FORM 10

I Level ( 3 tasks x 2 points )

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

c) daughter

d) brother

7. My niece is my sister`s .
a) nephew

b) son

8. Scottish people still proud of their countrys 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).
Team spirit
A. The crowds are in Romes

Olympic
a) questions

b) fans

Stadium for the big day. Their

team,
c) voce

d) away

Lazio, are playing AC Milan.

Millions
e) goal

people are sitting in front of their

TV sets. (1) is a cheat, cries a
(2). That s why he didnt (3)

of f) allow

g) punches

h) covers

well-known
i) to teach
j) talking

our teams great goal but then, he

comes
from
k) miss

Milan! This is sister Paola, a 46-

year-old
(4).
l) reporter

She is mad about Lazio. When

theym)score,
she
camera

n) better

(6) the air. When they (7) an easy

(8),o)she
(9) her
supporter

p) mad

face.

q) the referee

B. She became a Lazio (10) 20years ago when some children asked her
to (11)
s) keen
them about the game. She says: I thought Id (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 Lazios (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?

r) nun
t) star

III. Define which of 4 variants is the best to complete the sentence. Write
down your choice e. g. 1. a);2. b).
1. Carlos Mercedes ________ laughing.
a) tell

b) said

c) speak

d) talk

c) look for

d) looking

2. People are _______.

a) looking

b) looking at

after
3. I am not ________ you.
a) love

b) hate

c) like

d) nagging

4. I dont _____ 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

c) king

d)

c) set up

d) stand up

6. Its very _________ of you to say so.

a) pleasant

b) pleasure

charming
7. Mrs. Smith ________ to her feet.
a) stood up

b) rose

8. If you work for someone, then you are ____________ .

a) a slave

b) unemployed

c) an employer

d)an

c) redious

d) reduce

employee
9. She eats many ________.
a) radius

b) radii

10. She likes different________.

a) merry - go - round
me not

b) marry goes round

c) merry go rounds d) forget

II Level ( 3task x 4 points)

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.
a) have changing; b) have already be changed; c) have already been
changing;
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 brides 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.

II. Find the right variant of translation. Write down your choice e.g.b);2.d).
1.

, .

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. .
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.
3. .
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. .
a) I run for your book in a moment.
c) I fetch your book in no time.

b) Ill fetch your book in no time.

d) Ill give your book in time.

5. ?
a) Have you marked these facts?
c) Have you chected these facts?

b) Have you looked 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.

a) single

b) double

c) board

d) twin

2. What lovely weather we had last week. I hope it keeps dry and sunny this
week too.
a) I dont think so!

b) I think of course!

c) well, I wouldnt 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.

4. It is...... conversation.
a) a good;

b) a nice;

c) a well;

d) a pleasant.

d) No, keep it.

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) Thats no excuse me; d) excuse me.

7. Sit down in this armchair. It is very........

a) convenient;

b) comfortable;

c) pleasant;

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 cant.

a) May ;

b) can;

c) must;

d) have to.

d) pleasure.

III Level ( 3 tasks x 7 points)

Read the text, then you should do the tasks on the basis of what is stated
or implied in that text

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. Its 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.
There was a lot of noise coming from the living-room. Several male voices all
going it an once, a strange woman's voice breaking through now and then, rising
above the noise. And Julias voice, rising above the noise, clear and kindly and
very sure.
"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, Clifford," she said.
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.
"I haven't," I mumbled, "had an opportunity to read it yet. But I'm going to,"
he promised. Ana then came a sudden inspiration. "I'm going to read it now!"
There was a copy on the desk by the door. Clifford grabbed it and raced for the
front stairs.
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 rebricked. 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 wouldnt 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.
Clifford put the manuscript on the table on top of the book. For a long time he
sat quietly inspecting the crease of his trousers. Then he put the book in his lap
and left the manuscript on the table and began to read them, page against page.
He had his answer in ten minutes.
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. Oslows new novel," Clifford announced proudly, "will be ready in
another month."
Julia turned around and stared at him, quite terrified.
But Clifford kept on smiling. Then he reached into his pocket and brought out
the autograph book and pencil that had been forced on him on his way home.
"Sign here, he instructed.
.
Comprehension
I. Match words and meanings:
Words
1) a drive
2) hedge
3) to lean
4) to pace

Meanings
a) walk with slow or
regular steps
b) stairs between two
landings
c) private road through a
garden or park to a house

d) say smth., speak (one's

words) indistinctly
5) superiority e) be or put in a sloping
position, especially for
support
6) to inquire f ) good thought or idea
that comes to the mind
suddenly
7) to mumble g) row of bushes, tall
plants, usually cut level,

forming a boundary (for a

garden, field, etc.)
8) inspiration h) ask to be told
9) flight
i) smth. better than the
average
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.
8. Mrs. Oslow's new novel will be ready in another month.
Judging the story
III. Complete each statement by choosing the correct cause.
Things were done
1) Clifford headed for the back
steps
2) A woman stopped Clifford on
the way to the house

Causes
a) because a sudden inspiration
came.
b) because he knew that his next
book would be claimed to be
Julia's.
3) A lot of noise was coming from c) because he wanted to make
the living-room
sure that Julia's book was his
own version.
4) Clifford said frankly that he
d) because he gave up writing
hadn't read the book
books and he didn't want the
study.
5) He decided to read Julia's book e) because a lot of reporters came
right away
to interview Julia.
6) The study was not used by
f) (because the reporters would
Clifford any longer
ask him more questions which
he wouldn't be able to answer.
7) Clifford began to read his
g) because he didn't want to meet
manuscript and Julia's book page
reporters.
against page
8) Clifford answered the reporter's h) because she wanted him to get
question addressed to Julia.
Julia's autograph for her.

IV. Write a composition: My Hobby

Keys
I Level
1 b);

2b);

3 c);

4 d);

5 c);

6 b);

7c);

8d);

9 b); 10 d);

II. Team spirit

1.

the referee

11. to teach

2.

voice

12. better

3.

allow

13 keen

4.

nun

14. talking

5.

mad

15. fans

6.

punches

16. reporter

7.

miss

17. a way

8.

goal

18. star

9.

covers

19.qestions

10.supporter

20. camera.

1. q);

2 c);

3.f);

4. r)

5. p);

6. g);

7k;

8. e);

9 h); 10. o);

11.) i; 12. n); 13. s); 14 j); 15)b);

16 l);

17.d); 18 t);

III. 1.b);

2.a); 3.d); 4. c); 5. c);

6. c); 7 b);

8.d)

19. a); 20. m);

9. b); 10. c).
II Level

I. 1.d);

2.c);

3.b);

6.a);

7. c);

8.b);

II. 1. c);

2. c)

III. 1. a);
6. d);

4.d);
9.b);

3. c) ; 4) b)

2. c);
7. b);

3.d);
8. d);

5.c);
10. c);
5. c);
4. d);
9. a);

5.b);
10. d).

III Level
I. 1 c)

2g)

6. h);

7. d)

3 e)
8 f)

4.a) 5. i)
9. b)

II. 1. T; 2 F; 3 T; 4 F;
5 T;

6 T; 7 F; 8 T;

III. 1 g; 2 h; 3 e) 4 f;
5 a; 6 d; 7 c; 8 b.