, you can, sir. Can I take your coat?

c) Good afternoon. I’d like a table for one, please.

d) Very good, sir. That’s one set menu and a beer. I’ll be back in a moment.

e) Thank you. I’d like to order straightaway, please. I don’t have much time.

f) Certainly, sir. Let me show you to your table. Here you are, sir.

g) No. I’d like the set menu, please. And I’ll have a beer as well.

h) I’d prefer a non-smoking table if you have one. Can I sit over here?

(1) _______ (2) _______ (3) _______ (4) _______

(5) _______ (6) _______ (7) _______ (8) _______