Section 1
- Graham work s twelve hours ________ day.
- She didn’t tell ________ about her plans.
- It’s becoming _______ difficult to find a job.
- The warmer the weather, ________ I feel.
- There’s no light on. They _______ be at home.
- When it _______ dark, we turn on the light.
- - Where is Alec?
- I think he _______ his morning exercises.
- We corrected our papers after we ________ the quiz.
- When _______ snowing?
- You enjoyed the film, ________?
- You may have ________.
- Last week Isabel said she ________ to work in Spain next year.
- You’ll enjoy ________ with the Browns.
- Let him _________ you up.
- The ship _________ many different people.
- If they ________ a girl, they`ll name her Alex.
- I`d like to know how glass ________.
- Mike saw him _______ in the doorway.
- The most striking feature of the giraffe is its long neck, ________ has always been a source of curiosity.
- I _________ what will happen.
- When does the festival ______ place?
- If I asked you to come by, what would you _______?
- Robin Hood ________ the rich and gave to the poor.
- ________ the rain, they enjoyed themselves.
- Will you please look ________ the date of his birth?
- ________ we drive or fly depends on the length of our vacation.
- Erin just ________ that her father had come from Scotland, not Ireland.
- The house will be ________ sale this weekend.
- Jack _________ go out very often until he met Jill.
- Everyone is going to the convention ________ Bob, who has to work.
Section 2
Traffic Lights
The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed ____31____ the Houses of Parliament in 1868.
It looked like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas.
However, it exploded and killed a policeman, and the accident ____32____ further development until cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American ____33____. Red-green systems were installed in 1914.
Three-color signals, operated by hand from a tower in the middle of the street, were installed in New York in 1918.
The first lights of this type in Britain were in London on the junction between St. James’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925.
In the past, traffic lights were ____34____. In New York, some lights had a statue on top.
In Los Angeles the lights did not just change ____35____ but rang bells to wake the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been replaced by standard models, which are universally adopted.
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- Which of the following is not true?
- What are “traffic lights”?
- To whom do we owe the traffic lights of the type we use now?
- Why was the changing of the traffic lights followed by the bells in 1930s?
- The word “junction” means:
Section 3
Choose the question or response which best fits the situation and mark it in your answer sheet.
- – I dropped my packages while I was walking out of the supermarket. ________
- – How do you feel today? - __________.
- – I’m sorry. I trod on your foot.
- ________.
- - _________ Is there a church in the neighborhood?
- Yes, there is.
- ________ they will win.
Section 4
In three of the four words, the underlined part is pronounced in the same way. Find the other word, in which the underlined part is pronounced differently and mark the answer in your answer sheet.
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