Раздел 2. Лексико-грамматические задания

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст и определите, в каких строках, пронумерованных 31-40, есть лишнее слово, выписав его на поля. Если в строке нет лишнего слова, поставьте на полях цифру 0. Строки 0 и 00 приведены как пример.


When people are asked what kind of housing they need,	0 0
a variety of an answers is evoked: “four bedrooms”, “lots of	00 a
storage space”; “close to the my work”; “low rent”; “a quiet	31___________
neighbourhood”; “a big yard”; “a scenic view”; and so on. To most	32___________
people, housing quality obviously means more than simply shelter.	33___________
“Is it big enough?” is if perhaps the first question people ask when	34___________
they look at a new house or apartment. A family might to want, for	35___________
example, a master bedroom for the husband and wife, a separate	36___________
bedroom for the more younger children of each sex, a separate	37___________
bedroom for each child over than 12, a bedroom for a grandparent	38___________
or a guest, large closets, an extra half-bathroom, a dining room or	39___________
a kitchen with a good-sized eating area, a large living room, and so on.	40___________

В заданиях 41–47 прочитайте исходное предложение. Используя лексико-грамматические трансформации, заполните пропуски во втором предложении так, чтобы смысл второго предложения не противоречил первому. Количество слов, необходимых для трансформации, указано пропусками.

I haven’t seen her since our graduation.

Last time I _______ ________ _______our graduation.

She is two years older than her brother.

She has _______ ________ _______brother.

Fran is extremely smart. Ann isn’t.

Ann _______ ________ _______ Fran.

There is little milk in the fridge.

There is hardly _______ ________ _______ milk in the fridge.

We’re the family of 7 and we have 7 bikes.

There’s a bike for _______ ________ _______ family.

The situation was bad enough and the call from David added more tension.

The situation became even _______ ________ _______ call.

She insisted that I went there with her family.

She _______ ________ _______ there with her family.

Прочитайте предложения 48–52. Для каждого предложения выберите наиболее близкое по значению из списка 1–3. Занесите ответы в таблицу.

No sooner had she arrived than the things went wrong.

1) Things went wrong because she arrived.

2) Soon after her arrival things started to get wrong.

3) Immediately after her arrival things went wrong.

No matter what Ben does it seems to go wrong.

1) Everything Ben does goes wrong.

2) Ben always seems to be doing wrong.

3) Ben is doing wrong again.

It was my firm conviction that Alice was telling the truth.

1) I was quite sure Alice was speaking about the truth.

2) I strongly believed Alice to be telling the truth.

3) I convicted Alice to tell the truth.

What I’m most looking forward to when I’m in London is visiting the Trafalgar square.

1) When I come to London I’ll look forward to visiting the Trafalgar square.

2) I’m particularly looking forward to visiting the Trafalgar square when I come to London.

3) When I visit London I will want to go to the Trafalgar square.

It fell to me to break the news to the group.

1) I was the one charged with breaking the news to the group.

2) The group asked me to break the news to them.

3) I decided to inform the group about the news.

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Образуйте от слов, напечатанных заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 53–58, однокоренные слова так, чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 53–58.

Writing

Writing develops according to needs. A hunter-gatherer group will find it__________________ to have a few common signs-rather like the chalk marks that English tramps once used on gateposts to show whether the householders were kindly or not-but more complex societies need records.

USE

Traders have to record deliveries, keep accounts, send out bill; tax gatherers must calculate __________________ and all in form which will be intelligible to others.

ASSESS

Priests and magnates want to issue laws, encourage __________________ and proclaim their own power.

OBEY

Once a written language is understood, others take it for __________________, for pleasure or are driven by cultural pressure, and literature begins.

SECURE

In all probability, writing began __________________ in various parts of the world-China, Egypt and the Americas but the Sumerians have left the most prolific records, beginning in the late 3000s BC and continuing for three millennia.

DEPENDENT

The art of writing and __________________had to be taught, and therefore many of the earliest texts are dictionaries and word lists.

NOTE

Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 59–65. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям 59–65, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

In the desert

The desert was dark pink, the sky was baby blue; the whole thing looked good enough to eat. 59 ______, it was a very nice place to visit. The road from Santa Fe made its way like a black snake through the red and pink landscape. Through the hot air the tall man standing at the side of the road could see the sharp mountain peaks of the Rockies in the distance. He 60 ______ how long it would take him to get home.

At last a truck came. The first thing he heard was the distant sound of an engine. Sweetest sound in the whole world when you've been 61 ______ in the desert sun for two hours and you're beginning to think you might die there. He ran up through the bushes and stood right there staring into the distance, so that he could see the truck as soon it came into 62 ______. Then he saw it, a bright piece of silver, with sunlight bouncing off it in all directions.

As the truck got nearer he tried to 63 ______ out the driver. Looked like a woman. Well, that was that, he thought. No way was a woman alone going to stop for a guy hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere. He 64 ______ away.

But then he heard the sound of brakes as the truck came to a stop about two hundred meters further on. He looked at the clouds of dust the truck had thrown up. After a minute or so the dust 65 ______, the door of the driver's cab opened and a pair of blue jeans came down from the cab.