Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 38 стр.

                                  Text 2                                      and three in the oceans near Peru, South Africa and New Guinea. It really
                                                                              is a square earth 5 .
  Directions:         Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
 (Questions 1– 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer and      1.   A Aside            B Out             C Apart           D A part
                      mark it on your answer sheet.                           2.   A shots            B probes          C spheres         D zones
                                                                              3.   A Evident          B Recent          C Truthful        D Unexpected
                                                                              4.   A supposed         B investigated    C searched        D shown
                            Travelling Theatre
       The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is one of the most            5.   A in the corners   B at large        C for no reason   D after all
famous 1 in Britain. The stage there, in the 700 seat theatre, is 2 that
the plays are always performed in the round. This makes it difficult for
them to take their production    3 , but the demand for them to do so has                                       Text 4
been so great that they have designed a    4 aluminium structure which,
when erected, can take a stage the same size as the 5 , seat 400 people,        Directions:           Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
and use the complete lightning and sound systems as used in the Manches-       (Questions 1 – 5)      choices given below. Choose the correct answer
ter productions. When it is dismantled, the theatre can be packed into two                            and mark it on your answer sheet.
lorries.
                                                                                                   The Drachma In The Slot Machine
1.   A   companies      B   exchanges      C   Royals      D   royalists             Machines 1 by coins, such as cigarette machines or chocolate
2.   A   though         B   thus           C   such        D   so             dispensers are, you may think, a twentieth – century invention. Well, you
3.   A   fully          B   at large       C   on tour     D   with them      would be completely wrong.
4.   A   theatrical     B   chemical       C   portable    D   likeable              Slot machines were     2 invented by a Greek scientist called Hero,
5.   A   sizeable       B   Royal          C   real        D   original       in the first century AD.
                                                                                     Holy water was sold in temples. The water was contained in urns 3
                                                                              a short pipe leading out from the base. The top end of the pipe, inside the
                                  Text 3                                      urn, was closed by a plug which was fixed to one end of a horizontal bar.
                                                                                     The other end was directly underneath an opening where coins could
                       Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four      be 4 . When the coin dropped in, it hit the end of the bar and caused it to
  Directions:
 (Questions 1 – 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer         move down. This 5 the plug to open and the holy water to trickle out.
                       and mark it on your answer sheet.
                                                                              1.   A drawn         B operated      C moved            D raised
                                                                              2.   A first         B actually      C firstly          D completely
                             Square Earth
        1 from a few people who still believe that the Earth is flat, eve-    3.   A with          B of            C off              D out of
rybody believed that the Earth was round – until photographs taken from       4.   A opened        B closed        C inserted         D concentrated
American space 2 proved that actually it is pear-shaped. 3 research           5.   A needed        B made          C chanced          D caused
has, however,    4 that the Earth in fact has four corners, one in Ireland,
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