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Материалы по контролю и оценке учебных достижений обучающихся (перечни вопросов для подготовки к рубежному контролю и к экзаменам)
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ПЕРЕЧЕНЬ ВОПРОСОВ ДЛЯ ПОДГОТОВКИ К ЭКЗАМЕНУ (2 семестр)
1. Articles: General notion.
2. Use of articles with common nouns.
3. Class nouns.
4. Nouns of material.
5. Abstract nouns.
6. Use of articles with proper nouns.
7. Names of persons.
8. Geographical names.
9. Names of hotels, ships, newspapers, magazines.
10. Names of cardinal points.
11. Names of months & days.
12. Nouns modified by proper nouns.
13. Use of articles with nouns in some set expressions.
14. The use of the indefinite article with nouns in set expressions.
15. The use of the definite article with nouns in set expressions.
16. Nouns in set expressions used without an article.
17. The use of articles with predicative nouns.
18. The use of articles with nouns in apposition.
19. The use of articles with nouns used in address.
20. Place of the article.
21. Ways of expressing the meaning of the English articles in Russians.
22. Special difficulties I the use of articles.
23. The use of articles with the nouns day, night, morning, evening.
24. The use of articles with names of seasons.
25. The use of articles with the nouns school, college, bed, prison, jail.
26. The use of articles with the noun town.
27. The use of articles with names of meals.
28. The use of articles with names of language.
29. The use of articles modified by certain adjectives, pronouns, numerals: most, few, a few, the few, little, a little, the little, the second, another, the other, last, next.
30. Noun: Definition.
31. Morphological characteristics.
32. Syntactical characteristics.
33. Morphological composition.
34. Classification.
35. The category of number.
36. The category of case.
37. Countable, uncountable nouns.
38. The formation of plural forms of nouns
39. Adjective: The notion of an adjective.
40. Morphological characteristics.
41. Spelling rules.
42. Syntactical characteristics.
43. Morphological composition.
44. Classification.
45. Degrees of comparison of adjectives.
46. Grammatical characteristics of qualitative adjectives.
47. Grammatical characteristics of relative adjectives.
48. Substantivized adjectives.
49. Verb: The notion of a verb.
50. Morphological structure.
51. Basic forms.
52. Syntactic function.
53. Transitive & intransitive verbs.
54. Lexical character.
55. Grammatical categories.
56. Tenses in the Active voice.
57. The present indefinite.
58. The formation of the Present Indefinite.
59. The use of the Present Indefinite.
60. The Past Indefinite.
61. The formation of the Past Indefinite.
62. The use of the Past Indefinite.
63. The Future Indefinite.
64. The formation of the Future Indefinite.
65. The use of the Future Indefinite.
66. The Future Indefinite in the Past.
67. The formation of the Future Indefinite in the Past.
68. The use of the Future Indefinite in the Past.
69. The Continuous form.
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70. The Present Continuous.
71. The formation of the Present Continuous.
72. The use of the Present Continuous.
73. The Past Continuous.
74. The formation of the Past Continuous.
75. The use of the Past Continuous.
76. The Future Continuous.
77. The formation of the Future Continuous.
78. The use of the Future Continuous.
79. The Future Continuous in the Past.
80. The formation of the Future Continuous in the Past.
81. The use of the Future Continuous in the Past.
82. The Perfect form.
83. The Present Perfect.
84. The formation of the Present Perfect.
85. The use of the Present Perfect.
86. The Past Perfect.
87. The formation of the Past Perfect.
88. The use of the Past Perfect.
89. The Future Perfect.
90. The formation of the Future Perfect.
91. The use of the Future Perfect.
92. Passive voice: The formation of the Passive Voice.
93. The use of the Passive Voice.
94. The use of tenses in the Passive Voice.
95. Ways of translating the Passive Voice into Russian.
96. Uses of the Passive Voice peculiar to the English language.
97. The verb to be + Participle.
98. The formation of passive voice constructions.
EXERCISES FOR EXAMINATION TRAINING
Articles
Insert articles where necessary (Articles with class nouns):
1. Not __ word was spoken in __ parlour. (Caldwelt) 2. __ room itself was filling up, so was __ staircase. (Snow) 3. I think that __ man's life is worth saving, whoever it belongs to. (Shaw) 4. Though __ earth was cold and wet, __ sky was clear and __ sun rose bright and beautiful. (Dickens) 5. He made them provide not one car, but half __ dozen. (Snow) 6.. __ compass was invented in ancient China. 7. Not __ word was spoken, not __ sound was made. (Dickens) 8. __ sky outside __ window was already dark, __ secretaries had gone home, all was quiet. (Snow) 9. Edward remained __ week at __ cottage. (Austen) 10. I tell you, he's as brave as __ man can reasonably be. (Snow) 11. After that they would meet, perhaps, two or three times __ year. (Galsworthy) 12. Dinny looked up at __ house; and suddenly saw __ face in __ window of __ dining-room. (Galsxnorthy) 13. You know I never cared for __ drama. 