Vocabulary Revision

24. Revise Vocabulary 1 Unit 3 p. … and do the following multiple choice task.

1. Parliament _______ on the question, and the Government won narrowly.

A. divided B. shared

2. He _______ his time between reading and writing.

A. divided B. shared

3. We haven’t got enough books for everyone; some of you will have to _______.

A. divide B. share

4. I’m sorry, I can’t ________ your faith that everything will be all right.

A. divide B. share

5. For reasons of ______ the passengers have to be searched.

A. safety B. security

6. The ________ of the ship is the captain’s responsibility.

A. safety B. security

7. My savings are my _______ against hardships.

A. safety B. security

8. ‘You are _______,’ said the man. ‘The door is shut.’

A. safe B. secure

9. The poet has made a _________ place for himself in the history of English poetry.

A. safe B. secure

10. When young Ernie was caught stealing, he made ______ he’d never do it again.

A. an oath B. a vow

11. When you testify in court you take _______ to tell the truth.

A. an oath B. a vow

12. In this part of the city, you can see ancient and _____ buildings next to each other.

A. contemporary B. modern

13. He has ________ ideas in spite of his great age.

A. contemporary B. modern

14. In 1066 William landed in England, and a _____ Englishman wrote the following report of his landing …

A. contemporary B. modern

15. Voltaire was not only a philosopher. He was also interested in _______ politics.

A. contemporary B. modern

16. It’s my _______. I caused all that trouble.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

17. There was a lot of hard evidence, and his ______ was obvious to everybody.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

18. He was innocent, but for the sake of his wife he was ready to take the _______ for what had happened.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

19. His face showed ________ , though he said he had done nothing wrong.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

20. Nobody blamed her for the accident, but the sense of ______ troubled her.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

21. The boy is punished for the slightest ______.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

22. It’s your _____ that we are late, you were too slow about getting ready.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

23. John’s attempt to shift the ________ for his defeat on his companion met no response.

A. blame B. fault C. guilt

24. Their ________ lasted two years and led to a particularly nasty divorce action.

A. marriage B. matrimony C. wedlock

25. _________ is the act of two free persons … mutually taking one another for husband and wife.

A. marriage B. matrimony C. wedlock

26. John couldn’t inherit his father’s estate as he was born out of ________.

A. marriage B. matrimony C. wedlock

Unit 5

Reading and Speaking: Environmental Problems

Focus on Grammar:

The Participle

The Gerund

Grammar Training

1. Study Grammar Reference p. … , analyze the following examples and translate them into Russian.

1. I am watching the match because I know some of the people playing.

2. The people questioned gave very different opinions.

3. There is a woman crying her eyes out over there.

4. The woman being questioned by the police officer is an eyewitness of the accident.

5. Having said what I was obliged to say I want to tell you how sorry I am that it has come to this.

6. Being asked for her opinion, she blushed.

7. Having been told to wait, they waited.

8. The room being dark, I could not at first see where the speaker was.

9. The letter having been written, he went out to post it.

10. With Peter working in Birmingham, and Lucy traveling most of the time, the house seemed pretty empty.