Writing Test The 2nd Semester The 9th Form
Variant II
I. Give Ukrainian equivalent of the words.
1. to discover
2. a device
3. a flip 4. to launch
5. to revolve
6. comprising 7. a broadsheet
8. to broadcast
9. a falsehood 10. a scientist
11. to succeed
12. imaginative / 2 points
II. Match the words (1-9) with their definitions (a-i).
1. information
2. a landmark
3. a speculation
4. a technological/scientific/ medical advance
5. device
6. venue
7. a discovery
8. a site
9. science a) a place where a building, town, etc. was, is, or will be located;
b) a product, machine, system, etc., which someone has thought of for the first time;
c) knowledge and theories about the world which are based on facts, experiments and research;
d) a machine or tool used for a specific task;
e) a building or a place that is very important because of its history, and that should be preserved;
f) the acts of forming opinions about what has happened or what might happen without knowing all the facts;
g) a fact or thing that someone has found out about, which was not known about before;
h) a place where an event or activity will happen;
i) facts or details about somebody or something. / 3 points
III. Complete the sentences with the correct -ing or infinitive forms of the verbs from the box.
to pay to go to sing to get to participate / 3
points
to hear to swim to spend to take
1. Does he enjoy the time with his nephew and niece?
2. is a good way to keep it.
3. Could you tell me how to the city centre?
4. She decided some guitar lessons.
5. Yesterday I heard his brother my favourite song as I walked in.
6. Mrs Diggle suggested to the museum next Tuesday.
7. I’m looking forward to from you.
8. My friend doesn’t stand in such activities.
9. They decided to continue moving without attention to the weather.
IV. Choose one task:
• Write a short essay about the job you consider the best/the worst (10-12 sentences)
• Write a short essay about what you associate Great Britain with and is worth visiting (10-12 sentences) /
I am a student.
Am I a student?
I am not a student.
He is a good doctor.
Is he a doctor?
He is not a doctor.
They are my best friends.
Are they my best friends?
They are not my best friends.
He is at home now.
IS he at home now?
He is not at home now.
Your book is here, under the table
We must try to be away by 8 o'clock.
Will you be around this time next year?
We start to work at 5.
Do you finish to work at 7?
They were working on a new book.
You have to work at being friendlier with people.
She works for a large firm
She works for a large firm
His plan didn't work.
I work as a teacher
He worked them nearly to death.
The pump will not work.
After birth, he was left in the care of the mother and the care of a black maid Virginia Prentiss, but soon Velman mother Flora married John London, and took the child to her.
As a teenager, Jack London began to look for jobs, selling the morning and evening papers. Jack London remembered how to create a newspaper and that you can earn by writing a story. He recorded various events of his life, which formed the basis of his works in the future.
Jack London there are a lot of products, but the most popular is White Fang and love for life.
Heroes of the product "Love of Life" are two miner - gold hunters. This is the main character, whose name we did not know then that the writer calls him "He" and fellow protagonist Bill.
In the story "White Fang" London tells the story of a wolf cub, describes his life in the woods and among men - an Indian by the name of Gray Beaver and Smith.