14. "It is not __ large house," I said. "We don't want __ large house." (Jerome K. Jercme) 15. He looks older than he is, as __ dark men often do. (Dickens) 16. Roger looked at him and, without __. word, took out his wallet and gave him __ ten-shilling note. (Snow) 17. As __ man sows, so shall he reap. 18. This morning __ tobacconist was at his door. (Bennett) 19. It was Sunday afternoon, and __ sun, which had teen shining now for several hours, was beginning to warm __ earth. (Murdoch) 20. I have __ long story to tell you. Come and sit down on __ sofa and let us have __ comfortable chat. (Marryat) 21. __ arm in __ arm, they walked toward home. (/. Shaw) 22. It was __ cottage built like __ mansion, having __ central hall with __ wooden gallery running round it, and __ rooms no bigger than __ closets. (Hardy) 23. And what __ beautiful moth there is over there on-----wall. (Murdoch) 24. She had __ key of her own. (Conan Doyle) 25. He was __ short, plump man with __ very white face and __ very white hands. It was rumoured in London that he powdered them like __ woman. (Greene) 26. __ old couldn't help __ young... (Galsworthy) 27. To him she would always be __ loveliest woman in __ world. (Maugham) 28. __ strongest have their hours of depression. (Dreiser) 29. Her aunt, in __ straw hat so broad that it covered her to __ very edges of her shoulders, was standing below with two gardeners behind her. (Galsworthy) 30. 1 am afraid I addressed __ wrong person. (Collins) 31. They must have had very fair notions of __ artistic and __ beautiful. (Jerome K. Jerome) 32. __ rich think they can buy anything. (Snow) 33. __ room has three doors; one on __ same side as __ fireplace, near — corner, leading to __ best bedroom. (Shaw) 34. My thousand __ year is not merely. __. matter of dirty banknotes and jaundicedguineas... but, it may be, health to __ drooping, strength to __ weak, consolation to __ sad. (Ch. Bronte) 35. Thank you, Stephen: I knew you would give me __ right advice. (Shaw) 36. Sometimes... visitors rang __ wrong bell. (Bennett) 37. My family came from hereabouts some generations back. I just wanted to have — look at __ place, and ask you __ question or two. (Galsworthy) 38. __ woman will only be "the equal of __ man when she earns her living in __ same way that he does. (Maugham) 39. He arrived half __ hour before dinner time, and went up to __ schoolroom at __ top of __ house, to see __ children. (Galsworthy) 40. You will see him __ steady character yet. I am sure of it. There is something in. __ very expression of his face that tells me so. (Marryat) 41. Far away in __ little street there is __ poor house. One of __ windows is open and through it I can see __ woman seated at __ table. She is __ seamstress. (Wilde) 42. _ man who entered was short and broad. He had black hair, and was wearing __ grey flannel trousers with __ red woollen shirt, open at __ neck, whose collar he carried outside __ lapels of his dark tweed jacket. (Clark) 43. Believe me, when __ woman really makes up her mind to marry __ man nothing on God's earth can save him. (Maugham) 44. I stopped,., still uncertain of myself and whether I was saying. __ right thing. (Du Maurier) 45, Then it was night and he was awake, standing in __ street, looking up at __ dark windows of __ place where he lived. __ front door was locked and there was no one in __ house. (Saroyan) 46. I believe I can tell __ very.moment I began to love him. (Galsworthy) 47. We are told that __ heart of __ man is deceitful above all __ things, and desperately wicked. (Shaw) 48. "I must do it," said Adam; "it's __ right thing." (Eliot) 49. Mr. Boythorn lived in __ pretty house with __ lawn in front, __ bright flower garden at __ side and __ kitchen-garden in __ rear, enclosed with __ wall. __ house was __ real old house. (Dickens) 50 __ bartender was __ pale little man in __ vest and apron, with __ pale, hairy arms and __ long, nervous nose. (/. Shaw) 51. __ face to __.face, he was as warm and easy-natured as he had ever been. (Snow) 52. 1 had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in __ sincere, how much baseness in _ noble, or how much goodness in __ reprobate. 10 (Maugham) 53. During __ country house parties one day is very like another. __ men put on __ same kind of variegated tie, eat __ same breakfast, tap __ same barometer, smoke __ same pipes and kill __ same birds. (Galsworthy) 54. Almost at.very moment when r,he had returned Aileen had appeared. (Dreiser) 55. __ oldman quitted __ house secretly at __ same hour as before. (Dickens) 56. We are told that __ wicked shall be punished. (Shaw) 57. __ arm in __ arm we walked on, sometimes stumbling over __ hump of earth or catching our feet in __ rabbit-holes. (Hansford lohnson) 58. Clare was __ most vivid member of __ family. She had dark fine shingled hair and __ pale expressive face, of which __ lips were slightly brightened. __ eyes were brown, with __ straight and eager glance, __ brow low and very white. Her expression was old for __ girl of twenty, being calm and yet adventurous. (Galsworthy) 59. When I was __ child my mother used to make __ cakes and send me out with them as __ presents to __ neighbours. And. __ neighbours would give us __ presents too, and not only at Christmas time. (Murdoch) 60. I wrote to __ Managing Editor that this was __ wrong moment to change their correspondent. (Greene)
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Insert articles where necessary (Articles with nouns modified by attributes in post-position):
1. __ man of whom I speak is __ low pantomime actor. 2. Excuse me now, I have to see __ man who's in trouble... (Galsworthy) 3 __ people familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings. (E. Bronte) 4. He listened attentively to a great many stories she told him about __ amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to __ amiable and handsome man and lived in the country. (Dickens) 5. I always think there's something rather cold and cheerless about __ house that lacks __ woman's touch. (Maugham) 6. He stood up and looked at __ house where he had been born, grown up, and played, as if asking for __ answer. (Galsworthy) 7. Her throat aches because of __. tears locked in it. (Lessing) 8. I am persuaded that this will be __ shock of which he will feel __ effects all his life- (Eliot) 9. There were half __ dozen pocket robberies __ day in __ trams of Brussels. (Bennett) 10. There we were in __ country none of us knew anything about, amongst Indians and __ people that were only half civilised. (Galsworthy) 11. At