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10. Study the text and choose the correct variant.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
Oxford is a beautiful city on (1)river Thames about fifty miles from London. Most of the Oxford colleges are fine buildings of grey or yellow stone and many (2)them have stood there for more than 5 hundred years. There has been a university in Oxford (3)the thirteenth century. It began when some teachers, each with a few students, decided to live and work together in the same house. Later they built colleges and little (4)little the university grew up. Several colleges are (5) oldest, but no other college is (6) old as Merton which began in 1264. The newest college has only been open for a few years, so the university is still growing.
Cambridge is situated at a distance of twenty miles from London, the great part of the town lies on the left bank of the river Cam crossed (7) several bridges. The dominating factor in Cambridge is its world famous University, a centre of education and learning. Newton, Byron, Darwin, Rutherford and many other scientists and writers were educated at Cambridge.
Oxford and Cambridge universities are (8)ones known (9)their specific system of education. Great emphasis is laid at Oxford and Cambridge on what are called “tutorials” in which a Don (a university tutor) gives personal instructions in his/her subject at least once (10) week to the students numbering not more than four.
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| 2. | 1) | from | 2) | of | 3) | about | 4) | with |
| 3. | 1) | since | 2) | from | 3) | at | 4) | in |
| 4. | 1) | as | 2) | by | 3) | at | 4) | than |
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| 6. | 1) | as | 2) | so | 3) | such | 4) | – |
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| 9. | 1) | at | 2) | for | 3) | because | 4) | since |
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11. Study the text and choose the correct variant.
SELECTING COURSES
The courses given by a college or university are called its (1)__. The prospectus of the institution (2) the complete curriculum. It gives the (3) for entry to each course, as well as the credits given for the course. Each course is (4)as giving a specified number of credits. These are usually equal to the number of class hours (5)each week to the course. For example, a course that gives three credits towards graduation. Schools using the semester calendar (6)about 120 credits for graduation. Between 30 and 40 of required credits must be in the student’s (7)subject. Schools vary considerably in the (8)of freedom given to students in selecting their courses. Almost all schools have a certain (9) of required subjects. Students can also choose nonrequired courses called electives. Liberal – art colleges usually give students more (10) to chose than do technical schools.
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| 1. | 1) | program | 3) | syllabus | |||
| 2) | curriculum | 4) | prospects | ||||
| 2. | 1) | outlines | 3) | indicates | |||
| 2) | observes | 4) | possesses | ||||
| 3. | 1) | demands | 3) | requirements | |||
| 2) | instructions | 4) | rules | ||||
| 4. | 1) | designated | 3) | allowed | |||
| 2) | reached | 4) | devoted | ||||
| 5. | 1) | meant | 3) | instructed | |||
| 2) | devoted | 4) | applied | ||||
| 6. | 1) | insert | 3) | demand | |||
| 2) | require | 4) | possess | ||||
| 7. | 1) | major | 3) | interesting | |||
| 2) | minor | 4) | valued | ||||
| 8. | 1) | volume | 3) | amount | |||
| 2) | number | 4) | quantity | ||||
| 9. | 1) | number | 3) | value | |||
| 2) | amount | 4) | volume | ||||
| 10. | 1) | opportunity | 3) | demand | |||
| 2) | necessity | 4) | requirement | ||||
12. Read texts A and B. Fill in the gaps with only one suitable word. The first
letter of each missing word is given.
A. At the a… (1) of 16 prior to leaving school students in Great Britain are tested in various s… (2) to earn a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). IF they w… (3), to go on to higher e… (4) at a university, they t… (5) Advanced Level examinations, commonly known as “A” levels. About a third of British students l… (6) school as soon as possible after turning 16, usually taking a lower-level jobs in the workplace.
B. Language experts have found that children can learn two languages at the s… (7) time and they can’t really tell the d… (8) between them. They can easily s… (9) from one language to the other once they have learnt when and with whom they should use e… (10) language.
13. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line
to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.
| My attempt to teach myself Spanish has been (1)… so far and I’m wondering whether I’m simply...... (2) to learn foreign languages at my age. I’m not...... (3) and neither am I...... (4) so why have I found it almost...... (5) to learn more than just the basics of Spanish after nearly six months of study? My vocabulary is...... (6) beyond very basic expressions and my grammar is...... (7) to say the least. It is not only that my Spanish is...... (8) but I suspect I sound very...... (9), too. Recently I met a Cuban tourist in a café and...... (10), I must have said something...... (11) because she looked very offended and got up and sat at another table. | SUCCESS ABLE PATIENCE INTELLIGENCE POSSIBLE ADEQUATE SATISFY CORRECT POLITE FORTUNE APPROPRIATE |
14. Correct the errors in grammar in the following passages. (The number in parentheses at the end of each paragraph indicates the number of errors in the paragraph. )
1 In my first semester at the university, i was overwhelm by the differences. between university studies and high school studies. In high school, I had easily be able to finish the number of work that was assigned, and if on certain occasion I did not complete an assignment, the teacher quickly tells me to make up the work. The situation in my university classes were not at all like the situation in high school. (6)
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2 I was tremendously surprising at the volume of work assigned in the university. Unlike high school courses, which perhaps covered a chapter in two week, university courses regular covered two or three chapters in one week and two or three other chapters in the next week. I have been able to keep up with the workload in high school, but it was difficult for me to finish all the reading in mine university classes even though I tried real hard to finish all of them. (7)
3 The role that the teacher took in motivating students to get work done were also very different in my university. In high school, if an assignment was unfinishing on a date that it was due, my teacher would immediate let me know that I had made really a mistake and needed to finish an assignment right away. In my university classes, however, professors did not inform regularly students to make sure that we were get work done on schedule.
It was really easy to put off studying in the beginning of each semesters and really have to work hard later in the semester to catch up on my assignments. (9)
4 During my first year in the university, I had to set firm goal to get things done by myself instead of relying on others to watch over me and make sure that I have done what I was supposed to do. With so much assignments, this was quite a task difficult, but I now regular try to do my best because I dislike being very far behind. It seems that I have turn into quite a motivating student. (7)
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