КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 1
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I. Grammar Exercises.
Supply the correct article where necessary.
1. Pete and Mary have two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is seven years old and the girl is three.
2. I won’t be home fordinner this evening. I’m meeting some friends after work and we’re going to the cinema.
3. I have two brothers. The older one is training to be a pilot with British Airways. The younger one is still at school. When he leaves school, he hopes to go to university to study law.
4. In my job, I do business with people from all over the world.
5. When buying a house, you should take into consideration how near it is to public transport.
6. The fog was so thick that we couldn’t see the side of the road. We followed the car in front of us and hoped that we were going the right way.
7. The worry about state of his finances drove him to despair.
8. My first job was not success.
9. Would you like to study at Oxford University?
10. The Shishkin I bought yesterday was a copy.
Supply the correct prepositions where necessary.
1. Alice does well at drawing, but she isn't very good in reading.
2. Shall we do the translation in class? – No, you needn't. You can do it at home.
3. Soon we were all sitting round the table.
4. It is clear to me that you don't know your lesson.
5. My wife turned to me and said “What the matter with you?”
6. Was he joking at me?
7. London is the capital of Great Britain.
8. Suggest Nick taking off his coat.
9. Did you join us?
10. At nine o'clock the lecturer entered the hall, walked up at the table, put his bag on it, looked at everybody and began his lecture.
Supply the correct forms of comparison.
1. The room is cleaner than it used to be.
2. This is themostexpensive book of them all.
3. Take some of these sweets: they are very nice. They are nicer than the sweets in that box.
4. It was the worst time of my life.
5. This test was the easiest of all.
6. Please be more careful next time and don't spill the milk again.
7. Is N more intelligent than S?
8. This river is deeper in our region.
9. Show me thefarthest room in your house.
10. Mother is much younger than her husband.
Supply the correct tense-forms.
1. He said he had been listening to the same stories for a long time.
2. By the end of the year he had read about two hundred pages.
3. At last the librarian gave me the book which I had been waiting for during two months. I was very glad. I went home and began reading it at once.
4. Now she is reading the book which I gave her yesterday.
5. Have you read «The Murder of Roger Ackroyd» by Agatha Christie? – No, I havenot yet read it. But I have heard that it is a very interesting book. I shallread it as soon as I get it.
6. Victor asked me to explain the new rule to him, as he had missed the previous lesson.
7. Jane usually works in the library. She is working there now. She has already gathered the necessary material and now she is writing her report.
8. It was nearly eleven o'clock when we began doing this work.
9. Hardly he had asked his question when she answered them.
10. She said she had been teaching at this school for 20 years.
Change the following sentences in Direct Speech into Reported Speech.
1. Jane told her father that she hoped to pass exam.
2. Henry said to me that the teacher was listening to us.
3. Bob said to Tom that he had made no mistakes in the last dictation.
4. I told the policeman that I had seen a thief in a shop.
5. Nick said: «Sometimes I go home by tram». Nick said that sometimes he went home by train.
6. She asked him not to go there.
7. I asked her where she had passed her holidays.
8. Tabret said to Stella that she was deeply grateful for all she had done for Mary.
9. He ordered them not to do that.
II. Translate from Russian into English.
Last week I went on a trip to Egypt and decided to stay at a hotel for a couple of days. As I had little money on me, I couldn’t afford a room in an upscale hotel. Thus a budget hotel with low prices was just the ticket for me at that time.
However, after I made the round of several hotels, I had understood that it was not so easy to find a vacant room. Hotels were booked up. I ought to have booked a room beforehand, which I failed to do. Shall I spend the night in the street? – I thought. As a result I had to check in at a 4 star hotel in any case.
Already about nightfall I found a hotel on the corner with a board “Vacant rooms”. At once I went there. When I entered, I was welcomed by a very pleasant receptionist. There was a bellboy in the corner (a porter of luggage). The receptionist asked me, “Do you want a single room or a double room?” He also added that hotel charges don’t include meals and service. I said that I didn’t care. I needed a simple room with a shower and a toilet.
I was shown to the room, was given a key and a porter carried my suitcases upstairs. After that I gave him some tipping. When I came in the room, I started unpacking my personal effects. Then I took a shower and went to bed. Next day I checked out of the hotel, caught a taxi and went on the excursion around Cairo. If I happen to visit Egypt once more in my life, I will reserve an inexpensive room in good time.