last they reached — door at which __ servant knocked cautiously. (Murdoch) 12. We passed—set of chambers where I had worked as __ young man. (Snow) 13. It is in __ hour of trial that __ man finds his true profession. (Shaw) 14. We dropped into __ very pleasant nook under — great elm tree, to __ spreading roots of which we fastened __ boat. (Jerome K. Jerome) 15. It chanced that when this lonely young lady was about nineteen, she, being __ fearless horsewoman, was riding, with only — young lad..,. in one of __ woods near her uncle's house... and, in trotting along, her horse stumbled over __ root of — felled tree. She slipped to __ ground, not seriously hurt, and was assisted home by — gentleman who came in view at __ moment of her mishap. It turned out that this gentleman... was on __ visit at __ house of __ neighbouring landowner. (Hardy) 16. He was staring at __ waves like __ man cornered by __ strange animal. (Murdoch) 17. You don't know _ man you are married to. (Shaw) 18. He spoke with a very slow, distinct voice... and always looked over — shoulder of __ person to whom he was talking. (Wilde) 19. There had been at — dining table __ middle-aged man with __ dark eye and — sunburnt face, who had attracted Martin's attention. (Dickens) 20. And he had tea sitting on __ edge of __.chair that did not look too firm, all gilt and spindly. (Galsworthy) 21. They walked __ mile or more along __ handsome street which __ colonel said was called Broadway... Turning, at length, into one of — numerous streets which branched from this main thoroughfare, they stopped before __ rather meanlooking house. (Dickens) 22. Colonel Mordaunt does not look like — man who would do __ mean or dishonourable thing. (Marryaf) 23. She is __ elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it. (Shaw) 24. He was, in fact, __ younger edition of his father. (Galsworthy) 25. As Dick took up his pipe, __ man who had passed into __ smoking car with him put down his newspaper and looked at him. For __ moment Dick was puzzled. It was __ face he knew, but he could not put __ name to it. Where had he seen __ man? (Winter) 26. During __ twenty minutes Michael took to read __ doem, there was not __ sound, except from the sheets being turned. (Galsworthy) 27. Rosa then noticed with surprise that she was in __ room in which __ party had been held. (Murdoch)
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Insert articles where necessary (Articles with nouns of material):
1. She hurried in again and found __ water almost boiled away. (Lindsay) 2.... __ blood is thicker than __ water. (Galsworthy) 3. She went about looking into __ dining room, which... had been transformed into __ kind of jewel box glowing with __ flowers, __ silver, __ gold, __ tinted glass. (Dreiser) 4. Rosa tasted __ wine. It was harsh but refreshing. (Murdoch) 5. You drank __ wine with breakfast, dinner and supper, and fifty people always drank it with you. (/. Shaw) 6. She looked with __ eager, hungry eyes at __ bread and __ meat and __ beer that __ landlady brought her. (Eliol) 7....Willows replied that he had made friends with __ sculptor in Pisa... and had commissioned this artist to make __ bust of himself in __ marble. (Hardy) 8. __ coffee was better than Dinny had hoped and very hot. (Galsworthy) 9. Without giving her __ opportunity to protest any more, he went to __. thelephone and ordered __ coffee and several sandwiches. (Caldwell) 10. She wears __ little sailor hat of __ black straw that has long been exposed to __ dust and soot of London. (Shaw) 11. The mother was yellow in colour and her skin resembled __ leather. (Murdoch) 12. The maid brought in __ pears, __ cold chicken, __ tongue, __ cheese. (Snow) 13. My heart... felt as heavy as __ lead. (DиMaurier) 14. Every meal was __ bread and __ coffee and __ cigarettes, and now -he had no more bread. (Saroyan)
Insert articles where necessary (Articles with abstract nouns):
1. We both appreciate __ simplicity. (Du Maurier) 2. In less than __ week Cowperwood knew __ financial condition of Messrs. Waterman as well as they did, better, to __ dollar. (Dreiser) 3. It is such __ weary, weary work. (Dickens) 4. He [White] had __ comfortable feeling of working alone in __ large empty building, __ feeling of __ peace and __ complete privacy. (Wilson) 5. I've reason to believe she [Fleur] has never properly got over __ feeling she used to have. (Galsworthy) 6. I had seldom heard my friend speak with such __ intensity of __ feeling. (Conan Doyle) 7. His footsteps were now heard striking upon __ stony road at __ distance of about twenty yards. (Hardy) 8. We had __ wonderful weather. (Du Maurier) 9. You must learn to face __ life seriously, Stephen. (Shaw) 10. However, __ life of such striking monotony does not seem to depress him. (Durrell) 11. May you be happy in — life you have chosen! (Dickens) 12. I love to think of __ time that must come some day when __ man will have conquered — nature, and __ toilworn human race enter upon __ era of — peace. (Leacock) 13. She was panting now, and in her face was __ terror which was inexplicable. (Maugham) 14. His round blue eyes behind. __ spectacles were ghastly with _ terror. (Maugham) 15. I think in some curious way __ horror which she felt for him was __ transference of __ horror which she felt for herself because he so strangely troubled her. (Maugham) 16. She was brilliantly familiar with- __ literature, __ tongues, __ art, __ history, __ physics, __ metaphysics, __ philosophy, and — politics (in which I include __ modern politics). (Bennett) 17. It was __ cold, bleak, biting weather. (Dickens) 18. __ weather was sunny and dry. (Hardy) 19.. __ modern science is __ wonderful thing. (Shaw) 20. He was __ steady, uninspired researcher in __ properties of __ liquid state of __ matter. (Wilson) 21. Their blue eyes became filled with __ gaiety and __ ferocity and __ joy, and their mouths