Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 36 стр.

turies before, they built a fort and houses, and planted crops. But 2 Indi-                                     Text 5
ans made life impossible for them and they were forced to return home.
The following year, another group re-settled on the island. After a few         Directions:          Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
weeks the leader of the group, John White, sailed 3 to England to get          (Questions 1 – 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer
more provisions. When he returned, all he found was a 4 word carved                                  and mark it on your answer sheet.
on a tree: CROATON. There was absolutely 5 sign of any of the set-
tlers.
                                                                                                        What A ____1_____
1.   A Disapproved      B   Encouraged      C Illustrated   D Shown                  A Derbyshire lady and her husband were 2 south one day when
2.   A hostile          B   friendly        C foreign       D peace-loving    they stopped at a motorway lay-by to rest. They got out of the car and fell
3.   A again            B   forward         C back          D forth           into conversation with another couple. The second man happened to men-
4.   A fixed            B   probable        C mysterious    D nostalgic       tion that a few months before he had lost his wallet containing credit cards,
5.   A no               B   yes             C full          D foolish         cash and other personal 3 . As he was talking he took the wallet out of
                                                                              his pocket and the 4 Derbyshire lady looked at it in amazement – it
                                                                              had been she who had found it and handed it in to the police, and the two
                                                                              couples lived more than 60 miles 5 from each other.
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                                                                              1.   A news            B coincidence       C tail           D couple
  Directions:           Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four     2.   A motoring        B flying            C directing      D walking
 (Questions 1 – 5)      choices given below. Choose the correct answer        3.   A containers      B collections       C items          D purses
                        and mark it on your answer sheet.                     4.   A concentrated    B attentive         C pleased        D astonished
                                                                              5.   A away            B way               C towards        D out
                          Lightning Strikes
      In Canada, during a 1 storm in 1934, the tombstone of an officer
who had served in the First World War was shattered by a bolt of light-
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ning. The unfortunate officer had been invalided    2    the Canadian
Army after being struck by lightning in 1918. Six years later he was
struck by 3 flash while fishing, and his right side was paralysed. He          Directions:           Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
   4 and two years later was taking a walk through a park when … this          (Questions 1 – 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer
time paralysing him for 5 .The gods must have had it in for him.                                     and mark it on your answer sheet.

1.   A fierce        B slight        C light          D brave                                             Dead Man’s Tales
2.   A off           B out of        C to             D back to                      A Warwickshire builder was quite surprised to bump 1 a cousin
3.   A the other     B the same      C another        D some                  he hadn’t seen for some time in a pub. But not half as surprised as his
4.   A rebelled      B recovered     C rose           D refused               cousin, who had been at the builder’s funeral 2 in Dublin some time
5.   A short         B time          C bad            D good                  earlier. It 3 that former workmates had` 4 identified him as the vic-
                                                                              tim of a car crash and had telephoned his family in Ireland. The family de-
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