Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 3-5 курсов исторического факультета. Часть 2 - 10 стр.

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                                        TEST 3

For questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which word A, B, C or D best fits
each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
                               GETTING THINGS DONE
Life in the smaller country places can (0)B you feel very isolated. Once our village
didn’t have a very good (1)__ into town since there were only two buses a week. (2)__
was the state of (3)__ when I first (4)__ there some years ago. I remember the startled
(5)__ of women I spoke to outside the shops about this (6)__ of a very basic provision.
‘Well, that’s how it is, there’s nothing we can do about it.’ ‘There’s (7)__,’I replied
quickly. ‘We can (8)__ a meeting in the village hall, get up a petition, and (9) __ it to
the local council, asking them to (10)__ the number of days a week the bus (11)__. And
most important of all we have to make sure that the local Member of Parliament either
(12)__ the meeting or certainly gets a copy of our petition.’ After some hesitation and
(13)__ doubt about our chance of success, the idea was put into (14)__ with the (15)__
that today the village has a daily bus into town.
0 A get                 B make           C force       D start
1 A transport           B route          C link        D service
2 A It                  B This           C There       D So
3 A affairs             B matters        C ways        D facts
4 A survived            B settled        C rested      D started
5 A return              B repeat         C reaction    D result
6 A loss                B waste          C scarcity    D lack
7 A many                B plenty         C great       D lot
8 A hold                B raise          C handle      D bring
9 A refer               B propose        C present     D offer
10 A enlarge            B extend         C stretch     D develop
11 A serves             B drives         C transfers   D runs
12 A arrives            B comes          C attends     D appears
13 A first              B opening        C starting    D initial
14 A movement           B act            C practice    D form
15 A result             B output         C end         D verdict

For questions 16-30, read the following text and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
                     SHAKESPEARE HELPS YOUNG LOVERS
Possibly the first known London address (0)of Shakespeare is in the area of what today
(16)__ Liverpool Street Station. In October 1596 this was (17)__ of the Parish (18)__ St
Helen’s, Bishopsgate. A William Shakespeare is on a debtors’ list of that date and place
for five shillings in tax – a good (19)__ pounds by today’s values. He had (20)__
February 1597 to pay but the collectors who called during that month were (21)__ to get
their money. His name appears in the (22)__ parish in 1598, (23)__ time for even
(24)__ tax, payable (25)__ the end of March. History repeated itself when the men