Read the text and complete the sentences after it.(Прочитай текст и выполни тест после него. Пиши – цифру и букву.)
My name is Nina. Last spring my sister and I went to Smolensk to visit our aunt and uncle. It is an old Russian city in the west of our country. But it is a modern city too with big supermarkets, hotels, cinemas and theatres. I think the people who live in Smolensk are theatergoers. They have got many theatres in their city. We visited the children`s theatre and the Puppet Theatre too. There are two picture galleries in Smolensk. They have very interesting collections of paintings. There are lots of churches in the city. Some of them are in the city centre. They are very beautiful. Lots of people from our country and abroad come to this famous place and enjoy staying there.
1) The girls went to Smolensk to visit … .
a) some of their family b) their friends c) their great-grandparents
2) Smolensk is ... .
a) an old city b) an old and modern city c) a modern city
3) Nina ... that people of Smolensk are theatregoers.
a) feels b) writes c) hopes
4) The girls visited ... theatres in Smolensk.
a) two b) three c) no
5) ... in Smolensk are very beautiful.
a) The picture galleries b) The theatres c) The churches
2.Complete the sentences. (Раскрой скобки, выбери правильный вариант. Пиши цифру и выбранное слово.)
A. 1) What is the way to (their/theirs) house.
2) This coat is not (my/mine), it is (her/hers).
3) (Our/Ours) trip was a success. It was much better than (your/yours).
4) (Tell/Say) them to stay where they are.
5) "Come in," she (told/said), opening the door.
6) My Aunt is very good at (telling/saying) bedtime stories.
7) "Could you (tell/say) me the time please?" the man (told/said).
3.Choose the right words in brackets to complete the sentences. (Раскрой скобки, выбери правильный вариант. Пиши цифру и выбранное слово.)
1) The teacher who is standing at the blackboard says, “(Come/Go) to the blackboard, Andrew.”
2) (Sorry/Excuse me), is there a bank near here?
3) The taxi stopped and the young girl got (out of/off) it.
4) Oxford is a university city. (Its/It’s) colleges are famous all over the world.
5) I am standing at the cinema. There is a hotel on my right and there’s a supermarket on my left. The cinema is (opposite/between) them.
6) John spoke to me very (cold/coldly) in the morning.
7) Jane is in the living room, she says, “(Come/Go) in, Victor. It’s so warm and pleasant (inside/outside).”
8) (Which/What) cities in France do you know?
9) (Which/Who) of you lives in St Petersburg?
1. What is the history of the word “vitamin”?
The word “vitamin” goes back to the Polish scientist Casimir Funk in 1912. He was studying a substance in the layer that covers rice. This substance was believed to cure a disease called beriberi.
2. Why was James Lind involved in the search of vitamins?
Funk believed the substance belonged to a group of chemicals known as amines. He added the Latin word "vita," meaning life. So he called the substance a “vitamine” -- an amine necessary for life.
4. How many vitamins do you know? Name them.
A, B, C, D, E and K. 6 vitamins
5. Which vitamin do you consider the most important for health? Why?
Vitamin A i think, it helps prevent skin and other tissues from becoming dry.
1. THE INTERNATIONAL criminal Jimmy Rosendale is reported to be living in Ireland.
2. HE is believed to be the head of a gang of bank robbers.
3. THE GANG is known to have carried out a series of robberies.
4. THEY are supposed to have escaped with over €1 million.
5. THEY are thought to be targeting banks in small provincial towns.
6. Jimmy Rosendale is said to be wanted for questioning by police in five countries.
7. HE is understood to have escaped from police custody by bribing a warder.
8. HE is assumed to have been involved in criminal activities all his life.
9. HE is presumed to have learned his trade from his father.
10. HIS FATHER is alleged to have been the mastermind behind the 2001 gold bullion robbery.