with __ laughter. (Murdoch) 22. Jon laughed, and __ sound of __ laugh was hard. (Galsworthy) 23. Then she gave __ crisp, ironic, almost cheerful laugh... (Snow) 24. On that fine day __ poverty of __ district she was entering seemed to her country-nurtured eyes intensely cheerless, (Galsworthy) 25. __ reason is __ greatest discovery ever made by __ man. Yet it is __ most disregarded and least used. (Jones) 26....what I offer is __ security and __ respect. That doesn't sound very exciting, but perhaps it's better than __ passion. (Greene) 27. And __ passion that held Strickland was __ passion to create __ beauty. (Maugham) 28. She looked __ incarnation of __ supreme loveliness, __ loveliness which was always revealing itself anew. (Bennett) 29. She (Aileen] knew nothing of __ literature except __ certain authors who to __ truly cultured might seem banal. (Dreiser) 30. __ expression on her face — hungry and hard and feverish — had the most peculiar effect upon Soames. (Galsworthy) 31. She listened with, __ expression impatient, strained and intent. (Snow) 32. At that age I had __ very faulty view of __ geography. (Miller) 33. __ poor fellow's face looked haggard with __ want: he had __ aspect of __ man who had not known what it was to live in __ comfort... for __ weeks, perhaps __ months past. (Ch. Bronte) 34. He longed for __ comfort of his sister's society. (Marryaf) 35. He pines for __ kindness. (E. Bronte) 36. She sighed for __ air, _ liberty, __ quiet of __ country. (Austen) 37. Miss Cherrell, I am going to do all I can to remove __ unpleasant impression you have of me. I am your very humble servant, and I hope some day to have __ chance to be something else to you. (Galsworthy) 38. Then all four sat down and began to inspect Hunter and Calvin with __ air of suspicion and curiosity. (Murdoch) 39. He spoke with __ air of someone who has got over with an unpleasant duty and can now get on to __ brighter matters. (Murdoch) 40. How quietly you live, John. I love __. silence of this room and garden. (Murdoch) 41. At other times he would come and sit for long periods in her room in __ silence. (Murdoch) 42. What — noble thing __ courage is. (Reade) 43. Nothing gave him [little Hans] greater pleasure than to listen to all __ wonderful things __ Miller used to say about __ unselfishness of __ true friendship. (Wilde) 44. __ friendshipwhich he had imposed from __ beginning he now emphasised more than ever. (Greene) 45. And when multitudes of men are hurt to __ death in wars I am driven to __ grief which borders on __ insanity. (Saroyan) 46. She could not only sing like __ lark... but she had such __ kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own as won __ love of everybody who came near her. (Thackeray) 47. What __ delightful weather we are having! (Wilde) 48. Pray, don't talk to me about __ weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever __ people talk to me about __ weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. (Wilde) 49. Such __ weather makes everything and everybody disgusting. (Austen) 50. When he let her go, she sank breathless into __ chair, gazing at him with __ expression of such __ terror that he put his hands over his face. (Galsworthy) 51. And so, concerned in talk that touched not on __ feelings within them, they reached Mount Street. (Galsworthy) 52. Owen saw __ figure of Edward at __ distance of two or three hundred yards. (Hardy) 53. Mrs. Maylie took up her abode with her son and daughter-inlaw to enjoy during __ tranquil remainder of her days __, greatest felicity that __ age and worth can know, __ contemplation of __ happiness of those on whom __ warmest affections and tenderest cares... have been unceasingly bestowed. (Dickens) 54. __ art is — manifestation of __ emotion, and __ emotion speaks __ language that all may understand. (Maugham) 55. Ada sat at __ piano, Richard stood beside her. She touched __ notes so softly, and sang so low, that __ wind, sighing away in __ distant hills, was as audible as __ music. (Dickens) 56. Mr. Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with __ dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous. (Dickens) 57. He had not been stationary half __ minute, when he heard his own name pronounced by __ voice which he at once recognized as Mr. Tupman's, and looking upwards, he beheld __ sight which filled him with __ surprise and __ pleasure. (Dickens) 58. She sat by __ window reading. From her position she could see up __ lane for __ distance of at least __ hundred yards. (Hardy) 59. I can see __ beauty and __ peace of this home; 1 think I have never been more at __ rest in my life than at this moment. (Shaw) 60. Beside his bed, for __ first time during __ period of nearly twenty years, he fell down on his knees in __ passionate outburst of __ feeling. (Hardy) 61. It was __ new fear, different from that which she had once confided in her own flat, yet grown from __ same root. (Snow) 62. __ empty windows of __ ruins were filled with __ life of their own. (Heym) 63.Cowperwood awakened to __ sense of __ joy in __ life such as he fancied he had never experienced before. (Dreiser) 64. Mr. Pickwick stood in __ principal street of this illustrious town, and gazed with __ air of __ curiosity not unmixed with __ interest, on __ objects around him. (Dickens)
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Noun
Give the plural of the following nouns:
Face, portfolio, swine, house, tomato, hearth, mother-in-law, basis, clergyman, ox, cry, key, fox, downfall, looker-on, rock, bush, enemy, leaf, roof, genius, hero, bunch, sheep, ship, criterion, youth, journey, penknife, man-of-war, loss, datum, goose, deer, pie, Englishwoman, wolf, mouse, formula, bath, volcano, possibility, forget-me-not, foot, handkerchief, thief, crisis, stepdaughter, birth, echo, finger-tip, court martial, joy, mischief-maker, extremity, spy, lie.
