1 question

1.Do you believe that the theme of the book that man is inherently evel and needs civilizatsion,laws and structure to control him

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Task 2 Questions 11-20 (5 points)
Complete the sentences with suitable articles a, an or the where necessary.
Two examples (0) and (00) have been done for you.
– Tell me about (0)…the… country which is called (00) …─… Great Britain.
– It is (11) ………….. island in (12) ………….. Atlantic Ocean next to
(13) ………….. Ireland.
– What do you know about (14) ………….. London?
– It’s (15) ………….. capital city of (16) ………….. United Kingdom. It is situated in
(17) ………….. southern part of (18) ………….. England on (19) ………….. river
Thames. It’s (20) ………….. very old town.

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Task 1 Questions 1-10 (5 points)
Complete the sentences with suitable prepositions.
An example (0) has been done for you.
A. I am looking (0) ………………. a flat near the beach.
B. We arrived (1) ………………. the airport in time.
C. What can you see (2) ………………. the picture?
D. She spends all her money (3) ………………. clothes.
E. We went (4) …………….. car and the children went (5) ………………. foot.
F. I live (6) ………………. the seventh floor (7) ………………. 21 Oxford Street.
G. Her birthday is (8) ………………. the 20th November.
H. Have you ever been (9) ………………. Australia?
I. Do you know anybody who might be interested (10) ………………. buying an old car?

SMART - English Homophones, 1 (SMART-created)

SMART - English Homophones, 1 (SMART-created)

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PART TWO Time: 25 minutes
READING Points: 15
Task 1 Questions 1-6
Read the answers about William Shakespeare. Choose an appropriate question for
each answer. Write the letter of the question in the box. An example (0) has been
done for you. There is one extra question that you do not need.
A. Who was he?/ Why was he so famous?
B. Are his plays long?
C. What was life like then?
D. What was the Globe like?
E. What are his most famous works?
F. Was Shakespeare a highly-educated man?
G. What happened to the Globe?
H. What were theatres like in Elizabethan times?
For the
teacher
+/-
(0) …E….. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado
About Nothing - he wrote a lot.
(1) ………. It was built on the Thames Bankside where there was a lot of gambling
and low-life. The theatre was built from wood that used to be in the Shoreditch
Theatre but after an argument Shakespeare and friends dismantled the theatre
beam by beam and built the Globe where most of his plays were performed.
(2) ………. Most of them were germ-ridden flea-pits. Due to the fleas there were
often outbreaks of the plague that started in theatres. If more than 40 people died
the theatres would be temporarily shut. They were also full of vice and crime.
Many employers disapproved of them because people went to the theatre instead
of work.
(3) ……….. Some last up to three hours but there is a company called the Reduced
Shakespeare Company that has shortened his plays and they perform all 36 of his
plays in an hour. It’s very amusing!
(4) ……….. A sequence of good things followed by bad things; the roof caught fire
and the whole theatre burned down. Luckily it was rebuilt. Unluckily it was then
closed down by puritans and subsequently demolished. The entire theatre was
then rebuilt in the 1990s and audiences can once again watch Shakespeare’s plays
in a similar theatre to the one they were written for.
(5) ……… In Elizabethan times people enjoyed quite blood-thirsty entertainment –
they attended public executions, bear-baiting, and cock-fighting. However, unlike
today in Britain, a large percentage of the population went to the theatre very
frequently. It was a major place to congregate. Where you were allowed to sit
depended on your social status. Also, there were no actresses, the parts of females
were played by men. All actors were paid next to nothing.
(6) ………. Actually not much is known about him. His parents weren’t hugely
wealthy and young William Shakespeare did not receive much of an education. In
fact, some people say it is almost impossible that he wrote the plays because they
use such a wide vocabulary. People can’t work out how Shakespeare’s
vocabulary got so large. This is why it has been said someone else wrote them.

