Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 39 стр.

                                  Text 5                                        5,000 4 . The cathedral is built      5 of salt, it is reached by a deep tun-
                                                                                nel more than one mile long.
  Directions:         Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
 (Questions 1 – 5)    choices given below. Choose the correct answer            1.   A pack            B flock         C company              D pride
                      and mark it on your answer sheet.                         2.   A employed        B majored       C specialized          D mined
                                                                                3.   A false           B true          C real                 D fantastic
                                                                                4.   A producers       B salt works    C worshippers          D warriors
                         A Shaving Success Story
       In 1895 King C. Gillette had a wonderful idea. He was 1 with hav-        5.   A accurately      B precisely     C absolutely           D entirely
ing to use a cutthroat razor every morning so he set about designing a wafer
thin, incredibly sharp blade that could be held    2 by a safely clamp. It
took him eight years to 3 the design and when it went 4 in 1903,                                                   Text 7
he thought he had been wasting his time for in that year only 51 razors and
168 blades were sold. The following year, however, he knew it had been            Directions:          Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
    5 . 90,000 razors were sold and 12,400,000 blades.                           (Questions 1 – 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer
                                                                                                       and mark it on your answer sheet.
1.   A fed up          B cut off          C spoken up     D turned off
2.   A together        B through          C away          D apart                                           A Sweet ___1_____
3.   A compose         B perfect          С enlarge       D discover                   Scientists who developed the limpet bomb during World War II
4.   A in stock        B to market        C for price     D on sale             came up against a serious problem that 2 to jeopardize its success.
5.   A moneywise       B worthless        C worthwhile    D valuable                      3      what chemical they tried they could not find one that dis-
                                                                                solved at a constant rate in both salt and fresh water, which was essential to
                                                                                activate the trigger   4 .
                                  Text 6                                               Then one of the scientists had a brainwave. He tried it out and       5
                                                                                worked. The magical chemical – ordinary aniseed, exactly the same as is
                                                                                used to make aniseed balls.
  Directions:          Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the four
 (Questions 1 – 5)     choices given below. Choose the correct answer
                       and mark it on your answer sheet.                        1.   A Loss             B Victory          C Defeat             D War
                                                                                2.   A threatened       B caused           C succeeded          D managed
                            The Priest’s Dream
                                                                                3.   A Matterless       B Naturally        C Irrespectively     D No matter
       A Colombian priest dreamed that his little 1 of men and women            4.   A activity         B weapon           C mechanism          D bomb
would one day have their own cathedral to worship in. The town was poor         5.   A they             B he               C then               D it
and most of the people in the parish were 2 at the local salt mine, the
largest salt producer in the world. Eventually his dream came       3    . It
took six years to build the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary. It can seat

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