Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 49 стр.

                                                                            5. The word ‘count’ (‘counts’) means in the text:
1. Which of the following is true?                                             A say or name numerals in order
   A As a rule neither men nor women are invited to a meal in some-            B find the total of
      one’s house.                                                             C be important
   B It is customary to wear comfortable rather than fashionable eve-          D think, believe
      ning ties when invited to a meal in someone’s house.
   C Men are not always supposed to wear business suits when they are
      invited to someone’s house for a meal.                                                                   Text 6
   D An invitation to a meal in someone’s house usually means some
      hope to see hostess again.
                                                                             Directions:           Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
                                                                             (Questions 1 – 5 )    Choose the one best answer to each question on
2. Taking a bottle of wine                                                                         the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
   A additionally attached to flowers or chocolate is preferable for your
                                                                                                   Mark the answer on your answer sheet.
       hostess.
   B when invited for a meal in someone’s house is a good idea but it is
                                                                                                          Heroic Failures
       hard to open the bottle.                                                    Modern society is obsessed with success. Not only are we obliged to
   C when invited for a meal in someone’s house is a good idea though       try and reach the top of the ladder in our working lives but we must strive
       it may not be open during the meal.                                  to beat our rivals in every conceivable aspect of existence. Every year the
   D gives the host a chance to lay the table at next week’s dinner.        Guinness Book of Records offers an honours list of achievements. It is a
                                                                            popular Christmas present and it guarantees that the weary worker will not
3. What do people do after they spend the evening in someone’s house?       be allowed to relax even on this festive season. Instead his children will
   A Send a letter of thanks for the evening.                               read to him about the truly great and he will be reminded of his own inade-
   B Write a letter of thanks followed by a standard formula.               quacy.
   C Expect the hostess to recieve letters of thanks for the evening.              The sad truth is that 99 per cent of us will never reach the top. Is it
   D Express hopes to meet again at next week’s dinner and open the         therefore right that we should spend our lives feeling ashamed of our medi-
      bottle you could hardly open.                                         ocrity? It would surely be more healthy to learn to live with our lack of
                                                                            success, even to take some pride in it.
4. What do people mostly write nowdays after they spend the evening in             Stephen Pile is an eminently unsuccessful Englishman who delights
   someone else’s house?                                                    in the failures of others. He devoted several years of his life to meticulous
   A Traditional letters with pictures.                                     research and wrote ‘The Book of Heroic Failures’.
   B Postcards with kind note on the back.
   C Usually postcards with cultural sports.                                1. Which of the following is not true?
   D Picture postcards or letters.                                             A The text is about the failure no matter how heroic it is.
                                                                               B Nowdays people are keen on having success.


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