Form 6 Name
Date
READING
Variant 1
1
Read and tick the correct photo.
I've got a penfriend Tim. He lives in Cambridge. He is eleven years old
and he goes to school for boys. His family is big. His father is tall and thin. He
has got short straight hair and he wears glasses. Tim's father is a doctor. He
is clever, helpful and hard-working. He likes sport and plays football and ten-
nis. Tim's mother is a very beautiful woman. She has got long curly hair and
big blue eyes. She is romantic and likes flowers and animals. Tim has got two
younger sisters - twins. They are lovely girls with long straight hair. They usu-
ally wear their hair in braids. They are only five and they don't go to school.
Tim's grandmother is very kind. She likes cooking very much.​

1. George Bernard Shaw, -a- well-known English playwright, was born in --- Ireland in 1856.
2. --- Africa is -a-- very large continent lying to -the-- south of --- Europe and to -the-- southwest of --- Asia to which it is joined by --the- Isthmus of Suez.
3. I knew --a- man who had travelled very much in his life. He had visited many --- countries in --the- east and in --the- west.
4. Put --some- sugar in her tea: she likes sweet tea.
5. Does she have --any- nephews or nieces? She has --some- nephews.
6. We bought --some- cucumbers at --the- market.
7. --The- 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as -the-- XXII Olympic Winter Games or --the- 22nd Winter Olympics, will be held in --the- Russian Federation for --the- first time.
8. --The- door opened and --a- man entered --- room. He was --a- man of fifty years old.
9. Have you got --any- books on Dickens? I want to read --something- about him. I have read --some- books by Dickens and I am interested in the life of the writer.
10. There was --a- lady, --a- gentleman, --a- boy, and --a- girl in -the-- room.
11. My son is --a- journalist and he has been very successful.
12. Is your skirt made of --- silk or --- cotton?
1. Close (pres simp act) the window. It is raining (pres cont act) and it has become (pres perf act) very cold. The weather has changed (pres perf act) greatly since yesterday.
2. When I came (past simp act)  in, he put (past simp act) the book on the table and stood (past simp act) up to greet me.
3. I had been walking (past perf cont act) about an hour when at last I saw (past simp act) a little house near the river.
1. Закройте окно. Идет дождь, и это стало очень холодно. Погода сильно изменилась со вчерашнего дня.
2. Когда я вошел, он положил книгу на стол и встал, чтобы приветствовать меня.
3. Я шёл уже около часа, когда я наконец увидел маленький домик у реки.
1. He told me that he had seen them the day before.
2. We saw that the teacher was pleased with the results of our examination.
3. She said that they would discuss this question as soon as the manager returned from Moscow.
1. Он сказал мне, что он видел их накануне.
2. Мы видели, что учитель был доволен результатами наших экзаменов.
3. Она сказала, что они будут обсуждать этот вопрос, как только менеджер вернётся из Москвы.

1. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812.

2. He was a very talented boy, he learned to read at an early age but his life was hard.

3. He had to go to work at ten.

4. Charles had worked as a newspaper reporter before he became famous.

5. He was writing for a variety of magazines when he worked as a reporter.

6. The humorous novel The Pickwick Papers made Dickens famous.

7. This novel was published in 1837.

8. Dickens wrote about the life of poor English people.

9. His novels were set in Victorian England.

10. People all over the world value his novels for their realism, humour, their love and sympathy for ordinary people.