Mark Pringle is (be) two years older than his cousin Nick. After he left school, he ___ (get) a job with a music magazine. For the last two years he ____ (work) as a general reporter. ‘I _____ (like) the work’, he says. ‘Next year, I ____ (probably/go) to New York to work as the American correspondent.’
Like Nick, Mark ____ (go) to a public school – Charterhouse – and he ____ (not like) it, either. ‘I ____ (be) very pleased when I ____ (leave) my school two years ago. If I have children, I ____ (not send) them to a state school’.
Mark didn’t go to University. ‘I ____ (not get) very good grades in my ‘A’ Levels’, he says, but that’s O.K., because I ___ (not need) good ‘A’ Level grades to do this job’. At the moment, he _____ (study) Spanish and Portuguese. ‘A lot of good music ____ (come) from South America, and after New York, I ____ (want) to go and live there for a few years.’
Задание 9. Выберите правильный вариант ответа.
1. Shhh! I can’t hear what he ______.
a. says b. is saying c. say d. have said
2. It was ______.
a. at six o’clock rain b. raining last
c. rain last night d. raining at six o’clock last night
3. The police ____Nom.
a. has arrested b. was arrested by
c. have arrested d. were arrested
4. The policeman read the gentleman his rights after he _______ him.
a. had arrested b. arrested
c. was arresting d. arrests
Задание 10. Определите, в какой части предложения содержится ошибка.
1. Lasers is of great value in areas such as communication, industry, medicine.
a b c d
2. The watt is namedafter James Watt, a British engineer who has developed the
a b c d
steam engine.
3. The development of voice recognition shallenable the computer to identify the
a b c d
spoken commands.
4. Images and sounds often added to games makes them more realistic and more
a b c d
exciting.
5. Security systemsdistinguish between faces they has been taught to recognize.
a b c d