Use the appropriate form of the verb:
1. "There — money in my pocket," 1 said to the porter, (is, are) (Hemingway) 2. I know my hair __ beautiful, everybody says so. (is, are) (Hardy) 3. The works __ his country, his home, his reason for being, (was, were) (Heym) 4. These white swine — not live, (does, do) (Sabatini) 5. Means __ easily found, (was, were) (Thackeray) 6....this watch __ a special favourite with Mr. Pickwick, having been carried about... for a greater number of years than we feel called upon to state, at present, (was, were) (Dickens) 7. "Good," I said. "No one shall tell me again that fish — no sense with them." (has, have) (Llewellyn) 8. The deer __ ravaging the man's fields, (was, were) (Twain) 9. Money __ so scarce that it could fairly be said not to exist at all. (was, were) (Dreiser) 10. I was here before the gates __ opened, but I was afraid to come straight to you. (was, were) (Dickens) 11.The papers __ dull, the news _ local and stale, and the war news __ all old. (was, were) (Hemingway) 12. At Capracotta, he had told me, there __ trout in the stream below the town, (was, were) (Hemingway) 13. The sugartongs __ too wide for one of her hands, and she had to use both in wielding them, (was, were) (Ch. Bronte) 14. Her hair __ loose and half-falling, and she wore a nurse's dress, (was, were) (Hemingway) 15. And the baggage __ apparatus and appliances, (contain, contains) (Wells) 16. The china __ good, of a delicate pattern, (was, were) (Dreiser) 17. The nurse's wages.: __ good... (was, were) (Collins)
Adjective
Give the comparative and superlative degrees:
Cosy, merciful, bad, complete, fat, cheap, big, clumsy, stupid, far, miserable, narrow, virtuous, simple, merry, regular, expensive, low, deep, sad, significant, bitter, intimate, lazy, old, serious, tiny, clever, little, considerate, gay, good, much, dark, beautiful, dear, fit.
Use the adjective in the comparative or superlative degree:
1. They had dined well and were now drinking hard... their faces getting __ and __ (red, red) (Priestley) 2. Was there anything in the world __ than indecision? (bad) (Galsworthy) 3. He was only five years __ than I was, which made him forty-five, (young) (Snow) 4. He loved his brother and he had done his brother what people seemed to consider __ of wrongs, (bitter) (Greene) 5. __ sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, (bad) (Shaw) 6. He had been a great fencer, before the war, __ fencer in Italy, (great) (Hemingway) 7. She is stopping at one of __ hotels in town, (good) (Saroyan) 8. Difficult to believe it was so long ago, he felt young still! Of all his thoughts this was __, __ With his white head and his loneliness he had remained young and green at heart, (poignant, bitter) (Galsworthy) 9. She received congratulations as if she were __ of women, (happy) (Hansford Johnson) 10. Kate remembered the little general; he was a good deal __ than herself, (small) (Lawrence).11. I think we'll resume the conversation when you're a little __, Caroline, (calm) (Maugham) 12. They had never made __ pretence of believing him. (little) (Greene) 13. Things went from bad to __ (bad) (Saroyan) 14. He took his trinkets, carried them to the __ pawnshop he could find, and being offered forty-five dollars for the lot, took it. (presentable) (Dreiser) 15. He felt her breathing grow — and __ (slow, easy) (Cusdck) 16. To be ashamed of his own father is perhaps __ experience a young man can go through. (bitter) (Galsworthy) 17. It's __ in here than it is on the street. (hot) (Salinger) 18. I think you're about __ girl in school, (pretty) (/. Shaw) 19. All his life he had taken pains to be __, __ than his fellows, (strong, brave) (Saroyan) 20. From that moment may be dated the downfall of __ and __ of the Indian nations, that existed within the limits of the present United States, (great, civilized) (Cooper) 21. Mr.Micawber, under pretence of showing me a __ way than that by which I had come, accompanied me to the corner of the street, (near) (Dickens) 22. He would walk here and there and be no __ than an ant in an ant hill, (conspicuous) (Greene) 23. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was __ that the little country inn could do for us. (good) (Conan Doyle) 24. This is Sam Penty one of our __ artists, (good) (Priestley)
Verb
Insert the Present Perfect or Past Indefinite:
1. You __ never __ me why you're called Tony when your name is James, (to tell) (Galsworthy) 2. 1 __ her name in the papers rather often of late, (to see) (Maugham) 3. "The rain __, carino," Montanelli said after sunset. "Come out; I want to have a talk with you." (to stop) (Voynich) 4. " __ you __ a job?" "There are none." (to find) (Galsworthy) 5. " __ you __ all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima?" asked Miss Pinkerton. (to complete) (Thackeray) 6. His father __ just a week ago to-day, (to die) (Galsworthy) 7. I know where you the morning, (to spend) (Austen) 8. Gh! You __.someone with you. Introduce me. (to bring) (Shaw) 9. Barbara! You __ the education of a lady. Please, let your father see that and don't talk like a street girl, (to have) (Shaw) 10. ""Let's go," said Abra- niovici; "I __ my appetite." (to lose) (Heym) 11. "Oh — oh —you are Mary Gerrard?... You __ I — I wouldn't have recognized you." (to change) (Christie) 12. "Where's the paper?" asked Edward. «I __ the leading article yet." (to read — negative) (Maugham) 13. Montanelli __ awake the whole night through, (to lie) (Voynich) 14. Mr. Worthing, I suppose, __ from London yet? (to return — negative) (Wilde) 15. It's the most tasteless, repulsive idea I __ ever __ of (to hear). (Murdoch and Priestley) 16. Mother, I __ just __ to him. (to write) (Wilde) 17. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren't they lovely? They __ up from Selley this morning. (to come) (Wilde) 18. Young Mako __ a match, __ his pipe, and __ them slowly, (to strike, to light, to approach) (Abrahams) 19. In fact I __ just __ a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again, (to have) (Wilde) 20. You __ even __ at that book I got you on the war in the Pacific, (to look — negative). (Murdoch) 21. When __ you first __ the co-respondent...? (to see) (Galsworthy) 22. We __ in silence for a few minutes.He __ at last, (to sit, to speak) (Dickens) 23. "I __ so little experience yet," she said. "I only __ school yesterday, you see." (to have, to leave) (Beresford) 24. "I __ surely __ very long," returned Florence. "When __ I __ here? Yesterday?" (to sleep, to come) (Dickens) 25. I __ Ann at her father's house twenty odd years ago and __ her ever since, (to meet, to know) (Stone)
