Английский язык для студентов технического вуза: Средства массовой информации. Мир продвинутых технологий. Рабочая тетрадь для студентов продвинутого уровня. Ковалева Ю.Ю - 12 стр.

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10 Fill in the gaps with one of these words.
fame famously fanzine infamous world famous
1 A _________ is a magazine for fans of a particular group or person.
2 If you are doing something ________ it means that you are doing it very well.
3 People become ________ when they become famous by doing something bad.
4 ________ is similar to stardom or celebrity or being well-known.
5 If everybody in the world knows this person, product or event, it is _______.
11 For questions 1-12, read the text below and look carefully at each line.
Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be
there. If a line is correct, put a tick (n). If a line has a word which should not
be there, write the word.
The truth about life with Sharon Stone
1 __ When I have married a move star I knew the papers would make up stories –
2 __ I’m editor too. Yes, it’s true. I’m the one, the guy they call El Macho. The only
3 __ thing is, I don’t know who “they” are. I know who I am be, more or less, but I
4 __ don’t know the man these people claim to know. Of course, what they write is
5 __ not been really about me. Is it? I’d love it if people at supermarket checkouts
6 __ would were interested in me because I’m the executive editor of The San
7 __ Francisco Examiner. But what they’re interested in is the fact that I married a
8 __ movie star. On the world stage, I’m Mr Sharon Stone. On the one level, I
9 __ understand the obsession. We run out celebrity stories, even gossip, in The
10 __ Examiner. But what I don’t understand is where they get stuff from. They
11 __ insist my wife was pregnant when we were got married; they claim I’m
12 __ being running for mayor of San Francisco; the day we got back from a
13 __ lovely Mexican vacation, my wife and I saw on the news-stands that we had
14 __ been broken up. But the one I liked best was the story in a mainstream
15 __ newspaper (The Irish Independent) describing my wife’s purchase of an
16 __ Irish home. Great, but not a single piece of it are true.
12 Underline the error or errors in each sentence. Rewrite the sentence.
Example: When we had ate
lunch, we were sitting in the garden.
When we had eaten lunch, we sat in the garden.
1 While I looked for my keys, I remembered I left them at home.
2 I live here since the end of last year.
3 Someone has just been stealing my bicycle.
4 Anna had used to play badminton when she had been at school.
5 When I got into bed, I was falling asleep immediately.
6 When I was finally finding the house, I was knocking at the door.
7 This was a busy day and it isn’t over yet!
8 After Jill was given Nick his book, she went home.
9 Maria would live in Sweden when she was a child.