2015-06-14
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I. Listen to the dialogue and tick the right answers
| Вы услышите диалог продавца книжного магазина с покупателем. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А1-А7 соответствуют содержанию текста (1-True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, т.е. на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not Stated). | ||
| A1 The customer was only interested in buying dictionaries | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A2 The customer studies phonetics of the foreign language at college. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A3 The shop assistant suggested that the customer should buy a fantasy book for his friend. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A4 The customer likes detective stories by British authors. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A5 Best-sellers are always available in that book shop. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A6 The shop assistant helped the person to find a detective story to his taste. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
| A7 The book shop offers the service of ordering books for customers. | ||
| True | False | Not stated |
Adjectives and Adverbs: Degrees of Comparison
J. Choose the right answers
| 1. I like skiing ____ as skating. a. more b. as much c. as more | 9. I can’t walk very fast. You are younger; you can walk __. a. much faster b. fast c. the fastest | |
| 2. I think I am seriously ill. Today I feel ____ I felt yesterday. a. worse b. the worst a. c. as bad as | 10. I want you to read ____ passage of the text. a. the next b. the nearest c. next | |
| 3. The ____ said the soonest mended. a. least b. less c. last | 11. Her illness was ____ than we at first had thought. a. the most serious b. not as serious c. far more serious | |
| 4. This building is very high. Actually it’s ____ building in the town. a. more higher b. the highest c. higher | 12. Last Wednesday my friend didn’t come late to work. I came ____. a. latter b. the last c. later | |
| 5. Richard got ____ good marks than Fred in the examinations. a. less b. fewer a. c. few | 13. The nights in summer are ____ the nights in winter. a. not as long as b. as long as c. longer | |
| 6. Their children are not well-behaved. Actually they are ____ children I’ve ever seen. a. badly-behaved b. worse-behaved c. c. the worst-behaved | 14. Richard and Timothy don’t know many people at the party. Lionel and David know ____. a. more b. the most c. as many | |
| 7. The boys felt ____ than the girls about losing the game. a. bad b. the worst c. worse | 15. I like decent people ____ serious ones. a. as much as b. as more as c. more | |
| 8. It was a very bad mistake. In fact it was ____ mistake she had ever made. a. worse b. the worst c. bad |