Insert the Past Indefinite or Past Perfect:
1. Gemma __ badly the last few nights, and there were dark shadows under her eyes, (to sleep) (Voynich) 2. When he returned to his hotel he found a message that someone __ in his absence... (to telephone) (Hilton) 3. The Gadfly __ a moment, glancing furtively at Gemma; then he __ (to pause, to go on). (Voynich) 4. They __ the door of their inn, and __ a little way down the village, before they __ the precise spot in which it stood, (to pass, to walk, to recollect) (Dickens) 5. The moon __ There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night, (to rise — negative) (Abrahams) 6. Hardly __.she __ when a very stout gentleman __ into the chair opposite hers, (to sit down, to flop) (Mansfield) 7. They did not speak to him again, until he __ (to eat) (Greene) 8. Now the madman on the stairs spoke again and his mood __ suddenly __; he seemed quietly merry, (to change) (Priestley) 9. When Martini __ the room, the Gadfly turned his head round quickly, (to enter) (Voynich) 10. No sooner __ he __ a drink himself, than Mrs. Fettle __ in. (to take, to look) (Lessing) 11. Those grey hairs startled me. I __ they were there, (to know — negative) (Cain) 12. Gemma __ her hand and __ into the house. When the door __ behind her he __ and __ the spray of cypress which __ from her breast, (to pull away, to run, to close, to stoop, to pick up, to fall). (Voynich) 13. The fire __ dead, the moon __ down, and the window —grey before I went to sleep, (to be, to go, to be). (Cain) 14. I told him everything. He __ and __, like a figure cut in stone, till I __ (to stand, to listen, to finish) (Voynich) 15. When I __ Viste Grande towards dusk I found two notes awaiting me... (to reach) (Hilton) 16. He __ hardly __ another cigarette when the general __ into the courtyard, (to light, to come). (Maugham) 17. Gemma went slowly down the stairs, Martini following in silence. She __ to look ten years older in these few days, and the gray streak across her hair __ into a broad band, (to grow, to widen) (Voynich) 18. Presently the sounds of voices and footsteps approaching along the terrace roused her from the dreamy state into which she __ (to fall) (Voynich) 19. She was a woman of nearly fifty who __ obviously __ pretty once. (to be) (/. Shaw) 20. They crouched down behind the group of statuary and __ till the watchman __ (to wait, to pass) (Voynich) 21. Moreover, to him [the doctor] the affair was commonplace; it was just a hysterical woman who __ with her lover and __ poison, (to quarrel, to take) (Maugham) 22. The moon __ yet __ I sat in the sultry dark, making patterns with the end of my cigarette and listening, listening, (to rise — negative) (Hansford Johnson) 23. One night there Hew over the city a little Swallow. His friends __ away to Egypt six weeks before, but he __ behind. (to go, to stay) (Wilde) 24. By this time Collard's offer __ a thing of nightmare, (to become) (Hansford Johnson) 25. When Alison __ the first strains of the orchestra came stealing out to me from inside the hall, (to disappear) (Cronin) 26. He __ just __ the hall when a stranger __ (to leave, to enter) (Leacock) 27. On glancing at the address, he observed that it contained no name. The stranger __ far, so he made after him to ask it. (to go __ negative) (Dickens)
Insert the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous:
1. Then she found that the tears _ a _ quietly __ from her eyes. Perhaps they __ for a long time, (to flow, to flow) (Murdoch) 2. One day of the new year she __ as usual at her window when Edward came prancing up the drive on horseback, (to sit).(Maugham) 3. He and I __ friends since our early twenties. At this time he was fifty-two, and already an elder statesman of science. (to be) (Snow) 4. I __ out Honor's letter and __ it, and __ to the post. The fog __ When I __ I __ some biscuits and _ myself with whisky and hot milk, (to copy, to seal, to go, to clear, to return, to eat, to dose) (Murdoch) 5. He told me that an American Signore __ there for three months, (to stay) (Maugham) 6. She [Aileen] stole downstairs and out into the vestibule, open- ing the outer door and looking out into the street. The lamps __ already __ in the dark, and a cool wind __ (to flare, to blow| (Dreiser) 7. It was true that we __ one another almost intimatelj! for five and twenty years, (to know) (Maugham) 8. I __ hardly __ more than the first three chapters when my attention was divertet by a conversation going on in the front of the store, (to read (Leacock) 9. She __ mortally with my husband only ten minute! ago. (to quarrel) (Shaw) 10. He __ scarcely __ outside the dooj when he heard Wardle's voice talking loudly, (to get) (Dickens) 11.The next day he __ some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road, (to nai| up) (Wilde) 12.Roddy __ rapidly and nervously up and downthj room for a minute or two. (to walk) (Christie) 13. I knew righi away that there was the place I __. all my life, (to look for (Maugham) 14. Half-past eleven. He [the Gadfly] __ still __ though the hand was stiff and swollen, (to file) (Voynich) 15. A few seconds after the stranger __ to lead Mrs. Budger to her cairiage, he darted swiftly from the room, (to disappear) (Dickert) 16. At nine o'clock that evening a long black Packard roadster drew up to her door, and Arnie stepped out of the front seat where he __ with the driver and a girl between them, (to sit) (Wilson) 17. I do not stop to say what adventures he began to imagine, or what career to devise for himself before he __ three miles from home, (to ride) (Thackeray) 18. Mrs. Banty put down the telephone receiver. She __ up twice and each time the answer __ the same: Mrs. Marple was out. (to ring, to be) (Christie) 19. The sun __ a long way up and it __ to get really hot. (to move, to begin) (Abrahams) 20. He was in the extremity of indecision and very wounded by Rosa's refusal to help him. She __ even __ him for the last few days, (to avoid) (Murdoch) 21. The light in his flat showed that