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1. Brie and Camembert are only two of the wide variety of ____ produced in France. 2. Many Englishmen have explored ____ of the Nile. 3. Woodworm can cause a lot of ____ if it is not treated. 4. He never really loved her – he just toyed with her ____. 5. I need ____ which will match the other shades of scarlet in the room. 6. "Hamlet" is one of Shakespeare's best known ____. 7. I didn't know you were short-sighted. How long have you been wearing ____? 8. He buys ____ on the way home to check the race results. 9. Sorry, sir, you can't have whisky. Our licence doesn't allow us to serve ____, only wine or beer. 10. It's a very shy animal and lives in ____; it's rarely seen in the open fields. 11. This plant is only found in ____ of Alaska. 12. To get to the station, you should take ____ just after the bridge. 13. The girl in the travel agent's was very helpful and gave me lots of ____ about Turkey. 14. Sorry I'm late – some of my ____ went missing at the airport. 15. Our dairy produces five different ____. 16. British ____ such as cashmere, mohair, lambswool, merino wool come mostly from the Shetlands. 17. ____ occurs naturally in sea water. 18. Where are my bathing ____? 19. The Great Pyramid of Cheops is one of the seven ____ of the Ancient World; it's the only one that has survived and exists today.
Exercise 26. Match words from group A with words from group B. Make your own sentences with them.
Example: a loaf of bread.
Croup A: blade, grain, sheet, loaf, drop, lump, speck, bar, strand, item, slice
Group B: paper, dust, grass, news, meat, water, sand, coal, soap, bread, hair
Exercise 27. Match words from group A with words from group B. Make your own sentences with them.
Example: a bottle of milk
Group A: box, bottle, bunch, flock, packet, crowd, tin, pack, bundle, herd
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Group B: flowers, people, matches, clothes, cows, birds, milk, cigarettes, sardines, cards
Exercise 28. Make word combinations according to the example: a loaf of bread
a herd nice weather
a block birds
a bar horror
a head juice
a flock jam
a spell truth
a gang air
a cry lightning
a grain ice
a slice of robbers
an item sheep
a word cabbage
an article chocolate
a tube money
a flash lemon
a tin toothpaste
a jar news
a sum cigarettes
a breath advice
a cube furniture
a piece cheese
Exercise 29. Put each of the following collective nouns in its correct place in the sentences below, making it plural if necessary. Some nouns must be used more than once.
| flock herd bundle mob stack | suite audience shoal bunch set | crowd fleet congregation flight | clump gang pack swarm crew |
1. The ____ of the British Royal Navy was very strong in the nineteenth century. 2. Disease reduced the farmer's ____ from 90 to 65 cows. 3. She was attacked by a ____ of wasps. 4. A ____ of shouting people overturned cars, set fire to shops and attacked a police station. 5. The Prime Minister occupied a ____ of rooms at the hotel. 6. Some spectators in the ____ disagreed with the referee's decision. 7. He bought a large ____ of bananas. 8. The priest was very sad to see his ____ getting smaller week by week. 9. Fishing boats use modern equipment to locate the ____ of fish. 10. She lost her balance and fell down a ____ of steps. 11. He was the leader of a well-known ____ of criminals. 12. We sat down in the shade of a ____ of trees. 13. In spring ____ of birds arrive back in Britain after spending the winter in Africa. 14. Our picnic was completely ruined by a ____ of ants. 15. He gave her a____of flowers. 16. British Airways has a ____ of 26 Boeing 747s. 17. She gave a ____ of old clothes to a charity organization. 18. The ____ applauded the new play enthusiastically. 19. Has anyone seen a ____ of keys? I left them somewhere. 20. Golf is an expensive game. You'll need a ____ of clubs. 21. The books were arranged in a ____ one on top of the other. 22. They've bought a leather three-piece ____ – a sofa and two armchairs. 23. Let's play a game. Who's got a ____ of cards? 24. That cruise ship carries 150 passengers and a ____ of 85. 25. The ____ of sheep was controlled by a shepherd and two dogs. 26. For their wedding I gave them a ____ 6 spoons, 6 forks etc.
Exercise 30. Translate into English.
1. У нас нет хлеба. Не мог бы ты купить буханку черного хлеба? 2. Мама хочет кофе. – У меня как раз есть баночка (кофе). 3. У Майкла нет сигарет. Мне придется пойти и купить блок. 4. – Мне хочется пить. – Как насчет стакана минеральной воды? 5. B холодильнике нет ничего, кроме банки сардин. 6. Осень. Стая птиц летит на юг. 7. Джон – ковбой. У него есть стадо коров. 8. Если вы в трудной ситуации, могу дать вам один совет. 9. В этом магазине вы можете выбрать любой предмет мебели. 10. Она купила тюбик геля для волос. 11. Мы увидели вспышку молнии. 12. Когда ей грустно, она может съесть сразу целую плитку шоколада. 13. Чтобы сварить борщ, тебе понадобится кочан капусты. 14. Положи кубик льда в мой коктейль. 15. Банда грабителей была арестована около банка. 16. Она вскрикнула от ужаса, когда увидела мышей. 17. Давай выйдем, чтобы глотнуть свежего воздуха. 18. В его словах есть зерно истины.
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Exercise 31. Most of these sentences have a mistake in them. Correct them.
Example: I believe it's very difficult to find a cheap accommodation in London. …… to find cheap accommodation ……
1 We're looking for a place to rent.
2 We're late because they're re-surfacing the motorway and the traffics are terrible.
3 He was asked to leave the college because of a bad behaviour at the end of term party.
4 I'm going to phone my brother to wish him good luck for his driving test.
5 I think it's a pity Rebecca had her hairs cut short because she looked much more attractive before.
6 It's not a bad room, but the furnitures take up too much space.
7 As an old friend, may I give you an advice?
8 If we don't have up-to-date information, how can we make sensible decisions?
9 Fortunately, the check-up was less unpleasant experience than I had expected.
Exercise 32. Fill the spaces in the following conversation with one of the words given below. Sometimes you need the plural (-s ), and some of the words are used more than once.
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