4. Complete each sentence using the words below.

Bungalow, cottage, car park, flat, countryside, pedestrians, suburbs

1. I would prefer to live in a ……......... with my own garden.

2. Jenny lives in a small .....…… in a modern block.

3. This street is only for .....….., no cars are permitted here.

4. Peter has moved to the …........ because he likes to be in the fresh air

5. This village is surrounded by lovely ...……….. .

6. The shopping center has a multi-storey...…….... equipped with elevators.

7. My grandmother bought a ..……... to spend vacation at the seashore.

5. Choose the most suitable word in each sentence.

1. The old houses opposite are going to be ........................

1) broken down 2) knocked down 3) taken down

2. The view from the skyscraper....................... over New York harbour.

   1. shows up 2)stands up 3) looks out

3. Please ................ the rubbish because the dustman is coming tomorrow.

1) take in 2) tie down 3) put out

4. Please come and unblock our drains! I'm ....................... you!

1) waiting for 2) counting on 3) seeing to

5. I can't put these plants in pots. I've ....................... earth.

1) run out of 2) put up with 3) given up

5. I've been planting trees all day and I'm....................... .

1) worn out 2) taken in 3) grown up

5. A lot of tiles....................... our roof after the high wind.

1) came off 2) took off 3) got off

5. The car went out of control and ....................... hitting a lamp-post.

1) ran up 2) turned up 3) ended up

6. Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.

1. Put your wet socks on the central heating/radiator to dry.

2. Mary was sitting beside the fire in a comfortable armchair/sofa.

3. Jane lives in a flat on the first floor/storey.

4. Let's take the runway/motorway, we'll get there faster.

5. We drove out of the village along a winding lane/path.

6. There's someone at/on the door. Can you see who it is ?

7. Why don't you put the car in the car park/parking?

8. Steve redecorated his room with flowery posters/wallpaper.

9. We used to keep the coal downstairs in the cave/cellar.

10. I like the painting but I don’t like the surrounding/frame.

Text Skye, a peculiar island in Scotland

Skye is located off Scotland's northwest coast, some 184km from Glasgow. The island measures 77km in length and 38km at its widest. The largest island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, Skye covers an area of l,740sq km about half the size of the state of Rhode bland in the USA. Skye's landscape is dominated by the spectacular Black Cuillin Hills, which an English journalist H.V. Morton (1892-1979) described in his book “In Search of Scotland”. Imagine Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries” frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen against the sky. It seems as if Nature when she hurled the Coolins up .. said: "I will make mountains which shall be the essence of all that can be terrible in mountains".

According to legend, the island, once flat, was inhabited by Cailleach Bhur, the goddess of winter. She had enslaved a beautiful girl, the sweetheart of spring, who appealed to the sun for help. In response, the angry sun hurled his burning spear at Cailleach Bhur as she rode across Skye. But he missed his mark and destroyed the landscape which broke into a range of hills - the Cuillins. Skye's inhabitants often tell this tale to explain the curious fact that these hills are rarely snow-covered, even in winter. When surrounding hills are covered with snow, the Black Cuillins stand dark against the sky.

Twenty peaks feature in the Black Cuillins, 15 of them more than 914m in height. The tallest, Sgur Alasdair, stands 1,009m high. The peaks came into existence some 50 million years ago. The Red Cuillin Hills, some 16km to the east are more rounded than the Black Cuillins. hi the south of the island stands the unusual rock known as the Old Man of Storr. Both these formations had their beginnings 10,000 years ago.

Little of Skye's landscape can support the barley, oats and other crops grown elsewhere in Scotland. Areas of human settlement occur only rarely. Thousands of seabirds nest on the island's coast and shore. The puffin which nests on dangerous rocks, can catch small fish in great numbers. It is not unusual for a puffin to return to its nest with as many as 14 fish in its mouth. Yet Skye's puffin population is far from "growing due largely to the attacks of lesser black-backed gulls which rob the puffins of their catch before they can reach their nests to feed their young.

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Answer the questions to text:

1. Which of the following is true?

1) Skye is located on Scotland's northwest coast

2) Skye is the largest hill area in Scotland

3) Skye, the largest island in Inner Hebrides, dominates over Scotland

4) The state of Rhode Island is about twice as big as Skye

2. According to legend,

1) the sun got angry with a beautiful girl who had become the sweetheart of spring

2) the goddess of winter was enslaved by the sun

3) Cailleach Bhur terribly missed the sun

4) the angry sun made the Black Cuillins almost never snow covered

3. What is not typical of Skye?

1) The average height of the mountains is about 1000m

2) The peaks are quite old, dating back millions years

3) There are many areas of human settlement there

4) Local people grow mostly barley and oats

4. It follows from the text that Black Cuillins could hardly be described as

1) terrifying

2) inviting and inspiring

3) dark and gloomy

4) a screen against the sky

5. The author states that it is usual for a puffin

1) to eat about 14 small fish at once

2) not to return to its nest

3) to catch quite a number of small fish

4) to be caught by black-backed gulls

ТЕСТ

Выберите единственный правильный вариант из предложенных:

1. English is worth _____ . It is _____ in a lot of the countries.

1) learned, spoken

2) learning, speaking

3) learning, spoken

4) to learn, spoke

2. This office is very inefficient. The telephone_____ promptly and no proper records _____ .

1) is never answered, are kept

2) never answers, have kept

3) is never answered, are keeping

4) has never answered, are kept

3. She likes_____ and needs_____ care of.

1) look at, take

2) being looked at, to be taken

3) looking at, be taking

4) to look at, to be taken

4. I really love parties! Who is going _____ ?

1) been invited

2) to be inviting

3) to have invited

4) to be invited

5. Henry ______ for something he didn't do.

1) has punished

2) is punishing

3) punishes

4) was punished

6. A business letter should ______ on one side of the paper only.

1) have written

2) being writing

3) be written

4) write

7. The majority of the planes ______ with electronically coded security systems.

1) equipped

2) are equipped

3) has equipped

4) are equipping

8. He knew that _____ suspected person _____ by Inspector Jarvis at 10 o'clock this morning.

1) a, was interviewing

2) the, was being interviewed

3) - , had been interviewed

4) the, interviewed

9. The police_____ that there had been a mistake.

1) was not informed

2) were not informing

3) were not informed

4) has been informed

10. The information about the trip _____ in the brochure.

1) is included

2) includes

3) is including

4) has included

11. He explained that the dogs on the farm ______ for a walk twice a day.

1) are being taken

2) were being taken

3) had taken

4) were taken

12. Aunt Polly wanted to know where ______.

1) would Tom go to

2) had Tom gone to

3) was Tom going to

4) Tom was about to go

13) She explained that the house whose roof ______ yesterday in the earthquake _____ hers.

1) collapsed. Is

2) had collapsed, was

3) had collapsed, had been

4) collapsed, would be

14. The mayor ______ the school and _____ one of the pupils why _____ to clean the beach.

1) had visited, asked, had they decided

2) had visited, asked, they had decided

3) visited, asked, they decided

4) visited, asked, they had decided

15. She said that it ____ while she ______ her car filled with petrol.

1) had happened, was having

2) happened, had

3) would happen, would be having

4) happens, is having