Task 2

Task 2 Questions 7-15
Read the true stories and find them suitable headings (A-J).
An example (0) has been done for you.
A. Go home and wait
B. Huge criminal record
C. Unexpected guests in the car
D. Hotel’s loud snorers
E. Wrong place, wrong time
F. Call us for assistance
G. Protection from burglars
H. Closing down Denny’s
I. Pets in the trunk
J. Knowledge helps to escape
For the
teacher
(0) E Darnell Madison was shot and killed in March in Homewood
when he burst into a motel room intending to rob the seven men
he had seen with a large amount of money. He was unaware they
were armed police officers working on another case.
0.*
(7)
……
When Al Asbaty returned to his car after shopping, he was
startled to find out that thousands of bees were building a hive
inside his Mercedes. Due to the sunny weather he had left the
windows rolled down allowing a queen bee to fly in, followed
by about 20,000 of her faithful servants. At last a bee expert
Tom Fuscalo managed to drive the insects into an artificial hive.
7…….
(8)
…….
Denny’s restaurants are always open 24 hours a day. When they
decided to close last Christmas (first time ever), they realized
that a lot of doors did not have locks. Most of those that did have
locks, no one knew where to find the keys!
8……..
(9)
……
Shortly after the 911 emergency number became available, an
elderly and quite ill lady appeared in a Rochester hospital
emergency room, having driven herself to the hospital and
barely managing to stagger in from the parking lot. The horrified
nurse said,” Why didn’t you call the 911 number and get an
ambulance?” The lady said,” My phone doesn’t have an eleven”.
9……..
(10)
…….
FBI and Florida authorities arrested Paul Flasher who
had been sentenced to five years in prison in 1990 for grand theft
but who had never been jailed.
Flasher said he had gone home from the sentencing
hearing and “sat tight”, just as his lawyer had instructed, waiting
for notification to report to prison. Authorities forgot him for 12
years.
10…….
(11)
………
A 71-year old man fell off a dock into the jaws of an alligator
and escaped. “I wasn’t a bit afraid. I knew what they usually
do,” said George Blinn who got away from the alligator by
jabbing his thumb in its eye. Blinn said he has long been a fan of
such programmes as Wild Kingdom and knew about alligators’
general behaviour. Now he got the chance to use that
knowledge. Blinn said the alligator bit him on the left hand and
then flopped him over in the water three times before Blinn
could escape.
11…….
(12)
……..
Dennis Payne was arrested as a pickpocket at a Jersey City train
station, his 135th arrest in New Jersey and New York City since
1978. Police said it took a computer more than a half-hour to
print out Payne’s arrest record.
12…….
(13)
………
After police pulled over Kevin Temple in a routine traffic stop, a
police dog sniffing the trunk became agitated. In the trunk and
back seat officers found the following live animals: 48
rattlesnakes, 45 non-poisonous snakes, 67 scorpions, several
small lizards and a parrot. Temple said they were just pets.
13……
(14)
………
In October, the Swallows Hotel in Gateshead, England, offered
11 chronic snorers a free night’s stay so they could test how well
soundproofed the rooms are. The hotel staff tape-recorded the
sounds coming from the rooms and promised the loudest snorer
a prize.
14……
(15)
………
Michael J. Schmidt set up a hidden camera at his home because
he had been burglarized several times and thought he could
catch the culprits in the act.
The burglars came back and were captured on tape which
Schmidt turned over to the sheriff. Among the items the burglars
took from Schmidt’s house was a box containing eight marijuana
plants. Schmidt was charged with illegal drug possession.
15…….
No of points:

Task 1

Task 1 Questions 1-6
Read the text about the ostrich and decide whether the statements are true (T), false
(F) or there is no information (NI). Tick (√) the right box. An example (0) has been
done for you.
The Biggest Bird
The biggest bird of all is the ostrich. It can weigh 300 pounds or more. It
grows to be about eight feet tall.
The ostrich is incapable of flying. There are other birds that cannot fly – emus
of Australia, rheas of South America, and kiwis of New Zealand. Scientists think the
ancestors of these birds millions of years ago were smaller and flew like other birds.
But most of the giant nonflying birds today live on islands where they have few
enemies. Because no danger threatened them, they had no need to fly. Over millions
of years, these kinds of birds grew bigger and heavier and their wings became weaker.
The ostrich, which lives on the African plains, does have hungry enemies such
as lions and cheetahs. But the ostrich can run fifty miles an hour, faster than most of
its enemies. Besides, the ostrich is so tall and has such sharp eyesight that it can see
danger from far off. In fact, zebras often stay near an ostrich and use it as a lookout.
When it runs, they run.
The ostrich lays the biggest egg in the world today. Its egg measures six to
nine inches long and weighs about three pounds. If it were empty, it could hold the
insides of about eighteen chicken eggs. The shell of a bird’s egg must be strong
enough to hold the developing baby bird. It must also be thin enough so that the chick
growing inside can breathe.
T F NI
For the
teacher
(0) The biggest bird always grows taller than a grown
person.
√ 0. *
(1) Scientists think that their ancestors were larger than
they are today.
1……
(2) Their ancestors could probably fly. 2……
(3) The biggest bird can run faster than most of its
enemies.
3……
(4) Zebras stay near an ostrich because it will fight off
their enemies.
4……
(5) The eggs of the ostrich are widely used for cooking. 5……
(6) The egg of the biggest bird is six to nine inches long. 6……