Mrs. Simpson __ in for him. (to wait) (Greene) 22. I called on Mrs. Strickland before I left. I __ her for some time, and I noticed changes in her; it was not only that she __ older, thinner, and more lined; I think her character __. (to see — negative, to be, to alter) (Maugham) 23. He __ since nine that morning and his stomach __ with hunger, (to eat — negative, to growl) (/. Shaw) 24. They __ no sooner __ at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was heard at the door, (to arrive) (Dickens) 25. The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which __ the light for twerity years, (to see — negative) (Dickens) 26. Very often, afterwards, in the midst of their talk, he would break off, to try to understand what it was the waves __ always __ (to say) (Dickens) 27. The women and children and old men __ Now he was alone with his mother in the little two-roomed shack, (to go) (Abrahams) 28. I,tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It __ beating, (to stop) (Jerome K. Jerome) 29. After he __ there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price, (to wait) (Wilde) 30. Mr. Moore now __ silent for several minutes, (to sit) (Ch. Bronte) 31. I think he showed me about thirty canvases. It was the result of the six years during which he __ (to paint) (Maugham) 32. Grimly she began to pack her goods and to prepare to leave the hovel. It __ for days and water __ up on the earthen floor... (to rain, to well) (Buck) 33. Seven o'clock __ hardly __ striking on the following morning when Mr. Pickwick's comprehensive mind was aroused from the state of unconsciousness in which slumber __ it, by a loud knocking at the chamber door, (to cease, to plunge) (Dickens) 34. When the Gadfly __ himself that no one __ at the spy-hole he __ the piece of bread and carefully __ it away. In the middle was the thing he __, a bundle of small files, (to satisfy, to watch, to take up, to crumble, to expect) (Voynich)' 35. Gemma __ the room and. __ for a little while looking out of the window. When she __, the Gadfly __ again __ on the table and __ his eyes with one hand. He __ evidently __ her presence, (to cross, to stand, to turn round, to lean, to cover, to forget) (Voynich) 36. He __ the key out of the lock, __ the door after he __ through it; __ the key in his pocket, and __ into the garden, (to take, to secure, to pass, to put, to go down) (Collins) 37. It __.still __ It __ for days. I arrived at Hereford Square, __ the water off my overcoat and — it up, and __ into the drawing room. A bright fire __ and the lamps were, all on.-. Antonia, who __ by the fire, jumped up to welcome me... She __ me and __ what sort of day I __. (to rain, to rain, to shake, to hang, to tramp, to burn, to read, to kiss, to ask, to have) (Murdoch) 38. It was in this direction that her mind — when her father sent for her to come to him in his room. He __ home from his office early in the afternoon and by good luck found her in. She __ no desire to go out into the world these last few days, (to run, to come, to have) (Dreiser) 39. Arthur took out of his portmanteau a framed picture, carefully wrapped up. It was a crayon portrait of Montanelli, which __ from Rome only a few days before. He __ this precious treasure when Julia's page __ in a supper-tray on which the old Italian cook, who __ Gladys before the harsh new mistress __, __ such little delicacies as she considered her dear signorino might permit himself to eat. (to come, to unwrap, to bring, to serve, to come, to place) (Voynich) 40. The first person upon whom Arthur's eyes fell, as he __ the room where the students' little gatherings were held, was his old playmate, Dr. Warren's daughter. She __ in a corner by the window, listening with an absorbed and earnest face to what one of the "initiators", a tall young Lombard in a threadbare coat, __ to her. During the last few months she __ and __ greatly, and now __ a grown-up young woman... She was dressed all in black, and __ a black scarf over her head, as the room __ cold and draughty. The initiator __ passionately __ to her the misery of the Calabrian peasantry, (to enter, to sit, to say, to change, to develop, to look, to throw, to be, to describe) (Voynich) 41. They __ in this way about three miles, when Mr. Wardle, who __ of the window for two or three minutes, suddenly __ his face and __ in breathless eagerness, "Here they are!" (to travel, to look out, to draw in, to exclaim) (Dickens) 42. He __ on the step for some time..., when he was roused by observing that a boy, who __ him carelessly some minutes before, __, and __ now __ him... from the opposite side of the street, (to crouch, to pass, to return, to survey) (Dickens) 43. When the Gadfly __ into Zita's room she __ before a mirror, fastening one of the sprays into her dress. She __ apparently __ her mind to be good-humoured and __ to him with a little cluster of crimson buds tied together, (to come, to stand, to make up, to come up) (Voynich) 44. He __ about half an hour ago. (to arrive) (Wilde) 45. Godfrey rose and took his breakfast earlier than usual, but lingered in the wainscoted parlour V'H his younger brothers __ their mea! and __. (tofinish, togoout) (Eliot)
Passive voice
Insert the required tense (Passive Voice):
1. "I don't want to hear another word. I __ never __ so __ in my whole life, (to insult) (/. Shaw) 2. But what shall I do if you __? (to kill) (Shaw) 3. Godfrey waited, before he spoke again, until the ale __ and the door __ (to bring, to close) (Eliot) 4. In whatever spare time he could find, he read the current research journals, trying to understand the implications of the experiments which __ throughout the world, (to perform) (Wilson) 5. Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest __ suddenly to town, (to call back) (Wilde) 6.Upon the Doctor and the widow the eyes of both Mr.Tuprnan and his companion __ for some time, when the stranger broke silence, (to fix) (Dickens) 7. In 1834, the Houses of Parliament, with the exception of Westminster Hall __ by fire. They __ '.by Sir Charles Barry, (to destroy, to rebuild) 8. "I'm afraid that we're going to have to move," he said. "This lab won't be big enough for us after all. But there's a double room on the eleventh floor that __ " (to use — negative) (Wilson) 9. Lanny noticed that he __ by three white men from the coffee stall on the other side of the road, (to watch) 10. It was past eleven o'clock — a late hour for the little village of Cobham — when Mr. Pickwick retired to the bedroom which __ for his reception, (to prepare) (Dickens) 11. We __.if we __, but never mind, (to scold, to see) (Ch. Bronte) 12. The Nobel Prize __ to him in 1924 when the advent of wave mechanics had revealed the importance of his work, ten years after his famous experiment __ (to give, to perform) (Wilson) 13. The camp of peace will not allow the outbreak of a new war that __ by the imperialists. (to prepare) 14. I called... to ask if a diamond brooch of mine __ (to find) (Wilde) 15. The tea-things __ scarcely ___ when the London coach deposited Mr. Weller, senior, at the door, (to put away) (Dickens) 16. Annette's most valuable stone was ruby, which __ to her when she was twelve by an Indian prince who was in love with her mother, (to give) (Murdoch) 17. He [Jim] put down his pail... and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage __ (to unwind) (Twain) 18. He carefully examined the contents of his case, and did not speak again until the beer __ and he had paid for it. (to bring) (Priestley) 19. The little patient — and __, and now lay composed in her crib, (to examine, to soothe) (Ch. Bronte) 20. It was an idea that __ at that moment __ by Colonel Melchett and Colonel Bantry. (to discuss) (Christie) 21. Lanny __ cruelly, heartlessly in the way Sara __ When he __, the barking of a dog __ It __ by hurried footsteps, (to beat, to beat, to beat, to hear, to follow) 22. H«[Arthur] went up to his room. Nothing in it __ since his arrest, (to change) (Voynich) 23. You can feel when you __. (to watch] (Hilton) 24. The oldest of London's present-day theatres is th(Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which __ in 1663 and __ since __ several times, (to open, to reconstruct) 25. Below decks the atmosphere was close. Many cigarettes __, and __. (to smoke to smoke) (Clark) 26. She kept an eye on the Leanharn people to see that her action __ duly ___ (to notice) (Maugham) 27. Rumania is a Balkan State which __ long __ for its mineral springs. (to know) (Maugham) 28. After a few routine questions __ and __, Dr. Lord leant back in his chair and smiled at his patient, (to ask, to answer) (Christie) 29. Ettore was twenty-three. He __ by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother in Torino when war __ (to bring up, to declare) (Hemingway) 30. He strode up to the front door of the forlorn house and rang the bell like one who __ there for weeks, (to expect) (Priestley) 31. After lunch, we heard that Charles Lenton __ for. (to send) (Snow) 32. Breakfast __ scarcely ___ when a waiter brought in Mr.Dowler's card, (to clear away) (Dickens) 33. One could not walk or drive about Philadelphia without seeing or being impressed with the general tendency toward a more cultivated and selective social life. Many excellent and expensive houses __ (to erect) (Dreiser) 34.I __ constantly __ in the street. I like it. It gives an amusement to the dullest walk, (to follow) (Maugham) 35. A minute earlier, a small boy with a partly deflated red balloon had run out into the cleared forbidden street. He __ just __: and __ back to the curb by his father... (to capture, to drag) (Salinger) 36....the railway __ at all at that time, (to use — negitive) (Shute) 37. Ant on i a: Thank you. Thank you. Martin: What __ I __ for? (to thank) (Murdoch and Priestley) 38. The gentleman was so startled that he took the night train for the Continent and __ never __ of since, (to hear) (Maugham)
Translate into Russian:
1. That day she was seen little of. (Hardy) 2. At that moment hasty steps were heard in the entry. (Hardy) 3. A man who is much talked about is always very attractive. (Wilde) 4. I was told, too, that neither masters nor teachers were found fault with in that establishment. (Ch. Bronte) 5. I shall be quite safe, quite well taken care of. (Dickens) 6. I've been sent for urgently, to get at the truth. (Christie) 7. A sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. (Wilde) 8. He could see that the bed was empty, and that it had not been slept in. (Bennett) 9. The gate was opened by one of the maids. (Dickens) 10. Nothing more was said on either side. (Dickens) 11. 1 don't suppose there's anybody who isn't cared for by someone or other. (Maugham) 12. With old and young great sorrow is followed by a sleepless night... (Maugham) 13. He was forbidden to receive either letters or telegrams. (Collins) 14. The visitor was allowed to come forward and seat himself. (Eliot) 15. The match was looked upon as made by her father and mother. (Hardy) 16.Klesmer bowed round to the three sisters more grandly than they had ever been bowed to before. (Eliot) 17. That's a thing I've not been accused of before. (Maugham) 18. The child shall be taken care of somehow. (Eliot) 19. I just chatter when J'rn chattered to. (Hilton) 20. And for four years now I have been trying to make myself heard in the popular press. I have been laughed at as a crank. I have endured insults. (Priestley) 21. Knight had been looked upon as a bachelor by nature. (Hardy) 22. We know that she likes Nurse O'Brien and is well looked after. (Christie) 23. Her uncle and mother came two days ago, and she is being well taken care of. (Eliot) 24. The effect of my education can never be done away with. (Eliot) 25. The strained and precarious relationship between Ann and Randall, which had been quite unprepared for, was also a constant source of pain and surprise. (Murdoch) 26. She is so absolutely to be relied on as that? (Collins) 27.Fabrizi told me he had been written to and had consented to come and take up the campaign against the Jesuits. (Voynich) 28. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her. (Ch. Bronte) 29. She's quite well thought of in Cambridge. (Murdoch) 30. I was taught music and singing. (Eliot) 31. Habble was dismissed, but Kinney was not allowed to retire with him. (Priestley) 32. By now we had been joined by two other people... (Hansford Johnson) 33. About an hour or so later I was sent for and found Mary Gerrard unconscious. (Christie) 34. She (Gemma] was both pleasant to look at and interesting to talk to. (Voynich)
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